Center for Italian Modern Art
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Mission Statement
The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) is a young 501(c)3 nonprofit exhibition and research center in New York focused on promoting new scholarship and dialogue around 20th-century Italian art. CIMA was established in 2013 by the art historian Laura Mattioli. Each year, from October to June, we present one exhibition showcasing modern masters often rarely exhibited in the United States. These exhibitions become platforms or themes for a year-long international art history fellowship program and a wide variety of public programming.
About This Cause
The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) was established in 2013 as an exhibition and research center to bridge the cultural gap between Italy and the United States in the narratives of 20th-century art and culture. While Italy is known for its excellence in fashion and design, the culinary arts, and ancient and Renaissance art, Italian modern and contemporary art has until recently been largely overlooked at the international level. We seek through our fellowship program to foster the next generation of art history scholars in this field, and through our exhibitions and programming to serve as an incubator of ideas for larger institutions. Above all we seek to offer a unique, in-depth art viewing experience. We advocate for what we are calling “slow art”—stressing a different kind of art historical learning for our fellows, and a distinctive, intimate experience of looking at art for our members and visitors. We ask: What kinds of knowledge can come from engaging with a work of art over a long period of time, through a direct and close interaction? Each academic year (October – late June), CIMA presents one exhibition, focused on an Italian artist often unknown or rarely exhibited in the United States. Since CIMA’s public opening in February 2014, the Center has presented five museum-quality exhibitions, featuring loans from important public and private collections in the United States and Europe. CIMA’s first season focused on the Italian Futurist Fortunato Depero (1892-1960) and was the first monographic exhibition in New York since the artist lived here in the 1920s. The second season was devoted Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) and showcased for the first time ever a large body of the artist’s experimental photography and drawing along his better-known serial sculptures in wax, plaster and bronze. The third season highlighted the lesser-known 1930s work of painter and printmaker Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964); and the fourth was dedicated to Giorgio de Chirico (1878-1988) and Giulio Paolini (b. 1940), marking the first time CIMA explored two artists as its main subjects and focused on a postwar theme. The current exhibition focuses on the works of Alberto Savinio, in dialogue with select sculptures and prints by French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. To date, CIMA has hosted twenty-four fellows, from a number of different countries, selected by a committee comprising the advisory committee and representatives from the two universities with which CIMA has administrative partnerships: The Graduate Center, CUNY, and the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa.