Tornabuoni Art Paris inaugurates its second journey into the revolutionary Italian art scene of the 1960s with the exhibition “La Dolce Vita: Avant-Garde Artists in Post-War Rome” in Paris. The exhibition features, artworks by Alberto Burri, Jannis Kounellis, Salvatore Scarpitta, Pino Pascali, Mario Schifano, Carla Accardi, Giulio Turcato, Piero Dorazio, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Mimmo Rotella, Mario Ceroli, Franco Angeli, Tano Festa, and Renato Mambor.Tornabuoni Art concludes the journey of the many shows dedicated to the Milanese art scene of the 1960s featuring the works created by Lucio Fontana, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, Turi Simeti, and Paolo Scheggi, with the exhibition that speculates avant-garde artists in the titles itself. “La Dolce Vita,” a chef-d’oeuvre of Italian cinema, the 1961 film by Federico Fellini has been coined as the representative of the new trends and lifestyles of the era, and marks the historical period of 1950s and 1960s, the art scene of the timeframe to be specific, through its avant-garde attitude.Post-war Rome in 1950s, the dark past of WWII was just in the backdrop and not entirely left behind. The years also marked the Italian economic boom, and celebrating time in an attempt to forget the dark old past of the horror of war and fascism life became celebratory, as followed the artists. Rome became the international destination that invited the artists and intellectuals from the world over, such as Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly. Remains of the war gave birth to a new and evolved Rome, which emerged as a wave of change that shaped the modern Rome and paved way for new artistic movements that made their marks on the 20th century world of art. This exhibition is dedicated to explore modern Rome through its new and evolved artistic practices and an entirely unique outlook such as the Fellini film. To name a few, Forma 1, Origine groupss and Roman Pop were all inspired by the cultural panorama of the years given the diversity it encountered. They did their best in pushing the boundaries of art outward, to blur the edges of painting in a way that would influence times way ahead of its own, times like today. “La Dolce Vita” pays tribute to the historical art scene and documents the enigmatic era through the exhibited Italian arts of the time period with a selection of 40 museum-quality works. Many of them including the artworks by Alberto Burri, Carla Accardi, and Piero Dorazio were created between 1950s and 1960s, and the rest were made in the following years of the release of “La Dolce Vita” by artists such as Jannis Kounellis and Mario Ceroli, who displayed their direct influences of the post-war Roman art scene in their creations.Like the acclaimed and celebrated film La Dolce Vita, the genius of Fellini quotes, “The world will be wonderful, they say. But from whose viewpoint? If one phone call could announce the end of everything? We need to live in a state of suspended animation like a work of art, in a state of enchantment.” The exhibition suspends that state into an eternal enchantment of art, capturing the essence of time through the experience it offers.“La Dolce Vita, Avant-Garde Artists In Post-War Rome” is on view from October 20 through December 20, 2017 at Tornabuoni Art, 9 Rue Charlot, 75003 Paris, France.For details, visit: www.tornabuoniart.frClick on the slideshow for a sneak peek into the artworks.
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