A new exhibition featuring French
painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec will open at Verona's AMO museum
at Palazzo Forti on Saturday, with 170 works on display through
September 3.
The exhibition includes posters, lithographs, drawings,
illustrations and watercolours along with videos, photographs
and period furnishings from the end of the 19th century through
the first years of the 20th century.
The show brings visitors back in time by recreating a slice
of life during the Belle Epoque, in a bohemian Paris full of
artists and emerging talents.
The works on display are on loan from the Herakleidon Museum
in Athens.
They include some of the most famous works by
Toulouse-Lautrec, such as his "Jane Avril" color lithograph from
1893, and advertising posters such as "The Passenger in Cabin
54" from 1895 and "Aristide Bruant at his cabaret" from 1893.
Toulouse-Lautrec was a prolific painter who died at an early
age.
He was born in 1884 and passed away in 1901 at just 37 years
old.
Verona Mayor Flavio Tosi said the show is part of ongoing
programming at the AMO, with the sponsorship of various partners
including the Arthemisia Group, the City of Verona and Verona
energy company AGSM.
He said the programming aims to show at Palazzo Forti some of
the most prominent artists who left their mark on or innovated
in the world of modern art.
"It's a show that reaffirms the effort made by the City of
Verona's cultural policy in recent years, which has given
support to numerous initiatives that have had great public and
critical success," Tosi said.
"Following Tamara de Lempicka and Pablo Picasso, this show
celebrates an eclectic, non-conformist and provocative artist
who was linked not only to painting but also to theatre and
music," said AMO director Francesco Girondini.
Girondini said show curator Stefano Zuffi designed the show
to highlight this aspect through music, for example with the
voice of Maria Callas in La Bohème, which was written by Puccini
in 1895, at the height of Toulouse-Lautrec's artistic activity.
"It therefore reinforces the link between opera, which is at
the heart of the AMO museum, and art," Girondini said.
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