The San Domenico Civic Museum in Forlì, from October 18th to January 11th, presents “Mattia Moreni. From Watermelons to the End of Humanism,” the second event in a project involving five museums in Romagna dedicated to one of the most original and restless figures in 20th-century Italian art.
Curated by Rocco Ronchi and supported by the Municipality of Forlì and the Fondazione Cassa dei Risparmi di Forlì, the exhibition explores a decisive phase in Mattia Moreni's career, marked by the transition from the furious gestures of informal art to a more meditative dimension, where imagination and memory merge in a symbolic and visionary language.
The protagonist of this season is the ‘watermelon’, a popular and familiar object that becomes a powerful metaphor for metamorphosis, eros, and decadence in Moreni's works: from summer fruit to female figure, to embodying the crisis of Humanism and the advent of the ‘Machine’, symbol of technological domination and the loss of vital meaning.
The exhibition invites the public to rediscover the complexity and relevance of Moreni's thinking, in a journey that combines art, philosophy, and reflection on contemporary mankind.
Free admission.
