Los cuadernos de Pío | Un sueño, un viaje y una ciudad: Roma (Traducción al inglés)

Abstract

Archives are essential in society because they promote knowledge, safeguard, and preserve our memory. Each archive has a unique character, recording cultural and administrative activities and serving as a faithful reflection of the evolution of societies. Archives safeguard decisions, actions, and memories. They allow us to contextualize the object of study and thus carry out a more comprehensive analysis. The collection “Los cuadernos de Pío” aims to present readers with documents from the personal archive of Pío Collivadino in installments that will address various themes related to the painter’s life and work. The artist made the decision to systematically and selectively compile this documentary material, demonstrating an intentional effort to record all the events that were part of his public and private life. The material gathered and organized is highly valuable in terms of both quantity and variety of documents: photographs, letters, sketches, diplomas, posters, catalogs, and others. Through their study, one can trace the evolution of the artist but also perceive the human being, his desires, thoughts, emotions, passions, and his particular way of seeing his surroundings and contemporaries. It clearly reveals the path his career took, with its successes and disappointments, and his transformation into a public figure, admired by many and questioned by others. It is of great interest to see the life of this multifaceted artist portrayed from his beginnings to his recognition, not only from a professional but also a personal perspective. In this notebook, “A Dream, a Journey, and a City: Rome,” a selection of documents from the Pío Collivadino Archive is presented, related to his trip to Rome and his period of academic training. Between 1890 and 1906, he studied at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts in Rome and actively participated in numerous cultural activities that took place within the Circolo Artistico Internazionale, one of the major meeting centers for artists from various disciplines. There, a vibrant social and artistic life flourished, and a true atmosphere of camaraderie could be felt.