Speaking to Clio: Introducing Alberto Savinio

 

October 05, 2017

To inaugurate the opening of our new season dedicated to ALBERTO SAVINIO, CIMA welcomes to New York Savinio’s granddaughters, Francesca and Enrica Antonini, to share their unique personal history of this fascinating and under-recognized Italian artist. The presentation will be given in Italian and English, and will offer insight into Savinio’s life and travels, illustrated by rarely seen photographs from the family’s archive.

CIMA Fall Fellows Elena Salza and Giulia Tulino and CIMA founder Laura Mattioli will join the Antoninis in conversation to explore Savinio’s interest in mythology, his vivid and fantastical palette and iconography, and other themes dominant in CIMA’s new exhibition. CIMA’s new ALBERTO SAVINIO exhibition brings together rarely seen paintings from the late 1920s and 1930s in Paris—the period of Savinio’s career when this multidisciplinary artist dedicated himself fully to painting.

Join us for this exclusive chance to see these works, as well as select sculptures and prints by Louise Bourgeois in dialogue with Savinio’s oeuvre, before CIMA opens to the public on Friday, October 6.

* Dico a te, Clio (Speaking to Clio), is the name of one of Alberto Savinio’s many novels, dating from 1939; Clio is the muse of history, and the book, while ranging over ancient Tuscany, the land of the Etruscans, explores “the ghosts of history, the great void that slowly absorbs and annihilates all the actions that escape from history.”

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