LE OPERE E GLI ARCHIVI
DANIELA FERRARIA
DANIELA FERRARIA
Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
June 18 – September 20, 2020
Exhibition views: Courtesy La Galleria Nazionale, Rome
Curated by Ilaria Bernardi
The exhibition celebrates the donation to the Galleria Nazionale of the precious archive of Daniela Ferraria, owner of the Roman gallery Arco d’Alibert from 1975 to 2006, after serving first as assistant to then partner of Mara Coccia, founder of the Arco d’Aliber in 1964.
With the aim of emphasizing how much this experience still remains alive in the life of a gallery owner who turned her profession into her life, the first room of the exhibition path presents a selection of archival documents (now kept in the Galleria Nazionale) and works exhibited at the Arco d’Alibert, from the gallery owner’s collection. Among these, the medium- and small-sized works were selected to evoke the intimate and everyday dimension that art has taken on in her life.
The second room instead offers a reenactment of one of the first exhibitions organized by Daniela Ferraria as an autonomous gallery owner and dedicated to one of the artists with whom she had the most collaborative relationship: this was the solo show by Paolo Cotani held at the Arco d’Alibert in 1979.
The exhibition ends with a nucleus of drawings for the advertisement by Pino Pascali that Daniela Ferraria first proposed at the Arco d’Alibert in 1991, and then at the 1993 Venice Biennale, as an example of the many events and collaborations she promoted outside her Roman exhibition space.
Among the exhibited artists: Franco Angeli, Carla Accardi, Pietro Consagra, Paolo Cotani, Lucio Fontana,
Giorgio Griffa, Jannis Kounellis, Leoncillo, Francesco Lo Savio, Eliseo Mattiacci, Hidetoshi Nagasawa,
Gastone Novelli, Pino Pascali, Mimmo Rotella, Mario Schifano.