At MASI in Lugano, an exhibition on the Sublime around Segantini's Nature Triptych

From August 25 to November 10, 2019, MASI, Art Museum of Italian Switzerland in Lugano, offers its visitors an exhibition entitled Sublime. Light and Landscape around Giovanni Segantini.

The museum has the great opportunity to exhibit Giovanni Segantini’s Triptych of Nature, a work that has not been seen south of the Alps for over a hundred years and an extraordinary example of the Sublime. To mark the presence of this work in Lugano, MASI organized a review around it, placing it alongside artists such as Giacometti, Boccioni, Hodler and Burkhard.

Starting with what can be artistically defined as the Sublime, an exhibition itinerary has been designed around landscape painting, understood as an expression of Mountain Sentiment in Switzerland and abroad from the 18th to the 21st century.

The centerpiece of the exhibition is the dialogue between the Triptych and the video installation Die Magische Bergwelt in den Filmen von Daniel Schmid by Swiss artist This Brunner. Brunner has created an engaging work through a sequence of scenes from four masterpieces by Graubünden director Daniel Schmid.

Surrounding the two works are some sixty masterpieces of the sublime: beginning with William Turner, Alexandre Calame, and Ferdinand Hodler. This is followed by works by Giovanni Giacometti and Umberto Boccioni: by the former, Evening on the Alp from 1908 is on display, while by the latter there is a series of Divisionist paintings featuring nature and landscape.

It continues with contemporary artists where the representation of the mountain becomes ambivalent: Oh Ubi by Swiss artists Lutz and Guggisberg, photographs of Bernina by Balthasar Burkhard, and an installation with 170 white-patinated bronze snowballs by Not Vital.

Closing the exhibition are numerous paintings of landscape and rural life made by Ticino artists such as Filippo Franzoni, Luigi Rossi, and Roberto Donetta.

For info: www.masilugano.ch

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Image: Umberto Boccioni, Lombardy Landscape (1908; oil on canvas, 36 x 66 cm; MASI Lugano, City of Lugano Collection. Chiattone Donation)

At MASI in Lugano, an exhibition on the Sublime around Segantini's Nature Triptych

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