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La donazione Ennio Calabria
Ennio Calabria's 1992 "Ambiguità dell'intravisto. Donna e mare", donated to the collection, shown with three other large canvases by the Nuova Figurazione painter.
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Preview: written before the show opened
One of the four canvases in Sala 9 is a portrait of the cyclist Marco Pantani, painted in 2005 for Ennio Calabria's series of faces, Un volto e il tempo. The other three are set by the sea.
The reason for the show is a gift. Donna e mare (1992), an acrylic of 160 by 120 cm, was donated by Rita Pedonesi, the heir who runs Calabria's archive, and now joins the permanent collection. You see it hung beside its pair from the same 1990s cycle, Uomo che guarda il mare, where the figures on the shore keep changing shape. Patologia della luce (2012) goes back to the beach twenty years later. Calabria, who died in 2024, came out of the Nuova Figurazione of the 1950s and 60s, and earned the label "pittore filosofo".
Four paintings in one room: add it to a visit to the collection. Entry is in the €17 gallery ticket, Tuesday to Sunday 9am to 7pm, from 27 October to 29 November.
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Pantani: nell'accadere del ricordo
A 2005 portrait of the cyclist Marco Pantani, one of the faces in Calabria's series Un volto e il tempo.
Donna e mare and Uomo che guarda il mare
The newly donated woman by the sea hangs beside its 1990s pair, a man looking at the sea, both figures shifting shape on the shore.
Patologia della luce
A 2012 canvas that takes Calabria back to the beach, twenty years after the sea paintings, as a place where the tensions of the present show.
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- La donazione Ennio CalabriaCourtesy of La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)
- States of Uncertain DomesticitiesCourtesy of Museo Carlo Bilotti
- Marina Bindella. CosmografieCourtesy of Museo Carlo Bilotti
- Isaac Julien: All That Changes You. MetamorphosisCourtesy of Galleria Borghese
- La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM)Daderot via Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Museo Carlo BilottiKrzysztof Golik / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Galleria BorgheseAlessio Damato, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo dell'Ara PacisCouncil, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Fondazione MemmoAndre P. Meyer-Vitali, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0