Five minutes alone in front of a Van Gogh. Palazzo Ducale in Genoa reintroduces the emotional formula

Palazzo Ducale in Genoa unveiled the program for its new exhibition season, the first featuring Beppe Costa as president who succeeded Luca Bizzarri in the post.

In addition to exhibitions dedicated to photography with Sabine Weiss (Nov. 18, 2022 - March 12, 2023), Man Ray (March 4 - July 2, 2023) and Letizia Battaglia (April 29 - Nov. 1, 2023), the exhibition dedicated to Giuseppe Cominetti and cycles of meetings, reviews and conferences, including usual appointments such as La Storia in Piazza and the Limes Festival, it will return to offer the"5 minutes with" formula, already successfully experimented in the Covid period with Monet’s Water Lilies.

This time visitors will have the opportunity to stand five minutes alone in front of Vincent van Gogh’s Landscape with Haystacks and Rising Moon, one of the last works the famous painter painted before his death. The work will arrive on loan from the Kröller - Müller Museum in Otterlo, which requested special surveillance measures given the last incident involving the same artist’s Sower at the Palazzo Bonaparte in Rome, and will be displayed in the Doge’s Chapel. Van Gogh made this painting in 1889. The event will be held on the occasion of the Grand Finale of the Ocean Race regatta. “The City asked the Doge’s Palace to participate in its own way in the Grand Finale event, we asked ourselves how to create a link with the previous stage, which turned out to be in the Netherlands,” explained director Serena Bertolucci. “The result was this collaboration with the Kröller - Müller Museum that will allow us to have a work of enormous impact.” An experience in direct contact with a solo work of art.

“Culture with a capital c,” stressed Beppe Costa, on his first public outing as president of the Foundation for Culture. “Let this house be open 365 days to young and old, to Genoese and non-Genoese.”

Five minutes alone in front of a Van Gogh. Palazzo Ducale in Genoa reintroduces the emotional formula

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