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On the top floor of the museum, photographer Andrew Green presents his evocative images focusing on small towns in Umbria and Lazio.

To complement Estorick Collection Uncut, the museum displayed a selection of new works by artist Paul Coldwell. Exhibited alongside the Estorick’s holding of etchings and drawings by Morandi, Coldwell’s prints, sculptures and poems were created in London under lockdown conditions between 2020 and 2021.

In 1961, Eric Estorick’s Grosvenor Gallery mounted a show titled Lithographs by 27 Soviet Artists. For the first time after the Revolution, Western viewers were able to see and acquire contemporary art from the USSR which, in contrast to prevailing stereotypes, proved to be brimming with vitality. This display presented the work of a number of artists included in this landmark exhibition.

Achille Perilli (b.1927) first rose to prominence as a member of Rome's Forma 1 group, which was active from 1947 to 1951. Its artists were the first in post-war Italy to take an interest in abstraction, opposing their work to the realist and symbolist art that they rejected as decadent. This small selection of paintings focused on the artist's later works, dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, depicting angular and decentralized structures.

During the early Sixties, Italy exploded onto the international stage, shedding its old image as a beautiful land with a glorious past but a lacklustre present.

As part of the celebrations for the Estorick Collection's 20th anniversary, we were delighted to feature a special display which included two masterpieces on loan from the collection of major Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo; this selection of works by Boccioni explored the evolution of his art over the course of his career.

“What is the future for Futurism in an age of ecological apocalypse, the continuing fallout of global financial meltdown and the start of a new Cold War that has cyber terrorism and fake news as its main weapons? Can Art Save the World?”

A display of collages by Pablo Echaurren, son of the Surrealist painter Sebastian Matta.

In 2013 a new film by the artists Graham Ellard and Stephen Johnstone was screened which made compelling use of two contrasting but related locations: Carlo Scarpa’s famous Gipsoteca plaster-cast gallery in the Museo Canova in Possagno, northern Italy, and the Venice-based plaster workshops of Eugenio de Luigi, one of Scarpa’s most important collaborators.

Delicately reworked Polaroid images by the renowned Italian photographer Nino Migliori.