Current exhibition Ponti e pontili.Intorno al progetto di Armando Brasini per il ponte sullo Stretto di Messina 28 ottobre 2023 – 19 maggio 2024
Quaderni della Wolfsoniana Journal of studies on art, architecture and design 1870 – 1950 Publications See the list of all publications here Guest scholars The archives and library of the Wolfsoniana welcome scholars, doctoral students and undergraduates by appointment. Please send a written request, containing the objectives of the research, the materials you wish to … Continue
Wolfsoniana is the place where the selected objects of the Wolfson collection find their expositive place. The visitor who walks throuh furnitures, paintings and furnishings taht aere exposed, feels the taste of time and the importance of themes that Micky Wolfson wants to emphasize through his collection. The arrangement of Wolfsoniana follows a chronological/thematical address. Beside … Continue
Wolfsoniana is the place where the selected objects of the Wolfson collection find their expositive place. The visitor who walks throuh furnitures, paintings and furnishings taht aere exposed, feels the taste of time and the importance of themes that Micky Wolfson wants to emphasize through his collection. The arrangement of Wolfsoniana follows a chronological/thematical address. Beside … Continue
The Collection It is an original and varied collection comprising objects and works of art dating from 1870 to 1950. An excursion among the works of the collection becomes a fascinating documentary: on the changes in taste and style within private abodes and public buildings; on the urban transformation processes; on the relationship between art and … Continue
Ivos Pacetti imprenditore futurista.Ceramiche fotografie dipinti Wolfsoniana, Genova Nervi July 5th 2019 – 19 gennaio may 3rd 2020 tel. 0103231329info@wolfsoniana.itbiglietteriawolfsoniana@comune.genova.it
Archive – Wolfsoniana Exhibitions Exhibitions by The Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Collection – Fondazione Regionale C. Colombo
Link The Wolfsonian FIU (Miami Beach, FL) Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura (Genova) Galleria d’Arte Moderna (Genova) ICOM-ICDAD (International Committee of Decorative Arts and Design) School of Education Science – University of Genoa Master Degree Course in Science and Technology of Communication and Information – – University of Genoa Museums in the City of Genoa Regione Liguria Galata Museo … Continue
In the transportation sector, the transition from mechanised craft production to industrial fabrication, which was not fully completed in Italy until after World War II, is represented in the Wolfsoniana through a group of objects which explore the evolution of transportation in the first half of the twentieth century: the bicycle with its wooden rims … Continue
The main fascist iconographic motives interweave with the development of futurist research in the years straddling the two wars and in particular with the Thirties Manifesto of Aeropainting. While the fascist political strategy used classical models in order to emphasize its similarities regime with the Roman Empire, the works of the artists who belonged to the … Continue
The Palazzo degli Uffici Gualino (1928) in Turin is one of the first examples of Rationalist architecture, planned by Giuseppe Pagano and Gino Levi Montalcini. Of the furniture pieces drawn by the two architects only the small arm-chair in buxus remains. It was exhibited at the IV Monza Exhibition in 1930, a show where architecture has a space of its own next to the … Continue
Twentieth Century Art, or rather “Novecento” style, is particularly rich and versatile from an expressive point of view, if it is analyzed within Italian cultural events of the period straddling the two world wars. As from 1922, the year in which Margherita Sarfatti’s artistic movement made its first public manifestation, this style spread and made a name … Continue
The Wolfson collection – the furniture, the metalwork, Gio Ponti’s and Guido Andlovitz’s ceramics and the vase by La Salamandra of Perugia exhibited in Monza in 1930 – testifies the spread of the Art Deco style in Italy which lasted through the first years of the Thirties. In the attempt to renovate Italian art by means of a direct … Continue
Antonio Rubino (1880-1964), founder of the most famous children’s magazine “Il corriere dei piccoli”, was influenced by the Symbolist circles and by the Art Nouveau, of which he offered a brilliant interpretation in the field of illustrations using later iconographic models, typical of the Art Deco style. He dedicated most of his artistic production to … Continue
Duilio Cambellotti is one of the most interesting personalities in the Italian decorative arts scene of the first half of the Twentieth Century. Characterized by a “craftsman” approach, with a strong bent for the integration of different artistic modes, the Roman artist was a painter, sculptor, illustrator, engraver, scenographer and costume designer for the theatre and … Continue
