Mario Sironi Through the Eyes of Two Collectors at Galleria Russo

Galleria Russo in Rome presents a Mario Sironi exhibition filtered through the perspectives of two major collectors: Margherita Sarfatti, who considered him the greatest Italian artist of his era and owned hundreds of his works, and Ada Catenacci, a friend who purchased numerous pieces in 1946, including a folder of 346 political drawings for Il Popolo d'Italia. The show documents Sironi's evolution from Divisionist beginnings under Balla alongside Boccioni and Severini, through Futurist Dionysianism, his illustration work, urban peripheries blending metaphysical vision and social tension, Apollonian classicism of Novecento, and postwar compositions approaching Informalism. A quote from critic Luigi Tallarico, who died three months ago, honors his passion for Sironi's poetics.