ROME EXHIBITIONS AT PALAZZO RUSPOLI
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PALAZZO RUSPOLI - ROME

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Via del Corso, 418 - Roma

The paintings in this show have been made available by the Pérez Simòn Collection in Mexico City. The collection is known for its internationalism and features works that date from the 14th to the 20th centuries and includes Italian artists (such as Canaletto and Tiepolo), German artists, Flemish artists (such as Rubens) and French artists. The exhibition contains over 50 paintings that cover Victorian painting, Impressionism and Realism and show off the brilliant talent of the likes of Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh.

Running Exhibition till January 7th 2006
"Paul Klee. Berggruen Collection"

Running Exhibition from October 10th to January 1st 2005
"PICASSO E LA SUA EPOCA - DONAZIONI A MUSEI AMERICANI"

An exhibition that makes a comparison between Pablo Picasso's works (1881-1973) and those of artists living in the same age, has been opened. The Spanish master has been one of the most important for his time and for the turning points of contemporary art. Pepe Karmel, Professor of the Department of Fine Arts at New York University, and organiser of the event , has chosen to exhibit works that can fully represent the artist stylistic path : from the ''Protocubist'' period to the one called ''Analytic Cubism'' showing a splitting up of layers aimed more at presenting than representing reality; the third section is devoted to the period called ''Analytic'' which began in 1910, showing a recomposition displaying more synthesis than analysis and finally ''the order return'' belonging to the post-war period. Then we have the classicist turning point followed by the surrealist period. Thanks to the cooperation of many American Institutions, at the exhibition are on display works by : Louis Bouche, Stuart Davis, Charles Demunt, Lionel Feininger, Roger de la Fresnaye, Albert Leon Gleizes, Arshile Gorky, Auguste Herbin, Alexey Jawlensky, Alexander Kanoldt, William de Kooning, Fernand Leger, Stanton Macdonald Wright, Jackson Pollock, Morgan Russell, Joaquin Torres Garcia, Alice Trumbull Mason, Georges Braque, Joan Miró e Max Weber.

Running Exhibition from December 7th 2004 to February 27th 2005

"Mario Mafai. A calm fever of colours"
PALAZZO VENEZIA, ROMA

It has just opened the exhibition "Mario Mafai. A calm fever of colours" in the big spaces of the prestigious roman seat of Palazzo Venezia. There is the exhibition of 88 works considered his best works, which come from museums and private collections, and which show the whole artistic activity of this artist, from the beginning of the 1920 until 1965, year of his death. These works show also his collaboration with Scipione and Antonietta Raphael, and the creation with Roberto Longhi of the "Scuola di via Cavour" in the end of 1920. Mario Mafai (1902-1965) is a painter of landscapes, and often the main character of his paintings is Rome: Rome and its suburbs, Rome during its re-building and the hard period after the World War, its markets and also its Resistance. Mafai's painting is not official but always bound with history; a way of painting which little by little destroys the forms, until the reaching of a vivid colour which is expression, far from the simple representation. In the exhibition there are "Lessons of Piano", prize winner at the Four-yearly in 1935; "Models in the studio", which won the Bergamo's premium in 1940; the cycle of "Imaginations", shown immediately after the liberation of Rome in the exhibition called "Art against brutalities"; the works already shown in his personal room in the Bienal of 1948 and 1958 and that shown in the Galleries "The Comet"( in the end of 1930) and "The Turtle"(1957/1959). It is also possible to see, near the paintings, a little documentary called "I am not another one. The art of Mario Mafai", which talks about the artistic and human story of this painter of the Roman school.