The final stop of the traveling exhibition 2JFK by Italian artist Sergio Lombardo.
At the initiative of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, two iconic portraits of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, painted between 1961 and 1963 by the Roman master of the Scuola di Piazza del Popolo, have been traveling across the United States (Washington, New York, Boston) since 2023, marking the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s death.
This exhibition provides an excellent opportunity to connect 20th-century Italian art with contemporary American history, and to delve deeper into the work of Sergio Lombardo, an influential artist who investigates the psychological impact of mass media on Western audiences. Founder of the Eventualist Theory and the “Rivista di Psicologia dell’Arte”, Lombardo profoundly renewed the history of Italian art through his trajectory, that began in the late 1950s. Sergio Lombardo embodies an artistic and scientific history, an excellence in Italian avant-garde, spanning different phases of visual research.
The event at the Italian Cultural Institute in Miami features a conversation with the project curator Miriam Mirolla (Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome), David Chang (Professor of Art and Founding Director of the Academy of Portrait and Figurative Art at Florida International University – FIU), and the artist himself, who is joining remotely from Italy.