Macerata hosts an exhibition on Adolfo De Carolis with more than 90 engravings

From October 28, 2022 to January 28, 2023, to celebrate its first fifty years of existence, theMacerata Academy of Fine Arts will offer, among its many meetings, activities and exhibitions, the inaugural event, an exhibition dedicated to Adolfo De Carolis (Montefiore dell’Aso, 1874 - Rome, 1928), entitled Adolfo De Carolis and woodcuts in the Marche and curated by Loredana Finicelli and Maria Letizia Paiato. A native of Montefiore dell’Aso (Ascoli Piceno) but educated between Bologna and Rome, De Carolis was one of the most important representatives of that particular declination of Italian Art Nouveau that took its cue from the Renaissance tradition and English Pre-Raphaelism, capable of restoring through his varied activity, which saw him engaged more in vast decorative cycles rather than easel painting, those atmospheres dear to European symbolism.

The exhibition investigates an area of his activity that made him further famous and enabled him to bring back into vogue a technique, woodcut, which had totally fallen into disuse. The Academy of Fine Arts, at its GABA.MC exhibition venue, presents a significant corpus of woodcuts, more than ninety works from the Francesco Parisi collection, which show the great artistic talent of De Carolis as well as that of his followers, called by writer Ettore Cozzani “the beautiful School,” united by an idealizing neo-Michelangelesque tension unusual in the Italian graphic scene.

The exhibition also includes a large section devoted to the famous Urbino School of the Book, the most prestigious Italian school of illustration founded and led by De Carolis himself until his death and continued, in teaching, by some of his faithful pupils such as the Marche-born Bruno da Osimo. A third section is devoted again to those Marche xylographers who kept the great tradition of wood engraving unchanged over the years, such as Attilio Giuliani of Ancona and Sanzio Giovannelli of S. Benedetto del Tronto.

Three sections punctuate the exhibition by addressing different facets of the great Marche artist’s wide range of influence, including some valuable original editions, such as Phaedra, Gabriele D’Annunzio’s tragedy, published by Treves Milano in 1909, telling of the cultural climate in which De Carolis worked, as well as his close ties with the Vate. The opening of the exhibition is scheduled for Friday, October 28, 2022 at 5 p.m. and will be open until January 28, 2023. For the closing of the exhibition, the exhibition catalog with essays by the curators and a preface by Francesco Parisi will be presented to the public on January 27 at 5 p.m. The exhibition will open Tuesday through Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m.

Macerata hosts an exhibition on Adolfo De Carolis with more than 90 engravings

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