Mario Sironi. L'arte della satira

A bizarre and brand new interpretation of the satirical drawings created between the '20s and '30s by Mario Sironi for "Il Popolo d'Italia", the journal founded in 1914 by Mussolini. Sironi's imagination has its roots in the tradition of the satire and the great history of art, in history and in political events-even simple ones-told by "Il Popolo d'Italia". The most opposing politicians are Luigi Albertini and his "Corriere della Sera", Giovanni Amendola, the socialists Filippo Turati and Claudio Treves, and the Catholics don Luigi Sturzo and Alcide De Gasperi. But the prevailing element is Sironi's deep vision, capable of cross-hatching a true political bes-tiary of absolute fantasy and a portrait-not banal at all-of a poor Italy, at times unhopeful, at times bright, capable of titanic challenges but also of simple every-day fatigues. More than three hundred works on paper constitute a kind of figurative diary, the synthesis of a difficult period in the Italian history told-day by day- by one of the best artists of the Twentieth Century, an artist whose talent to surprise people remains intact even with the passing of time.