To host the approximately two hundred works that represent the cream of the impressive collection of painting and sculpture, two different locations were chosen, very close to each other: Roverella Palace and Roncale Palace.
The first is home to the Pinacoteca dei Concordi and all the great Rovigo art exhibitions; the second, Palazzo Roncale, rises opposite the Roverella and is an imposing Renaissance noble palace, patrimony of the Foundation, which has provided for its complete restoration.
This exhibition therefore also offers the opportunity to admire the restored interiors of this noble residence.
The choice of the Foundation was to privilege, for this double exhibition from Rovigo entrusted to the curatorship of Giandomenico Romanelli and Alessia Vedova, the large corpus of works concerning the two more recent centuries, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While providing for some exceptions, where this is indispensable to give completeness to some cores of the great collection of the Foundation.
For historical and belonging reasons, there is no doubt that the greatest interest will focus on the presentation of a still unpublished nucleus of the Cassa di Risparmio Foundation Collection.
These are the paintings brought together in the collection of Pietro Centanini, who recently wanted to donate it to the Foundation so that it can remain intact and above all can be enjoyed by the community.
His is an art collection that combines the many well-guided purchases that the collector had made on the market with the art heritage of his ancient family.
As evidenced by the exhibition, Pietro Centanini directed his choices above all to Venetian artists but also, in homage to his wife of Neapolitan origin, to the Neapolitan school. Even without a priori closures.
In fact, the collection contains works of great interest by Palizzi, De Nittis, Lega, Ghiglia, Boldini, Fattori, Soffici, Rosai, de Pisis, de Chirico, Guttuso De Chirico, together with Zandomeneghi, Milesi, Luigi Nono, Licata, Brass, Barbisan but also Utrillo and Chagall.
The Family, on the other hand, collected landscape painters and interior painters, including some magnificent Guardi.
If the Centanini Collection will be a novelty for everyone, the major nucleus of Cariparo Foundation it will not fail to amaze with its richness and variety of content. It bears witness to 5 centuries of Venetian and Italian art history.
We pass more punctually to Oreste Da Molin, Giuseppe Manzoni and Cavaglieri, glory from Rovigo. Futurism is well represented by Tullio Crali, while the Second World War is present with a remarkable sequence of works, to recall the importance of the N group and the optical, with Biasi, Landi, Chiggio Massironi and finally three works by Castellani.
“What we present in this exhibition is only a part of our collection”, clarifies the President of the Antonio Finotti Foundation. Overall, the Foundation has a patrimony of over a thousand works of painting, together with various groups of sculptures (only a small part exhibited here) and engravings, drawings, manuscripts. In short, a real museum that we regularly increase with shrewd acquisitions. It seemed to us dutiful and consistent with our mission to make an artistic heritage built over time accessible to the general public, even with works left by local citizens".
The exhibition will be open every day, except Mondays, and admission will be free.
