My Russia will love me too: Rovigo announces a major monographic exhibition dedicated to Chagall

Palazzo Roverella in Rovigo announces its next exhibition: from April 4 to July 5, 2020, the great protagonist will be Marc Chagall with a monographic exhibition entitled Even My Russia Will Love Me.

Curated by Claudia Zevi, the exhibition will showcase more than one hundred works by the artist, including about seventy paintings on canvas and paper, the two series of etchings and etchings, the twenty plates illustrating his autobiography Ma Vie, and Gogol’s The Dead Souls. The works on display come from the artist’s heirs and from major museums around the world, such as Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian State Museum in St. Petersburg, the Pompidou in Paris, the Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, and the Kunstmuseum in Zurich, as well as from historic private collections.

The aim of the monograph is to focus on and explore a specific theme, namely the influence of Russian popular culture on Chagall’s production. Thus, the folk tradition of Russia will be analyzed in a wide-ranging and documented way: his works are populated by roosters, goats, and cows that become metaphors in a kind of poetic realism that refers to the Russian fairy tale. Russian popular culture is indeed rich in images and legends. In addition to these elements, Chagall introduces memory, remembrance, which become presences that populate his paintings. Among his masterpieces on display are The Walk, The Jew in Pink, The Wedding, The Rooster, Black Glove.

The exhibition also aims to reflect on Chagall’s special position in the history of 20th-century art: without confronting the avant-garde, the artist remains open to the demands of modernism, but always influenced by memory and traditional forms.

Russia is the place of roots, of memory.
“My Russia will also love me,” the title chosen for the monograph, are the words with which he concludes Ma Vie, the illustrated autobiography that Chagall published, when he was just 34 years old, in Berlin at the beginning of his exile, aware that separation from Russia would be final.

The exhibition benefits from the collaboration of the Culture Musei Foundation and the Museo delle Culture in Lugano.

For info: www.palazzoroverella.com

Image: Marc Chagall, The Walk (1917-18; St. Petersburg, Russian State Museum)

My Russia will love me too: Rovigo announces a major monographic exhibition dedicated to Chagall

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