Take a look back at CIMA’s top five blogposts of 2015!
SPERONE WESTWATER GALLERY: PAINTING IN ITALY 1910s-1950s
The exhibition titled “Painting in Italy 1910s-1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art,” presents works of Italian abstract art, bringing together fifty years of history over two floors.
The first “Drawing Night” at CIMA
On Monday evening the Center for Italian Modern Art launched its inaugural and much anticipated “Drawing Night.” In collaboration with the New York Studio School (NYSS), CIMA opened its exhibition space to artists and students to draw inspiration from Giorgio Morandi’s works. Supplies for the evening were generously donated by the storied Italian paper-making company, Fabriano.
Alberto Burri at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
On the centenary of the birth of Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915-1995), professor Emily Braun, a member of the advisory committee of the Center for Italian Modern Art, guest curates an overdue and overwhelming retrospective exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
An eye for design: Milan Triennale Archives
The Milan Triennale Library and Archives, known as the Biblioteca del Progetto, is exactly what you might expect of a space situated in an iconic cultural institute devoted to art and design. It is a wonderful place for visitors that have wandered off course from the main Triennale’s exhibition route and especially for scholars, like Teresa KIttler, to peruse as they wait for documents to arrive.
When New York Opens up its Doors
This year, for the twelfth edition of Open House New York, the event that opens the doors of hundreds of New York’s most architecturally and culturally significant spaces, with guided tours, lectures and performances, the Italian Center for Modern Art welcomed over 350 visitors.
Not Your Usual Morandi
The Italian Maestro Giorgio Morandi is presented in a new light at CIMA. The exhibition focuses on the formative decade of the 1930s and presents rare works alongside contemporary artists Tacita Dean, Wolfgang Laib, Joel Meyerowitz, and Matthias Schaller.
Farewell to CIMA Spring 2015 Fellows Ilaria Cicali and Ilaria M. P. Barzaghi
At the end of July we bid farewell to our spring fellows, Ilaria Cicali and Ilaria Barzaghi. We were sorry to see them go. It has been a fantastic season of studying Medardo Rosso and sharing this process of discovery with our visitors.
CIMA TRAVEL FELLOW LAURA MOURE CECCHINI REPORTS FROM THE NATIONAL CENTRAL ARCHIVE IN ROME
CIMA Travel Fellow Laura Moure Cecchini, a current PhD candidate at Duke University, reports on her dissertation research at the National Central Achive or Archivio Centrale dello Stato (ACS) in Rome.
CIMA De-Installs and says Ciao! to Medardo Rosso
Summer Intern, Erica Blume, relates the ever-emotional process of de-installing a show as we end CIMA’s 2nd season on Medardo Rosso. Working closely with conservators, discoveries were made regarding the creative methods and techniques the artist used.