Ancient and modernity, de Pisis' vision

(ANSA) - ROME, JUNE 21 - The National Roman Museum of PalazzoAltemps after a hundred days of blockade imposed by the coronavirus opened the doors to the public with Filippo de Pisis, among the great protagonists of Italian painting between the two wars, in an exhibition that unites twenty-six paintings a suggestive selection of drawings of nudes and male faces. Until 20 September, the Roman shutter completes the itinerary carried out at the Museo del Novecento in Milan, where an extensive retrospective on the Ferrara master was presented in recent months. The exhibition, curated by Pier Giovanni Castagnoli with Alessandra Capodiferro, head of the Roman museum, describes the artistic story of a great painter who was also a formidable designer.
    '' Drawing for him - explains Castagnoli - was a terrain on which he practiced, a code that in a parallel path intersects with painting, completing it and giving it a value that alone would not express ''.
    By Luigi Filippo Tibertelli de Pisis (Ferrara 1896 - Milan 1956), artist but also poet and writer "very remarkable efecondo", the works placed side by side in the beautiful rooms of PalazzoAltemps with marbles and wonderful sculptures of antiquity tell the passion for the glorious traces of the past. Latela, which opens the exhibition itinerary, is entitled precisely '' The archaeologist '', from 1928. In Ferrara in 1916 he met Giorgio de Chirico and Alberto Savinio ifratelli and discovered the metaphysical gaze on reality.
    One hundred years after his works - the drawings on paper and gliacquerelli with nudes and faces of young people made throughout the thirties and the oils in which the sculptural fragments sistaglia in a real or metaphysical landscape - are compared with the statues of gods, heroes , and the portraits of emperors of Greek and Roman classicism. (HANDLE).