Lecco dedicates exhibition to postmacchiaiola painting, from Fattori to Ghiglia

The Palazzo delle Paure in Lecco hosts from March 18 to June 19, 2022 the exhibition La luce del vero. The Legacy of Macchiaioli Painting. From Fattori to Ghiglia, curated by Simona Bartolena, produced and realized by ViDi - Visit Different, in collaboration with the Municipality of Lecco and the Lecco Urban Museum System. Through ninety works from public and private collections, the exhibition intends to investigate the theme of post-Macchiaiola painting and to approach a heterogeneous and complex group of authors, from the Gioli brothers to the Tommasi family, from Llewelyn Lloyd to Ulvi Liegi, from Oscar Ghiglia to Plinio Nomellini, from Mario Puccini to Giovanni Bartolena, united by a vocation for the real and for subjects drawn from daily life and training of Macchiaiola ancestry. Some will always remain faithful to the lesson of the masters, while others will take their research to areas very different from their original ones.

The exhibition itinerary will develop as a narrative that, from the example of the masters, thus from Giovanni Fattori to Silvestro Lega, will reach artists such as Oscar Ghiglia and Lorenzo Viani, interweaving stylistic analysis, biographical narrative, iconographic reading and socio-historical research.

“Through the investigation of the situation of Tuscan art at the end of the century,” says Simona Bartolena, “the exhibition also unveils the mechanisms underlying, more generally, the transmission of knowledge from master to pupil, the evolution of the language of the ’fathers’ by the new generations, the stylistic contaminations that over time modify, even radically, the outcomes brought about by an artistic revolution.” “In the Tuscan area,” the curator continues, “the range of languages and research in this transitional period is particularly rich, and the interweaving of the Macchiaioli’s look at objective reality, the impact of French Impressionism and Symbolist temptations becomes very interesting.”

Hours: Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Image: Mario Puccini, Il fienaiolo (early 1910s; oil on canvas, 45 x 61 cm; Livorno, private collection)

Lecco dedicates exhibition to postmacchiaiola painting, from Fattori to Ghiglia

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