The Italian Vision

The group exhibition ‘The Italian Vision’ is a journey through post-war Italian art with works of some of the most significant figures on the Italian scene.
The exhibition brings together different visual poetics — from sign painting to conceptual art — to convey a pluralistic vision of formal research and aesthetic experimentation.

From 16 October to 19 December, a selection of around 20 works created between the 1950s and 1980s highlights the different currents, experiments and tensions that shaped Italian art in the second half of the 20th century, in dialogue with major international movements and at the same time rooted in a specific historical and cultural context.

The exhibition intertwines multiple research projects and visual expressions, with the aim of bringing different languages into dialogue under a single ‘Italian vision’. The project spans several themes and pictorial styles, able of conveying the richness and complexity of Italian art in recent decades.

ACCARDI | ADAMI | BAJ | BOETTI | BONALUMI | CASTELLANI | COLOMBO | DORAZIO | FONTANA | MORENI | POMODORO | SANTOMASO | SCARPITTA | SCHIFANO | TURCATO

Selected works

Carla Accardi

Untitled

1954
Casein tempera on paper
48 x 35 cm – 18 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches

Mattia Moreni

Una nuvola

1956
Oil on canvas
140 x 120 cm – 55 1/8 x 47 1/4 inches

Lucio Fontana

Concetto spaziale

1956
Indian ink and holes on cardboard
35 x 50 cm – 13 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches

Giuseppe Santomaso

Racconto in grigio

1957
Oil and mixed media on cardboard applied on canvas
49 x 68.5 cm – 19 1/4 x 27 inches

Enrico Baj

Femme au diapason

1960
Oil, collage, padding, cutouts and objects on fabric
91,5 x 73 cm – 36 x 28 7/10 inches

Carla Accardi

Turchese arancio

1961
Casein tempera on paper applied on canvas
47,5 x 67,5 cm – 18 3/4 x 26 5/8 inches

Piero Dorazio

Momento continuo

1963
Oil on canvas
77 x 61 cm – 30 1/4 x 36 1/4 inches

Mario Schifano

Untitled

1964
Enamel on paper
48 x 63.8 cm – 18 7/8 x 25 1/8 inches

Piero Dorazio

Due fuochi

1965
Oil on canvas
72 x 92 cm – 36 2/8 x 27 3/5 inches

Enrico Castellani

Superficie argento

1966
Acrylic on shaped canvas
100 x 100 cm – 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches

Giulio Turcato

Superficie lunare

1969
Oil and mixed media on foam rubber on board
100 x 100 cm – 39 3/8 x 39 3/8 inches

Gianni Colombo

Spazio elastico intermutabile

1978
Wooden board, paint, nails and extendable metal wire
61 x 61 cm – 24 x 24 inches

Arnaldo Pomodoro

Sfera con sfera

1981
Gilded bronze
diameter 20 cm – 7 7/8 inches

Agostino Bonalumi

Argento

1986
Shaped canvas and acrylic
60 x 73 cm – 23 5/8 x 28 3/4 inches

Alighiero Boetti

Oggi il primo giorno dodicesimo mese dell’anno millenovecentoottantotto

1988
Embroidery
107 x 108.5 cm – 42 1/8 x 42 3/4 inches