Two hundred years Giovanni Fattori on stage in Piacenza – Piacenza

Piacenza – 200 years after birth, Piacenza brings a tribute Giovanni Fattori With two exhibitions: an opportunity to get to know the master Macchiaiolo better, discover the news that came from recent studies that were carried out on him, to understand the powerful influence that is exerted on art and the current events of his work today. All this awaiting the publication by the reasoned catalog of Giuliano Matteucci, the maximum expert and interpreter of the artist.

170 works can be admired in the exhibition spaces of XNL Piacenza Until June 29 in the exhibition Giovanni Fattori 1825-1908. Macchiaioli genius: 100 paintings plus 70 drawings and engravings chosen by the curators Fernando Mazzocca, Elisabetta Matteucci and Piergiororgio Marini to offer a complete overview of the master’s activities and bring them to the attention of the public, also the lesser known aspects of his research. “The Choice Fell on works of all of quality and with an impeccable history, including not a few masterpieces – explains mazzocca – enhanced in a compelling itinerary ranging from portraits, among the most beautiful and intense of the century, to the study and toure purple and toure purtered and toure purtered and toure purtered and toure purple and toure. Square Air, The Scenes of Rural Life Where, Especialally in Those Set In The Beloved Maremma, The World Values ​​of the World of the World Boer, In contrast to the urban dimension that he did not like, his discomfort did not hide in the face of the Modern Shapect of the Grandiose, “that Grandiose.

Installation display Giovanni Fattori 1825-1908. Macchiaioli genius The courtesy XNL Piacenza

Made in collaboration with the Matteucci Institute or Vievreggio, which stores an important collection dedicated to the Macchiaioli, with the Modern Art Gallery Ricci Oddi di Piacenza and with the Central Institute for the Graphics of Rome, the exhibition of a long and in -pegetes is the non -depth -examination of a long -term examination of the Synthephe -Depth -exams -examination. biografie van de kunstenaar te vergroten, om de biografie van de kunstenaar te vergroten, op het licht van de kunstenaar, om de biografie van de kunstenaar te vergroten, op het licht van de kunstenaar, op het licht van de kunstenaar, om het te vergroten van de kunstenaar, op het licht van de kunstenaar, op het licht van de kunstenaar van de kunstenaar, het is de synthese van een eVolution, op het af te werpen van de beheersing van de kunstenaar. His poetic and originality in the Panorama Macchiaiolo.

In this context, the rediscovery of the military painting of factors stands out, a personal, critical and never banal interpretation of the Risorgimento. “The paintings ‘paintings’, as he called them, occupy a certain place and never disappear from his creative horizon,” says Mazzocca: “It is part of monumental works that remain the most successful and impressive, such as The Italian field after the Battle of Magenta” The attack on the Madonna of the Discoverythe Battle of Custoza With which he won public competitions and which were bought by the state. While in reduced size, paintings, such as those can be seen, compared to the epic of large battles, normal life, loneliness and sacrifice of the anonymous army for the service of a cause that is greater than they “.

Installation display Giovanni Fattori 1825-1908. Macchiaioli genius The courtesy XNL Piacenza

Fattori seemed to trust these paintings a career that remained uncertain from an economic point of view, despite the appreciation, the prizes and even the visit of the sovereigns – King Umberto I and Queen Margherita – to his Florentine study. “If I don’t sell in Naples or in Turin, it is clear that the soldiers do not want them – and when the minister neither St. Majesty nor the L. authorities they want, do you tell me why I have to do them?” He wrote to his friend and supporter Diego Martelli. “In werkelijkheid bleef hij ze schilderen tot het einde, in de overtuiging dat hij moest zeggen – dus hij bekende – op het canvas het fysieke en moreel lijden van alles wat helaas gebeurt” “, vervolgt Mazzocca:” Aan het einde van de jaren zeventig hervat hij de militaire scènes met grote momentum met grote momentum met een grote kracht, van de buikwenk van de vele soffees van de vele soffees van de vele soffees van de vele Served to create a better Italy.

The graphic factors of factors are also discovered, to which the exhibition devotes two sections full of drawings and engravings, including countless non -published, from the Central Institute for the Graphics of Rome. “The beautiful and moving etchings reveal the capacity of the now mature factors to reconsider his poetics and extend his expressive force by using a new technique, alternative and at the same time supplementing”, observes Mazzocca: “It is a side that can book big surprising surprises.

Installation display Giovanni Fattori 1825-1908. Macchiaioli genius The courtesy XNL Piacenza

And it is precisely the legacy of factors that pours us to the second exhibition organized in Piacenza for the Bicentenary. When the path of XNL ends with a visual reflection of the contemporary photographer Elger, although it is configured as a bridge between past and present, until Modern art gallery exposure From Ghiglia to Morandi. Reconsideration of the factors in the twentieth century (UnderWay Until 29 June) The influences deployed by the ottocyus Painter on the art of the following century investigates systematically, as evidenced by giorgio de chirico, ardengo soffici, emilio rbertor, butso or director or director or director or director or director or directors. Blasetti, Sergio Leone and in particular by Luchino Visconti, WHO in Feeling one The Gotopardo It was inspired by the paintings of the master Macchiaiolo to evoke atmospheres, hope and disillusions of the Risorgimento. Even masters such as Ford and Kurosawa have fed their cinema from factory suggestions, as we discover in a video on the path of XNL.

In the Ricci Oddi Gallery, however, more than 30 works illustrate how the legacy of factors in painting some of its best students – Pliny Nomellini, Oscar Ghiglia, Lorenzo Viani – to the great leaders of the Italian art of the twentieth century, from Carlo Carrà to Giorgio to Giorgio to Giorgio to Giorgio. Compiled by Barbara Cinelli, the exhibition investigates the continuing vitality of the Tuscan Maestro through paintings and engravings, among all Macchiaioli the one with whom the Italian artists of the twentieth century have confronted each other the most. An intense and long -term dialogue, which means that the individual painters come into contact with factors in a different way, with peculiar motivations and methods: if they pull soft and carrà teachings for a sturdy space construction, the Livorno Macchiaioli valuable suggestions will understand with the use of the Detailed Power, while ghiglia and ghiglia, while ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia, while ghiglia, while ghiglia, while ghiglia, while ghiglia, while ghiglia, while ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia, while ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia, while ghiglia and ghiglia, while ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia and ghiglia and ghigelia Aircraft of artistic practice and existential offer.

Giovanni Fattori, Mrs. Gioli in Fauglia, around 1875. Oil on the table, 32 × 18 cm. Private Collection / Courtesy Fine Arts Company, Vireggio