The exhibition Alfredo Volpi, Lucca–São Paulo, 1896-1988, hosted by the Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, Italy, gains a catalog richly illustrated and thoroughly researched

The catalogue that accompanies the exhibition Alfredo Volpi, Lucca–São Paulo, 1896-1988, held at the Center for Contemporary Art in Prato, Italy, in 2024, is released by Mousse Publishing in partnership with the museum and Almeida & Dale. 

“For the exhibition at the Centro Pecci, I wanted to propose an itinerary that started from the first paintings in which the artist began to get rid of three-dimensional space, then moving on to the representation of the human figure by crossing “concrete phase,” and finally arriving at the compositions that deal almost serially with the question of color line and form developed from the early 1960s,” explains the curator Cristiano Raimondi. 

The book features an unpublished essay by Italian art historian Virgínia Magnaghi that explores Volpi's visit to Italy in 1950 and an original text by Valéria Piccoli, curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, on the relations between popular art and modernity in the painting of artist. The catalog also features a reproduction of Lorenzo Mammì's classic essay on Volpi, an introductory text about the exhibition by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, director of the Centro Pecci, a curatorial text by Cristiano Raimondi and a chronology signed by Daniel Donato.