L’arte libera. Il futurismo italiano dalla collezione di Gianni Mattioli
Organized by CMS.Cultura, the exhibition is sponsored and supported by the Italian Embassy in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
L’arte libera. Il futurismo italiano dalla collezione di Gianni Mattioli
October 19, 2021 – January 16, 2022
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
On 18 October the exhibition “L’arte libera. Il futurismo italiano dalla collezione di Gianni Mattioli”. The inauguration was preceded on October 13 by a Preview hosted by Ambassador Giorgio Starace at Villa Berg, seat of the Italian Embassy in Moscow, of one of the most prestigious works in the collection, the Portrait of the Painter Frank Haviland by Amedeo Modigliani . The event relaunched the tradition of our diplomatic headquarters of hosting, for the press and the protagonists of the world of culture in Russia, famous works from the great exhibitions organized or sponsored by the Embassy.
The exhibition, sponsored and supported by the Italian Embassy in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institutes of Moscow and St. Petersburg, also realized thanks to the generous financial support of Sberbank, represents the culminating moment of the ambitious exhibition project part of the initiatives to celebrate the Italy-Russia Year of Museums (inaugurated in Milan by Ministers Franceschini and Ljubimova last September 29-30), has brought to this land one of the most significant private Italian collections of 20th-century art, composed from twenty-six priceless works – which have risen to true icons of Italian futurism – which after St. Petersburg (with a different layout at the State Russian Museum) and Moscow will leave the world museum circuit forever.
The works are exhibited at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in the halls of the 19th-20th century Art Gallery of the Countries of Europe and America, where the permanent collection is located: an indicative choice of the interesting contrastive approach that give the project, which integrates Balla, Boccioni, Severini, Sironi, Carrà and Morandi – to name just a few of the artists selected by Gianni Mattioli – in the context of the European avant-gardes, bringing out the points of contact, but also of rejection, between the poetics of Italian futurism and other contemporary movements.
For how it was structured and for how it accompanies the public, the exhibition ” L’arte libera. Il futurismo italiano dalla collezione di Gianni Mattioli” allows you to explore an extraordinary season of European circulation of ideologies and artistic experiments and to discover a further significant historical declination of the very intense cultural relationship that has always linked Italy and Russia.
