Tornabuoni Arte inaugurates on Thursday 16 May, at 5 pm, in its headquarters in Florence, ‘Painting and Poetry, Ungaretti and the Art of Seeing’, an exhibition that celebrates the convergence between literature and visual arts, in the figure of the poet Giuseppe Ungaretti (Alexandria, 1888 Milan, 1970), paying homage to him with a selection of works by artists he knew, attended and wrote about. For this occasion, two unpublished works by Piero Dorazio, dedicated to Ungaret- ti, will be presented for the first time.

Curated by the essayist and literary critic Alexandra Zingone, a profound expert on Ungarettis poetry and the artists of his time, the exhibition traces a panorama of Italian and European art between the 1910s and the 1970s, through the words of the poet, presenting alongside archive materials, writings, correspondence and poems, a selection of works by Giacomo Balla, Ardengo Soffici, Carlo Carra, Gino Severini, Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio de Chirico, Pablo Picas- so, Enrico Prampolini, Ottone Rosai, Jean Fautrier, Franco Gentilini, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Alberto Burri and Piero Dorazio.