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Andrew Green: Rural Italian Towns and Villages + the Spaces in Between

SPECIAL DISPLAY

13 July 2022 - 4 September 2022

On the top floor of the museum, photographer Andrew Green presents his evocative images focusing on small towns in Umbria and Lazio.

A Still Life: Paul Coldwell in Dialogue with Giorgio Morandi

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6 October 2021 - 19 December 2021

To complement Estorick Collection Uncut, the museum displayed a selection of new works by artist Paul Coldwell. Exhibited alongside the Estorick’s holding of etchings and drawings by Morandi, Coldwell’s prints, sculptures and poems were created in London under lockdown conditions between 2020 and 2021.

Lithography from Leningrad: Eric Estorick's Adventure in Soviet Art

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20 November 2019 - 22 December 2019

In 1961, Eric Estorick’s Grosvenor Gallery mounted a show titled Lithographs by 27 Soviet Artists. For the first time after the Revolution, Western viewers were able to see and acquire contemporary art from the USSR which, in contrast to prevailing stereotypes, proved to be brimming with vitality. This display presented the work of a number of artists included in this landmark exhibition.

Achille Perilli: Irrational Geometries

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2 October 2019 - 10 November 2019

Achille Perilli (b.1927) first rose to prominence as a member of Rome's Forma 1 group, which was active from 1947 to 1951. Its artists were the first in post-war Italy to take an interest in abstraction, opposing their work to the realist and symbolist art that they rejected as decadent. This small selection of paintings focused on the artist's later works, dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, depicting angular and decentralized structures.

The Making of Modern Italy Art and Design in the Early 1960s

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30 January 2019 - 7 April 2019

During the early Sixties, Italy exploded onto the international stage, shedding its old image as a beautiful land with a glorious past but a lacklustre present.

Woman + Landscape Umberto Boccioni, 1907-1912

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21 November 2018 - 20 January 2019

As part of the celebrations for the Estorick Collection's 20th anniversary, we were delighted to feature a special display which included two masterpieces on loan from the collection of major Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo; this selection of works by Boccioni explored the evolution of his art over the course of his career.

Make Futurism Great Again (#MFGA): A Conversation with the Permanent Collection

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18 July 2018 - 21 October 2018

“What is the future for Futurism in an age of ecological apocalypse, the continuing fallout of global financial meltdown and the start of a new Cold War that has cyber terrorism and fake news as its main weapons? Can Art Save the World?”

Pablo Echaurren: Iconoclast

SPECIAL DISPLAY

19 March 2014 - 18 May 2014

A display of collages by Pablo Echaurren, son of the Surrealist painter Sebastian Matta.

Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone: Everything Made Bronze

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26 June 2013 - 4 August 2013

In 2013 a new film by the artists Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone was screened which made compelling use of two contrasting but related locations: Carlo Scarpa’s famous Gipsoteca plaster-cast gallery in the Museo Canova in Possagno, northern Italy, and the Venice-based plaster workshops of Eugenio de Luigi, one of Scarpa’s most important collaborators.

Nino Migliori - Imagined Landscapes: The Places of Morandi

SPECIAL DISPLAY

16 January 2013 - 28 April 2013

Delicately reworked Polaroid images by the renowned Italian photographer Nino Migliori.

Boyd Webb: Horse & Dog

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24 April 2003 - 25 May 2003

Horse & Dog is a film by the artist Boyd Webb. It revels in the elegantly observed absurdities that have long been a feature of Webb’s work with photography, sculpture, performance and the moving image.