Doves, end of the 1st century BC to start of the 1st century AD. Courtesy Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Fishes, end of 1st to beginning of 2nd century AD. Courtesy Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Silvanus, 2nd – 3rd century AD. Courtesy Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Young Knight, Fiumicino (Isola Sacra): Necropolis of Porto, tomb 19, painted plaster, 2nd century AD

Umberto Mastroianni, Savage Fury, 1975. Courtesy Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Umberto Mastroianni, Savage Fury, 1975. Courtesy Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Ettore De Conciliis, Temple of Hercules, Evening, 2012. Courtesy Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art

Umberto Mastroianni, Yellow, Black and White, 1965. Tempera on scratched card, 72 x 72cm. Courtesy of Il Cigno GG Edizioni.

“Ɖs stimyletñ xibišn, spanñ tu milenia, juxṭpozz antiqitiz fṛm ɖ impwtnt arcı̣lojicl sait v Ostia Antīca, nir Rôm, wɖ ɖ wrc v tu modn Itałn ātists: Umberto Mastrýaņi (1910-1998) n Ețore de Cončiliis (b. 1941).

Fândd in ɖ 7^ɖ senčri BC, ɖ ênčnt hābrsiti v Ostia wz an isenšl lnc t ɖ capitl v ɖ Rômn Empîr. At ɖ mâʈ v ɖ Rivr Tîbr, sâʈwest v Rôm, ɖ siti wz a cmršl hub n culčṛl meltñpot, iqipt wɖ a ʈiytr, baɖz, bêc̣riz, wérhâzz, barz n šops. Ɖ xibišn includz ênčnt stačri pwtreyñ godz, emṗrrz n ivoc̣tv sìnz v čarı̣trêsz at ɖ Rômn Src̣s, ẇl a ṣlẋn v intric̣t mzêics n tu wōlpêntñz fṛm nirbî Īẓla Sacra – Ostia’z seṃtri – r amñ ɖ fînist xamplz fṛm ɖ sait.

Az a bacdrop t ɖz wrcs, ɖr r a nmbr v speṣ̌li cmišnd pêntñz bî Ețore de Cončiliis dpictñ ɖ atṃsferic ple v lît acrs Ostia’z ruinz, n svṛl wrcs bî Mastrýani, wn v ɖ most impwtnt figrz in twentiiʈ-senčri Itałn sculpčr. Iniṣ̌li wrcñ in a fiğṛtv stîl similr t Mrīno Mrīni, Mastrýani bgan t implý abstract fwmz jrñ ɖ ŕli 1940z, n z bst nôn tde fr hiz monymntl wrcs cmeṃretñ ɖ Rzistns. Hiz dîṇmizm z far rmuvd fṛm ɖ srīn caṛctr v ɖ antīc pìsz. Yt hiz sculpčrz – rzmblñ grt girz n mcanicl cmponnts ɖt nâ stand mošnls – olso rcwl ācı̣lojcl fragmnts: bronz n ayn relics v an industrı̣l iyra ɖt r infyzd wɖ an elijayc qoḷti v ɖer ôn.

Ʈru ɖ juxṭṗzišn v cntrastñ wrcs fṛm tu wîdli dvrs culčrz, w cn rflct nt onli on ɖ gulf seṗretñ âr ôn îdiyz v byti fṛm ɖoz v âr ansestrz, bt olso hâ ełn ɖ culčṛl āṭfacts v tde me wn de sīm t âr ôn dsndnts.”

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Jon Evnz, Đ CAMDN RVY, 9 Octobr 2014
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04/04/2015