#ArtsBizInc: Giorgio Morandi Exhibition Opens at Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA)
Installation of rarely seen work by Italian modern master Giorgio Morandi opens at CIMA October 2015
The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) is one of seven participating organizations in NYFA’s Arts Business Incubator (ABI) program. CIMA is a nonprofit organization established to advance public understanding of and promote scholarly research on modern and contemporary Italian art internationally.
This season, CIMA is showcasing Italian artist Giorgio Morandi’s rare, early paintings from the 1930s in their annual exhibition:
Giorgio Morandi
Opening Weekend: October 9 – 10, 2015
Exhibition Dates: October 9, 2015 – June 25, 2016
Location: Center for Italian Modern Art, 421 Broome Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013
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Giorgio Morandi (1890 – 1964) is among the few 20th-century Italian artists who have been broadly recognized on an international level. For its third installation, CIMA will focus on the artist’s rarely seen works from the 1930s—the decade when Morandi reached full artistic maturity and developed his distinct pictorial language, which until now has been relatively unexamined outside of Italy. Featuring some 40 paintings, etchings, and drawings by the acclaimed Italian modernist, the installation marks the first time in decades the majority of these works—gathered from important public and private holdings across Europe—have been on view in the US. The installation will also include select works from the very beginning and end of the artist’s career, in the 1910s and 1960s respectively, to demonstrate the thematic continuities in his practice.
Public Lecture: When Hollywood and the U.S. fell in love with Modern Italian Art
Date: Thursday, October 22, 6 PM – 8 PM
Location: Center for Italian Modern Art, 421 Broome Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013
Former CIMA fellow, art historian and curator Raffaele Bedarida explores the emerging interest in Italian modern art in the U.S. during the late 1950s—looking closely at the Italian art exhibitions that traveled the U.S. in those years, as well as the art that was incorporated into fashion magazines like Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, and the films and private art collections of Billy Wilder, Kirk Douglas, and other Hollywood stars.
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CIMA is part of NYFA’s Arts Business Incubator (ABI) Program, which will see the inaugural cohort of seven participating businesses undergo rigorous training in the essentials of starting and running an arts-based enterprise. Find out more about the businesses and ABI program by clicking here.
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Image: Giorgio Morandi, Still Life, 1955. Oil on canvas, 40 x 35 cm. Gianni Mattioli Collection © 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome.
