Since March 14, 2015 July 12, 2015 al
turin
Location: GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino
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Press Release: The 2015 season of exhibitions at GAM in Turin continues with a unique protagonist: Amedeo Modigliani, in an itinerary that helps to discover the work of the man who perhaps more than anyone embodies the figure of ‘”cursed artist”, even today considered one of the great interpreters of European painting of the twentieth century.
Will be exhibited approximately 90 works, including sixty masterpieces from the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou in Paris and from major public and private collections in Europe. The exhibition is sponsored by the GAM and produced by MondoMostre and Skira Editore in collaboration with the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou in Paris. The scientific curatorship is entrusted to Jean-Michel Bouhours, Modigliani accredited scholar and curator of the department of modern collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Around the central figure of Modigliani presents the extraordinary cultural atmosphere created by the “Ecole de Paris”, the current players had some artists active in the postwar period, often exiled Jews persecuted in their country of origin, which gathered around Montmartre and Montparnasse united by the desire to live right in the artistic and cultural climate of Paris, creating a complete symbiosis between life and art, and distinguished by a personal style and a dissolute life and unregulated.
It starts from a significant body of work of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, in which collections Modigliani became part already in the mid ’30s. These include the beautiful portraits of his friends (The young boy red 1919), of his mistresses (Lolotte 1917) or its merchants, along with paintings, drawings and sculptures from other prestigious public and private collections and from a painting of collections of GAM, the famous Red Girl of 1915. In these paintings emerges the famous “Style Modigliani” characterized by extreme synthesis, so that the characters portrayed are not revealed in their identity, except for some details, like clothes or hairstyles.
The exhibition is built in five sections, which analyze the vitality of the Parisian period, with an eye not only to painting, but also to the design that gave rise to the masterpieces, and with an eye to the sculpture in which the protagonist, along with Modigliani , is Constantin Brancusi, the sculptor in whose atelier Amedeo will work for a long time. Among the works on display in this section the famous Princess X and Mademoiselle Pogany III, next to a series of original photographs that Brancusi himself snapped to his works.
Modigliani is told on display as the main witness of the reality of cosmopolitan Parisian Bohème, which marked its independence from the movements of the official artistic avant-garde. A particular historical moment, to the creation of masterpieces, alongside a life of misery and alcohol, combined with the premature death, have helped to wrap the figure aura of legend.
The sections of the exhibition: I – Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani’s portraits (including the portrait of Soutine, Jeanne Hebuterne, the young boy red, The red girl) are compared – in this first section dedicated to the figure and the unmistakable style and now distant expressionism and symbolism to which Modigliani looked in the first works – a portrait by Modigliani, André Derain, and Gotine red Giovanni Fattori which is part of the collections of the GAM.
II – Modigliani / Brancusi and sculpture
From 1909 to 1914 Modigliani devoted himself almost exclusively to sculpture applying his synthesis model to the famous heads by elongated forms, with long necks and eyes without pupils. The section mainly analyzes the comparison with the works of his great friend Constantin Brancusi, with whom he shared the study and the same interest in sweeping curves and harmonious forms anatomical.
III- La bohème Paris
The artists met in cafes, in brothels and on the streets of Montmartre and Montparnasse are represented in this section. Three important works of Chaim Soutine, a painting by Marc Chagall and two landscapes by Maurice Utrillo are displayed alongside paintings by other players in the fertile environment Parisian era.
IV – Cubism
While remaining relatively far from bursting Cubist revolution pioneered by Picasso and welcomed by a large number of artists, Modigliani shared with the motion the process of filing and an eye to primitive art and African art. Next to paintings and drawings by the master from Livorno two important paintings by Gino Severini, including North-South belonging to the collections GAM; the Bread of Pablo Picasso, works by Juan Gris, Louis Marcoussis and Léopold Survage, along with other witnesses of the season Cubist.
V- The new humanism of the school of Paris
The wonderful portrait Dedie 1918 image of the exhibition is the masterpiece of Modigliani introducing this last section, dedicated to the circle of artists attracted by the cultural movement and the freedom guaranteed that Paris in the early twentieth century. These include Marc Chagall, Max Jacob, Sonia Delaunay and Susanne Valadon, in the exhibition with a series of portraits.
