The fiftieth anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Capogrossi (Rome, 7 March 1900 - 9 October 1972) is an important occasion to celebrate one of the fathers of informal painting and Italian art of the twentieth century . On 20 September the great exhibition entitled Capogrossi opens at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art . Behind the scenes curated by Francesca Romana Morelli, created in collaboration with the Capogrossi Archive Foundation and the support of Ghella and UniCredit.

The exhibition at the Galleria Nazionale brings the artist's work back to Rome after more than 20 years , starting the initiatives in homage to the artist for this anniversary in the context of a project entitled Capogrossi. The sign in Italian museums and institutions, on the initiative of the President of the Guglielmo Capogrossi Foundation.

On display, a selection of over thirty paintings and about twenty works on paper from the collections of the National Gallery, home to the most conspicuous nucleus of the artist's works, from the Capogrossi Archive Foundation and from private collections. The exhibition is completed by archival documents from the artist's documentary collections preserved in the Archive of the Gallery and at the Foundation, such as photographic portraits of Capogrossi with prominent figures of the time, exhibition catalogs, magazines, letters and newspaper articles , which reconstruct the relationships woven by the artist.