Italian Presentation of the Bolted Book Facsimile at FLAT in Turin
November 03, 2017
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 / 6:30pm – 8pm
Palazzo Cisterna, Turin, Italy
For CIMA friends in Italy, we are presenting the new facsimile of Fortunato Depero’s masterpiece of graphic design and typography, Depero Futurista (aka The Bolted Book), at the inaugural FLAT art book fair in Turin. CIMA’s executive director Heather Ewing will be participating in a roundtable conversation together with Nicoletta Boschiero, curator at The Mart museum of modern and contemporary art in Trento and Rovereto and author of an essay in the reader’s guide; Ken Soehner, chief librarian of the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a member of the scientific committee of FLAT; and Liliana Dematteis, a curator and collector and another member of the FLAT scientific committee.
FLAT (fiero libro arte Torino) is a new international event dedicated to art books, taking place November 3-5, 2017. CIMA is proud to be a cultural partner of FLAT.
To read more about this wonderful project, check out CIMA’s blogpost on the subject, New Life for Depero Futurista.
The Bridge Book Award
November 01, 2017
Please join us for a panel discussion in celebration of the third edition of “The Bridge” Book Award, with Eli Gottlieb, 2016 American fiction winner; the 2017 Italian winners, Andrea Inglese for fiction and Antonella Tarpino for nonfiction; and Maria Ida Gaeta, Director of the Casa delle Letterature, Rome, acting as moderator.
The Bridge Book Award is the creation of the Casa delle Letterature of the Municipality of Rome, the American Initiative for Italian Culture (AIFIC), and the U.S. Embassy in Rome. It is designed to be a “bridge” connecting the two cultures—the Italian and the American—in order to promote knowledge of the most recent literary trends in the two countries. The award is conferred annually to four authors: one work of fiction recently published in Italy and one recently published in the United States; and to one work of nonfiction recently published in Italy and the United States. The award consists of a sum to cover the translation cost into the opposite language, a monetary prize for the winners, and a sum to cover travel costs. Every effort is made to find a publisher for the book in the country of non-origin. This third edition of the prize has also been sustained by other Italian institutions, including the Center for the Book and for Reading of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage (Centro per il libro e la lettura, CEPELL), and the Federation of Italian Writers (Federazione Unitaria Italiana Scrittori, FUIS).
The American winners for 2017 are Jennifer Haigh for fiction and Anna Harwell Celenza for nonfiction. Haigh’s fifth novel Heat and Light, winner of The Bridge Award in 2017 for fiction, earned a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio. Anna Harwell Celenza is the Thomas E. Caestecker Professor of Music at Georgetown University. Her most recent book, Jazz Italian Style: From Its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra., is the winner of The Bridge Award in 2017 for nonfiction.
Program schedule:
6pm – registration and exhibition viewing
6:20pm – conversation program begins, followed by Q&A
7:30pm – conversation program concludes; exhibition viewing
8pm – CIMA closes
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MEMBERS ONLY: MODIGLIANI UNMASKED: PRIVATE EVENING TOUR AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM
October 30, 2017
Join us on Monday, October 30, for a private evening visit to the recently opened Modigliani Unmasked, the first exhibition in the United States to focus on Amedeo Modigliani’s early work made in the years after he arrived in Paris in 1906. The exhibition puts a spotlight on Modigliani’s drawings, with a large selection acquired directly from the artist by Dr. Paul Alexandre, his close friend and first patron. These works — many of which are being shown for the first time in the U.S. —illuminate how Modigliani’s heritage as an Italian Sephardic Jew is pivotal to understanding his artistic output. The exhibition includes approximately 150 works, those from the Alexandre collection as well as a selection of Modigliani’s paintings, sculptures, and other drawings from collections around the world. Modigliani’s art is complemented by work representative of the various multicultural influences — African, Greek, Egyptian, and Asian — that inspired the young artist during this lesser-known, early period.
Amedeo Modigliani, Lunia Czechowska, 1919. Oil on canvas, 311Ž2 x 201Ž2 in. (80 x 52 cm), Museu de Arte de São Paulo. Photograph by João Musa.
Robert Storr and Lawrence Weschler in Conversation
October 26, 2017
CIMA hosts renowned curator and writer Robert Storr in conversation with Lawrence Weschler for a special evening of reflection on Louise Bourgeois, whose works are on display at CIMA in dialogue with those of ALBERTO SAVINIO, subject of the 2017-18 season. Storr will discuss the art and life of Bourgeois, subject of Intimate Geometries, his groundbreaking 828-page monograph released by Monacelli Press in 2016. The conversation will touch as well on the work of Savinio and the affinities between the two artists.
