Arturo Martini: sculpture interrogated – works from 1934 to 1947

The exhibition Arturo Martini: la scultura interrogata – opere dal 1934 al 1947/Arturo Martini: sculpture interrogated – works from 1934 to 1947, curated by Nico Stringa, presents more than 50 works consisting of sculptures, medals, incisions, drawings and paintings by Arturo Martini.
The exhibition presents 28 sculptures in bronze, plaster and terracotta from public and private collections.
The series of works dedicated to the death of Sappho is for the first time on display to the public, four sculptures which in ten years (from 1934 to about 1944) successively develop into a resolute and progressive growth towards abstraction.
A section of the exhibition is dedicated to portraits, a very important display in Arturo Martini’s life, to which in the early Forties the artist gives a strong expressionist trait