Giorgio De Chirico, Felice Casorati, Carlo Carrà, Gino Severini, Antonio Donghi, Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Achille Funi at Palazzo Reale illustrate how after the avant-garde revolution, figurative painting and classic heritage returned to the fore in a form of contemporary painting that has been often termed “algid, terse, and investigated in the smallest details, so realistic it appears disquieting and alienating,” write curators Gabriella Belli and Valerio Terraroli. “Magic Realism” is the title of the exhibition that from 19 October 2021 to 27 February 2022 will charm viewers at Palazzo Reale in Milan.
Magic Realism
At Palazzo Reale an exhibition dedicated to the great masterpieces of realist painting. Until 27 February 2022.
Collezione Etro / Photo Manusardi, Milano © Mario Sironi by SIAE 2021
Olio su tela / Mart, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Private Collection
Milan, FAI - Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Villa Necchi Campiglio / Collection Claudia Gian Ferrari
Venezia, Ca’ Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna (Archivio fotografico Fondazione Musei Civici, Venezia) © Antonio Donghi by SIAE 2021
Private Collection / Photo: Pino Dell’Aquila © Felice Casorati by SIAE 2021
Mart, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto / Collezione VAF-Stiftung © Carlo Carrà by SIAE 2021
Private Collection / Photo Mondadori Portfolio/Electa/Luca Carrà
Private collection
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- Valentina Petrucci
- 11 November 2021
Promoted and produced by the Comune di Milano-Cultura, Palazzo Reale and 24 ORE Cultura-Gruppo 24 ORE, and curated by Gabriella Belli and Valerio Terraroli, the exhibition presents a display of over 80 paintings providing a philological and historiographical reconstruction of the Magic Realism phenomenon. A new movement with bold subjects and a style that between 1929 and 1935 represented a return to neoclassic art deco painting, to Piero della Francesca’s shapes and proportions, and to metaphysical, surreal, in a word, magic settings.
Mario Sironi, L’allieva, 1924
Ubaldo Oppi, Ritratto della moglie sullo sfondo di Venezia, 1921
Arturo Martini, Gli amanti, 1920-21
Antonio Donghi, Donna al caffè, 1931
Felice Casorati, Silvana Cenni, 1922
Carlo Carrà, Le figlie di Loth, 1919
Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Dopo l’orgia, 1928
Mario Broglio, Il romanzo