The still lifes of Osvaldo Licini. The first exhibition dedicated to the theme in his House Museum.

Opening on July 20, 2019 at the Osvaldo Licini House Museum in Monte Vidon Corrado is the exhibition The Other Reality: the still lifes of Osvaldo Licini, which can be visited until November 3, 2019.

Curated by Daniela Simoni with the collaboration of Stefano Bracalente, Nunzio Giustozzi, and Mattia Patti and promoted by the Municipality of Monte Vidon Corrado and the Osvaldo Licini Study Center, with the support of the Marche Region and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Fermo, the exhibition will present Osvaldo Licini’s still lifes to the public.

This is the first thematic exhibition on still life in Licini’s corpus: a number of significant paintings will be exhibited, including Natura morta (fiori) of 1926, one of the eight works of which the artist had sent photographs to Scheiwiller in 1929 to accompany the Questionnaire for the drafting of the book Art Italien Moderne. The painting was considered lost, and its discovery will be made explicit in the exhibition.

The genre of still life had great fortune in the twentieth century, and Osvaldo Licini in his figurative phase of the 1920s also devoted much attention to this subject.

The exhibition is also an opportunity to admire paintings of great intensity but rarely shown to the public.

The title of the exhibition, The Other Reality, refers to the artist’s interpretation of the still life theme: a strongly internalized vision, toward abstraction.

The works featured are from private collections, with the exception of Still Life with Grapes from the Novecento Museum in Florence and Still Life from the City of Moncalvo.

Hours: July 21 to Aug. 15, Fridays from 9 to 11 p.m.; Saturdays and Sundays from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Aug. 16 to Sept. 30, Saturdays and Sundays from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1 to Nov. 3, Saturdays and Sundays from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

Image: Osvaldo Licini, Still Life (Flowers) (1926; private collection).

The still lifes of Osvaldo Licini. The first exhibition dedicated to the theme in his House Museum.

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