The Museum of Oriental Art in Turin devotes a monographic exhibition to Savage Landor, painter who painted Asia from life

The MAO Museum of Oriental Art in Turin is dedicating, from Feb. 14 to June 14, 2020, a monographic exhibition to the figure of Arnold Henry Savage Landor, an artist, anthropologist, explorer, adventurer, writer, photographer, journalist, and inventor, who, however, fell into oblivion after his disappearance.

Savage Landor soon set out to discover the world, between North Africa, America and Asia, and it was on the latter continent that he produced hundreds of works from life in a style somewhere between Impressionist and Macchiaioli.

The exhibition Painting Asia from Life, curated by Francesco Morena, presents to the public a significant corpus of his works: about 130 paintings, 10 watercolors and 5 drawings made during his long stays in China, Japan, Korea, Tibet and Nepal. This is the largest and most important nucleus of Savage Landor’s works in the world, and is fundamental to understanding his artistic evolution.

In addition to these works, works made during his adolescence in Florence, during his travels in Europe and in his first experience outside Italy, in Egypt, will be on view in the exhibition.

The aim of the exhibition is to return the artist to his proper dimension: a painter who traces the expressive traits of the real Asian world, through his rapid and concise style and by immortalizing places and people with immediacy.

For info: www.maotorino.it

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Image: Arnold Henry Savage Landor, View of Kyoto from the Hills (1889; oil on panel, 10 x 18.5 cm; Fusi Collection)

The Museum of Oriental Art in Turin devotes a monographic exhibition to Savage Landor, painter who painted Asia from life

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