Catalog of an exhibition held at the Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, February 18-June 25, 2018. Bound. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Installation views, Fondazione Prada, 2018. Mario Isnenghi -- Italy 1918-1943 / Emilio Gentile -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti: futurism and politics / Luigi Sansone - Fascist fervor in the art of Giacomo Balla / Elena Gigli -- Casa d'arte depero / Nicoletta Boschiero -- Art in action. The organization of Italian artistic culture / Silena Salvagnini -- Valori plastici / Ester Coen -- Adolfo Wildt at the 13th Art Biennale in Venice / Eva Fabbris -- Casa d'arte Bragaglia / Cornelia Mattiacci -- Piero Gobetti and Felice Casorati: two generations / Giorgina Bertolino -- Ideas, questions, controversies / Antonello Negri -- Riccardo Gualino: art patron and collector / Eva Fabbris -- Margherita Sarfatti and Novecento / Paola Pettenella -- Gerardo Dottori at the 15th Art Biennale in Venice / Andrea Baffoni -- Marcello Nizzoli and La Rivista Illustrata del Popolo d'Italia / Lucia Miodini -- Carlo Carrà at the 16th Art Biennale in Venice / Silvia Bignami -- Novecento and state art / Elena Pontiggia -- Giorgio de Chirico and Léonce Rosenberg / Ester Coen -- The six painters and Novecento / Giorgina Bertolino -- Alberto Moravia's Gli Indifferenti / Alessandra Grandelis -- Novocomom by Giuseppe Terragni / Attilio Terragni / Pietro Maria Bardi / Paolo Rusconi -- Alberto Savinio and les Italiens de Paris / Nicoletta Cardano -- Exhibitions and the cult of display in Fascist Italy / Maria Stone -- The mythologization of Antonio Sant'Elia / Carlotta Rossi -- Ghitta Carell and Elio Luxardo: portrait photography / Roberto Dulio -- The 1st National Art Quariennale in Rome / Assunta Porciani -- Italian art exhibitions in the United States / Francesca Romana Morelli -- The Synthesis of the arts between craft and ideology / Daniela Fonti -- Arturo Martini: large-scale terracottas / Chiara Costa -- Mario Sironi at the 18th Art Biennale in Venice / Eva Fabbris -- Italian art from Venice to Berlin / Cieter Scholz -- The spectacle factory / Jeffrey Schnapp -- The exhibition of the fascist revolution / Mario Mainetti -- Mural painting at the 5th Triennale in Milan / Fabio Benzi -- Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini: villa studio for an artist / Chiara Spangaro -- BBPR with Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti / Paolo Campiglio -- The Chicago World's Fair / Claudio Giorgione -- Modernism in Italian Architecture / Lucy M. Maulsby -- Arturo Martini and the Duke of Aosta Monument / Eva Fabbris -- Carlo Levi and Aligi Sassu: drawings from the prison / Mario Mainetti -- Futurists at the 19th Art Biennale in Venice and at the 3rd Art Quadriennale in Rome / Massimo Duranti -- Abstract art at Galleria del Milione / Francesca Serrati -- Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti at Galleria del Milione / Silvia Bignami -- Monumental fairy tales: mural images during the Ventennio / Romy Golan -- The 2nd National Art Quadriennale in Rome / Stefania Gagliardini -- The University of Rome Campus / Roberto Dulio -- The novel across the aesthetics of politics / Francesca Billiani -- The Santa Maria Novella train station in Florence / Roberto Dulio -- De Chirico and New York / Katherine Robinson -- 1st National exhibition of posters and commercial art / Marta Mazza -- Urban planning exhibition at the 6th Milan Triennale / Chiara Spangaro -- Moving images: realism and propaganda / Ruth Ben-Ghiat -- Casa del Fascio by Giuseppe Terragni / Chiara Spangaro -- The lecture hall in Ca'Foscari University in Venice / Carla Sonego -- The Galleria della Cometa in Rome and Carlo Levi's exhibition / Valerio Rivosecchi -- The International Exhibition of Art and Technology Applied to Modern Life / Laura Calvi -- The Foro Mussolini in Rome / Cornelia Mattiacci -- Exhibitions of Italian art in Europe / Francesca Romana Morelli -- The Comet Art Gallery in New York / Machine, monument, mannequin: the new Italian man / Francesco Spampinato -- Corrente magazine and movement / Mattia Patti -- Roberto Papini and the Galleria Nazionale di Art Moderna in Rome / Stefano Marson -- The Autarkic exhibition of Italian minerals / Francesca Zanella -- Palazzo Bo and Palazzo Liviano in Padua / Marta Nezzo -- Gio Ponti's Palazzo Montecatini in Milan / Lucia Miodini -- The fascist culture and its propogandists / Alessandra Tarquini -- Premio Cremona and Premio Gergamo / Danka Giacon -- The 1st Triennial Exhibition of Italian Overseas Territories / Paola Redemagni -- The courthouse in Milan by Marcello Piancentini / Roberto Dulio -- Franco Albini and Carlo Scarpa: two displays / Chiara Mari -- Building the public scene in Fascist Italy / Maristella Casciato -- E42: Palazzo Dei Ricevimenti e Congressi and Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana / Nadia De Conciliis -- E42: Post and telegraph office by BBPR / Stefano A. Poli -- E42: the decoration for Museo della Scienza and Museo della Tradizioni Popolari / Nicoletta Boschiero -- The Scuola Romana and its political engagement / Alberta Campitelli -- Marino Marini: wartime artworks / Alberto Salvadori -- Mino Maccari: "Dux" and Il Selvaggio / Cornelia Mattiacci -- A mythic and mythicizing Italy / Mario Isnenghi -- Texts in Italian -- Bibliography -- List of exhibited works and illustrations -- Installation views, Fondazione Prada, 2018.
Summary:
The exhibition explores the world of art and culture in Italy in the interwar years. Based on documentary and photographic evidence of the time, it reconstructs the spatial, temporal, social and political contexts in which the works of art were created and exhibited, and the way in which they were interpreted and received by the public of the time.0The investigation was carried out in partnership with archives, foundations, museums, libraries and private collections and has resulted in the selection of more than 600 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, posters, pieces of furniture, and architectural plans and models created by over 100 authors. In "Post Zang Tumb Tuuum. Art Life Politics: Italia 1918?1943", these objects are displayed with period images, original publications, letters, magazines, press clippings, and private photographs - for a total of 800 documents - in order to question, as explained by Germano Celant, "the idealism in exhibitions, where works of art, either in museums or other institutions, are displayed in an anonymous, monochromatic environment, generally on a white surface, to connect them to period photographic testimony and reinsert them in their original historical communication space". 00Exhibition: Fondazione Prada, Milano, Italy (18.02.-25.06.2018).
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