Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)

ANNUAL REPORT - A 2007. ÉV - MÓNIKA KUMIN: A Journey through Italian Art 1950-1980. One Hundred Works from the Farnesina Contemporary Italian Art Collection

A JOURNEY THROUGH ITALIAN ART 1950-1980: ONE HUNDRED WORKS FROM THE FARNESINA CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN ART COLLECTION 12 July, 2007 - 9 September, 2007 Curators: Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova, and Concetta Branciamore UTAZÁS AZ OLASZ MŰVÉSZETBEN 1950-1980. SZÁZ MU A ANYAGÁBÓL lA JOURNEY THROUGH ITAL I AN ART 1950-1980. PORARY ITALIAN ART COLLECTION I. ITALIAN CULTURAL ITALIAN VERSIONS. 119 PP., 101 COL. ILLS.. FARNES1NA KORTÁRS OLASZ MŰVÉSZETI GYŰJTEMÉNY . ONE HUNDRED WORKS FROM THE FARNESINA CONTEMINSTITU EE. BUDAPEST 2007. HUNGARIAN AND ENGLISH. During the past decade the collaboration between the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Embassy in Budapest, the Italian Institute of Culture and the Museum of Fine Arts has produced several exhibitions of prominent artists of twentieth-century Italian painting. Ten years ago, in 1997, the exhibition entitled "Italian Painting in the 1950s" acquainted the Hungarian public with the representative works of the fifties, which has by now become a classic period although it is little known in Hungary. In 1998 the Museum of Fine Arts introduced the art of Roberto Barni and in 2000 it devoted an exhibition to two prominent artists of twentieth-century Italian figurative painting, /Vlberto Savinio and Massimo Campigli. The first Hungarian exhibition of the Farnesina contemporary Italian collection of art familiarises the Hungarian public with a wider spectrum of Italian art after 1945. Some one hundred paintings and sculptures are displayed, including works by Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, who earned himself worldwide fame with his perforated pictures, figures of the Arte povera movement (Mario Alerz, Giuseppe Penone), which communicated enigmatic contents through the use of objects taken from the natural and artificial environment, as well as the results of the Transavantgarde (Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Mimmo Paladino) of the eighties with its markedly individualistic and expressive painterly language which also had a major influence on the Hungarian art of that period. The selection of Italian art from the period between 1950 and 1980 exhibited in Budapest provides an overview of the most important artists and artistic movements. A high quality catalogue in Hungarian was published to accompany the exhibition in which three studies complement the reproductions of the displayed works of art and provide an illustration from various perspectives of the discussed periods of art.