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Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
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Terrible animal
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Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian
Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian

Justinian

Corrado Cagli

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GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

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In 1937 Cagli was commissioned to decorate the vestibule of the Italian pavilion at the Paris International Exposition with panels celebrating Rome since its foundation and the great Italians. The artist, with the help of Afro, creates over 200 square meters of panel painted in tempera and covered with a hand of boiling virgin wax, according to the ancient Pompeian hipusto technique. But the absolute freedom and lack of rhetoric with which Cagli interprets the subject provoke the harsh reaction of the orthodox criticism and the fascist regime which ordered the destruction of the panels, in fact carried out only minimally. In 1936 - 1937 the Roman climate had become heavy for the artist: the incipient anti-Semitic campaign had attacked him, together with the intellectuals belonging to the Galleria della Cometa, accused of defeatism and subversivism. In Paris, therefore, Cagli presents a world at sunset. The great characters, enclosed in delimited spaces like theatrical scenes and characterized by evanescent bodies and absent or bewildered expressions, emerge from the late - ancient age of decadence, a metaphor for a completely modern melancholy and existential suffering. The chromatic material, clear and sunny, in the early Thirties, is charged with a brown - blackish background. The panel exhibited here comes from the Casa Serena in Turin where the following are currently kept: Romulus, Imperatori, Colleoni, Characters of the Rianscimento, Machiavelli.
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Title: Justinian

Author: Corrado Cagli

Date: 1937

Technique: Encaustic tempera on panel

Displayed in: GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

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