Anselmo Bucci, Who Named the Novecento Movement, Gets Major Mart Retrospective

The Mart in Rovereto, Italy, is hosting a major retrospective of Anselmo Bucci (1887–1955), the artist credited with inventing the name 'Novecento' for the movement led by Margherita Sarfatti. Curated by Beatrice Avanzi and Luca Baroni, the exhibition 'Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955). Il tempo del Novecento tra Italia e Europa' runs until September 27. Bucci is presented as an 'eccentric' researcher who maintained a distinct identity within the Novecento movement, showing independence through his use of line, complex scenes, and a distinctive treatment of light. The show covers his early pseudo-Divisionist years in the Marche, his Parisian period (1909–1914), his anti-heroic war paintings, a phase as an 'animalier' painter, and a melancholic turn in the 1930s. The most recent work on view, 'Il dono americano' (1946), offers a proto-Pop synthesis of the end of World War II and the coming reconstruction. The exhibition is held at MART, Corso Bettini 43, Rovereto.