On the thirtieth anniversary of his death, the Reggia di Colorno is offering, from 5 October 2024 to 12 January 2025, a monographic exhibition dedicated to the portraits of Carlo Mattioli (Modena 1911 – Parma, 1994).
“Mattioli’s portraits are […] lightning-fast introspections, ‘critical essays’ that invest the psychology (in its totality) and the secret of a person, the contradiction that makes him exist”.
Cesare Garboli
The exhibition, coordinated by Antonella Balestrazzi, curated by Sandro Parmiggiani and Anna Zaniboni Mattioli, the artist’s granddaughter and curator of the Carlo Mattioli Archive and Foundation, brings together about sixty works by the Master. Mattioli’s portraits are appreciated and considered by enthusiasts of his painting and scholars of twentieth-century art among the highest results of his activity, in the exasperated features of the faces and the posture of the bodies, in a latent, sometimes irreverent, irony.
The Pilotta Complex is involved in the project with the loan of a Self-Portrait by the painter from 1970.