The 1920s in Ubaldo Oppi's portraits of women at the Basilica Palladiana

In the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza, the exhibition Portrait of a Woman will open to the public on December 6, 2019. The Dream of the 1920s and the Gaze of Ubaldo Oppi, which can be visited until April 13, 2020.

Curated by Stefania Portinari, the exhibition aims to recount the 1920s, years in which women began to gain more autonomy, become more seductive and modern, and their influence in society and culture became more intense.

Artists such as Felice Casorati, Mario Sironi, Antonio Donghi, Achille Funi, Piero Marussig, Mario Cavaglieri, Guido Cadorin Massimo Campigli, and Ubaldo Oppi portrayed women, promoting an art under the banner of modern classicism. This alliance between modernity and classicism comes from a deep reflection on the renewals of painting that took place in Vienna and Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, particularly from suggestions of the Vienna Secession, Symbolism and Expressionism, in which women are depicted as maidens, sleeping muses, graceful nymphs or seductresses. Not surprisingly, the exhibition opens with Klimt’s Judith.

In particular, Ubaldo Oppi (Bologna 1889 - Vicenza 1942) is one of the protagonists of those years. Raised in Vicenza, but trained in Vienna, Venice and Paris, he had immediate success in major exhibitions, including in the Milan and Rome of the early 1920s, where he was discovered by Margherita Sarfatti and Ugo Ojetti. His paintings are portraits of major artists his friends and adversaries in various exhibitions, from the Salon d’Automne in Paris to the Carnegie Prize in Pittsburgh, from the Venice Biennale to the Modern Italian Art exhibition in New York. He makes entrancing portraits of women, from Amiche to his beloved wife Delhi, which have entered splendid collections.

For info: www.mostreinbasilica.it

Hours: Daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Tickets: Full 13 euros, reduced 11 euros for university students and over 65; reduced 11 euros for children 11 to 17 years. Free for children up to 10 years old.

Image: Ubaldo Oppi, Le amiche (1924; Private collection) Courtesy Galleria dello Scudo, Verona.

The 1920s in Ubaldo Oppi's portraits of women at the Basilica Palladiana

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