The Diary of Noa Noa and Other Adventures: Gauguin – Rome – Arte.it arrives in Rome

Roma – A journey between emotions and passions, fears, loves, adventures experienced in Tahiti takes shape in the rooms of the National Historical Museum of the Italian Army Infantry in Rome, where the exhibition dedicated to Gauguin accompanies the public in a seductive universe steeped in joy of living, freedom, purity.
From 6 September to 25 January, Professor Vincenzo Sanfo de Viistors will lead to discover the exhibition Gauguin. Noa Noa’s diary and other adventuresA travel route up to and including 165 works from Italian, French and Belgian private collections, and through some French and Italian museum collections. The route has the three books that the artist wrote during the period of his Tahitian journey. The works that Gauguin has inserted in these three parts therefore describe the experiences experienced in these years.

“The exhibition – writes the curator Vincenzo Sanfo – focuses on the book of Gauguin, Noa Noa’s DiaryWritten after his first trip to Tahiti, where he tells his life on the Polynesian islands, the ancestral myths and beliefs that marked their daily life, partly fictionalized by Gauguin himself, the stories of Tehura, his young companion, with sources and news from some books. Of Noa Noa’s DiaryThe French artist managed to create a work that made a sensation at the time and laid the attention of the Parisian world, thirst for novelty “.

Paul Gauguin, Ancien Culte Mahorie, series color lithographs, 18 x 23 cm, private collection

The travel schedule of the exhibition has made more than 100 woodcuts, drawings and lithographs by the artist, in addition to two works attributed to him: the oil on Canvas Tahiti’s wife (1891) and the watercolor Tahitian landscape. But the central core of exposure is represented by the 23 woodcuts of the Noa Noa Diary (1893-94), written during his first stay in the French Polynesia and enriched by his illustrations made with the old technology of incision on wood, printed by Daniel de Monfreed. All charm and surprise performed on the Gauguin Outsider of the primordiality of the places that lived in the last ten years of his life, also flowed into the 16 color lithographs of the series Former CultMazomia (1892), and in the two sculptures of 1893: Tahitian gods vaseto see with the terracotta copy, and the other, ShellidolePresent in Rome with a bronze copy and native Pearl Shell.

The mask of Tahitiana “Tehura” Woman, in shiny bronze, from the Musée Despiau -Wlérick in France, supports the carnet of 38 drawings, with sketches that reproduce studies about portraits, details of the human body and the animal world. The exotic atmosphere that Gauguin met so much were even more lively in a photographic section dedicated to Polynesia, where the exhibition entitled “The Islands of Tahiti, The Primordial Soul”, created by Tahiti Tourism in collaboration with Leica Camera Italia, the least known beauty -of -the -shots of Fransnesaago’s. of the photos of the photos and video. Luigi Luigi Chiocchi and Pietro Iien.

Preparation of the Gauguin exhibition. Noa Noa’s diary and other adventures

The exhibition also contains the lithographic prints in Facsimile Before and afterThe newest book written by Gauguin, concluded two months before he dies (1903) and published posthumously, a kind of diary-manifesto full of notes and considerations about art, friendships and about other subjects that were dear to the artist. These aspects of the painter’s life are also confronted with about forty works created by 12 artists who entertained friendship or collaboration with him, by Vincent van Gogh, of which 12 colors are lithographs to Jean-François Millet, by Adolphe Beaufrère and Louis Anquin, in the artists of the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists, the artists.

Produced by Navigare SRL by an initiative of the Ministry of Defense – Defense Servizi Spa, sponsored by the Lazio region and the municipality of Rome – Department of Culture, the exhibition Gauguin. Noa Noa’s diary and other adventures You can visit Monday to Friday from 9.30 am to 7.30 pm; Saturday, Sunday and vacation from 9.30 am to 8.30 pm.