Will be exhibited approximately 90 works, including sixty masterpieces from the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou in Paris and from major public and private collections in Europe. The exhibition is sponsored by the GAM and produced by MondoMostre and Skira Editore in collaboration with the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou in Paris. The scientific curatorship is entrusted to Jean-Michel Bouhours, Modigliani accredited scholar and curator of the department of modern collections of the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Around the central figure of Modigliani presents the extraordinary cultural atmosphere created by the “Ecole de Paris”, the current players had some artists active in the postwar period, often exiled Jews persecuted in their country of origin, which gathered around Montmartre and Montparnasse united by the desire to live right in the artistic and cultural climate of Paris, creating a complete symbiosis between life and art, and distinguished by a personal style and a dissolute life and unregulated.
It starts from a significant body of work of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, in which collections Modigliani became part already in the mid ’30s. These include the beautiful portraits of his friends (The young boy red 1919), of his mistresses (Lolotte 1917) or its merchants, along with paintings, drawings and sculptures from other prestigious public and private collections and from a painting of collections of GAM, the famous Red Girl of 1915. In these paintings emerges the famous “Style Modigliani” characterized by extreme synthesis, so that the characters portrayed are not revealed in their identity, except for some details, like clothes or hairstyles.
The exhibition is built in five sections, which analyze the vitality of the Parisian period, with an eye not only to painting, but also to the design that gave rise to the masterpieces, and with an eye to the sculpture in which the protagonist, along with Modigliani , is Constantin Brancusi, the sculptor in whose atelier Amedeo will work for a long time. Among the works on display in this section the famous Princess X and Mademoiselle Pogany III, next to a series of original photographs that Brancusi himself snapped to his works.
Modigliani is told on display as the main witness of the reality of cosmopolitan Parisian Bohème, which marked its independence from the movements of the official artistic avant-garde. A particular historical moment, to the creation of masterpieces, alongside a life of misery and alcohol, combined with the premature death, have helped to wrap the figure aura of legend.
The sections of the exhibition: I – Amedeo Modigliani
Amedeo Modigliani’s portraits (including the portrait of Soutine, Jeanne Hebuterne, the young boy red, The red girl) are compared – in this first section dedicated to the figure and the unmistakable style and now distant expressionism and symbolism to which Modigliani looked in the first works – a portrait by Modigliani, André Derain, and Gotine red Giovanni Fattori which is part of the collections of the GAM.
II – Modigliani / Brancusi and sculpture
From 1909 to 1914 Modigliani devoted himself almost exclusively to sculpture applying his synthesis model to the famous heads by elongated forms, with long necks and eyes without pupils. The section mainly analyzes the comparison with the works of his great friend Constantin Brancusi, with whom he shared the study and the same interest in sweeping curves and harmonious forms anatomical.
III- La bohème Paris
The artists met in cafes, in brothels and on the streets of Montmartre and Montparnasse are represented in this section. Three important works of Chaim Soutine, a painting by Marc Chagall and two landscapes by Maurice Utrillo are displayed alongside paintings by other players in the fertile environment Parisian era.
IV – Cubism
While remaining relatively far from bursting Cubist revolution pioneered by Picasso and welcomed by a large number of artists, Modigliani shared with the motion the process of filing and an eye to primitive art and African art. Next to paintings and drawings by the master from Livorno two important paintings by Gino Severini, including North-South belonging to the collections GAM; the Bread of Pablo Picasso, works by Juan Gris, Louis Marcoussis and Léopold Survage, along with other witnesses of the season Cubist.
V- The new humanism of the school of Paris
The wonderful portrait Dedie 1918 image of the exhibition is the masterpiece of Modigliani introducing this last section, dedicated to the circle of artists attracted by the cultural movement and the freedom guaranteed that Paris in the early twentieth century. These include Marc Chagall, Max Jacob, Sonia Delaunay and Susanne Valadon, in the exhibition with a series of portraits.
