These works represent a heritage that will be permanently showcased in the future Spazio Grom in Trieste’s Palazzo Galatti, the new exhibition centre dedicated to Grom and, more generally, to the development of 20th-century and contemporary art in the region.

Alongside this donation, the exhibition also features a selection of works from the important donation that the Grom family made to the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trieste, a large and varied collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, tapestries and material documenting the entire span of the artist’s career.

The curatorial choice is to bring the two collections into dialogue with each other, to highlight how these testimonies represent a sort of “map” of the artist’s creative journey, highlighting the stratification of his visual culture: from his early paintings linked to his European training and the historical avant-garde, to works in which the synthesis, symbolism and secular spirituality of his American phase emerge.

It is precisely the painter’s biography, in his “wanderings” on both sides of the Atlantic, his continuous search for his “roots”, the evocation of a Karst region relived in American landscapes, between memory and contemporaneity, that make the work of this artist so significant. He was able to interpret the history and nature of our territory, always in dialogue with other cultural stimuli and experiences.