This richly illustrated exhibition catalog accompanies the major show Italian Expressionism at Rome’s Galleria d’Arte Moderna. Curated by art historian Elena Pontiggia, the exhibition explores one of the most intense and least conventional periods in 20th-century Italian painting — a moment of poetic rebellion and personal introspection.
The catalog presents 126 works from the Giuseppe Iannaccone Collection and the Civic Museums of Rome, offering a passionate look at Italian expressionism between the 1920s and 1940s. The featured artists — including Scipione, Renato Birolli, and Carlo Levi — were part of movements such as the Scuola Romana, the Gruppo dei Sei di Torino, and Corrente. These artists formed a visual language of deliberate deformation: emotional, subjective, and deeply aware of their time.
Their work rejected the academicism and dominant canon of the period shaped by Margherita Sarfatti, instead expressing a raw fusion of introspection and social reality. The book — much like the art itself — situates Italian expressionism in dialogue with European modernism, revealing it as anything but provincial.
An art book of scholarly depth and visual power, this art catalog is ideal for art historians, collectors, and anyone intrigued by a period where cultural crisis gave rise to radical creativity. It’s not only a museum publication, but a moving document of resistance, vulnerability, and artistic courage.
Perfect for those seeking a rare book with collectible value — or simply a powerful art gift for lovers of modern Italian painting.
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