For its 2022 season, the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) will present Staging Injustice. Italian Art, 1880-1917, a group show exploring Italian painting and sculpture in the decades between 1880 and 1917 — the most dramatic year of World War I.

In light of widespread social tensions, economic difficulties, and inequalities prevalent in the United States in 2020-21,  CIMA looked to explore cultural conversations by making historical connections to a period of similar social upheaval in Italy more than a century ago — one powerfully reflected in the country’s fin-de-siècle art.