Gauguin arrives in Turin – Arte.it

Place of elections for the restless brush boutsider, the remote Polynesia loved Paul Gauguin who moved there in the last ten years of his life, with suspicion viewed by the French contemporaries for his “primitive” culture, comes from the color lithographs of the series Former CultMazomia (1892). The faces of his inhabitants come from two sculptures from 1893 and the precious mask of Tahitiana -woman “Check”In glossy bronze, from the Musée Despiau-Wlérick in France, while a 38-year-old carnet shows off sketches with studies on portraits, details of the human body and the animal world.
The human and artistic adventure of Paul Gauguin, the master who changed the face of art inspiring artists such as Munch, Matisse, Picasso and the German expressionists, from Nolde to Heckel, arrives in Turin with the exhibition with the exhibition Gauguin. Noa Noa’s diary and other adventures. From Saturday, March 1, the Mastio della Cittadella – National Historical Museum of Artillery of Turin is organizing the project produced by Navigare SRL with the patronage of the Piedmont region and the city of Turin.
More than 160 works, on loan of Italian, French and Belgian private collections, and from some French and Italian museum collections, will bring together woodcuts, drawings and lithographs of Gauguin, together with two works attributed to him: the oil on Canvas Tahiti’s wife (1891) and the watercolor Tahitian landscape.

Gauguin. Noa Noa’s diary and other adventures, founded

The central core of the exhibition is displayed by 23 precious woodcuts of the Noa Noa Diary (1893-94), a fascinating story written by the artist during his first stay in French Polynesia, enriched by his illustrations made with the old technique of incision on wood, printed by Daniel de Monfreet. There is no shortage of lithographic prints in facsimile included in Before and afterThe last book written by Gauguin and ended two months before dying (1903). A sort of posthumous manifest-diary, full of notes and considerations about art and friendship relationships.

In addition to focusing on life in Tahiti, the path does not neglect the relationships of the painter with the Western world, with France, and with his colleagues and artists’ friends. The exhibition also embraces a core of 45 works, including drawings, engravings and paintings made by thirteen illustrious masters of the French art of the nineteenth century, by the friend Vincent van Gogh, of which 12 colors of lithographs can be seen against Jean-François Millet with the Ottquame L’Engel. The artists of the Nabis group Pont-Aven, in Brittany, can not miss another place that decides for Gauguin’s life. Maurice Denis will be shown with his religious theme -lithographs, while the series of six six -lithographic lithographs Bretonnières is exhibited by Émile Bernard together with his own cardboard oil.

Paul Sérusier, Adieu to Gauguin, 1906

From Paul Amusier and Goodbye from Gauguinon loan from the French Museum of Quimper.
In order to further enrich the already precious Gallery of Works, the exhibition route also presents numerous vintage photos, books, documents and artifacts to make the visitor’s experience, in the adventurous and fully personal world of Gauguin, a journey as rich and suggestively as possible.
The exhibition can be visited until 29 June from Tuesday to Friday from 9.30 am to 6.30 pm. Saturday, Sunday and vacation from 9.30 am to 7.30 pm. Closed on Monday.