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Carla Accardi, Gioco Rosso, (Red Game) 2007. This work is an outcome of experimentation by Sicilian artist Carla Accardi in the style of "Forma 1," a mid-century movement of Italian artists influenced by Cubism and Abstractionism. “The Grand Italian Vision” takes visitors through some of the most momentous Indeed, when the Farnesina Collection was first envisioned in 1999, it had a rare and ambitious purpose. The Palazzo della Farnesina, which had been built in 1935 by architects Enrico Del Debbio, Arnaldo Foschini and Vittorio Ballio Morpurgo, had originally meant to serve as the headquarters for the National Fascist Party of the time. Vestiges of the building’s austere political origins remain embedded in its architectural fabric. “Visitors entering the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would have been impressed by the monumental nature of the atrium, the Staircase of Honour and the great open spaces they walked through,” expresses Vattani, “But apart from two large mosaics and two works by Pietro Consagra and Osvaldo Calò, they would have found only the occasional stately portrait of personalities from the past such as Francesco Crispi, Alfonso La Marmora and Federico Menabrea. Nothing else.” Mario Schifano (63), Santuario, (Sanctuary) 1986. Schifano is a multifaceted artist: painter, musician, and film director with a strongly rebellious nature and lifestyle, and in the 1960s became the original protagonist of an all-Italian Pop Art, after which he took on the theme of natur...

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• • • • Italian art exhibition brings together culture, politics at Bikaner House Italian art exhibition brings together culture, politics at Bikaner House Hours before it opened on May 26, Vincenzo de Luca, Ambassador of Italy to India and Nepal, noted how with this exhibition, notable contemporary art from Italy is travelling to India. Standing more than six-feet tall and looking into a mirror, Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto’s L’Etrusco, cast in bronze, transcends space and time to warn its viewers of the impending risks. The influential artist’s version of the renowned Etruscan statue of Aule Metele, Pistoletto’s 1976 work, currently on view at Bikaner House in Delhi, forms part of the exhibition titled “The Grand Italian Vision: The Farnesina Collection”, curated by Italian art critic Achille Bonito Oliva from the prestigious collection housed in the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of Italy in Rome. Hours before it opened on May 26, Vincenzo de Luca, Ambassador of Italy to India and Nepal, noted how with this exhibition, notable contemporary art from Italy is travelling to India. “This exhibition is in the framework of a very rich cultural programme as we are celebrating 75 years of diplomatic relations between Italy and India,” stated the ambassador. Sandro Chia. Mosaico (Donna) (anni ‘90) The mosaic showcases the style of the artist re-elaborating ideas from ancient and modern masters. (Source: Insta...

The collection was originally displayed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Rome, the Palazzo della Farnesina. The collection had more than 530 pieces by 280 artists collected by then secretary General Umberto Vattani. The collection made its international debut in Singapore in February 2023, then it travelled to Tokyo where it was housed from March to April. The exhibition called ‘The Grand Italian Vision,’ which features avant-garde sculpture, mosaic, painting, photography, and installations, also commemorates the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between India and Italy, according to Italian ambassador Vincenzo de Luca, who spoke at the opening ceremony. Also read: Talking about the collection, Achille Bonito told media sources, “We are here to allow art to do other things, to spread information and to change things. What is art? Art is a massage of the atrophied muscles of collective sensibility. Art has no limits, it has the ability to change things. It occupies an important historical moment. The Farnesina collection is special because it has the ability to spread and it is less cultural and more political. Art definitely celebrates the value of cohabitation and coexistence.”