Europe at war. Marks of the Short Twentieth Century

Exhibition curated with the support of the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Autonomous Province of Trento and the one of Trieste. in collaboration with Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino (Trentino history museum foundation), the Buonconsiglio Castle of Trento and the cooperative “La Collina”.

The exhibition, organized along the national initiatives in occasion of the First World War's centenary, investigates on the one hand the causes and the interests which caused the war, on the other hand the subjection of millions of peasants and workmen who died at war.
The critical research and the choice of the selected works of art – by Otto Dix, George Grosz, Mario Sironi, Giacomo Balla, Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Italico Brass, Aldo Lugli, Arcangelo Salvarani, Giacomo Federico Quarenghi, Fortunato Depero, Giuseppe Scalarini, Alberto Helios Gagliardo, Massimiliano Guala, Giovanni Antioco Mura and again paintings, temperas, drawings, etchings - investigate the "shock" that this war had determined in the academic and "high" art, as well as the interventionist furies: at the frontline, under the shock of the mass death and of the war, the so-called "painters-soldiers" totally changed their attitude and paiting. Hence the laceration, the bayonet cut that passes through the art of those decades, the suffered traumas and the break that the war years brought about in the aesthetic harmony.