After March 13, 2020, when CIMA was forced to close its doors due to the public health crisis, we called on past fellows to reflect on their experience at CIMA, what they were currently working on, and how they were dealing with the strict lockdown.
Enjoy Franco Baldasso’s testimony in two parts here.
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Continue reading >>Marino Marini: Arcadian Nudes, a video experience
CIMA’s exhibition which was intended to be on view through June 13th, 2020, was closed to the public prematurely on March 13th, 2020, due to the COVID-19 public health crisis. Behind closed doors we shipped back to our generous lenders these female nudes at the end of last month.
For those of you who were…
Continue reading >>Two Reliefs – The Three Graces and Composition, by Fall 2020 Fellow, Claudia Daniotti
Written by CIMA Fall 2020 Fellow, Claudia Daniotti.
Among the artworks featuring in the exhibition Marino Marini: Arcadian Nudes, two bronze reliefs are displayed side by side. Not only do they encapsulate perfectly the theme of the show, that is, the representation of the female body, but also exemplify a key feature in Marini’s artistic…
Continue reading >>PART 4 of our online tour of Marino Marini: Arcadian Nudes
With our spaces closed, we continue our online tour of the current exhibition, Marino Marini: Arcadian Nudes.
Pomona, 1941:
This life-size sculpture constitutes a ‘point of arrival’ for Marini’s research before the fracture in his artistic production, caused by the war experience and his self-exile in Switzerland. This bronze, once again, has a very belabored surface,…
Continue reading >>Continuing our blog tour of Marini Marini: Arcadian Nudes
Read on for a detailed mini tour of three more of the pieces (currently not) on view at CIMA.
– Figura Seduta, 1944: As Marini returned to the female nude throughout the 1930s and 40s, his treatment of the subject had both moments of stasis and flux. Figura Seduta (Seated Figure)
exemplifies the artist’s flexibility…
Continue reading >>In memory of Germano Celant, a dear friend of CIMA
It is with great sadness that today, 29th of April, CIMA mourns the loss of Germano Celant, art critic and curator, certainly one of the most influential figures in the art world since the ‘60s.
Celant is mostly known to be the one that, in 1967, coined the term “Arte Povera” to name a new…
Continue reading >>A partial tour of our currently ‘not-on-view’ exhibition – CONTINUED
We continue our virtual tour of Marino Marini: Arcadian Nudes with three more pieces included in the show. Sadly we do not know whether we will have an opportunity to re-open this exhibition to the public (it is scheduled to close June 13, 2020), so we hope you will enjoy this descriptive guide.
– Danzatrice,…
Continue reading >>A message of positivity and gratitude
As you may know, CIMA has been closed since March 13th, 2020 due to the ongoing public health crisis related to COVID-19.
It breaks our heart to interrupt our programs, fellowships, guided tours, and exhibition viewing hours, but the reason for doing this is beyond our– or anyone’s–control. We must follow official directives, and we…
Continue reading >>Nicol Mocchi on Marini’s Susanna
‘Susanna’ (Susanna) is the title of a fascinating sculpture by Marino Marini that is on view here at CIMA as part of the Marino Marini: Arcadian Nudes exhibition [Figure 1].
Cast in bronze after the Second World War, its plaster was conceived in 1943 during Marini’s self-imposed sojourn in the village of Tenero-Locarno, in Switzerland…
Continue reading >>A partial tour of our currently ‘not-on-view’ exhibition
Read on for a deep dive into 3 of the artworks included in Marino Marini: Arcadian Nudes (on through June 13, 2020).
– Venere, 1942
Our first stop on this descriptive tour, Marino Marini’s bronze Venere (Venus), cast in 1942 was created to represent a timeless, serene, and tranquil sense of order and balance. The Roman…
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