In parallel with the 18th Quadriennale - Fantastica, the first floor of Palazzo Esposizioni is hosting a historical exhibition that pays tribute to the most important exhibition event in Italy between the two world wars: the second Quadriennale d’arte in 1935, which celebrates its 90th anniversary this year.
Held in the neoclassical building on Via Nazionale, as would be the case in subsequent editions, the Art Quadriennale exhibitions of 1931 and 1935 were an important showcase for new Italian figurative art, enhanced by displays of great rationalist elegance. While the first edition saw the participation of all the great masters (such as Carrà, Casorati, Sironi Tosi and the Futurists), the second brought together established artists (such as Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi and Gino Severini) with young artists who would soon emerge (for example, Fausto Pirandello, Corrado Cagli, Giuseppe Capogrossi and Mario Mafai). With around 1,800 works by 700 artists, the exhibition succeeded in offering a broad overview of Italian art, and its success led to the transformation of the Quadriennale from a periodic event into an institution.
Curated by Walter Guadagnini and organised in collaboration with the Quadriennale Library Archive, the current exhibition presents a selection of works (some of which are virtually unknown) from that memorable edition. The 31 artists represented recount a complex but rich period, from the legacy of the avant-garde movements to the dominant trends of the historical moment, including the Roman School, Second Futurism and abstractionism. Alongside the works, archival documentation reconstructs the cultural and political context of the time.
Artists on display:
Luigi Bartolini, Mario Broglio, Corrado Cagli, Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Emanuele Cavalli, Gisberto Ceracchini, Giovanni Colacicchi, Giorgio de Chirico, Filippo de Pisis, Antonio Donghi, Pericle Fazzini, Leonor Fini, Carlo Levi, Osvaldo Licini, Mario Mafai, Marino Marini, Arturo Martini, Giorgio Morandi, Milena Pavlović Barilli, Fausto Pirandello, Enrico Prampolini, Regina Cassolo Bracchi, Giovanni Romagnoli, Scipione Bonichi, Gino Severini, Mario Sironi, Luigi Trifoglio, Gianfilippo Usellini, Farpi Vignoli, Alberto Ziveri.
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