With this new exhibition called “Viva l’Italia.
L’Arte italiana racconta le città tra nascita sviluppo.
crisi.
1948–2008” (Hooray for Italy.
How Italian Art has portrayed Italian cities from their birth and development to their crisis) the city takes centre stage and becomes the muse of great artists.
Actually this theme was tackled for the first time at the Venice Biennale in 1948.
De Chirico, Sironi, Guttuso, Vedova and Afro were the first artists to focus on it.
During the 1960s other great painters such as Giosetta Fiornoni, Mimmo Rotella and Mario Schifano were attracted to this theme.
An interest that somehow has never died out.
Arduino Canfora in the eighties, Bruno Zanichelli and Pierluigi Pusole in the nineties and Salvino, Toderi and Botto & Bruno in the New Millennium, just to mention a few.
This art exhibition will take place at Palazzo della Penna in Perugia from 25th October to 11th January.
One of its chief attractions will be Marco Lodola’s luminous work “Other People’s faces” which will be hung on the façade of the old PalazzoViva l’Italia.
L’arte italiana racconta le città tra nascita, sviluppo, crisi.
1948–2008 – Palazzo della Penna – Perugia