Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) 421 Broome Street, 4th floor, Manhattan. Contact: 646 370 3596. For its 2022 season, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) will present a group show focusing on the Italian artistic production during the decades between 1880 and the end of World War I.

The extraordinary and painful circumstances that marked 2020 imposed reflections on our institution’s role as a protagonist of cultural conversations in the United States and a need for a careful thematic choice in the development of the 2022 exhibition and its related fellowship program.

The exhibition, including approximately thirty artworks from Italian museums and first-rate private collections, will focus on four main iconographic themes, exploring how painters and sculptors elaborated and adjourned them through a confrontation with the contradictions of contemporary society. Migration, labor, protest, and social injustice are the fields of intervention that marked the reality of the artists at the center of CIMA’s project—topics whose importance resonates to this very day, both in Italy and in the United States.

Artworks by fifteen artists will offer a cross-section of the most advanced Italian artistic production of the time. To curate this exhibition, CIMA is delighted to welcome Giovanna Ginex, an independent art curator and art historian based in Milan. She specializes in different aspects of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, including painting, sculpture, photography, and design.