(January 2, 2017) More than one hundred works to narrate the artistic culture in Rome in the first half of the twentieth century. It’s called “Masterpieces of the twentieth century Italian Art” the exhibition which will be inaugurated on January 16 at the National Gallery of Art in Tirana: the works, coming from the Modern Art Gallery of Rome, display the languages that have followed each other, artists and movements of reference, through symbolism, secession, futurism, new classicism, Roman school and abstractionism. The exhibition, open to the public until April 2, is produced and organized by Arthemisia Group and promoted by the Presidency of the Albanian Council of Ministers, the Embassy of Italy, the Ministry of Culture, the municipality of Tirana, the National Gallery of Art of Tirana and the Italian Institute of Culture, in collaboration with Roma Capitale and the Modern Art Gallery in Rome. In the five sections of the exhibition one will pass from the symbolist values of landscape painting from the early century to the urgency of renewal and modernity lived by the artists attending the exhibition of Roman Secession in the first en years of the century, to continue with futurist breakdowns and aeropainters from the ‘30s. The exhibition is accompanied by a bilingual catalog in Italian and Albanian, published by Silvana Editoriale. (Red)
