At the Novecento Museum in Florence, the armchromes of Alberto Magnelli

Until February 15, 2023, the Museo Novecento in Florence, as part of the project to enhance the works and artists in the Florentine civic collections, is hosting the monographic exhibition Alberto Magnelli. Armocromie, curated by Eva Francioli.

Dedicated to Alberto Magnelli (Florence 1888 - Meudon 1971), a master ofinternational abstractionism, the exhibition aims to rediscover the artist’s production, starting with the display of the entire bequest destined by Magnelli himself, on his deathbed, to his hometown, Florence. First exhibited in 1973 at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Palazzo Pitti, the Alberto Magnelli Legato consists of a series of works, including paintings, drawings and collages, created between 1914 and 1968. The nucleus exemplifies the great variety of styles and techniques experimented by the painter over the years: from his youthful experiences, in which the influence of the great Italian art of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries is combined with the suggestions of the French avant-garde and his passion for the primordial lines of tribal art, to his more mature compositions, in which Magnelli declines, with growing awareness, a personal language of an abstract type.

The interest in the chromatic component and its infinite declinations remains constant in his production. A sophisticated and never taken for grantedharmonization, capable of conveying the different artistic and existential phases crossed by Alberto Magnelli during his long career.

Tuscan by birth and French by adoption, Magnelli contributed to the spread of new visual codes in post-World War II Europe. The creator of a long and incessant research on the medium of painting, he developed an original repertoire of forms and colors between the 1910s and the 1960s. His training as a self-taught artist will be followed, in the years of his early youth, by a confrontation with the most innovative experiences of international art, cultivated also through friendship with the main protagonists of the Parisian artistic and cultural scene. In particular with Jean Arp and his wife Sophie, with whom Magnelli will share important art and life experiences during the years of World War II.

For info: https://www.museonovecento.it/

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Photo by Leonardo Morfini.

At the Novecento Museum in Florence, the armchromes of Alberto Magnelli

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