New works for the Mart collections

From an idea by Vittorio Sgarbi and Sergio Restelli. Curated by Denis Isaia and Gabriele Salvaterra

Every year the Mart Collections acquire increasing cultural value thanks to donations, new acquisitions and long-term loans. The desire to enhance the works collected over the last five years, some of which have never been exhibited in the museum's spaces, has resulted in an exhibition that bears witness to the Mart's most important lines of research.

The exhibition begins with artists who worked between the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Some striking works include a late canvas by Bartolomeo Bezzi, Poesia del fiume [Poetry of the River], already exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1914, the great Portrait of Corinna Salmon by Vittorio Matteo Corcos and Il Laghetto di Peyloubere [Peyloubere Pond] by Mario Cavaglieri.

In the second room is a display case containing archive documents mainly from the donations of the collector Paolo Della Grazia, a passionate supporter of Visual Poetry, and from the heirs of the artist Pier Mario Ciani, one of the protagonists of the Italian counterculture at the end of the 20th century. On the walls are works by visual poet Lamberto Pignotti, part of a larger and more generous donation, as well as two works by Gianfranco Notargiacomo. Exhibited for the first time in 1974 in an exhibition at the Roman gallery, La Tartaruga, these canvases herald the return to painting in the following decade, although they belong to the movement of conceptual research.

A space is reserved for the recent donation of sculptor Adolf Vallazza, who wished to donate to the Mart two of his most important works in wood, accompanied by an equal number of sketches.

Closing the exhibition is a section that focuses on the most recent works, where geographically distant lines of research are brought into dialogue on the basis of common expressive approaches.

All the artists:
Bartolomeo Bezzi, Italo Bressan, Cecily Brown, Mario Cavaglieri, Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Franco Di Vito, Pablo Echaurren, Giovanni Fattori, Pietro Geranzani, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Adalberto Libera, Victor Man, Lucia Marcucci, Maurizio Mochetti, Vanda Muky Berasi, Bruno Munari, Arturo Noci, Gianfranco Notargiacomo, Lamberto Pignotti, Paola Pivi, Eugenio Prati, Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Guido Strazza, Adolf Vallazza, Stanley Whitney.

Source: https://www.mart.tn.it/en/mostre/new-works-for-the-mart-collections-155687