In Carrara a major exhibition on the sea, from Fattori to De Chirico

A major exhibition on the sea from the 19th to the 20th century: it is The Sea: Myth History Nature. Italian Art 1860 - 1940 scheduled from July 9 to October 30, 2022 in Carrara, Italy, at Palazzo Cucchiari. The exhibition recounts eighty crucial years for Italian culture, with a single common thread involving some fifty artists. Curated by Massimo Bertozzi and divided into six different sections, the exhibition offers a journey through various Italian art schools in decisive years between the birth of the Kingdom of Italy and the outbreak of World War II.

It is a panorama of art that, in a hundred or so works, ranges from the Macchiaioli (Fattori) and post-Macchiaioli (Lloyd, Ulvi Liegi, Puccini) to the so-called Labronici painters (March and Natali), from Symbolist figuration (Sartorio, Benvenuti, Baracchini Caputi), from the colorful world of the Divisionists (Nomellini) to the season of the avant-garde (Ram and Thayaht) and the “returns toorder,” with references to the great individualities of Italian art, De Chirico, Savinio, De Pisis, Campigli, Morandi, Nathan and among sculptors Martini, Marino, Manzù and Messina.

Obviously, special attention will be given to the Ligurian-Apuan area, and thus to native Versilian painters, such as Chini, Moses Levy, Viani, or adopted ones, such as Carrà, Carena, De Grada, and Funi, and then to the singers of the lands of Liguria, such as Telemaco Signorini, and to Apuan sculptors such as Carlo Fontana and Arturo Dazzi. For all of them, one common denominator: the sea and those lands, flat or steep, that overlook it and that for millennia have welcomed peoples who have chosen to live there. A sea that belongs to everyone, but belongs to no one; and although these artists saw the same sea, in the end each imagined and figured it in his or her own way. Probably lies in this small detail the charm and magic of different artistic expressions, to which the exhibition at Palazzo Cucchiari aims to give ample testimony.

The exhibition, accompanied by a catalog, opens Tuesday through Sunday. In July, August and September on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. In October, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 4 to 8 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 4 to 9 p.m. Closed Mondays. Tickets: € 10; concessions € 8; groups 10-29 people € 8; 30 and over € 7; schools € 4 (2 chaperones free for school groups); free Youth under 8 accompanied by parents, handicapped persons and chaperone, journalists with national ID. Information: Tel. +39 0585 72355, email info@palazzocucchiari.it, website www.ilmarecarrara.it.

Image: Carlo Carrà, Marina (1940)

In Carrara a major exhibition on the sea, from Fattori to De Chirico

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