Anselmo Bucci at MART Rovereto: a 20th-century Practice Beyond Labels

Anselmo Bucci at MART Rovereto: a 20th-century Practice Beyond Labels

The MART in Rovereto presents a major exhibition on Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955), an artist whose work spans painting, printmaking, illustration and writing. The show highlights Bucci's plural approach and his resistance to single-category classification within the artistic debates of the 20th century.

Curators Beatrice Avanzi and Luca Baroni organize the display into thematic sections that trace key phases of Bucci's career and the broad visual references informing his work, from Rembrandt and Titian to post-Impressionists such as Gauguin and Van Gogh.

Exhibition structure and key themes

The exhibition is structured into sections that emphasize both chronological development and thematic concerns, allowing visitors to appreciate Bucci's varied expressive registers—from refined portraiture to Parisian scenes, from prints to expansive landscapes.

• The Marchigian origins: ties to Fossombrone and a luminous regional palette.
• The Paris years: bohemian life, Montmartre and post-Impressionist influence.
• An artist at the front: wartime drawings and documentary observation.
• Graphic work: masterful etchings and print techniques.
• From the window: urban views and reflections on modernity.
• Portraits: psychological presence and bourgeois elegance.
• The time of the 20th century: a personal take on the return to order and French culture.
• Nature and animals and The 1930s: intimacy and experimentation.
• Epilogue. The Males: a monumental work that synthesizes his research.

Why visit

This exhibition allows a close reading of an artist who continuously blends tradition and innovation. Works such as L'apache (1920) and the Madonna Profana (1918-1920) demonstrate Bucci's ability to reinterpret diverse models without conforming to a single movement.

Visiting the show helps to understand an international, inquisitive outlook that privileges expressive freedom and a varied visual language.

Curators: Beatrice Avanzi and Luca Baroni
Artist: Anselmo Bucci (1887-1955)