An exhibition in Sondrio on the poetics of the affections through masterpieces from the 1800s and 1900s

Until November 14, 2021, the MVSA in Sondrio, the Valtellina Museum of History and Art, is hosting the exhibition Poetics of the Affections. Italian Painting between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, realized thanks to the collaboration between the Municipality of Sondrio and the Bank of Italy, which has chosen to offer to the public, some prestigious works from its collection.

The central theme of the exhibition is precisely the affections, in their most intimate meaning, represented through five masterpieces by famous artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Maternità by Silvestro Lega, Bimba al sole by Francesco Paolo Michetti, Felicità by Antonio Mancini, Giochi in riva al lago by Ettore Tito and Casa di Riposo Bonacossa a Dorno Lomellina by Angelo Morbelli. Paintings that include the annexation of Rome to the Kingdom of Italy and World War I. The exhibition is proposed as a small and delicate, intense and exciting display of oil paintings, rich in atmosphere, colors and chiaroscuro.

“Thanks to the generosity of the Bank of Italy,” says Marcella Fratta, councillor for Culture of the City of Sondrio, “we can have in our MVSA five masterpieces by great Italian painters who describe, each in their own way, the affections, which are fundamental for a person’s serene growth. In fact, we believe that the selected paintings can offer opportunities for reflection to respond to the complexity of our time, in the way that art integrates with the great values that allow us to build and consolidate human relationships seen as a stronghold in the face of life’s difficulties.”

Cristina De Paolis, for the Bank of Italy, adds that “the exhibition marks the beginning of a series of initiatives aimed at enhancing the Bank’s artistic heritage, which aims to get the works out of the rooms and into the community, where they are shared to be valued.”

The exhibition’s two curators, Elena Li Causi and Fabio Mari, have devised an installation that allows visitors to follow a free path through the five masterpieces, because when it comes to affection “there is no beginning and there is no end.”

For info: https://mvsa-sondrio.com/

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to noon and 3 to 6 p.m. Starting in October with extended hours until 1 p.m. and early afternoon opening at 2 p.m.

Free admission.

Image: Ettore Tito, Games by the Lake .

An exhibition in Sondrio on the poetics of the affections through masterpieces from the 1800s and 1900s

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