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ARTISTE DEL NOVECENTO tra visione e identità ebraica
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Artists of the twentieth century between vision and Jewish identity is an exhibition curated by Marina Bakos, Olga Melasecchi and Federica Pirani, promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Culture, Creativity and Artistic Promotion – Capitoline Superintendent of Cultural Heritage, the Jewish Foundation for Cultural Heritage in Italy Onlus and the Jewish Museum of Rome, from 12 June to 5 October 2014 at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome in Via Francesco Crispi 24.
The exhibition wants to encourage and expand the knowledge of a reality as the Jewish and give right emphasis to the women’s experiences that have been able to turn a condition of social minority in a statement of reason and creative independence, helping to promote, together with their private sphere, even the cultural life of our country.
A careful selection of works by Antonietta Raphael painter and sculptor protagonist of the Roman School of Via Cavour, alongside the works of artists such as Paola Consolo, Eva Fischer, Paola Levi Montalcini, Gabriella Oreffice, Adriana Pincherle and Silvana Weiller enriching exposure with different languages and especially with new works whose loan was kindly granted by heirs, collectors, foundations and organizations both private and public. Among these, a precious nucleus from the collection of the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome Capital which, in the historical site of Via Crispi, hosts the exhibition.
The panorama of Rome, only partially developed, is also analyzed in this context through the activities of other Jewish artists active in the capital in the early twentieth century. The rooms are in fact enhanced by the production of Corinna and Olga Modigliani, Annie and Nathan Lilly, Wanda Coen Biagini, Amalia Besso Goldmann and Levi Pierina, some of whom regularly attend the studio of Giacomo Balla.
Arranged in the works of the students of Balla and Amelia Almagia Ambron, dearest friend of the painter and his family, act as a corollary to two splendid portraits of the master: Portrait of Mayor Nathan and Portrait of Amelia Ambron, loaned and exposed to the first time in public in this exhibition.
These works are examples of quality production and constitute a first recognition that germline hopes for further industry studies.
