The Caetani Centre hosts an open house for the new exhibition in our gallery: Sveva Caetani: Her Life and Art, co-curated by historian and fine and decorative arts specialist Adriana A. Davies, and artist and former Caetani Cultural Centre Chair aj jaeger.

The exhibition draws on the former’s biography and catalogue raisonné titled Sveva Caetani’s Recapitulation Series: From Medieval Mysticism to the Space Age, published by Guernica Editions in 2026.

The exhibition features a group of paintings in the Recapitulation Series that deal with the family trauma and how Sveva came to terms with it through a Jungian journey into her subconsciousness that allowed her to process the pain. The result is a number of compelling paintings featuring a range of symbolism that Sveva described as follows.

“Most people are used to images . . . the surrealism of Salvador Dali . . . limp watches . . .pianoforte with breasts, or something like that . . . and they laugh at it, they don’t really take the symbolism very seriously. My symbolism has always been serious, and therefore, people find it frightening."