Taking as a starting point Vittorio De Sica’s 1963 film Il boom, the exhibition explores the relationship between post-war Italian art and the economic miracle in the 1960s.
The show focuses on how artists envisioned, represented and reacted to the boom, through the works of Carla Accardi, Franco Angeli, Marina Apollonio, Alighiero Boetti, Alberto Burri, Mario Ceroli, Gianni Colombo, Dadamaino, Tano Festa, Lucio Fontana, Francesco Lo Savio, Sergio Lombardo, Piero Gilardi, Pino Pascali, Mimmo Rotella and Mario Schifano. In order to highlight the link between art and industry, iconic design objects such as the Olivetti Valentine typewriter designed by Ettore Sottsass will also be on display.
The exhibition is the first of Tornabuoni Art London new curatorial fellowship. Every year, a curator will be given the keys to the gallery’s collection, in order to find new threads connecting the artworks in Tornabuoni’s vast collection. Dr Flavia Frigeri, Teaching Fellow at UCL and co-curator of The World Goes Pop exhibition at Tate Modern in 2015, is the first recipient of the fellowship.
