Cézanne and Morandi compared at the Magnani-Rocca Foundation

It will be a never-before-seen comparison between a work by Paul Cézanne, the Bathers of 1890-1894, from the Puskin Museum in Moscow, and works by Cézanne and Giorgio Morandi in the collection of the Magnani-Rocca Foundation that will be staged from April 22 at the Villa dei Capolavori, the Foundation’s headquarters in Mamiano di Traversetolo, in the province of Parma. The occasion of the exhibition, entitled Cézanne/Morandi. Painting is Essential, will be propitious for a rearrangement of the upper floor of the Villa, where Cézanne’s works from the permanent collection are housed.

“The Puskin Museum’s Cézanne work,” the statement reads, “represents a new idyll of contemporaneity, without temporal connotation. The figures, here masculine, are geometrically articulated and construct two triangles and two diagonals that meet; a symmetry of correspondences that also involves the surrounding nature, in which the trees pander to the same human positions. The brushstroke lets one perceive a constructive incompleteness, which gives precedence to the sense of composition and contemplation through color and volumes. The architectural solidity, evident in the work from Moscow, will be characterized by an increasingly revolutionary power, until the last versions of the female bathers, predictive visions that radically influenced the protagonists of avant-garde art, including Cubism, and of research painting, Morandi included.”

The exhibition will remain open until September 10, 2017. Opening hours: Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (ticket office always closes one hour before). Closed Mondays, open Monday, April 24, April 25, Monday, May 1, and June 2. Admission: 10 euros (also valid for the permanent collection and the Depero exhibition), 5 euros for schools. Information and reservations: 0521 848327 / 848148, email info@magnanirocca.it, website www.magnanirocca.it. Until July 2, guided tours are organized on the following days and times: Tuesdays at 3:30 p.m., Saturdays at 4:30 p.m., Sundays and holidays at 11:30 a.m., 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Reservations for the tour at segreteria@magnanirocca.it (or directly on site while spaces last), cost 15 euros including entrance fee.

Image: Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Cherries (1900-1904; pencil and watercolor on white paper, 38 x 49 cm; Traversetolo, Fondazione Magnani Rocca)

Cézanne and Morandi compared at the Magnani-Rocca Foundation

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