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Carlo Belli

Carlo Belli publishes Kn, the bible of abstract art according to Vasilij Kandinskij

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Marguerite Caetani

Marguerite Caetani, Princess of Bassiano, supports the work of Scipione during one of the most difficult periods of the life of the painter from Le Marche region.

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Minnie Smolkova Casella

Minnie Smolkova Casella, a dancer since childhood, is invited to the I Art Quadriennale to talk about dance, so she decides to dance the words.

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Ercole Patti

Ercole Patti’s amusing satires describe the art savvy ladies who accompany curious critics to the Art Quadriennale.

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Elsa De Giorgi

Elsa De Giorgi, actress of Telefoni Bianchi films and Pasolini’s cinema, recounts the dialectical duels hosted in her Roman living room in her novels.

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Vitaliano Brancati

Vitaliano Brancati writes about Rome depicted by painters in Diario Romano.

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Luigi Squarzina

Luigi Squarzina, in the play The Universal Exhibition, describes the buildings of the E42 transformed into a refugee site.

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Cipriano Efisio Oppo

Cipriano Efisio Oppo escapes to Venice in 1944, where he was arrested by the partisans.

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Gastone Novelli

Gastone Novelli between the stage of Teatro della Cometa and Simon’s Le Jardin des Plantes.

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The 1943 IV Art Quadriennale

The IV Art Quadriennale is inaugurated on the sly in the middle of wartime, while everything around was collapsing.

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Tornabuoni

The funeral dandyism of Lorenzo Tornabuoni, who revisits a troubled and restless Egon Schiele.

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The Last Party

The Pecci-Blunt couple throws one last party in 1938, recounted by Curzio Malaparte in Diary of a Foreigner in Paris.

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Sandro Penna

Sandro Penna trades contemporary artworks.

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Paola Masino

Paola Masino collects tarots painted by the greatest artists of her time.

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Giorgio Vigolo

Giorgio Vigolo’s fantastic Rome.

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Osvaldo Licini

Osvaldo Licini insults his old friend and fellow academician Giorgio Morandi, who he now considers to be dedicated to Decorativism, in the 1939 Quadriennale.

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Fausto Pirandello

Fausto Pirandello takes stock of the state of the art in his presentation text to the 1951 Quadriennale.

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Alberto Moravia

Alberto Moravia wonders why he did not become a painter.

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Enrico Prampolini

Enrico Prampolini draws the sets and costumes of Malipiero’s Capricci di Callot at the Rome Opera House in 1942.

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Alberto Arbasino

Alberto Arbasino insists with Giangiacomo Feltrinelli for the cover of his book La narcisata to feature a Catullus by Cy Twombly.

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Leonor Fini

Leonor Fini paints ghosts in Piazza del Gesù and buys Saracen towers with Anna Magnani.

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Libero de Libero

Libero de Libero and his Borrador: the diary of bitterness.

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Mimi Pecci Blunt

Mimì Pecci Blunt organizes in Rome: art, theater and music.

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Mario Praz e Mario Schifano

Mario Praz quarrels with Mario Schifano over a difficult cohabitation and Luchino Visconti draws the subject of Conversation Piece from this incident.

Q2020

2020 Art Quadriennale

The FUORI 2020 Art Quadriennale, curated by Sarah Cosulich and Stefano Collicelli Cagol, is the exhibition of contemporary Italian art at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, which offers a unique and unforgettable journey through works from the 1960s to the present day.

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