Marco Goldin spent a year and
a half preparing the new exhibition on Impressionism set to open
on October 29 in Treviso's Santa Caterina Museum.
The founder and director of 'Linea d'Ombra', which
organises and manages art shows and events, said he wanted to
create a show that would contextualise the "diverse souls" of
Impressionism as well as place them in relation to work that was
being shown in the government-sanctioned "salon" exhibitions of
the time, which the impressionists rejected.
The show, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of
Goldin's organisation, is titled "Stories of Impressionism: The
great protagonists from Monet to Renoir to Van Gogh to Gauguin",
and brings together 140 masterpieces from the some of the
world's greatest public and private collections.
Beginning in the first decades of the 1800s, with portraits
by Ingres and Delacroix, the exhibition demonstrates the first
traces of the coming Impressionism movement alongside works of
Impressionism that show the revolution that was already underway
and would eventually lead to the heart of Avant-Garde and
Abstract art.
Therefore, Renoir's 'The Clown' from 1868 is on display
with Manet's 1861 work 'Le Petit Lange', as well as 'La
Vigilance' by Puvis de Chavannes, which Goldin says together
show the passage from "academic to romantic portraiture, and
then realistic, to end up in the poeticism of modern life that
was unique to Impressionism".
That life is captured here in works that portray everyday
joy, such as Renior's 'Mademoiselle Irene Cahen d'Anvers'
(1880), the iconic image chosen to represent the exhibition, as
well as 'Child with a Bird' from 1882, on loan from the Clark
Art Institute of Massachusetts.
The show also displays several works that are usually
inaccessible to public viewing, such as a group of paintings by
Edouard Manet that are rarely loaned out.
Impressionism's evolution continues in the Van Gogh
painting 'Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle (La
Berceuse)' from 1889, and the Gaugin masterpieces 'Portrait of
Vaite Goupil' (1896) and 'The Ancestors of Tehamana' (1893), on
loan from the Art Institute of Chicago and insured for 100
million euros, Goldin said.
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