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THE COURSE OF EMPIRES: AMERICAN-ITALIAN CULTURAL RELATIONS, 1770-1980
October 20, 2017
This Friday October 20th, during open hours, CIMA will also be live-streaming THE COURSE OF EMPIRES: AMERICAN-ITALIAN CULTURAL RELATIONS, 1770-1980, taking place at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. Sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art, this international conference examines the persistent fascination of American and Italian artists with the cultural achievements of ancient Rome and the Renaissance. Registration for CIMA Open Hours includes admission to the screening.
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OPEN HOUSE NEW YORK AT CIMA
October 14, 2017
CIMA is proud to participate for the third time in Open House New York.
Enjoy free entry all day 10am – 6pm.
Since 2003, for two days each October, the Annual Open House New York Weekend unlocks the doors of New York’s most important buildings, offering an extraordinary opportunity to experience the city and meet the people who design, build, and preserve New York.
Irina Verona, the architect who renovated CIMA’s beautiful loft space, will be on hand to lead OpenDialogue tours at 11 am and 1 pm.
CIMA’s Fall Fellows, Elena Salza and Giulia Tulino, will lead guided visits of the ALBERTO SAVINIO installation at 3 pm and 4.30 pm.
Laura Mattioli: Tour of Arte Povera at Hauser & Wirth
October 11, 2017
On Wednesday October 11, CIMA President and Founder Laura Mattioli will be leading a walkthrough of the ARTE POVERA exhibition now on view at Hauser & Wirth in Chelsea.
Curated by Ingvild Goetz, the exhibition—which spans three floors—offers a wide-ranging overview of Italy’s highly innovative post-war art movement, as seen through the eyes of one of its most significant collectors. The exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Arte Povera movement and features more than 150 works by artists Claudio Abate, Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Giorgio Colombo, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Paolo Mussat Sartor, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini, and Gilberto Zorio.
Mattioli will discuss two of the movement’s most significant artists, Giovanni Anselmo and Giulio Paolini, and shed light on the sociopolitical motivations behind the radical works on view. Paolini was one of the subjects of last season’s exhibition at CIMA, Giorgio de Chirico – Giulio Paolini / Giulio Paolini – Giorgio de Chirico.
Please note this event will take place at 548 West 22nd Street.
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.”
Missed the event? Watch the video here!
Depero’s Bolted Book at the NY Art Book Fair
September 24, 2017
Depero’s Bolted Book: 90 Years Old and Still Dangerous!
Join us Sunday, September 24, at 1pm, at Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair for a special presentation on Fortunato Depero’s 1927 graphic design masterpiece, Depero Futurista (aka The Bolted Book).
Former CIMA Fellow Raffaele Bedarida will speak about the history of the book and Steven Heller will discuss its importance in the history of graphic design. The book is known familiarly as The Bolted Book, because of its unique binding: two industrial aluminum bolts. Depero Futurista celebrates its 90th birthday this year, but this book remains remarkably fresh, modern, and relevant today. Filled with typographic experimentation, it also serves as a portfolio showcase of Depero’s career and includes his exhortation to fellow artists to embrace self-promotion and the modern art of advertising.
Visitors will have the rare opportunity to see an original copy of the book, together with the newly issued facsimile, a joint project of CIMA, the MART Museum in Trento and Rovereto, and Designers & Books.
CIMA is pleased to be partnering with Designers & Books and the Mart, Museum of modern and contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto, Italy (which houses Depero’s archives), to bring this book and Depero’s life and work to a wider audience.
To read more about the facsimile project, check out this blogpost. To learn more about the book, please visit the website: www.boltedbook.com, where one can preview all 240 pages of the book and learn about the history of the publication.
CIMA’s presentation will take place at 1pm in the bookstore on the first floor of MoMA PS1. This is the twelfth annual edition of Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair.
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Members Only: Private Visit to Hudson Valley’s Magazzino
September 23, 2017
Join us on Saturday September 23 for a very special private tour of the newly opened Magazzino, a private warehouse art space devoted to Postwar and Contemporary Italian Art located in the Hudson Valley, hosted by Vittorio Calabrese, director of Magazzino.
Magazzino’s inaugural exhibition is a tribute to Margherita Stein, founder of the historic Galleria Christian Stein and one of the pioneers of the Arte Povera movement. Margherita Stein: Rebel With a Cause displays a curated selection over four decades of the artists whose careers she fostered, including Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gilberto Zorio as well as Marco Bagnoli, Domenico Bianchi and Remo Salvadori.
Giulio Paolini, ‘Mimesi’, 1940. Courtesy of Magazzino of Italian Art, Photograph by Marco Anelli New York
