MARIO SIRONI 1885 -1961 4/10/2014-8/2/2015 Complesso del Vittoriano Piazza Venezia, 00186 Rome Figure extremely modern in its understanding of artistic creation as a form of communication and as an aesthetic experience encompassing, Mario Sironi was one of the main protagonists of the Italian art of the twentieth century. Through oil paintings, tempera paintings, sketches and drawings, preparatory sketches, drawings, letters and archival documents, the exhibition will present to the public his entire artistic career, from the beginning until the last Divisionists production, marked by a troubled expression . The exhibition aims to be a comprehensive survey of the figure of Sironi (1885-1961) on the occasion of the hundred and thirty years after the birth. All of his painting will be documented through his most significant works on loan from major museums and major private collections. It starts from the symbolist season (a novelty of the exhibition, which will exhibit in this section works from the collection of Cristina Sironi, Marios older sister, who testified outcomes sironiani near the symbolism Italian and English, as yet unknown) and continue with the vintage futurist and metaphysical. Following the period of the twenties, when Sironi was among the founders of the twentieth century Italian and starts to a season and twentieth-century classic, which includes, inter alia, Architect, 1922-1923 (one of his greatest masterpieces, exhibited at the Biennale of Venice, 1924). They are then documented the time of its crisis expressionist, between the twenties and thirties, and the next adventure of mural painting always thirties; neometaphysical the season and return to the framework of the forties; Finally, the deconstructive works of the post-up allApocalissi finale, which is almost the spiritual testament of the artist. Theme of the exhibition is to give a concise but powerful idea of Sironi, through ninety works that testify to the greatness better expression. Mario Sironi, along with Umberto Boccioni and Fortunato Depero, is considered the most authoritative and original Italian painter tied to the evolutionary experience of Italian Futurism on a European scale. With a style that drew on archaic models pre-Renaissance, with a strong sense of values and color plastic, gave voice intonation fascist civil humanism of the twenties and thirties.
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