21 Feb 2016

Great artists of the Italian ‘900

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21February

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18December

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10:30

Museo Novecento

Free admission subject to availability

At the Museo Novecento a meeting a month to get to know the protagonists of twentieth century Italian art  

The Museo Novecento houses many Italian masterpieces of the twentieth century, works that can tell the great stages of art of the twentieth century and make the public understand the novelties and developments that during the century have revolutionized the visual arts.

The Florentine Civic Museums and the MUS Association for 2016, they propose a calendar of meetings dedicated to the main protagonists of the museum in order to retrace the artistic events and offer support to the understanding of his work. A monthly meeting curated by the Mediation Department of Mus. and, each time a different artist. It starts Sunday, February 21 with an event dedicated to Bruno Munari, one of the absolute protagonists of the twentieth century in the field of art and design, whose contribution has indelibly marked the culture of our country. The exhibition will continue with other monographic meetings dedicated to famous artists: including Lucio Fontana, Giorgio Morandi or Renato Guttuso. The meetings will take place at the Altana of the Museo Novecento. Participation is free (no access to the museum), reservation is required.

Detailed timetable follows.

 

Sunday 21 February at 10.30am: Bruno Munari

A multifaceted figure of an artist of the twentieth century, Bruno Munari with his work in the field of visual arts goes through almost a century, spent in constant experimental research that will influence generations of graphic designers, architects, painters, teachers, pedagogists.

Sunday 20 March at 10.30am: Emilio Vedova

Emilio Vedova is one of the spokesmen for the need for the contemporary artist’s independence from the ideals of classical art. Inclined to the continuous experimentation of materials and techniques, he thus defines a painting with a rich color articulation and full of tension.

Sunday 10 April at 10.30am: Lucio Fontana  

With his work Lucio Fontana emphasizes the importance of an art capable of overcoming the limits between painting and sculpture, venturing into a dimension open to new spaces, those of art and the world, for example, to be put in communication.

Sunday 15 May at 10.30am: Alberto Magnelli

Born in Florence and Parisian by adoption, Alberto Magnelli crosses the various artistic languages of the twentieth century, starting from the avant-garde of the beginning of the century to arrive, through surrealist experimentation, to abstraction.

Sunday 18 September at 10.30: Renato Guttuso  

A militant artist par excellence, Renato Guttuso expresses with his work the desire to be in his present and to witness it with passionate participation through an immediacy of communication and an effective language.

Sunday 16 October at 10.30: Giorgio Morandi

Suspended between past and present, Giorgio Morandi is a fully modern artist in his artistic research that investigates the most common objects stripping them of their functions and celebrating them in volumes, compositions, colors.

Domenica 20 novembre h10.30: Fortunato Depero 

Among the signatories of the manifesto Futurist Reconstruction of the Universe, Fortunato Depero focuses his artistic career, as revolutionary as extended to the most varied fields, on the redefinition of a new art for a new man.

Domenica 18 dicembre h10.30: Giorgio De Chirico 

Giorgio de Chirico is one of the most known and recognized Italian artists of the twentieth century in the world. He is the initiator of Metaphysics, which will influence the artists of Surrealism, from Max Ernst to Magritte to Dali, and those of the New German Objectivity.

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