A new exhibition, 'The Making of Modern Italy: Art and Design in the Early 1960s', curated by Professor Giuliana Pieri, opens on 30 January at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London.
The Making of Modern Italy
The exhibition was created through the AHRC-fuinded research project 'Interdisciplinary Italy: Interart/Intermedia 1900-2020', which is led by Giulian Pieri, who is Professor of Italian and the Visual Art. It runs in Gallery 4 at the Estorick until 7 April 2019.
During the early Sixties, Italy exploded onto the international stage, shedding its old image as a beautiful land with a glorious past but a lacklustre present. The new Italy was thoroughly modern: its economy was growing at an extraordinary rate thanks to its newfound industrial power, and large sectors of its population were on the move away from rural areas into its expanding cities. Italian architects, designers, filmmakers and artists were fêted, and the world seemed to fall under the spell of Italy. This small display focuses on the country’s new post-war identity, considering the role played by those artists and designers who worked across different disciplines, contributing to the fundamental transformation of Italian culture and its reception abroad.
Find out more about Giuliana Pieri here.
Find out more about the Estorick Collection and the exhibition here.
Find out more about the Interdiscipinary Italy project and read a blog post by Giuliana about the exhibition here.
