Rome, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea pays tribute to Lea Mattarella with two exhibitions

The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome is dedicating two exhibitions to the memory of Lea Mattarella, an art historian who passed away in 2018 at the age of 54.

The first is Just Measuring Unconsciousness by Gregorio Botta, curated by Massimo Mininni. Botta, exploiting the spaces of the National Gallery, builds a path in four stations, one for each room, almost an existential journey.

The second is Each Second is the Last by Maria Elisabetta Novello, curated by Ilaria Gianni. Novello builds a narrative path composed of the succession and interweaving of three groups of works that investigate the idea of infinite temporality. Underlying Novello’s poetics is a research on transformation. His is an attempt to analyze and return a visual interpretation of an analysis of time, reflected also in the elaborate choice of materials he often makes use of, such as ash, charcoal, and dust, matter that, though impalpable, more than any other preserves the traces of reality.

Two lines from the same poem by Emily Dickinson were chosen for two parallel exhibitions, reflecting on the fragility and transience of existence, themes dear to the two artists who starting from a common horizon arrive at different outcomes.

Both exhibitions can be visited from February 4 to April 13, 2020.

For all information you can visit the official website of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Rome, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea pays tribute to Lea Mattarella with two exhibitions

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