From Boldini to Isgrò: Throughout 2021 on display at Tornabuoni's protagonists from the twentieth century to today

Tornabuoni Arte presents, from Dec. 7 at its Florence location and Dec. 12 at its Milan location,Anthology 2021. Modern and Contemporary Art. The annual event offers a careful selection of works that aims to retrace the most significant moments in art history from the early 20th century to the present, through the masterpieces of some of the greatest masters.

The exhibition kicks off with an initial section representing 20th-century figurative art, starting with Giovanni Boldini ’s Versailles work, the Gallery of Mirrors, created in Versailles around 1871, during his Parisian period. This is followed by masterpieces by great artists such as Balla, Campigli, Carrà, Casorati, de Chirico, De Pisis, Guttuso, Magnelli, Marini, Paresce, Prampolini, Rosai, Savinio, Severini, Sironi, Soffici, Tozzi and Viani. And Giorgio Morandi with a Still Life from 1930, testifying to how his painting succeeded in redrawing the boundaries of the physical world through the representation of humble objects of everyday life.

With his 1922 Tasse et paquet de tabac Pablo Picasso marks the transition between the first and second parts of this anthology. The artist makes a major contribution to the revolution in pictorial figuration with a new language that challenges easel painting and then involves the very materials, content, and places of art.

It continues with works from the post-World War II period to the present, starting with Carla Accardi, present with some important works including an impressive 1967 work, Untitled, characterized by the use of sicofoil, whose transparency allows the frame to become visible, which becomes, together with the essentiality of the sign, a fundamental part of the visual structure. A section dense with significant pieces with numerous experiments such as Lucio Fontana’s Concetto spaziale of 1955. Also on display are 1960’s Combustion by Alberto Burri, two large canvases by Hans Hartung, both executed in 1962, and the preparatory drawing for Running Fence, one of Christo and Jeanne-Claude ’s most celebrated projects where a continuous fence, some forty kilometers long, stretches across the California countryside north of San Francisco.

The Surrealist movement is represented by Joan Miró, while Arte Povera is represented by Boetti, Kounellis, Pascali, and Pistoletto. Portrait of Bronka Weintraub (1986) introduces American Pop art and Andy Warhol’s serial portraits. And still many other artists present: Adami, Afro, Alviani, Angeli, Baj, Calzolari, Capogrossi, Castellani, Ceroli, Chia, Colombo, Crippa, Dadamaino, De Maria, Dorazio, Mambor, Manzoni, Paladino, Pamiggiani, Pomodoro, Mimmo Rotella, Paolo Scheggi, Mario Schifano, Antoni Ta`pies, Joe Tilson, Giulio Turcato, Victor Vasarely and Vedova.

Among the most recent works are Libro rosso per la Divina Commedia (2018) and Oristano (2010) by Emilio Isgrò, one of the most internationally known Italian masters, who is credited with creating a new language through the erasure of the word itself, which gives texts a new meaning.

At the two venues the exhibition will run through 2021.

For info: www.tornabuoniarte.it

Image, Pablo Picasso, Tasse et paquet de tabac (1922)

From Boldini to Isgrò: Throughout 2021 on display at Tornabuoni's protagonists from the twentieth century to today

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