Antonio Maraini e l'Istituto Storico d'Arte Contemporanea (1928-1944)

• Autores: Vittorio Pajusco
• Localización: Saggi e memorie di storia dell'arte, ISSN 0392-713X, Nº. 38, 2014, págs. 135-154
• Idioma: italiano
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  • Antonio Maraini and the Istituto Storico d'Arte Contemporanea (1928-1944).

    Antonio Maraini (1886-1963), sculptor and art critic, quickly began to weave his own history into that of the Venice Bienale. He attended the institution as a young man in the dual guise of exhibiting artist and exhibition reviewer/journalist. In 1926 he was nominated councillor of the Biennale and a few months later was already head of the exhibition itself, succeeding Vittorio Pica as general secretary. Maraini managed to win the trust of the "podestà" Pietro Orsi, president of the Biennale, such that in July 1927 he wrote a detailed report in which he emphasized the project of continuity he wanted to give the Biennale, proposing guidelines to be followed and works to be carried out, such as the setting up of a photographic archive and a library. The archive was opened on 8 November 1928, in some rooms on the ground floor of the Doge's Palace. In his opening address Maraini presented his aims for the newly created institute: to collect everything concerning the art and artists of the nineteenth century, because the beginning of this period also marked the start of so-called contemporary art. During the second world war Maraini was charged for the Biennale's regime chioces; in 1943 he was relieved of his office by order of the presidency of the fascist union of artists; in 1944 he personally put his own office of general secretary of the Biennale at the disposal of the Ministry of National Education, ending a dazzling career as absolute ruler of Italian artistic life over two decades.