On Friday, December 15, 2023, the Tridentino Diocesan Museum inaugurates the exhibition entitled "Orantis Imago - Works of the Twentieth Century in the collections of the Tridentino Diocesan Museum", created in collaboration with the Mart - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto and curated by Domizio Cattoi and Alessandra Tiddia. From 16 December 2023 to 10 June 2024 it will be possible to visit it. Thisevent represents a unique opportunity for the public to immerse themselves in the beauty of the contemporary art collections of the Museo Diocesano Tridentino, usually kept in storage and largely never shown to the public.
The museum's contemporary art collection includes over two thousand eight hundred works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and ex libris, mainly made by Trentino artists in the period between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the present day. The most conspicuous nucleus of the collection is due to the passion and commitment of Monsignor Giovanni Battista Fedrizzi, director of the museum in the 1940s and 1950s.
The exhibition offers a selection of about forty works from the collection and represents a valuable opportunity to bring the public's attention back to the important heritage of art normally kept in the depositories, in order to reunite the function of conservation with the purposes of research and enhancement.
The title of the exhibition is borrowed from a work by Tullio Garbari that recalls a fundamental dimension of the human being, beyond any religious belief. In addition to sacred works, the exhibition presents examples of other artistic genres, such as landscapes and portraits: from Fortunato Depero to Marcello Iras Baldessari, from Umberto Moggioli to Luigi Bonazza, the selection brings together, alongside well-known masterpieces of the protagonists of the early twentieth century, works by other artists never before exhibited to the public, in an evocative panorama of paintings and engravings that reaches back to the eighties.
