Julius Evola and spirituality in art

From an idea by Vittorio Sgarbi. Curated by Beatrice Avanzi and Giorgio Calcara

The Mart is dedicating an exhibition to Julius Evola (1898 - 1974), a Roman painter and philosopher and active participant in the Italian Avant-garde.

Evola was a polymath who lived a brief artistic season between 1915 and 1922. After an initial Futurist period, the artist distanced himself from the movement, which he defined as "a sort of vital impulse completely devoid of an inner dimension", and turned to Tristan Tzara and the poetics of Dadaism, reinterpreted as "mystical abstractionism". He soon abandoned painting (intended as an initiatory experience) to devote himself to philosophy, esotericism, and oriental, hermetic and alchemic doctrines. His limited but significant painting production reflects a profound spiritual tension.

At Mart, a selection of paintings from public and private collections offers for the first time a perspective of unprecedented complexity and richness on the artist.

Source: www.mart.tn.it