Venice: Roger de Montebello exhibition at Museo Correr extended

The Correr Museum in Venice will extend the exhibition "Portraits of Venice and Other Portraits," featuring the works of French-American artist Roger de Montebello (Paris, 1964), whose atelier is based right in Venice. Opened last May 13, the exhibition was supposed to end on September 10, but its success convinced curator Jean Clear to move the end of the exhibition to October 1.

This exhibition is part of the third edition "Muve Contemporaneo," a review conceived Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia with the aim of showing art in our time.

At the center of the event, as anticipated, we find French-American artist Roger de Montebello, a Romantic painter born in 1964 who studied at theAcademy of Fine Arts in Seville, an institution that introduced the artist to the basics of painting. The artist always depicted Mediterranean places such as Spain and Venice in paintings that gave a sense of balance between dreamlike abstraction and faithful rendering of reality, all without omitting the slightest detail. “The fil rouge that unites all of Roger de Montebello’s production,” reads the exhibition’s presentation, “is the constant translation of the real datum captured from life into a metaphysical dimension that places the artist’s language between dreamlike abstraction and faithful restitution. In his works it is painting that is the absolute protagonist, giving rise to an existential exploration that manifests itself in the form of seriality.”

The exhibition will boast a portfolio enriched with color plates and texts by Gabriella Belli and Jean Clair, with the aim of deepening the knowledge of this painter. All info on the Correr Museum website.

Image: Roger de Montebello, Burgo de Osma (2011)

Venice: Roger de Montebello exhibition at Museo Correr extended

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