The private twentieth century through thirty masterpieces, from de Chirico to Vedova

From Jan. 17 to Feb. 29, 2020, Milan ’s Bottegantica Gallery is presenting the exhibition Novecento privato. From de Chirico to Vedova.

Curated by Stefano Bosi, Valerio Mazzetti Rossi and Enzo Savoia, the exhibition intends to be a very careful excursus of works to retrace the most significant moments of art and culture from the first postwar period to the developments of the second: from Futurism to Metaphysics, from Magical Realism to Surrealism, from the return to order to the Informal.

“The Italian twentieth century, by metaphor, was an ocean beaten by great waves. Beaten above all by the perennial contrast between the apologia of form and its cancellation, especially from the 1930s onward. Protagonists of the most significant pages of national and international art history are a series of avant-garde masters who contributed to the artistic revolutions of the 20th century, participating in the creation of new forms and images through experimentation and research,” commented Stefano Bosi.

The exhibition will consist of about thirty works from two important private collections. “Thirty works that bind together in a passionate dialogue, ideally forming a philological collection of the main Italian artistic phenomena of the last century. A collection with a strong meditative and intimate character, in which the relationship between the works and the artists who created them is privileged,” said Enzo Savoia.

The exhibition is conceived as a chronological and visual journey, an analytical and didactic tale through post-impressionism and the avant-gardes of the early 20th century (the Futurism of Marinetti, Boccioni, Balla, Severini), the years of the First World War, the postwar period and the 1920s (Savinio, De Chirico, De Pisis, Sironi, Casorati, Alberto Martini, Marini), theaffirmation of the fascist regime and World War II (Carrà, Campigli, Arturo Martini, Prampolini, Pirandello, Guttuso, Manzù), the post-war between European capitals and New York with the affirmation ofabstract art (Fontana, Burri, Capogrossi, Vedova, Pomodoro). The exhibition will be accompanied by an experimental educational apparatus to lead visitors to a deep understanding of each work.

For info: www.bottegantica.com

Pictured is a self-portrait by Giorgio De Chirico.

The private twentieth century through thirty masterpieces, from de Chirico to Vedova

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