Art of the twentieth century in the name of art today. The 'leitmotiv 'and' the happy title of the famous book by Curzio Malaparte. Works by Pietro Annigoni, Antonio Bueno, Xavier Bueno, Massimo Campigli, Mino Maccari and many others. Edited by Joan M. Carli.
by Giovanna M. Carli
In the spaces of the hall of Victoria Mazzone, a cultural recovery of an old power station, is on display at a rich representation of the twentieth century Tuscan painter and contemporary masters. This collective was conceived and organized by the Lions Club of Victoria through the collaboration of the English Art Gallery of Florence and the City of Victoria and in particular the Culture Luciano D'Amico, and the critical and curator Joan M. Carli. In the year when we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy Italian Lions also committed themselves to honor this milestone and the Constitution of our Republic. On this occasion the 'leitmotif' is the happy title of the famous book by Curzio Malaparte, "Cursed Tuscans", the same as for the opportunity to land in Vittoria, Sicily, in the sign of the unity of peoples and nations through the 'art and culture of today is the twentieth-century and contemporary.
by the critic Joan M. Carli
... The most dated by Pietro Annigoni, dating back to the thirties. The author is a maverick, is against any form of totalitarianism, undertook to assert its vision of painting in relation to society. Its history is intertwined with two other players, including their adoption of Tuscany, Xavier and Antonio Bueno. Annigoni will conclude in 1947 with his brothers and Bueno Sciltian the Manifesto of "Modern Painters of Reality" which, for lack of understanding at various levels, short-lived. I am interested, however, mention the substance of the program group that wanted to do and show: "... a painting in one of the darkest moments in human history is steeped in the faith in man and its destiny, which made the greatness of art in the past ... we simply continue to carry out the mission of true ...". A real painting restorer orthodoxy, while the new currents of art indicated in the informal the path of renewal. The works shown by Mino Maccari, Ottone Rosai, Ardengo Soft are the years 1945-1947, paradigmatic works as designed in the years immediately following the end of World War II.
There are, however, even works of the Sixties signed Annigoni, Xavier and Antonio Bueno, Campigli and Maccari. paradigmatic works of a decade that has led to important a generational revolution, changing lifestyles and attitudes: the beat generation, music and pop culture, the great cultural revolution of '68. One wonders about the function of the artist, is a blow to the concept of art itself. The small retrospective of the works of the twentieth century culminating in a work of Mino Maccari eighties. The inclusion of this figure versatile, imaginative, humorous, is a bridge between Rosai and powerful and, therefore, in our simplification, a hinge between the painters of the twentieth century and the painters of today. With Ottone Rosai, Maccari shares the commitment to the magazine "The Wild One," when the address of that he moved to Florence, but especially when the magazine, from the start openly fascist and anti-bourgeois intransigent, turns up more cultural content sealed bottom of the article of Mino Maccari "Farewell to the past": from that moment on plans to address the political laughter, satire and, most important, art. Antonio Possenti happens, however, Mino Maccari in the pages of "The World" as a satirical cartoonist. This is touched by the twentieth century Tuscan avant-garde and the current abstract and informal, never fails to past the Renaissance, to the formal care for the grace, proportion, beautiful manner. That is the lesson that enters the new millennium with the representatives of the art of today and is opposed to some schematics where to be present, it seems only right to deny the past.
Artists exhibited: Peter Annigoni, Antonio Bueno, Xavier Bueno, Massimo Campigli, Mino Maccari, Ottone Rosai, Ardengo Soft, Luca Alinari, Claudio Cargiolli, Fabio Calvetti, Claudio Cionini, Marco Civai Giuliano Giuggioli, Andrea Mancini, Paolo Nuti, Antonio Possenti, Lisandro Ramacciotti, Andrea Stella, Angiolo Volpe
opening hours February 26 18:00
Former Power Station
square Enriquez - Vittoria (RG)
Opening hours: daily 09:30 to 14:00, 17:00 to 20:00
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