Maternal love celebrated in an exhibition in Verona with works by Previati, Segantini, Morbelli, Boccioni

At the Achille Forti Gallery of Modern Art in Verona’s Palazzo della Ragione, an exhibition focusing on the theme of motherhood in Italian art between the 19th and 20th centuries will be on display from December 7, 2018 to March 10, 2019.

In order to promote knowledge of Italian Divisionism, masterpieces by artists belonging to this movement, including Angelo Morbelli’s S’Avanza, will be exhibited. The centerpiece of the exhibition"Maternal Love at the Origins of Modern Painting, from Previati to Boccioni" will be Gaetano Previati ’s Maternity from the Banco BPM collections. "The new Divisionist technique elaborated by Previati in the monumental painting, aimed at the separation of brushstrokes, but instead of tending to full luminous terseness it aimed to act on the sensitivity of the viewer, involving him in the psychological emotion of the event. For this the Ferrara master had prepared himself with an intense exercise on themes that developed the ’painting of affects’ of the Scapigliatura, in order to evoke, through the very ductus of the brushstroke, a state of mind. A cornerstone therefore of the painting of emotion and feeling, with a wide range of references in the medieval and modern painting tradition," says Aurora Scotti, one of the exhibition’s curators.

Accompanying Previati’s large painting will be works by Medardo Rosso, Giovanni Segantini, Angelo Morbelli, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo and Umberto Boccioni: a philological selection of about fifteen works to emphasize the comparison of different outcomes and research contemporary to Previati. Masterpieces that belong to the Musei Civici of Milan, the Graphic and Photographic Collections of Castello Sforzesco, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan, the Mart in Rovereto, and the Segantini Museum in Saint Moritz. The exhibition also presents a multimedia contribution dedicated to the gestation phases of the latter’s Maternity: the related documentation comes from the scientific analysis campaign conducted with advanced technologies by theOpificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, which monitored the work’s state of conservation.

The exhibition is curated by Francesca Rossi and Aurora Scotti.

For info: www.gam.comune.verona.it

Hours: Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday and holidays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Mondays.

Tickets: Full 4 euros, reduced for over 60s and students 2.50 euros. Free for over 65 residents of the City of Verona, children under 7, people with disabilities and their companions.

Image: Gaetano Previati, Maternity (1890-1891; oil on canvas, 175.5 x 412 cm; Banco BPM Collection)

Maternal love celebrated in an exhibition in Verona with works by Previati, Segantini, Morbelli, Boccioni

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