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VITTORIANO MONUMENT
Vittoriano
Complex
via S. Pietro in Carcere - Roma |
Running
Exhibition till June 19th 2005
"EDWARD
MUNCH"
VITTORIANO COMPLEX, ROMA
The
exhibition Munch 1863-1944 has been opened at Complesso del
Vittoriano .It has been curated by Řivind Storm Bjerke and Achille
Bonito Oliva; More than 100 are present; we find paintings and
graphic works coming from the most prestigious international
museums like Munchmuseet, which preserves the artist works donated
by him to the town of Oslo just before his death. The exhibition
has been set up following a chronological path that analyzes
the development stages of Edvard Munch work: his first naturalist
paintings, the consonance with symbolism and in the end the
paintings that come just before the great expressionist season
of which the painter is considered the father and the forerunner.
Munch artistic career has been complicated and tormented as
also demonstrated by the reputation he got from official contemporary
critic; his 1892 exhibition at Künstlerverein in Berlin, stirred
up a big scandal in the academic milieau and was even censored
and shut down. Important for his cultural education was his
friendship with August Strindberg, Friedrich Nietzsche philosophy
and his trip to France such as the one taken in 1896, in Paris
where Munch got in touch with the artists and writers group
that used to meet on the " Mallarmé Tuesday" . Some of the works
present at the exhibition are: Bambina malata, Pubertŕ, Madonna,
Malinconia, Ragazze sul ponte, Il bacio, Morte nella camera
della malata, Gelosia, Separazione, all showing the existential
anguish he experienced during his life and present in all his
works, an evident proof of a life tormented by diseases, and
pain and by his family s death, in fact her sister Sophie died
in 1877, his father in 1889 and his brother Andreas in 1895.
Munch will experience physical pain because he was struck by
different illnesses as for example the eye disease which prevented
him from painting for a long time or the frequent hallucinations
and the problems due to alcohol abuse which will take him to
the sanatorium. He died in 1944 in his holding Ekely in Sköyen,
near Oslo.
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Exhibition from December 7th 2004 to February 27th 2005
"EDGAR
DEGAS"
PALAZZO VENEZIA, ROMA
A
personal exhibition devoted to Edgar Degas (1834-1917) has been
opened at Complesso del Vittoriano of Rome. Degas has always been
considered an impressionist but to tell the truth he is very original
with regard to the Batignolles group. No art has ever been as
spontaneous as mine, used to say Degas to add: "What I do is the
result of meditation and study of the Great Masters". Degas, on
one hand used to study and copy the classics almost obsessively
and on the other hand he updated his pointing by putting it in
a contemporary dimension where modern life is depicted in its
variety, in its most hidden and less pleasant aspects, as in the
Assenzio for example. The acquaintance with Manet in 1862 at the
Louvre has for sure been decisive for the painter, who unlive
the impressionists liked to paint urban life (cafés, the ballet-dancers,
the theatre, the horses-race) representing it in paintings made
in his studio and not on plain air or sur le motif as Monet or
the other impressionists used to do. Nonetheless Degas can be
considered a true impressionist, thanks to his ability in depicting
the events temporariness the binomial drawing-colour and in interpreting
reality in its entireness and space-time continuity. More than
170 works are on display: besides his most famous oils and pastels
we can see drawings and photographs and the entire collection
of sculptures belonging to Museu de Arte di S. Paolo in Brasile.
Opening
hours: Daily
from Monday to Wednesday 9.30 a.m.-7.30
p.m.; Friday and e Saturday 9.30a.m.-11.30 p.m. ; Sunday 9.30
a.m.-8.30 p.m.
Tickets:
9 €; special prize 6.50 € |
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