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The show

The Museum of the City of Rovereto presents the exhibition “Baldessari futurista”, curated by Maurizio Scudiero with a rich selection of works, some of which have never been published before, which cover a wide spectrum of experimentation by Roberto Marcello Baldessari, also known as “Iras”, pseudonym that takes the last letters of the surname read backwards.

"It can be said that Baldessari returns to the "scene of the crime" - so the curator Maurizio Scudiero - because exactly 60 years ago, in 1964, the first exhibition on Baldessari as a futurist was held at the Civic Art Gallery. And it is precisely the Civic Museum, in headquarters of the City Museum to host his return, in a very large exhibition, in rooms divided by theme, from abstraction, to bars and cabaret, to portraits, to the car and speed, to war, to landscape, to the avant-garde"

"This was an exhibition on which the Civic Museum had been working for a long time - comments the president Giovanni Laezza - not only to enhance an important artist for the city of Rovereto, but also the civic collection, a collection that belongs to the City of Rovereto and therefore, in fact, to all its citizens, and which preserves around 200 works by Baldessari, including paintings, engravings and drawings. What better place then, for an exhibition like this. A result achieved also thanks to multiple collaborations and alliances with institutions and lenders private individuals, first of all the one with the Mart"

A highly anticipated exhibition, 13 years after the last temporary exhibition dedicated to the artist which dates back to 2011, the exhibition at the City Museum is the result of many precious alliances between the Civic Museum Foundation and various institutions, first of all with the Mart, as well as with private collectors, and brings the focus back to the art, culture and ideas of one of the most revolutionary movements of the twentieth century.

An artist gifted with an amazing technique, both for oil paintings, pastels and mixed techniques, but also a very solid designer, Baldessari is today having the right place among the greats of his time.

The variety of media proposed in the 70 works on display is extremely interesting: 55 paintings, as well as three valuable sculptures, engravings and pastels.

The contribution of the civic art collection is important, today managed and preserved by the Civic Museum Foundation, which includes in the collection around 200 works, around twenty paintings as well as numerous engravings and drawings from Baldessari's figurative period.

The period considered in the exhibition itinerary goes from the first abstract essays in 1915 or the years after the artist's academic training, passing through the beginnings of Futurism, with a return to post-academic figurative art from 1924, up to the last Futurist period linked to aeropainting from 1934 to 1937.

The exhibition, in the idea of the curator Maurizio Scudiero, is not typically chronological, but follows a thematic division according to the subjects that the artist has interpreted most during his career, both by vocation and because they are more functional to the discussion of Futurism.

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