The Short Century. Tesserae of the 1900s at the Matteucci Center in Viareggio.

Opening today at the Matteucci Center for Modern Art in Viareggio is the exhibition"The Short Century. Weavings of the 20th Century" curated by Susanna Ragionieri.

The exhibition, which will be on view until Nov. 5, 2017, displays 50 works, mostly from private collections and never exhibited to the public, to offer a series of testimonies, of tesserae of a mosaic of the last century, one of the most fertile periods in Italian art.

Visitors will find works by Balla, Severini, De Pisis, Thayat, Spadini, Campigli and many others, such as Morandi, Guttuso and De Chirico.

The director and founder of the Matteucci Foundation says the exhibition “offers a focus in its own original way from which a series of situations emerge that could be defined as ”transversal" to the now canonical formal fractures. In their apparent autonomy and lack of homogeneity of expression, these dissonant connotations confirm the restless spirit that has always characterized Italian art, outlining an unexpected cross-section, as unified as ever in communicating the creative thinking of the time.
It is not a matter of venturing into a temporal space in search of a theme, genre or aesthetic consonances, but of discovering the infinite variety of forms conceived and articulated now on color, now on reason, now on feeling, in which the image, despite everything, continues to live before shattering."

Source: press release

Image: Renato Guttuso, In the Studio (1958)

The Short Century. Tesserae of the 1900s at the Matteucci Center in Viareggio.

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