Monfalcone dedicates major exhibition to Kandinsky, master of abstractionism

The major exhibition Point Line and Surface has opened at the Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art in Monfalcone. Kandinsky and the Avant-Garde, promoted by the Municipality of Monfalcone in collaboration with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, which will be open to the public until May 2, 2022. Dedicated to the master of 20th-century abstractionism, the exhibition is curated by Elisabetta Barisoni, head of the International Gallery of Modern Art at Ca’ Pesaro. "After the first part dedicated to the Birth of Abstraction,“ explains the curator, ”the exhibition presents, again through the masterpieces of Ca’ Pesaro, The Abstract and Surrealist avant-gardes. Along the lines traced by Klee and Kandinsky, during the 1920s are the experiments of Surrealism by Joan Miró, Max Ernst, and Antoni Tàpies, the abstract sculpture of Arp and Alexander Calder, the cosmic analogies of Enrico Prampolini, and the musical forms of Luigi Veronesi. The third part of the exhibition explores the persistence of Abstraction after World War II. In the 1940s, Kandinsky’s lesson is declined in the English world with Ben Nicholson’s experience, in the international experiences of Abstract Expressionism, and in Italy of the Fronte Nuovo delle Arti and Signic Abstractionism. From Emilio Vedova to Mario Deluigi and Tancredi, from Karel Appel to Mark Tobey, the forms of abstraction in the second part of the twentieth century lie somewhere between Informal, lyrical and gestural suggestion. The exhibition closes with a valuable selection of sculpture, Sculpture Toward Minimalism, which completes the itinerary with masterpieces by Mirko Basaldella, Eduardo Chillida, Luciano Minguzzi and Bruno De Toffoli, testifying to the persistence of the dialogue between abstraction and biomorphism towards the 1950s. Finally, the resumption of a radical, almost ascetic abstraction makes its way with the minimalist experiences of Richard Nonas and Julia Mangold, who introduce the visitor to the thinking of the 1970s, to the revival of a new life of abstract art and forms."

“This exhibition is built with masterpieces from the collections of the International Gallery of Modern Art at Ca’ Pesaro, one of our eleven extraordinary Museums,” stresses Gabriella Belli, director of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, “to tell the fascinating journey of abstract art from its birth to our contemporary. Many of these works have been purchased by the City of Venice in different editions of the Biennale, others have been donated to the Gallery by the award-winning artists themselves, bearing witness to a long history of esteem and gratitude that binds the Museums to the city and its cultural institutions, collectors, patrons and artists. Ca’ Pesaro is the custodian of the art of its time and here the natural protagonist of a very important cultural action.”

"With Point, Line and Surface. Kandinsky and the Avant-Garde, the Municipality of Monfalcone wanted to complete the 2021 and early 2022 exhibition season," added Anna Maria Cisint, mayor of the Municipality of Monfalcone, “marking in the best way the redevelopment action of the Municipal Gallery that has been carried out in the last five years. The city’s thanks to the institutions, curators and experts who have worked for the best success of this great event that confirms Monfalcone and its Municipal Gallery at the national and international summits of major exhibition events, as part of a cultural policy aimed at the revitalization and development of our city in this dimension as well.”

The exhibition is promoted by the Municipality of Monfalcone in collaboration with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, with the contribution of the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia and with the support of several important entities in the area, such as the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Gorizia, PromoTurismoFVG, Banca di Credito Cooperativo di Staranzano e Villesse.

For info: www.galleriacomunaleartemonfalcone.it

Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.; Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays by reservation only with guided tour (45’ duration) at the following times: 10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 2:30 p.m., 4 p.m., 5:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 24 and Friday, Dec. 31 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 25 and Saturday, Jan. 1 closed.

Image: Vasily Kandinsky, White Zig zags (1922; oil on canvas, 95 x 125 cm; Venice, Fondazione Musei Civici, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pesaro)

Monfalcone dedicates major exhibition to Kandinsky, master of abstractionism

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