A major monograph in Rovigo reflects on Russian folk tradition in Chagall's works

From September 19, 2020 to January 17, 2021, Palazzo Roverella in Rovigo will host the monographic exhibition Marc Chagall. My Russia Will Love Me Too.

Curated by Claudia Zevi, the exhibition will present the public with more than one hundred works, including about seventy paintings on canvas and paper, two series of etchings and etchings made in the first years away from Russia, the twenty plates illustrating his autobiography Ma Vie, and Gogol’s Dead Souls.

The masterpieces on display come from the artist’s heirs and from loans from the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Pompidou in Paris, the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the Kunstmuseum in Zurich, as well as from important private collections.

The curator has chosen to address a particular theme through a selection of Chagall’s works, namely the influence of Russian popular culture on his artistic production. Among the masterpieces in the exhibition are the Walk,Jew in Pink, Marriage, Rooster, Black Glove. The folk tradition of Russia flows into many of the artist’s works, populated by roosters, goats, and cows that become metaphors in a kind of poetic realism that refers to Russian fairy tales and the many legends. Memory and remembrance are also central to his art.

In addition, the aim of the monograph is also to reflect on the subject of Chagall’s position in the history of twentieth-century art: he never blends in with the avant-garde, but his painting remains open to the demands of modernism, always influenced by memory and traditional forms.

But Vie, the illustrated autobiography that Chagall published in Berlin when he was just 34 years old, at the beginning of his exile, thus aware of the final separation from his Russia, ends with the words “My Russia will love me too,” the title chosen for the Palazzo Roverella monograph.

The exhibition benefits from the collaboration of the Culture Musei Foundation and the Museum of Cultures in Lugano.

For info: www.palazzoroverella.com

Image: Marc Chagall, Dimanche (1952; Paris, National Museum of Modern Art)

A major monograph in Rovigo reflects on Russian folk tradition in Chagall's works

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