This unique exhibition brings together a rarely seen but pivotally important group of artists who energized Italian art between the Wars. Loosely described as Expressionists, their work conveyed the profound disillusion of artists after the brutal experience of the First World War. In Italy, which had earlier given rise to the techno-utopian Futurist movement, this disenchantment was acutely felt.

Espressionismo draws from the definitive collection of Giuseppe Iannaccone, widely considered the most important private collection of Italian painting of the period. Focusing on key oil paintings, it articulates the frailty of the period, and reveals the complexities of Italian Expressionism through a selection of "outsider" artists and unpublished works.

The exhibition places man and woman at the center of art and seeks to draw attention to those artists who have used reality in the service of their own poetics, found in the everyday. In the distinctive experiences they chronicle, and in their intimacy and emotion, they form a new and unconventional chapter in the history of art.

Through a careful selection of leading artists including Arnaldo Badodi, Renato Birolli, Broggini, Lombard Chiaristi Fontana, Renato Guttuso, Mario Mafai, Giuseppe Migneco, Aligi Sassu, Scipione, Antonietta Raphaël, Italo Valenti, Emilio Vedova and Alberto Ziveri, themes such as war and conflict, the loss of humanity, the power of color and the dramas of the time are addressed.

Educational topics including war and reconstruction, Expressionism and art history, and Italian society and culture are addressed.

WORKS
100–120 paintings

DIMENSIONS
Various

SPACE REQUIREMENTS
500 linear feet (153 linear meters)

INQUIRIES
exhibitions@curatorial.org | 626.577.0044

FEE
Please inquire.