On International Women’s Day, the Italian Embassy in Athens, the Italian Cultural Institute in Athens, and the Gramma_Epsilon Gallery inaugurated the exhibition “Mirella Bentivoglio. The Other Side of the Moon”.
The exhibition, created in collaboration with the Mirella Bentivoglio Archive in Rome, pays homage to this influential Italian artist in the centenary of her birth. It is the first time a retrospective dedicated to Mirella Bentivoglio (Klagenfurt 1922 – Rome 2017) is hosted in Greece.
The Italian Ambassador in Athens, Patrizia Falcinelli, said that “Through this exhibition, we want to give the Greek public the opportunity to get to know the extraordinary Mirella Bentivoglio, an artist and multifaceted personality, who is one of only a few who have inspired the Italian and international art scene. We chose to inaugurate the exhibition on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2022, which is of course no coincidence: our intention is to pay homage to Mirella Bentivoglio not only for the intrinsic artistic value of her work, but also for the example she has set for hundreds of artists, and for everything she has done during her long career to promote women”s art.”
The exhibition, curated by Paolo Cortese and Davide Mariani, and first held in the museum dedicated to Maria Lai in Sardinia in 2021, highlights the depth and complexity of Bentivoglio’s poetry, and includes more than fifty works, photos, videos, and sketches that not only illustrate the most significant moments of her curatorial and artistic career, but also invite reflection and dialogue on subjects that are now more relevant than ever.
More information on the exhibition and on Mirella Bentivoglio is available on the website of the Cultural Institute in Athens.
