On view at the Gallerie Nazionali Barberini Corsini, Day for Night is curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Flaminia Gennari Santori and is presented in collaboration with Beirut’s Aïshti Foundation. Works by Aliza Nisenbaum, Nicole Eisenman, Julie Curtiss, Margot Bergman, and Brian Calvin are included in the showing of more than 150 pieces by American artists. Day for Night: New American Realism opens April 13th and is in the monumental halls of the main floor of Palazzo Barberini.
"The exhibition Day for Night: New American Realism features more than 150 works by American artists from the Tony and Elham Salamé collection, presented in collaboration with their Aïshti Foundation. One of today’s most dynamic contemporary art institutions, the Foundation was established twenty-five years ago by the Italian-Lebanese entrepreneur Tony Salamé. The exhibition takes its title from a work featured in the Salamé collection by New York artist Lorna Simpson. Day for Night—in Italian, “Effetto notte”—is a cinematic effect that allows night scenes to be filmed in daylight. The title was also made famous by a 1973 film by François Truffaut, and in French, the day-for-night effect is called “La Nuit Américaine,” or “the American night.” This image is well-suited to the chiaroscuro visions of the artists included in Day for Night, who, in recent decades, have captured the reality of the United States in all its blinding complexity.
The National Galleries at Palazzo Barberini will host a selection of works by US-based artists—including, among many others, Cecily Brown, George Condo, Richard Prince, Nicole Eisenman, Urs Fischer, Wade Guyton, Raymond Pettibon, Julie Mehretu, Laura Owens, Richard Prince, Charles Ray, David Salle, Dana Schutz, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Henry Taylor, and Christopher Wool—whose work interrogates the meanings and functions of figuration in contemporary art, addressing crucial questions around the notion of realism and the representation of truth in contemporary painting."
April 13th - July 14th, 2024.
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