Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, "Italia Arabia" juxtaposes 80 works by mid 20th century Italian painters with paintings and sculptures by Lebanese, Egyptian, Syrian and Iranian artists revealing the co-impact that one culture has had on the other. A collection of a hundred additional manuscripts, textiles, musical instruments and cartographic documents create a historical frame of reference spanning an entire millennium of Italian, Ottoman, Safavid and Qajar convergences leading up to the visual and thematic exchanges of the 20th century.
The Iranian artists at the exhibition include; Praviz Tanavoli, Nasser Ovissi.
Between the years 1940 and 1965, several artists from the Arab-Persian world could be found studying at the fine art academies of Rome, Milan, Venice, and Florence. In this post Second World War period much of European art was moving towards the reinvention of a less sentimental Classical tradition, expressing aesthetic, liturgical and political concerns. Those "student-artists" were to eventually become some of the leading masters back in their home countries and introduce 20th century Italian influences to the modern and contemporary art of the Middle East.
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