Sergio Ceccotti⎜La vita enigmistica

Curated by Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, the Casino dei Principi of the Musei di Villa Torlonia dedicates an exhibition to the Roman painter, Sergio Ceccotti, precursor of the revolution in the Italian painting during the last thirty years.

Displaying over eighty works divided into seven sections following a thematic and chronological order, the exhibition traces the entire production of Ceccotti, starting from the early neocubist paintings of the late fifties to the most known and intense works of the following decades, those of the "ceccottian realism", influenced by Pop art, movies, photo comics, comic strips (like the first edition of "Diabolik" by the Giussani sisters) and, even, rebus that fans of popular enigmatic magazines know well.

Like in Alfred Hitchcock's films, disturbing mysteries lurk beyond doors and windows, stairs and corridors of impersonal bourgeois apartments or small hotel rooms. These places, anonymous yet highly symbolic, seem to precede or follow a moment of drama that we will not see.

October 21, 2014 - January 11, 2015