The Mediterranean of Matisse: Mestre celebrates the master of the Fauves

From September 28, 2024 to March 4, 2025 at the Candiani Cultural Center in Mestre it will be possible to visit the exhibition Matisse and the Light of the Mediterranean, curated by Elisabetta Barisoni. The new exhibition project designed for the Candiani Cultural Center, which stems from the civic collections of modern art preserved at Ca’ Pesaro, enriched by prestigious international loans, is dedicated to another master of the 20th century avant-garde: Henri Matisse (Le Cateau-Cambrésis, 1869 - Nice, 1954). A master and progenitor of the Fauves, the beasts, the savages, Matisse entered into a dialogue with artists with whom he shared biographical events and artistic revolutions; a painter of the joy of life, with strong, vivid colors and an interpreter of light: the center of Matisse’s research, the protagonist of color liberated from SavageExpressionism.

Light and color are the focus of the exhibition. More than fifty works will be on display, starting with the graphic collections of the International Gallery of Modern Art, which include three important lithographs by the French artist dated to the 1920s and two drawings belonging to his 1947 production-placed alongside the master’s masterpieces from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Národní Galerie in Prague, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Bordeaux, the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Nancy, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée Albert-André in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, and the Museo del Novecento in Milan. This spontaneously gives rise to a dialogue with several authors who have worked on the inner qualities of painting, pursuing poetics: Henri Manguin, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy, and Pierre Bonnard. Distinct researches and productions, however, create a choral narrative: from the friendship between Derain and Matisse, on a trip to the Mediterranean coast of France in the summer of 1905, to the centrality of certain places, such as Nice, Arles, and Saint-Tropez, the latter of which became an icon of 20th-century art and culture. The exhibition closes with Matisse’s revolutionary creative phase. From color to form begins with the production of papiers découpés, sheets of colored paper cut out and pasted in which the French master brings the synthesis of expression to its maximum.

The Mediterranean of Matisse: Mestre celebrates the master of the Fauves

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