Word: obelisco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...award had the jury stopped: an $800 prize donated by Rome's Obelisco Gallery for the "most nonconformist" work. After surveying the field (including a blank, punctured canvas and an 18-in.-square sheet of rusted metal punctured by 3-in. nails on which were impaled two pingpong balls), the international jury gave up, decided that the task of picking only one was impossible...
...corduroy walls of Rome's smart Obelisco Gallery have seen some unusual exhibits lately-churches in flames, frolicking priests, transparent cats gorged on mice and flowers. But last week's show topped them all. Gallery Owner Gaspero del Corso had reached out to Belgium and brought back 28 paintings by an old surrealist funnyman, Brussels' dour little René Magritte (TIME. June 21, 1948). For Romans, it was a first good look at Magritte's sleepy fantasies. Del Corso's enthusiastic verdict: "They are scandalized...
...exhibition at Rome's fashionable Obelisco Gallery was stirring up some three-alarm excitement in Italian art circles last week. In a series of lurid, explicitly painted canvases, enterprising Artist Aldo Pagliacci, 38, had set fire to six of Rome's most famed and revered churches including St. Peter's itself...
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