Leonor Fini Fabrizio Clerici. Insomnia

From an idea by Vittorio Sgarbi. Curated by Denis Isaia and Giulia Tulino.

The Mart is dedicating an exhibition to the long close bond of friendship that united artists Leonor Fini and Fabrizio Clerici between Rome and Paris from the 1940s onwards. They were painters, illustrators, set and costume designers, and shared the same aesthetic and cultural references. They belonged to the bourgeoisie and intellectual circles of their time, which still inspire queer communities today. The surreal, introspective and metaphysical imagery of Italian fantastic art, recently rediscovered both by art history and the market, still lives on in their works today.

At the Mart, this unique journey takes visitors through over 400 works including paintings, drawings, photographs, videos, documents, theatre design sketches, costumes and objects. Organised chronologically and philologically, it is interspersed with numerous thematic insights dedicated to the shared passions of the two artists. Fini and Clerici's work is also compared to the works of their teachers, including Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Arturo Nathan and Bruno Croatto, as well as their fellow travellers, such as Stanislao Lepri, Eugène Berman and Pavel Tchelitchew, and their heirs, Enrico d'Assia and Eros Renzetti.

Somewhere between the fantastic and the neo-romantic, through the lives of two of its greatest and most original protagonists, the exhibition Leonor Fini Fabrizio Clerici. INSOMNIA describes a time characterised by a profound heterogeneity and cultural curiosity.

Source: www.mart.tn.it