Titina Maselli nel centenario della nascita

A major anthological exhibition promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Cultura - Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali in collaboration with Sapienza Università di Roma. The Museums of Villa Torlonia Casino dei Principi and the MLAC Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea of Sapienza Università di Roma are simultaneously hosting a retrospective of the work of one of the most interesting Italian artists of the 20th century, the painter, set and costume designer Titina Maselli, whose birth centenary falls this year.

Born in Rome on 11 April 1924 and brought up in a lively intellectual environment (her father Enrico was a refined art critic and their family home hosted artist and intellectuals such as Corrado Alvaro, Massimo Bontempelli, Emilio Cecchi, Alberto Savinio, the musician Alfredo Casella, Alberto Moravia), Titina Maselli traversed many pictorial currents with autonomy and visual freedom, from the Roman School to Futurism, from American Vedutism to Pop Art, but only and always seeking to capture the character of modernity, a trait that defines her entire artistic career. Thanks also to the artistic training she developed between Rome, New York and Paris, Maselli has in some ways anticipated the times, theories and history of contemporary art. Her works from the late 1940s and 1950s, with the urban perspectives, the series on skyscrapers, the still lifes with discarded materials, were a sure term of comparison and training for the new artistic generation of the 1960s.

The exhibition itinerary covers the entire span of Titina Maselli’s pictorial production and follows her main iconographic themes (portraits and self-portraits, sport, urban landscapes and still lifes, theater). The Casino dei Principi exhibits works from the 1940s and 1950s, with some transversal thematic in-depth studies that extend to the 2000s, while the Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea presents a selection of large-format works from the 1960s onwards, together with documents, some of them previously unpublished, on her theater activity.

Header: Ciclista - Cyclist, acrylic on canvas, 1995