The Macchiaioli. Italian art towards modernity on display at the GAM in Turin

Starting October 26, 2018, the exhibition"I Macchiaioli. Italian Art Toward Modernity," which will end on March 24, 2019.

Curated by Cristina Acidini and Virginia Bertone with the technical-scientific coordination of Silvestra Bietoletti and Francesca Petrucci and the collaboration of theMatteucci Institute of Viareggio, the exhibition will feature about eighty works from the most important Italian museums, institutions and private collections. These works will take visitors through the antecedents, birth and early season of Macchiaioli painting, that is, from the 1950s to the 1960s.

It will start with the artists’ training: from the works of painters of romantic or purist taste, such as Giuseppe Bezzuoli, Luigi Mussini, Enrico Pollastrini, Antonio Ciseri, and Stefano Ussi, to future Macchiaioli pain ters such as Silvestro Lega, Giovanni Fattoru, Cristiano Banti, and Odoardo Borrani.
Some of the works in the exhibition were shown at the first Promotrici di Belle Arti and the first National Exhibition in Florence in 1855.
Among the themes addressed is experimentation with color-light and stain. This will be followed by the figurative choices of the Macchiaioli from the Unification of Italy to capital Florence.

The exhibition will conclude with an account of the experience of two magazines: the Gazzettino delle Arti del Disegno (in Florence in 1867) andArte in Italia (in Turin in 1869).

Particular attention will be given to Antonio Fontanesi, on the bicentenary of his birth, the Piedmontese artists of the Rivara School and the Ligurian artists of the Scuola dei Grigi; thus understanding the links between artists from various parts of Italy in the pursuit of modernity.

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Tickets: Full 13 euros, reduced 11 euros.

Image: Giovanni Fattori, Le macchiaiole (c. 1866; oil on canvas, 90 x 180 cm) Courtesy Society of Fine Arts, Viareggio. Ph. Credit Society of Fine Arts.

The Macchiaioli. Italian art towards modernity on display at the GAM in Turin

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