Sunday December 1, 2013, the exhibit Partita doppia tra Novecento e Terzo Millennio (Doubles match from the early 20th century to the Third Millennium) will open in Rome at the Nuova Galleria Campo dei Fiori.

On that same day, the budding Maja Arte Contemporanea art gallery will inherit the legacy of the Nuova Galleria Campo dei Fiori to continue its journey in the world of art, shifting focus from 19th and 20th century Italian art to contemporary works.

Doubles match is the symbolic passage in this transition, an exhibit that, with its sometimes playful and sometimes fascinating combinations, matches one work of art from the past to one from the present. Paintings and sculptures skip over time as they debate a common theme, merging into a timeless continuum.

The eight contemporary artists are Margareth Dorigatti, Isabella Ducrot, Marilù Eustachio, Lino Frongia, Vladimir Pajevic, Angelo Titonel, Janine von Thüngen and Gaetano Zampogna.

The sixteen works taking part in this doubles match tell many different stories. A woman’s sensuality as she wraps herself in a fox pelt (Giovanni Guerrini, Ritratto di Alba, c. 1912) evolves as it penetrates the woven hemp of Janine von Thüngen’s sculpture (Woman no.17, 2013). It then turns back into matter through the paper of Ercole Drei’s sanguine (Nudo disteso, c. 1908), and triumphs in the erotism of Amanti by Marilù Eustachio (2006).

Young Charles, forced by the necessities of an official portrait into the trappings of an adolescent English aristocrat (Edoardo Gioja, Ritratto di Charles, c. 1915), unleashes his childhood by “playing at war” in the “negative” painting by Angelo Titonel (Bambino con granata in mano, 2012), while casting dual questioning looks to the observer.

In the still life by Bruno Croatto (Coppa rossa con melograni , 1932) the recurring theme of red pomegranates resonates with the rhythmic research and the colors of the work by Isabella Ducrot (Preghiera, 2013). The background of a divisionist interior continues in the repeating fabric pattern where the giant warrior Grifone (Gaetano Zampogna, 2010) is in stark contrast to Ritratto di Salvatore Di Giacomo (Enrico Lionne, 1908). Con almeno due cuori tra i denti (Lino Frongia, 2008) shows a seated, smiling woman, her eyes hidden but clearly visible in Ritratto di Lady Anne Mills (Edoardo Gioja, 1915) from an earlier century.

The charm of villa Borghese, where a yellow ray of sunlight lightly touches the green foliage (Amedeo Bocchi, Viale a Villa Strohl-fern, 1930), is enriched with a touch of mystery and architectural elements in the painting by Vladimir Pajevic (Oltre il tempo, 2011).

Finally, a young Oedipus is naked (Margareth Dorigatti, 2005), his body uncovered and exposed like Christ’s on the Cross, in contrast to the steady gaze of the subject in Ritratto di giovane di Franceso Nonni (c. 1930). Exhibit by Daina Maja Titonel.

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Roma 00186 Italia
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