A new art show features Vincent
Van Gogh in a true journey through the soul of the Dutch master,
opening in Vicenza on October 7 and running through April 8 in
the splendid exhibition spaces of the Basilica Palladiana.
The show features 129 masterpieces comprised of 43 oil
paintings and 86 drawings, on loan from the world's most
prestigious museums, including Otterlo's Kroller-Muller Museum.
The works on loan are of such value that they've been insured
at the maximum allowed: 1.1 billion euros.
Titled "Van Gogh: Between the Grain and the Sky", the show
marks the return to Vicenza of art critic and curator Marco
Goldin, founder of "Linea d'Ombra", which organises art
exhibitions.
With this show, and an investment of more than 4.5 million
euros, Goldin has produced and curated perhaps his most complete
and emotionally engaging undertaking, with a selection of works
that recreates a crucial decade in the artist's life almost day
by day.
"It's a rare show," Goldin said of the exhibition, which has
already received 115,000 reservations.
"The works themselves, in this exhibition become like the
pages in the diary of a life," he said.
In the summer of 1880, Van Gogh announces to his brother Theo
that he intends to become an artist.
He initially trains for five years, first in Belgium and then
in the Netherlands.
"For three years, he only draws," Goldin said.
"They aren't preparatory drafts, but rather finished works on
their own, looking at the canvases of Millet and the painters of
the Hague School," he said.
The subjects of the drawings are peasants, diggers, miners -
a humble and poor side of humanity.
The first oil painting comes in 1881, a still life titled
"Straw Hat".
In the exhibition, the rooms begin to light up with Van
Gogh's most famous and beautiful paintings, from the 1888 work
"The Langlois Bridge" to the marvelous depictions of the park at
the asylum in Saint-Remy (reconstructed with a model that takes
up an entire room), as well as fields of grain, poppies, and
vineyards.
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