Room 23. The post-Second World War period in Italy

This room documents more geographically peripheral areas in the Italian artistic scene, with work by artists more or less well-known during the period following the Second World War. The debate between figurative art and abstraction remains the central theme around which the work of the Tuscan Venturino Venturi and the Friulians Mirko Basaldella and Giuseppe Zigaina is structured. The formative and evolutionary path of these artists, active in central and northern Italy, is the role exercised by the three more culturally dynamic poles of Venice, Milan – since the 1930s the backdrop to the first abstract research and a meeting point for prominent figures – and Rome, another important pole of attraction and stimulus.