Marco Goldin's announcement: no more exhibitions. I am discontinuing the exhibition activity of Shadow Line.

In a lengthy letter published on June 14, entrepreneur and curator Marco Goldin, founder of Linea d’Ombra, a company that has been organizing box exhibitions marked by strong public success since 1996, announced the discontinuation of Linea d’Ombra’s exhibition activities. The shock announcement comes suddenly, after the success beyond all expectations of the exhibition on van Gogh(here our review), which drew more than 400,000 visitors, and after the positive feedback from the last exhibition he curated, the one on Auguste Rodin: at the basis of the unpredictable decision, the need to “rearrange his ideas” and, in the typical phrasing of the Treviso curator, to “live in another way all those emotions that have always moved me to build the exhibitions I curate.”

“I must confess that never ? and perhaps only for the one dedicated to the theme of evening and night in art, between the end of 2014 and 2015, always in the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza ? an exhibition had emotionally involved me like the one I recently dedicated to Van Gogh and his soul,” Goldin writes in his letter. “An exhibition I strongly wanted done this way. With my first docufilm to accompany it, with the writing of the Soul Speech, with the whole book dedicated to Van Gogh. And then with the small, and very intense exhibition Sorrowful Song of Love. Van Gogh’s Last Day, for which I had asked a very good painter like Matteo Massagrande to make some paintings that could illustrate that painful feeling that mixes love and the end of things, contained in the theatrical monologue I had written for the occasion. All together, a filling danima lived in the light of poetry, which, however, generated in me the need to catch my breath, as if too much of life had become entangled in the meshes of fate and Van Gogh. Suspend the exhibition seasons for a while, I thought.”

All this despite the fact that Goldin had received offers for this fall as well. So stop the panettone exhibitions that made him famous: in the coming months the curator will give himself to the theater. Goldin, in fact, with his own great gifts as a communicator and marketing expert, took the opportunity of his farewell letter (although, upon reading, perhaps it is more of a goodbye) to also announce a tour of Italian theaters with the show The Great History ofImpressionism, for which, Goldin informs, “pre-sales will soon begin” and whose dates and cities will be announced shortly.

Otherwise, Goldin says he does not know when he will return to organizing exhibitions, “It may be next year, it may be in two years. I will certainly always listen with pleasure to those who have something beautiful to propose to me, maybe something new, to make into a story.” Consequently, “Linea dombra now for a while stops.”

Marco Goldin's announcement: no more exhibitions. I am discontinuing the exhibition activity of Shadow Line.

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