“The Grand Italian Vision. The Farnesina Collection” is coming to town. More than 70 masterpieces of modern and contemporary Italian art will soon land in New Delhi.
Venue: Bikaner House, Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi
Date: 27th May – 22nd June 2023.
Grand opening: 26th May (only by invitation).
“The Grand Italian Vision. The Farnesina Collection” is the enthralling journey through the history of Italian art from the twentieth century to today, through more than seventy works selected by Achille Bonito Oliva from the Farnesina Collection, an extraordinary art collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Italy.
The title, “The Grand Italian Vision. The Farnesina Collection”, highlights the identity of Italian art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, structured along both figurative and abstract lines, with both eventually flowing into a synthesis that exalts stylistic eclecticism and linguistic contamination, and is sustained by a conceptual basis, the sense of history and indication of a world view. The history of Italian art, its articulation and development over the centuries, has exalted the value of memory in an iconographic fecundity which flourishes to this day.
The Farnesina collection enables us to document this wealth, with evident awareness and cultural depth. Painting, sculpture and photography testify to the continuity and thematic abundance of the various disciplines and trends which, in their formal arrangement, ultimately enable us to speak of a “grand Italian vision”, a grand tour through the vigorous creativity of our country, which has always lauded an ongoing quest for new forms.
The exhibition aims to introduce Italian artistic identity to the public at large through works selected from the Farnesina Collection, in a thematic but not chronological arrangement. As one traverses the historical Avant-garde movements, themes that are of global interest are also highlighted. Visions that range from history to geography, from twentieth-century awareness to the drive towards modernity, from looking inwards to looking out, from environmental emergencies to migrations and new forms of poverty, and then to dialogue and encounter.
The artists on exhibition:
Carla Accardi – Afro – Getulio Alviani – Matteo Basilé – Vanessa Beecroft – Elena Bellantoni – Domenico Bianchi – Umberto Boccioni – Alighiero Boetti – Agostino Bonalumi – Danilo Bucchi – Alberto Burri – Loris Cecchini – Mario Ceroli – Sandro Chia – Sarah Ciracì – Francesco Clemente – Pietro Consagra – Enzo Cucchi – Sabrina D’Alessandro – Gino De Dominicis – Nicola De Maria – Fortunato Depero – Gianni Dessì – Irene Dionisio – Tano Festa – Giuseppe Gallo – Alberto Garutti – Mimmo Jodice – Jannis Kounellis – Felice Levini – Sergio Lombardo – Piero Manzoni – Marino Marini – Arturo Martini – Fabio Mauri – Mario Merz – Marisa Merz – Mirko – Maurizio Mochetti – Liliana Moro – Nunzio – Luigi Ontani – Mimmo Paladino – Giulio Paolini – Pino Pascali – Luca Maria Patella – Achille Perilli – Benedetto Pietromarchi – Alfredo Pirri – Vettor Pisani – Michelangelo Pistoletto – Piero Pizzi Cannella – Fabrizio Plessi – Arnaldo Pomodoro – Daniele Puppi – Mimmo Rotella – Pietro Ruffo – Alberto Savinio – Mario Schifano – Marco Tirelli – Grazia Toderi – Grazia Varisco
