PARIS. Terre d’italiens

Picasso, Severini, Morandi, Ponti, Crali, Casorati, and lesser-known authors such as Spazzapan, Malvano, Trentini, and Paresce will recount the intense journey of those who looked to the French capital as the place to encounter modernity.

An exhibition that benefits from important loans from the artistic heritage of Banco BPM, the MACA Museum, and Villa Morosini.

The exhibition itinerary begins with the Belle Époque, with Gaetano Previati, Plinio Nomellini and Cesare Laurenti , to move through the avant-garde and Futurism, represented by Gino Severini, Fortunato Depero, Alfredo Gauro Ambrosi and Tullio Crali . Particular attention is dedicated to the Italiens de Paris , with Giorgio de Chirico, Filippo de Pisis, Massimo Campigli and René Paresce , of whom a significant group of works is presented. Alongside masters such as Pablo Picasso and Giorgio Morandi , represented with an engraving from 1926, also features lesser-known figures, including Mario Guido Dal Monte, Ugo Malvano , and Luigi Spazzapan , while Gio Ponti 's ceramics testify to the dialogue between art and applied arts. The narrative continues after World War II with Afro, Renato Birolli, Ennio Morlotti, Emilio Vedova, Lucio Fontana, and Paul Jenkins , through their experiments with Informalism and abstraction. The final section takes the visitor to New York , the new international art capital, with Mario Schifano, Mimmo Rotella, Enrico Baj, Roy Lichtenstein, Jim Dine , and Andy Warhol , protagonists of a period that transformed the relationship between art, advertising, and mass culture.

From Belle Époque Paris to Pop Art New York, “PARIS. TERRE D'ITALIENS” leads the visitor through works and events that shaped the transformation of twentieth-century visual culture, capturing the allure of an era in which art continually transcended geographical, cultural, and linguistic boundaries.