Members Only: Carlo Zinelli (1916–1974) at the American Folk Art Museum

 

May 10, 2017

CIMA Members are invited to join us at the American Folk Art Museum for an exclusive tour of the first museum exhibition on Carlo Zinelli (1916–1974) in the United States, coinciding with the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of this revered and distinctive Italian artist.

The show highlights four distinct phases in Zinelli’s oeuvre and new scholarship, through a selection of fifty-five paintings (many displayed double-sided), audio recordings of Zinelli, a film, and images by Life magazine photographer John Phillips. The exhibition brings together artworks from the American Folk Art Museum and other private and public collections from the United States and abroad, notably the Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, the Fondazione Culturale Carlo Zinelli, Verona, and the collection of Audrey B. Heckler, New York.

Carlo Zinelli, Untitled, 1961; gouache on paper, 19.75 x 27.5 inches (photo by Henri Germond © Collection de l’Art Brut)