Contemporary Italian Painting on Display in Buenos Aires

An initiative of the Italian Institute of Culture. Works by 27 artists to appreciate contemporary trends in the Iberian Peninsula.
"Italian Painting Today - A New Scene," a fascinating exhibition on contemporary Italian art, is presented by the Triennale Milano and the Italian Institute of Culture (IIC) in Buenos Aires, from June 25 to September 21, at the Palacio Libertad - Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Cultural Center.
The initiative is sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Italian Embassy in Buenos Aires.

This is a project conceived by the Triennale, an institution that, since the First International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1923, has established itself as one of the most important cultural centers internationally.
The Triennale, according to a press release from the IIC, promotes culture as a space for encounter and engagement, addressing the challenges of contemporary times through all forms of art and creative expression.
The exhibition is curated by Damiano Gullì, Curator of Contemporary Art and the Public Program at the Milan-based institution, who will be present at the opening.
Buenos Aires has the honor of being the first city outside of Italy to host this important group exhibition of 27 artists—all born between 1990 and 2000 and expressing themselves through the medium of painting—representing the main trends and thematic axes of contemporary painting on the peninsula.
After its Argentine stage, the exhibition will be presented in Brazil, with stops in Brasilia and Rio de Janeiro, and later in Mexico, thanks to the collaboration with the Italian Embassies and Cultural Institutes present in the countries involved. "This exhibition will offer the Argentine public the opportunity to experience a new and vibrant scene of emerging Italian painters, whose diversity represents the complexity and richness of the contemporary world," commented Livia Raponi, director of the Italian Institute of Culture.
"The initiative will also foster encounters and exchanges between Italian and Argentine artists, thanks to the presence in Buenos Aires of Giulia Mangoni, who is creating a specific work conceived for this installation at the Palacio Libertad and related to the local cultural context," she added.
The 27 artists present include, in addition to Mangoni, Beatrice Alici, Bea Bonafini, Roberto de Pinto, Alice Faloretti, Alessandro Fogo, Andrea Fontanari, Giorgia Garzilli, Genuardi/Ruta (a duo consisting of Antonella Genuardi and Leonardo Ruta), Emilio Gola, and Cecilia Granara.
Also featured are Diego Gualandris, Viola Leddi, Andrea Martinucci, Pietro Moretti, Ismaele Nones, Jem Perucchini, Edoardo Piermattei, Aronne Pleuteri, Giuliana Rosso, Davide Serpetti, Mario Silva, Sofia Silva, Marta Spagnoli, Maddalena Tesser, and Eva Chiara Trevisan.
The exhibition addresses the themes of representation and self-representation, the relationship with the object-based landscape of everyday life, disciplinary contaminations and transformations, the reinterpretation and distortion of traditional techniques and iconographies, the fluid exchanges between abstraction and figuration, and the new abstraction.
The result is a prismatic retelling of the multiple facets of contemporary Italian painting.
It is organized into five sections: Alone/Together; History, Narratives, and Tradition; Metaphysics of the Everyday; Between the Figurative and the Abstract; Form, Color, Time, Matter.
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