{"id":939,"date":"2019-05-17T17:58:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T15:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2019\/05\/lo-spazialismo-e-la-sua-eredita-2\/"},"modified":"2019-05-17T17:58:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T15:58:50","slug":"lo-spazialismo-e-la-sua-eredita-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/news\/dall_ambasciata\/2019\/05\/lo-spazialismo-e-la-sua-eredita-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spatialism and its legacy, with Opera Gallery London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Embassy hosts Spaziale!, a discussion and exhibition to celebrate one of the greatest Italian artistic movements of the 20th century, in partnership with Opera Gallery London<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Spaziale!<\/em>\u00a0the event held yesterday at the Embassy of Italy in London, in partnership with Opera Gallery London, celebrated the spatialist movement and its legacy in the panorama of contemporary art.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ambassador, <strong>Raffaele Trombetta<\/strong>, introduced the speakers and the chairman of the gallery, <strong>Gilles Dyan<\/strong>. He explained that this was one of the many cultural and artistic events that the embassy holds on a regular basis, many of which focus examine the links between art and business, promoting the economic and reputational impact of the artistic sector.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He explained that spatialism was a major movement in post-war Italian art, and that it introduced the innovative concept of three-dimensional space in painting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The speakers, <strong>Giovanni Gasparini<\/strong>, director of the MSc in art, law and business at <strong>Christie\u2019s Education London<\/strong>, and <strong>Giovanna Nicoletti<\/strong>, a curator and art critic, moderated by <strong>Federica Beretta<\/strong>, director of Opera Gallery London, discussed spatialism\u2019s revolutionary approach and the growing success of the movement in recent decades, particularly in the UK. Nicoletti described the journey that led <strong>Lucio Fontana<\/strong> to develop the new language of spatialism, while Gasparini spoke about the dynamics of the art market and explored why spatialist works are so highly sought after by international collectors. The discussion closed with a Q&#038;A session.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The exhibition <em>Spaziale!<\/em> will be held at the Opera Gallery and will feature some of the most influential spatialist artists, including <strong>Lucio Fontana<\/strong>, <strong>Turi Simeti<\/strong>, <strong>Agostino Bonalumi<\/strong> and <strong>Enrico Castellani<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nine spatialist works from the gallery&#8217;s collection, by <strong>Lucio Fontana<\/strong>, <strong>Agostino Bonalumi<\/strong>, <strong>Enrico Castellani<\/strong>, <strong>Turi Simeti<\/strong> and <strong>Pino Manos<\/strong>, were on display, and Manos himself was present at the event as guest of honour.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition runs at Opera Gallery until 31 March.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Embassy hosts Spaziale!, a discussion and exhibition to celebrate one of the greatest Italian artistic movements of the 20th century, in partnership with Opera Gallery London Spaziale!\u00a0the event held yesterday at the Embassy of Italy in London, in partnership with Opera Gallery London, celebrated the spatialist movement and its legacy in the panorama of [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-n"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amblondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}