Constellations

The exhibition “Costellazioni” (Constellations), hosted in Siena, in Santa Maria della Scala Museum Complex until March 30, 2025, consists of nine sections that narrate about the period between the years of the Great War and the early 1960s: from “Return to Order” to “Novecento”, from the Roman School to the “Italiens de Paris”, from realism to abstractionism and informalism.

The Monte dei Paschi di Siena Collection and the Brandi Collection preserve authentic masterpieces from this half-century, capable of tracing the development, certainly not linear and studded with contradictions, deviations and heretical figures, that runs from figuration to its dissolution: it is enough to mention the names of Ferrazzi, Andreotti, Carrà, Sironi, Donghi, De Pisis, Severini, Campigli, Morandi, Rosai, Viani, Martini, Levi, Mafai, Manzù, Marini, Guttuso, Afro, Scialoja, Turcato, Burri, all authors represented with works of primary importance.

Together with the great names of 20th-century Italian art, a conspicuous selection of artists from Siena and to a lesser extent from Tuscany will also be exhibited: not in an impossible and useless competition with the recognized “masters”, but in an open and sometimes surprising dialogue, testifying that the distance between centers and peripheries was, between the 1910s and the 1960s, less clear-cut than one might imagine.

Information:

• from October 17, 2024 to March 30, 2025
• opening hours:
  10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday and holidays 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.; Tuesday closed
  from December 23 to January 6:
  10 a.m. - 7 p.m. every day
• closed from January 21 to 28, 2025
• reservation: tel. 0577 286300 - booking@operalaboratori.com
• https://www.verniceprogetti.it/
• https://www.santamariadellascala.com/mostre/