Co-organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Embassy of Italy in Seoul, the Italian Cultural Institute in Seoul, and Art Sonje Center, The Grand Italian Vision. The Farnesina Collection presents over 70 carefully selected and curated Italian masterpieces of the XX and XXI centuries from the Collezione Farnesina – a visionary collection of Italian art housed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Rome.

Featuring a broad collection of the most important artworks of the Farnesina Collection, the exhibition offers an exclusive journey into the dynamic richness of Italian art of the “Novecento” – a century of stylistic eclecticism and linguistic contamination, where figuration and abstraction are rendered in unique ways and always in conversation with conceptual reasoning, a deep sense of history, and specific worldviews.

Beginning with Futurism, the exhibition comprises Metaphysical Art, Informal, Pop Art and Kinetic Art, Conceptual, Arte Povera, and Transavantgarde, providing a return to painting and new experiments up to Digital Art, overall marking the unstoppable vitality of art across the various sections. Presented to an international audience, the exhibition aims to incite a range of visions from history to geography, from a 20th-century sensibility to the push towards modernity, from intimism to confrontation, from environmental emergencies to migrations and new forms of poverty, and finally, from dialogue to encounter.