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19/01/2008 |
Italian excellence
Art, Fashion and Taste in advertising icons.
From November 2008
Posters and sketches from the greatest illustrators of the 20th century, Metlicovitz, Dudovich, Hohenstein, Terzi and Villa, celebrating two products which constitute Italian excellence and are recognised the world over: fashion and wine. These works, chosen from the Massimo and Sonia Cirulli Archive in New York, stand as a highly suggestive investigation into themes already dealt with in the permanent collection of the Mazzucchelli museum complex: the Wine and Corkscrew Museum and the Fashion and Costume Museum, which are already known to the public. So as to strengthen the ties between this new acquisition and the permanent collections, the exhibition will be housed in two new galleries and will follow with a selection of exhibits in the Museum of Fashion and Costume and the Wine museum.
A third new gallery will house a selection of posters from the Salce Collection in Treviso, dating from the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, created by some of the most important Italian artists (De Chirico, Boccioni, Casorati, Depero, Cambellotti, Prampolini, Sironi, Fontana and Wildt), a demonstration that the technique of poster printing needs to be evaluated as a true artistic expression, on a par with painting and sculpture (in Italy this fact still needs to be fully understood).
This exhibition is promoted by the Giacomini Meo Fiorot Foundation, the Mazzucchelli Museum complex and the ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activity – the regional boards for the artistic and ethno-anthropological heritages of the provinces of Venice, Padua, Belluno and Treviso.
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