by Rosalind McKever

Amedeo Modigliani, his Nu couché (1917-18), and its £170.4 million price tag, have been attracting attention in New York, but the city has a lot more Italian modern art to offer. Alberto Burri's abstract burlap, plastic and celotex compositions are on show at the Guggenheim and the ever-popular still lifes of Giorgio Morandi can be found at both the Center for Italian Modern Art, and David Zwirner.

Fresh perspectives on Burri and Morandi are very welcome, but compared to some of the Italian modernists on display in the city at the moment, these two are giants of abstraction and figuration. Just take a look at the names of some of the artists shown at Sperone Westwater's exhibition'Painting in Italy 1910s–1950s: Futurism, Abstraction, Concrete Art': Corrado Cagli, Mario Radice, Luigi Veronesi...

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Source: http://www.apollo-magazine.com/