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Life and work of American photographer Milton Gendel celebrated in two exhibitions

ROME.- The first complete retrospective dedicated to the career of American photographer and art critic Milton Gendel (b. 1918) is taking place in Rome at the Museo Carlo Bilotti through 8 January 2012 and at the American Academy in Rome through 30 November 2011. Both exhibitions are curated by Peter Benson Miller, Barbara Drudi and Alberta Campitelli. The primary focus of the retrospective is Gendel’s sophisticated artistic sensibility as it has developed in the medium of photography over the last half century. Milton Gendel: A Surreal Life comprises a display of eighty-five autograph photographs and complemented by several of his drawings and prints from his time in the Surrealist orbit. Also included are works by artists in Gendel’s circle, including Alberto Burri, Toti Scialoja, Tancredi, Afro, Ettore Colla, Mimmo Rotella, Jean Hélion, Robert Motherwell, Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, John Rudge and Stanley William Hayter. The works are exhibited together