Palazzo Merulana, home of the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation, managed and enhanced by CoopCulture, is pleased to present the first ever retrospective dedicated to the painter Anna Maria Fabriani. Echoes and textures from the Roman School.
 

The artist, born in Rome in 1924 and still alive today, was a student of Carlo Socrate, one of the leading figures of the Roman School.

This exhibition, gathering loans from private collections and family belongings, documents Fabriani's artistic and expressive research, spanning almost a century.

From the Academy of Fine Arts to today

Anna Maria Fabriani began her artistic journey in the late '40s at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, where she established an artistic bond with Carlo Socrate.

The exhibition starts with the portrait of "Maria Magris" from '45, found damaged by the curator Sabina Ambrogi in the basement of the palace where the artist lived from 1934 to 1960, and brought to light thanks to the restoration by Cristiana Noci.

The exhibition goes up to "Limoni e Amaro del Capo" from 2018, the year in which the painter could no longer stand for many hours in front of the easel.

Women in art, an exclusion lasting centuries

The exhibition is also a response that fully enters the current debate on female painters and their limited visibility. The effect of the objective difficulties faced by women in accessing the complex art market chain is the consequent erasure from traditional exhibition paths, and therefore also from critical interpretation.

A censorship of a female gaze, which often becomes self-censorship, of a technique, of a vision, and of an otherwise very rich universe.

Moreover, in this context, female painters have often operated almost exclusively in the domestic space in past centuries, depicting subjects of daily use and enjoyment, as in the case of Fabriani as well.