Novecento. From Balla to Vedova
For the 2020 edition of FLASHBACK, Bottegantica, which today enlivens the spaces that were once rooms of the Naviglio gallery in via Manzoni, 45 Milan, inaugurates the exhibition entitled: Novecento; From Balla to Vedova.
What is proposed here is a very attentive selection of works which, by focusing on the decades of the Naviglio Gallery, is appropriately extended to the first half of the Short Twentieth Century, to retrace the most extraordinary moments of art and culture from the first post-war period up to the developments of the second: from Futurism to Metaphysics, from Magical Realism to Surrealism, from the Return to Order to the Informal.
"The Italian twentieth century, metaphorically, was an ocean beaten by great waves. The greatest seastorm was created by the perennial contrast between the apologia of form and its cancellation, especially since the 1930s. Protagonists of the most significant pages of national and international art history are a series of avant-garde masters who contributed to the artistic revolutions of the twentieth century, participating in the creation of new forms and images through experimentation and research"
recalls Enzo Savoia.
Novecento, From Balla to Vedova recalls artists and fundamental moments of the past century, represented by twenty works on display, artworks that are linked together in a passionate dialogue, ideally forming a philological collection of the main Italian artistic phenomena of the 1900s. The collection has a strong meditative and intimate character, and reveals the relationship between the works and the artists who created them.
The sequence is conceived as a chronological and visual journey, an analytical and didactic tale that crosses our cultural territory from post-impressionism to the avant-garde of the beginning of the century (the Futurism of Marinetti, Boccioni, Balla, Severini), the years of the First World War, the post-war years and the 1920s (Savinio, De Chirico, De Pisis, Sironi, Casorati, Alberto Martini, Marini), the affirmation of the fascist regime and the Second World War (Carrà, Campigli, Arturo Martini, Prampolini, Pirandello, Guttuso, Manzù), the post-war period between the European capitals and New York with the affirmation of abstract art (Fontana, Burri, Capogrossi, Vedova, Pomodoro).
IThe exhibition itinerary is designed to be enjoyed by the vast public of FlashBack in Turin, thanks also to an experimental didactic platform, capable of guiding the visitor into a deep understanding of each work.
A tribute, therefore, to the universality of art, but also a recognition of the greatest Italian artists of the 20th century. This - and not only this - is Novecento; From Balla to Vedova.