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For the beginning of the 2009-2010 exhibition season, Fonte d'Abisso Gallery has
entrusted Marco Meneguzzo with the project of the inaugural exhibition. It was decided
to offer the public of Milan - and also to that one of Ticino, loving visitor of the
historical exhibitions of the gallery - a show with an historical and innovative
composition, analyzing a particular period and giving back a cultural atmosphere so
important for our Country
THE IDEA
Between the end of the W.W.II and the Pop-Art mass-arrival in the middle of Sixties,
relationships between USA and Italy have been strong, continuous and biunivocal,
without a sense of cultural subordination that has characterized the following
decades.
Many were the American artists who have visited Italy for a long time, absorbing much
of our culture and changing their visual imaginary, as many Italian, far-sighted artists
who have turned himselves to the overseas culture for understanding the new world and
the new global relations, after having understood the moving of the leadership from
Paris to New York. These are the "Italo-American" artists, people who have searched
roots and ways of expression in two different cultures, enriching their own language
and, at the same time, spreading new ideas to other artists and other generations.
The reasons of the overseas "travel" are many - from the escape (the Jewish Cagli
forced to exile) to the interest showed by the American market for some Italian
artists (for example Marino, Consagra and Afro), to the coercion (Burri was prisoner
in the USA!) -, but every interiorization of each trip by careful and intelligent
artists has produced excellent artistic results, taking the best of the two cultures.
THE PROTAGONISTS
Next to the protagonists of that season there are "minor" artists, but not less interesting
in this contest, indeed, sometime, they are more important than the masters in the spreading
of a new artistic culture:
Afro, Alberto Burri, Corrado Cagli, Pietro Consagra, Enrico Donati, Piero Dorazio, Conrad
Marca Relli, Marino Marini, Costantino Nivola, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Angelo Savelli, Salvatore
Scarpitta, Toti Scialoja.
The art-works on show - about thirty, very selected - have been found at private collections
or Foundations and all of them date back to 1945-1963: among these, will be showed works
never exhibited in Italy, but only in the USA, and works don't exposed to the public for
decades.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a documented catalogue, published by SilvanaEditoriale,
that will contain a critical essay by the curator, illustrations of the works on display,
biographies of the artists, with particular attention to the relationships between Italy
and USA, and detailed scientific boards of each single work.
The show takes advantage of the prestigious contribution of: Audemars Piguet Le Mâitre de l'Horlogerie depuis 1875, MPM & Partners (Monaco), Confinanz SA, Kogan Financial Art.
With the sponsorship of:
With contributions from:
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