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RomArt Museum
Multimedia Art Exhibitions
Roma, Italy
RomArt Museum
Multimedia Art Exhibitions
Roma, Italy
RomArt Museum story
RomArt Museum® (R.A.M.) is a private museum in Rome, Italy, dedicated to the documentation and analysis of modern figurative art in digital format.
Our museum boasts an extraordinary collection of over 800,000 digital artworks. For comparison, most museums around the world hold only a few thousand works—such as the National Gallery, which has 2,300, or the Musée d'Orsay, with 6,000. Only a handful of museums surpass this number, such as the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome (20,000 artworks), MoMA (150,000), or the exceptional Louvre, which houses 620,694 pieces, with 35,000 on display.
Our private collection of images was inherited from the Centro di Arte Figurativa Al Torella (1969–2019). This collection, accumulated over more than fifty years of activity, was either purchased or donated, and is now freely available to qualified researchers.
The Centro di Arte Figurativa Al Torella was a non-profit cultural association founded in 1969 by Italian artist Al Torella (Alberto Torella, Naples 1929 – Rome 2019) to promote figurative art through free educational activities, dozens of free publications, and hundreds of free video projections for art enthusiasts, lovers, and young artists.
Since 2004, the center's activities have expanded online, continuing its focus on figurative art with educational studies covering periods from the 19th century to contemporary art.
The current director is Claudio Torella, a former visual arts journalist and a teacher of graphic design and composition.
About founder Al Torella
A Whole Life for Art
«Decade after decade, Al Torella has been the most representative figurative interpreter of the human condition, capturing the conflict between the individual and society, between male and female, between eros and taboo,
between the sacred and the profane.»
Al Torella (Alberto Torella, 1929–2019) was a figurative painter, sculptor, and mural engraver (with a personal technique). He was born in Naples into an Italian family with artistic traditions dating back to the 19th century (A. Torella, V. Gagliardi).
He began his artistic career immediately after completing his academic training at the Art Institute of Naples. His first exhibited painting was shown in 1948, and his first solo exhibition took place in 1952 in Foggia, Italy. Al Torella moved to Rome in the late 1960s, where he set up his studio in Piazza San Luigi dei Francesi (near the Pantheon). There, he became a prominent figure in the Roman art scene of the 1970s.
His work was showcased in significant exhibitions and publications, including at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, the Academy of Romania, and the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna. He received recognition from major critics and art historians, as well as admiration from other well-known contemporary figurative artists such as Annigoni, Brindisi, De Chirico, Fiume, Greco, Guttuso, Levi, Manzù, Omiccioli, Quattrini, Raimondi, Servolini, and Treccani. Many of these artists dedicated works to him, now housed in his personal collection, serving as a reminder of an extraordinary period in Italy's artistic scene.
A tireless traveler and polyglot, his works can be found in galleries, private collections, churches, and public buildings across the globe, from Australia to South America, and throughout Europe. Torella is featured in some of the most prestigious art publications, including encyclopedias, yearbooks, textbooks, and art histories. He is also the author of numerous editions on figurative art, prose, and poetry, including his widely successful works Canaria and S.P.Q.R. Scultori, Pittori, Quartieri Romani – Guida all'Arte della Capitale.
Al Torella went on to hold hundreds of solo and group exhibitions, Biennials, and Quadrennials in Italy and abroad, aided in part by his passion for foreign languages (he held a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature).
The largest documentary collection of his artistic life is preserved in Rome at the State Archives.
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Bibliography
1974 - "Enciclopedia Comanducci", Ed. Patuzzi, Modena, p.3296-3298.
1975 - "Enciclopedia d'Arte Contemporanea", vol. "L'arte del nudo". Ed. Nuova Europa, Firenze 1975, p. 42-43.
1975 - "Selezione di Maestri contemporanei", ed. Centro Studi Arte nel Mondo, Roma, p. 106.
1977 - "Catalogo degli artisti - Lazio", UnEdi, p. 468, 587-588.
1979 - "Dizionario degli Artisti italiani del XX secolo", ed. Bolaffi, Torino, 1979, p. 91+92
1984 - "Il ritratto e l'autoritratto" vol. in Enciclopedia d'Arte Contemporanea, Ed. Nuova Europa, Firenze 1984, p. 169-170, 302-303.
1989 - "Vite dei pittori illustri e scultori da Cimabue ai nostri giorni", Ed. Istituto Arte Contemporanea di Milano, 1989, p. 164-165.
1999 - "Artisti Contemporanei", ed. T. Arte, Gaglianico, p.8
1999 -"Top Arts", ed. RM, Osimo, p. 539
2018- "Il bello delle Belle Arti", ed. Arte Espansione, Roma 2018, p. 95-127. Ed. 2019, p. 95-165.
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