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September 28, 2021 The President of the Republic inaugurated the Imago Museum in Pescara. Upon his arrival in the city Sergio Mattarella was welcomed by the President of the Abruzzo Region, Marco Marsilio, by the Mayor of Pescara, Carlo Masci, by the President of the Province, Antonio Zaffiri, and by Archbishop Tommaso Valentinetti.



During the institutional visit, the epigraph in memory of the event was unveiled and the Head of State was able to appreciate, in a short tour, the international masterpieces of the twentieth century housed in the rooms. Two permanent exhibitions: Impressions and reality. The Scandinavian dream from Barbizon to Civita d'Antino, dedicated to the group of painters linked to the Civita d'Antino School who painted Abruzzo at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Art, image and reality, which offers a prestigious collection of contemporary works by 73 artists including painters and sculptors especially from the second half of the twentieth century (including Ortega, Mensa, Maya of the Spanish realidad; Rivers, Carroll, Forrestall among the North American authors; Sassu, Di Stefano and Galliani of the Italian figurative school).



Finally, the prestigious temporary exhibition Warhol and Schifano, between pop art and classicism that offers a comparison between the two masters, through the exhibition of more than 400 works including screen prints, photographs, prints, posters, canvases and charcoals.

With a unique and unrepeatable presence, the temporary exhibition is enhanced by six sculptures by Matres, dated around the third and fourth centuries BC, exhibited for the first time in combination with an extraordinary pictorial cycle dedicated to the divinity Mater Matuta by the great master Mario Schifano.