At the Civic Museums of Padua, an exhibition on Antonio Ligabue

Coming for the first time to Padua (and to be precise to the Musei Civici degli Eremitani) is a monographic exhibition on Antonio Ligabue(Zurich 1899 - Gualtieri 1965). The exhibition, entitled Antonio Ligabue. The Man, the Painter is on view from September 22, 2018 to February 17, 2019, and is curated by Francesca Villanti and Francesco Negri, with the general organization of C.O.R. Creare Organizzare Realizzare, in collaboration with the Antonio Ligabue Museum Foundation and the Municipality of Gualtieri(RE). More than seventy paintings, ten works on paper and seven sculptures will be on display; the layout will offer a historical and critical reading of the work of the Italian-Swiss artist, still one of the most interesting personalities in twentieth-century art.

The exhibition itinerary will be divided by main themes within which Ligabue’s creative universe develops: the relationship with self-portraiture, wild and domestic animals, and work in the fields.
For the first time, about forty original documents dedicated to the biographical story of Antonio Ligabue will also be on public view.

The story of Antonio Ligabue began on December 18, 1899, in Zurich and ended on May 27, 1965, in Gualtieri, where he had landed on August 9, 1919, expelled from Switzerland, after a childhood and adolescence marked by ’marginalization (at only nine months of age he was entrusted by his mother to another family) and impatience with the world around him - at school, however, his passion and talent for drawing had already been revealed. In Gualtieri, his life remained very hard, especially in his early years, when, in order to make a living, he worked as a scariolante (i.e., a laborer who transported goods in a wheelbarrow) on the banks of the Po River. He began painting in the late 1920s, appreciated by rare admirers, including Marino Mazzacurati, one of the greatest Italian artists of the early 20th century and a leading exponent of the Roman School. In 1955 he held his first solo exhibition in Gonzaga, on the occasion of the Fiera millenaria, organized by Cesare Parmiggiani; in 1961 an exhibition in Rome, at Galleria La Barcaccia, marked his national consecration (“the Ligabue case”), after an intense artistic activity, often misunderstood and even mocked, which over time nevertheless aroused the admiration and interest of collectors, critics and art historians. Recent anthological exhibitions include the one, with nearly two hundred works, held in 2005 at Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia and at Palazzo Bentivoglio in Gualtieri, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of his death.

Hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. (closed Mondays, ticket office closes at 6:30 p.m.). Tickets: full 10 euros, reduced 8 euros (over 65, 18 to 25 years old, children and young people 6 to 17 years old), free for children under 6 years old, disabled and accompanying persons, journalists in the exercise of their duties. You will find all the information at this link.

At the Civic Museums of Padua, an exhibition on Antonio Ligabue

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