The magical setting of the Pomis Bastion of the San Giusto Castle will be host to a Sunset Talk organised by the University of Trieste on Thursday 20th June.

The theme of the meeting is ‘Art and UniTS: a journey from 1953 to today’ with Bruno Callegher, Massimo Degrassi and Lorenzo Michelli. It is open to all and subject to availability of places.

The event is connected to the exhibition ‘1924-2024 - A Century in the History of the University of Trieste. Pictures and documents', also on display at the Pomis Bastion until 1st September. 

Massimo De Grassi, lecturer in History of Contemporary Art at UniTS, will recount the events relating to the first works of art donated to the University of Trieste, and will address the dynamics of the Exhibition of Contemporary Italian Painting set up in the University's Main Hall in December 1953, the founding nucleus of the Rectorate's Picture Gallery and the driving force behind the University's subsequent acquisition policies. These acquisitions have over the years led to significant numbers of visitors and highly esteemed artistic presences.

"There are many ways in which the relationship between the University of Trieste and artistic research developed during the construction of the monumental building designed in the 1930s by Raffaello Fagnoni and Umberto Nordio," explains Lorenzo Michelli. "Authors such as Marcello Mascherini, Ugo Carà and Mario Moschi were involved in the design of a structure that defined its identity and vocation through the artistic reinterpretation of myths and allegories. Another historic moment is that of '53, in which a significant group of artists of national stature donated works of high quality that represent what is in fact one of the most important public collections dedicated to the 20th century in Trieste". 

After the talk there will be an aperitif on the terrace.

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