Pietro Consagra's Sculptural Revolution at Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome

Galleria Mucciaccia in Rome presents 'Scultura in relazione. Opere 1947-2004', a solo exhibition dedicated to Pietro Consagra (1920-2005), the Sicilian-born sculptor who pioneered frontal sculpture as a democratic art form. Curated by Francesca Pola, the show brings together 59 totemic works from the artist's archive, marking his first major Roman presence since his 1989 retrospective at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. Consagra's breakthrough came at the 1960 Venice Biennale, where he won the Grand Prize for Sculpture with 'Colloquio con la moglie', a work in wood and bronze now on view. The exhibition spans materials from Mexican green marble to Pakistani onyx, rose quartz, alabaster, granite, iron, and steel, alongside paintings, engraved white clay tablets, and tempera on fabric. Consagra rejected the traditional monument as a site for circumambulation, instead advocating a frontal, confrontational relationship between artwork and viewer—a horizontal, egalitarian mode he considered an existential horizon. The show runs until a date not specified in the source.