ASTRATTOCONCRETO - The Group of Eight

From December 17 2011, the MACA (Contemporary Art Museum Acri) presents a major exhibition dedicated to one of the most significant experiences of the Italian art of the last century: the Group of Eight.
Following the rift between figurative and abstract artists in 1950 in the New Front of the Arts, two years later, in 1952, African Basaldella, Renato Birolli, Antonio Corpora, Mattia Moreni, Ennio Morlotti, Giuseppe Santomaso, Giulio Turcato and Emilio Vedova , gathered around the critic Lionello Venturi, formed the Group of Eight - a group of figurative artists who aim to open up to gusts of aesthetic innovation that came from Europe and the United States.