A.P.A.I. – Association for the Promotion of Arts in Italy

A.P.A.I. – Association for the Promotion of Arts in Italy

Rome – San Sisto Orangery (opposite the Baths of Caracalla) – October 28 – November 1, 2012

Fin de siècle

I will have three verses, six seconds, again:
my millennium, my journey is over:
I was a file:
and your bug here devours me.

(Edoardo Sanguineti)

Today’s artists are, to varying degrees, indebted to all the art of the late nineteenth century (Impressionism, Macchiaioli, Realism, Romanticism, Post-Impressionism, etc.). Twentieth-century art starts precisely from authors who trained in the post-impressionist period (Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Munch, Ensor) and are taken as examples for new artistic experiences, primarily by Expressionism (Fauves in France with Matisse, Brücke in Germany with Kirchner), then by Picasso’s Cubism to Kandinsky’s and Klee’s Blue Rider, up to Postmodernism.

The idea of poetry capable of giving meaning to reality as a whole according to its own modalities and purposes corresponds to the almost total detachment of the poet from the historical and social reality that surrounds him.

In literature, philosophy, and politics, the crisis of positivism revitalizes idealistic and spiritualistic currents, and, at the same time, the spread of diverse and even opposing cultural attitudes, united by the rejection of reason (from the superman to the myth of childhood).

Neorealism, a term initially used in cinema, constituted the historical background for the rekindling of political debate, new ideological projects, and new hopes.

Along these paths, of order and disorder, seemingly opposite but often intersecting, the APAI Association intends to reflect on the artistic/literary/philosophical/political manifestations that developed throughout the twentieth century, particularly those lesser-known or short-lived expressions that seem to be reflected in permanent and projective elements in connection with current trends.

In recent years, new authors and actors have emerged, and with the beginning of the Third Millennium, the avant-garde is taking on modified forms that still need to be investigated.

Those who wish to be part of this great project can now request information from: info@apaiarte.it