Legami e correspondenze: Images and words through the XX century

Each of the six  themes  of the exhibit is dedicated to an important Italian author of the 20th century  (Gabriele D’Annunzio, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Massimo Bontempelli, Luigi Pirandello, Giuseppe Ungaretti, Alberto Moravia) and will be recounted using works of art, books and magazines,  descriptive panels and multimedia tools.  A seventh section will remember the preferred meeting places  where exchange and debate among intellectuals took place and where connections were made, bonds forged,  commonalities discovered,  lines of communication opened between artists, intellectuals, poets and musicians.  These meeting places were to be found in art galleries and private exhibition spaces often housed in unusual locations such as boarding houses, studios and atelier,  shops, cafés and restaurants  and even the pontoon boats moored along the Tiber river, all the sites of meetings between writers and artists, both Italian and foreign.  Exchange was also lively in  the periodicals of the day and the theatre.  This last aspect is illustrated by a guide mapping the most important theatrical performances from 1901 up until the 1960’s.