Orantis Imago. Last few days to visit the exhibition
20th-century works in the collections of the Museo Diocesano Tridentino
"Orantis Imago. Works of the 20th century in the collections of the Museo Diocesano Tridentino” is carried out in collaboration with the Mart - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto and curated by Domizio Cattoi and Alessandra Tiddia.
This event represents a unique opportunity for the public to immerse themselves in the beauty of the contemporary art collections of the Museum, which are usually kept in the depository and for the most part never shown to the public.
The museum's contemporary art collection includes more than two thousand eight hundred works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and ex libris, carried out mainly by artists from Trentino between the early nineteenth century and the present day. The most conspicuous nucleus of the collection is due to the passion and commitment by Monsignor Giovanni Battista Fedrizzi, director of the museum in the 1940s and 1950s.
The exhibition offers a selection of about forty works from the collection and represents a valuable opportunity to bring the public's attention back to the important heritage of art, usually kept in the depositories, so as to reunite its function of conservation with the purposes of research and enhancement.
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from a work by Tullio Garbari that recalls a fundamental dimension of being human, beyond all religious beliefs. In addition to works with a sacred theme, the exhibition presents examples of other artistic genres, such as landscapes and portraits: from Fortunato Depero to Marcello Iras Baldessari, from Umberto Moggioli to Luigi Bonazza, the selection brings together, alongside the now well-known masterpieces of the protagonists of the early 20th century, works by other artists never before exhibited to the public, in an evocative overview of paintings and engravings that reaches up to the 1980s.
