Il volto sinistro dell’arte. Romana Loda e l’arte delle donne (The Left Face of Art: Romana Loda and the Art of Women), curated by Raffaella Perna, was conceived to shed light on the pioneering activity in the promotion of female artists carried forward throughout the 1970s by Romana Loda, gallerist and curator, who passed away ten years ago. Founder of the Galleria Multimedia, based initially in Erbusco and then in Brescia, Loda represented an original figure on the Italian panorama and a key cultural point of reference across the Brescia territory for a whole generation of female artists, who found a figure ready to support radical exhibition projects, given over – especially between 1974 and 1978 – exclusively to women’s research.
The exhibition intends to recount Loda’s experience, in particular her commitment alongside female artists, starting from the exhibition Il volto sinistro dell’arte, which she organised in 1977 at the Galleria De Amicis in Florence. The exhibition featured the work of sixteen female artists, from or resident in Italy and active in the 1960s and ’70s, operating in many different areas of research, from kinetic art to the ‘Scuola di Piazza del Popolo’, from visual poetry to conceptual art. Today these artists are brought together once again: Marina Apollonio, Mirella Bentivoglio, Valentina Berardinone, Tomaso Binga, Renata Boero, Dadamaino, Giosetta Fioroni, Lucia Marcucci, Libera Mazzoleni, Verita Monselles, Stephanie Oursler, Lucia Pescador, Sandra Sandri, Suzanne Santoro and Grazia Varisco.
