A major exhibition on the Impressionists in Turin, with two hundred works

From March 11 to June 25, 2023, the Mastio della Cittadella in Turin is hosting the exhibition Impressionists. Between Dream and Color dedicated to the period of ParisianImpressionism between 1850 and 1915. The exhibition project aims to highlight the great changes in the society of the time, with the advent of great industrialization, the birth of photography, cinema, electricity, the telephone and the first airplane flights, extolled and proposed in the great international Parisian exhibitions. Novelties that helped change society and also the art world. The Turin exhibition aims to be one of the largest and most comprehensive exhibitions on Impressionism ever held in Italy.

About two hundred works, including paintings, drawings, watercolors, sculptures, ceramics and engravings, will be on display, through which the aim is to document the artists’ participation in the eight official “Impressionist” exhibitions, with a focus on all the techniques they experimented with and used. These works will be complemented by documentary materials, such as letters, photographs, books, clothing and objects, in order to offer visitors a cross-section of society at the time of the birth and establishment of the Impressionist movement.

The exhibition has a scientific committee, composed among others of Gilles Chazal (former director of the Petit Palais Museum in Paris and member of the Ecole du Louvre), Maïthé Vallès-Bled (former director of the Chartres Museum and the Paul Valéry Museum), Alain Tapié (director Collection Peintres en Normandie), as well as Vincenzo Sanfo, curator and scholar of Impressionism.

The exhibition will start with the artists adhering to theÉcole de Barbizon movement, and then move on to the artists who participated in the eight official Impressionist exhibitions, including the historic one in 1874 held in the studio of photographer Nadar. The exhibition will then feature the works of great protagonists such as Monet, Degas, Manet, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin, and Pissarro, alongside other names such as Bracquemond, Guillaumin, Forain, Desboutin, Lepic, and all the other artists who shared the adventure of a new way of making art with them. The exhibition then aims to document the influence that the Impressionist movement had in the art world of the late 19th century, with the presence of some artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec, Permeke, Derain, Dufy, and Picasso.

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A major exhibition on the Impressionists in Turin, with two hundred works

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