Nino Bertoletti, Carlo Levi, Piero Martina on the centenary of the Modern Art Gallery in Rome – Rome

Roma – In the year of his centenary, the Modern Art Gallery in Rome invites you to taste two exhibitions dedicated to three masters of painting and beyond.
The first focus, planned from 11 April to 14 September, places the friendship between the painter, writer and intellectual Turinese Carlo Levi and Piero Martina, an artist who was also Turinese, supported by Levi himself from the first years of his career. Entitled Tribute to Carlo Levi. The friendship with Piero Martina and the paths of collectingThe route – born from the collaboration between the Carlo Levi Foundation in Rome and the Piero Martina archive of Turin – embraces around sixty works by the Carlo Levi Foundation and the Piero Martina archive, and of important cultural institutions and public and private collections.
The extraordinary band of Levi with Rome, the city in which he permanently lived from 1945 until his death, a source of continuous inspiration, in which he, for a short season, also the friend, also the friend, also hits. The exhibition has been compiled by Daniela Fonti and Antonella Lavorgna (Carlo Levi Foundation) and Antonella Martina (Archive Piero Martina), while the section dedicated to the Angelina de Lipsis Spallone collection on Giovanna Caterina de Feo.

Carlo Levi and Piero Martina | Photo: © Monkeys Video Lab

The formation, the Turin intellectual environment shows space in the Roman landing where the Torinese years still reflect in the portraits of family and friends, in death, in the citizens, of Sunset with the mole By Piero Martina in the tragic abuse of the war to the arrests of Carlo Levi and continuous nomadism between Italy and France.
Social themes attract Levi’s attention and exploding through the season of civil dedication, in the consciousness of the role of intellectuals towards the farmers and the working class. The last pictorial seasons of both are characterized by a renewed interest in nature, between nudes and silhouettes, old deities and unexpected appearances. When figures in the foreground, diluted and not to decipher, characterize the paintings of Martina, a dense and sultry material is made in Levi, representation of a dramatic and dreamy vegetable world. The naked and landscapes with smooth colors of the youth years will soon leave the field to complex works such as such as such as Donne furious from 1934 O Trees From 1964.

For the collection of Angelina de Lipsis Spallone, Arts and lover of Art, collector with a careful view of the best national and international art of his time, is one of a cores of nineteen non -published paintings by Carlo Levi, now exhibited for the first time, thanks to the Friendship with Linuccia Saba, daughter of Umberto.

Carlo Levi and Piero Martina | Photo: © Monkeys Video Lab

There are also many of the works of Nino Bertoletti, the painter and illustrator, but also collector, art dealer and journalist, protagonist of the second exhibition in the Galleria in Via Crispi, friend of artists such as Giorgio de Chirico and Fausto Pirandello, but also Lijigi Pirandello and Massimpello.
More than thirty years after the last exhibition dedicated to his work, from 11 April to 14 September, the retrospective Nino Bertoletti. 1889-1971edited by Pier Paolo Pancotto, is confronted with his artistic and intellectual complexity by crossing his entire career with pictorial works, drawings and illustrations made between 1902 and the late 1960s in a chronological path that tries to bring the richness of a production back for the most hidden.

Nino Bartoletti in Gam | Photo: © Monkeys Video Lab

Promoted by Roma Capitale, Department of Culture, Capitoline Superintendence for Cultural Heritage and Created in Collaboration with the Nino and Pasquarosa Bertoletti Archive, the Exhibition Presents Works Mainly from the Archive, From Private Collections and Villa D’Arte Museums and Museums of Museums and Vills Soror’s Museum of Museums and Vills Soror’s Museum or Vills Soror’s Museum or Vills, Thon and Museums of Museums of Museums and Vills as a Museum of Museums and Vills as Museums of Museums or Vills as a Museum of Museums and Vills as Museums of Museums and Vills. The Museum of Rome Palazzo Braschi, The National Gallery of Modern and contemporary art.

“After a first expressionism – Pancotto writes in the text in the Catalog – Bertoletti soon turns into a more organic and stable vision of the pictorial composition. A structural solidness, which, introduced by the ‘Neoclassical’ Virata ‘Viratsta’ Virata ‘Viratsa spirits of a past that he himself is constantly cultivating through precious lectures, visits to international museums and direct contact with the works of the great masters, some of which they have as a collector, alienated as an antiquarian, baths, Venice in 1946 in 1906: Born to know his internship, in accordance with Familie. to understand their calling once and for all.

The woman and the eternal Musa Pasquarosa, a great painter with whom the artist travels and sharing cultural experiences, in addition to the great love for creative exercise, a constant presence can be seen. We find it in the appearance of the teenage model like that of the young mother, to portraits of an older woman, whose beauty is now only interpreted by the filter of the heart.