Goldin strikes again. Yet another Van Gogh exhibition arrives (in Padua).

Here we go again: after the 2017 exhibition-panettone in Vicenza, the indefatigable entrepreneur-curator Marco Goldin is preparing to launch yet another exhibition on Vincent Van Gogh. This fly the venue is the Centro Altinate San Gaetano in Padua, the period is October 10, 2020 to April 11, 2021, and the title is Van Gogh. The Color of Life. Goldin has announced it as “the largest project ever dedicated to Van Gogh in Italy,” and that it will be organized, a note says, “according to the sense of a wide in-depth study of a historical character comparable to a real novel, where the masterpieces on display are flanked by the story of life, the discovery of brand new colors and the relationship with some artists who counted for Van Gogh.”

This year Goldin promises, despite headlines and anticipations, that the exhibition “has nothing generic about it and is not just a parade of paintings that although in many cases are very well-known masterpieces,” but will instead be “a surprising journey aimed at making known some of the plots of Van Gogh’s life and work not so addressed so far, precisely because of the curator’s desire to reconstruct the entire journey, including also what is not usually understood.”

However, the script is very similar to that of Vicenza in 2017: the list of paintings is not known for now, but the “decisive collaboration of the Kröller-Müller Museum,” which is used to lending large quantities of Van Gogh’s paintings often, suggests that the itinerary will not be very different from that of three years ago (even then the loans all came from the museum in Otterlo). Some of the loans, however, have been disclosed: the vast majority of the works known to be in the exhibition come from the Kröller-Müller Museum itself, plus there are a number of loans such as theArlesiana from the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome, the Portrait of the Postman Roulin coming from the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, and the Self-Portrait in the Gray Felt Hat from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

The exhibition will be divided into five sections and “seven in-depth studies within the sections themselves,” will consist of 125 works including 80 of Van Gogh’s paintings and drawings (equally divided), and some 40 works by artists important to the Dutchman, such as Delacroix, Courbet, Millet, Hiroshige, Kunisada, Seurat, Pissarro, Signac, Bernard, and Gauguin. The first section develops the idea of the “painter as hero” (“the one who has a mission to fulfill and sacrifices everything to it. I would like in every way for this exhibition to talk about the painter as hero, and to show him through the works,” says Goldin), the second is on the formative years with drawings made between 1880 and 1883, the third on the Paris sojourn, the fourth on the move to Arles, and the fifth on the final years. The exhibition will also feature several docu-films of fifteen minutes each also made by Goldin. Plus, on the sidelines of the exhibition, a “course in four lectures by Marco Goldin” at the center’s auditorium.

Will we get to see something different this time, or will it be the usual “made in Goldin” exhibition? We will see in October... !

Image: Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait with gray felt hat, detail (1887; oil on canvas, 44.5 x 37.2 cm; Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum)

Goldin strikes again. Yet another Van Gogh exhibition arrives (in Padua).

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