Palazzo Merulana, home of the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation, is pleased to present Antonio Donghi. The Magic of Silence, curated by Fabio Benzi.

The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the Main Sponsor UniCredit, which also contributed with 16 important loans of Donghi's works, coming from the extraordinary collection exhibited at Palazzo De Carolis, the representative headquarters of the banking group in Rome, and is produced by CoopCulture, with the patronage of Rome Capital and the support of the Lazio Region.

Antonio Donghi, one of the greatest interpreters of Italian magical realism, gained critical recognition from the 1980s. His works, characterized by an abstract and realistic imagery, are now central in international exhibitions of the 1920s and 1930s.

The exhibition explores the artist's main themes, with about forty works from important Italian collections, including landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and scenes of daily life. The exhibition aims to deepen one of the main painting nuclei represented in the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation, which owns and permanently exhibits three fundamental Donghi masterpieces: Laundresses (1922-23), the absolute peak of the master; Boat Trip (1934); Little Acrobats (1938). The exhibition offers a complete analysis of Donghi's artistic journey, highlighting his uniqueness and the impact of his works.