01 February 2024
The National Museum inaugurates “The Infinity of White: Lucio Fontana and the Italian Artists of the Absolute” Exhibition in collaboration with "Robilant and Voena” Art Gallery
In furtherance of cultural communication between our two friendly countries, the Sultanate of Oman and the Italian Republic, the National Museum inaugurated today, in historical Bayt Greiza, of the exhibition “The Infinity of White: Lucio Fontana and the Italian Artists of the Absolute”. It is the first art exhibition of its kind in the Middle East, displaying eight works of art by Italian artists, in cooperation with the Italian “Robilant and Voena” foundation, a long-established art house devoted to the promotion of Italian post-war art.
The exhibition brings together works by eight of the most influential artists who energised Italian painting and sculpture in the mid-twentieth century: Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Pietro Consagra, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, and Paolo Scheggi. The exhibition aims to bring the work of these artists to new audiences, bringing a greater understanding of how they uprooted artistic traditions to explore the limitless potential of space.
The inauguration ceremony was attended by number of Highnesses, Excellencies, Ambassador accredited to the Sultanate of Oman and those interested in the cultural and museum field.
In addition to the exhibition at Bayt Greiza, R+V is lending an artwork by Agostino Bonalumi, Rosso (Red), to The National Museum, where it will be displayed alongside the Museum’s permanent collection.
Robilant+Voena is a partnership of art dealers Edmondo di Robilant and Marco Voena. They launched R+V in London in 2004. Further gallery spaces were opened in Milan in 2009, and Paris and New York in 2020. R+V has distinguished itself as one of the leading international art dealers in Old Master paintings, as well as 20th-century Italian art.