Palazzo Merulana, home of the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation, is pleased to present Antonio Donghi. The magic of silence , edited by Fabio Benzi.

The exhibition was created thanks to the support of the Main Sponsor UniCredit, which also contributed with 16 important loans of Donghi's works, coming from the extraordinary collection exhibited at Palazzo De Carolis, the banking group's representative office in Rome, and is produced by CoopCulture , with the patronage of Roma Capitale and the support of the Lazio Region.

Antonio Donghi, one of the major interpreters of Italian magical realism, has gained critical recognition since the 1980s. His works, characterized by an abstract and realist imagery, are now central in the international exhibitions of the 1920s and 1930s.

The exhibition explores the artist's main themes, with around forty works from important Italian collections, including landscapes, still lifes, portraits and scenes of everyday life. The exhibition aims to provide an in-depth analysis of one of the main pictorial nuclei represented in the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation, which owns and permanently exhibits three fundamental Donghian masterpieces: Washerwomen (1922-23), the master's first ever masterpiece; Boat Trip (1934); Little acrobats (1938). The exhibition therefore offers a complete analysis of Donghi's artistic career, highlighting his uniqueness and the impact of his works.