In 1948, after the war, the Quadriennale re-emerged at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna under the more generic title ‘Rassegna Nazionale d’Arti Figurative’. The organization was entrusted to a commissioner, Francesco Coccia, but the aim of the event remained substantially unchanged.The exhibition continued to provide a periodical picture of visual arts in Italy, looking at all lines of research and contemporary art production. The fifth Quadriennale was one of transition, but still succeeded in capturing the key trends in the artistic debate of the time, fuelled by abstract artists, Realists and Neo-Cubists.
