1914 black and white: graphic works that inaugurated the Gallery of Modern Art a century ago

As part of the celebrations for the centenary of the Gallery of Modern Art, Palazzo Pitti, to complement the exhibition of painting and sculpture recently inaugurated, "Lights on the '900', there is a new event, "The color of the shadow. The international exhibition of the Black and White. Purchases for tunnels. Florence 1914 ".

This exhibition aims to commemorate the opening of the Gallery of Modern Art, in the Fine Arts Society, Via della Colonna in Florence, where famous artists and young unknown, Italian and foreign exhibited their graphic designs including, xylography, lithographs and etchings.

The exhibition Florentine 1914 allowed him to appreciate the refinement and the fine quality of works in "black and white" with great success by renewing interest in graphic art.

The view, staged in the space of 'A passage of Angiolini Palazzo Pitti, open until 8 March 2015, though unable to fully reconstruct the event of 1914, presents a hundred works that allow us to understand the cultural climate that is breathed in that historical period and social unrest that will lead to the first world war but also to artistic innovations, already anticipated in some of the most significant works of the exhibition.

Divided into nine thematic sections, the exhibition brings together works by Italian artists of the most illustrious Antonio Fontanesi and Gaetano Previati.

Adolfo De Carolis is present with eight woodcuts, alongside young artists little known and some of which you have lost track of their subsequent artistic activity.

There are many works by foreign artists, some already famous for their graphic at the end of the nineteenth century, come Alphonse Legros Robert Goff e o it Belga Constantin Meunier, Théophile Steinlen the Swiss and the German Käthe Kollwitz.

Cecilia Latches

By the number 41 – The Year of 26/11/2014

The international exhibition of the Black and White
Purchases for tunnels
Florence 1914
Passage of Angiolini
Gallery of Modern Art in Palazzo Pitti
25 November 2014 – 8 March 2015
Time: Tuesday - Sunday 10.00 – 18.30, closed on Mondays
Info and reservations: Florence Museums 055.294883
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