Milan's Museo del Novecento dedicates major retrospective to Filippo de Pisis

De Pisis, the largest Milan retrospective of the last fifty years, opens Oct. 4, 2019 at the Museo del Novecento in Milan, and can be visited by the public until March 1, 2020.

Curated by Pier Giovanni Castagnoli in collaboration with Danka Giacon, curator of the Museo del Novecento, the exhibition aims to retrace the artistic activity of Filippo de Pisis of Ferrara (Ferrara, 1896 - Milan, 1956), emphasizing how the artist was among the most significant protagonists of painting between the two wars.

More than ninety paintings will be on display, among the most lyrical of his production, ranging from urban views, still lifes and marine fantasies. The exhibition itinerary will be divided chronologically into ten rooms: it will start from his beginnings in 1916 and his encounter with de Chirico ’s metaphysical painting to the early 1950s, when the painter was hospitalized in the Villa Fiorita psychiatric clinic.

De Pisis never adhered only to one current: throughout the twentieth century he traveled extensively and experimented with various pictorial movements, producing works characterized by continuous expressive research.

The works in the exhibition come from major Italian museums, including the Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Ferrara, the Museo delle Regole Mario Rimoldi in Cortina d’Ampezzo, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Turin, the Mart in Trento and Rovereto, Ca’ Pesaro in Venice and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome. Among the paintings featured are The Onions of Socrates (1926) and French Soldier (1937); in general, the works will address the fundamental themes of his poetics: from mountain landscapes to portraits, the latter capable of capturing the personality of the subject depicted.

The exhibition is promoted and produced by Comune di Milano | Cultura and the publishing house Electa with the support of theAssociazione per Filippo de Pisis. From spring 2020 the exhibition will be hosted at the Museo Nazionale Romano in Palazzo Altemps.

For info: www.museodelnovecento.org

Hours: Monday from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Thursday and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Tickets: Full 5 euros, reduced 3 euros.

Image: Filippo de Pisis, The Onions of Socrates (1926; 42.5 x 55 cm; Ferrara, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Filippo de Pisis)

Milan's Museo del Novecento dedicates major retrospective to Filippo de Pisis

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