Since its foundation in 1968 Galleria dello Scudo has devoted its activity to showing modern and contemporary art, above all that of the finest Italian artists from the first half of the Twentieth century.
It organized with public institutions rigorous and highly researched shows of great importance which, owing to their striking approach, have had great critical and popular success. Amongst the most historically important have been de Chirico, gli anni Venti (de Chirico in the Twenties), 1986-1987, then transferred to Palazzo Reale in Milan; during the 1990-1991 season an in-depth enquiry into the Parisian years of Alberto Savinio; Boccioni 1912 Materia, 1991-1992, show based on the analysis of the artist's masterpiece in the Mattioli collection, actually exhibited at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. In 2004 this show was reproposed at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Soho-New York under the title Boccioni, Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece and the Avant-garde in Milan and Paris with critical contributes among whom by Emily Braun, Vivian Green, Laura Mattioli Rossi. Other exhibitions of the Gallery were Marino Marini - Mitografia (Marino Marini - Mythography), 1994-1995, that through a selection of sculptures and paintings created between 1939 and 1966 analysed the evolution of the most characteristic aspect of the artist's output; Fausto Melotti "teatrini", 1996-1997, that gathered the particular terracotta works which represent the personal sphere of research by the artist. Morandi ultimo - nature morte 1950-1964 (The Later Morandi - Still Lifes 1950-1964), 1997-98, then transferred to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, was dedicated to the still-lifes by Giorgio Morandi executed between 1950 and 1964, the year of his death, and had the aim of taking the methodical look at his position in comparison with other contemporary artistic currents and for which his latest paintings are a determining factor. The exhibition De Chirico, gli anni Trenta (De Chirico in the Thirties), 1998-1999, showed how in that decade de Chirico elaborated new series such as the "Bagni misteriosi" and the "Puritani". The Gallery has recemtly dedicated a show to Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor largely represented in the European and American museums, organized in collaboration with the Museo di Castelvecchio.
Galleria dello Scudo also continues to present the most important Italian artists working since 1950 amongst whom are Afro, Burri, Capogrossi, Consagra, Fontana, Manzoni and Melotti. The Gallery has recently dedicated various exhibitions to contemporary Italian artists, such as Gianni Dessė, Giovanni Frangi, Giuseppe Gallo, Eliseo Mattiacci, Nunzio, Luigi Ontani. |
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Foundation year: 1968
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Director(s): Massimo Di Carlo
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Employees: Laura Lorenzoni
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