Marcia Hafif: Roma 1961–1969

This exhibition gathers together, for the first time in an Italian museum, the paintings, photographs and collages that the influential American artist Marcia Hafif (1929–2018) produced while living in Rome. Although it is not large, occupying just one room of the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, the exhibition serenely demonstrates the development of Hafif’s painting during the eight years that she lived in the city. The artist moved from California to Italy in 1961, initially staying in Florence before settling in Rome. She was beguiled by the city’s Classical and Renaissance art and architecture as well as the thriving community of artists – the so-called Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, who used to meet around the Piazza del Popolo, at Caffè Rosati and the gallery La Tartaruga.