Works, some never before exhibited, by Fattori and Lega, Induno, Favretto, Casorati and Sironi, among others.
In this selection of portrayed or idealized women, we find the eternal Eve embodied by the woman now angel of the family or bewitching siren, commoner or bourgeois, worker or housewife of good society, happy and finally melancholic.
In them we recognize not only the Inspiring muse, but also the infinite other prototypes stratified in the cultural imagination of the West. The most pure Virgin Mary and the sinner Magdalene, Lia and Martha symbolizing the active life with Rachel and Mary allegories of the contemplative life, the carnal Venus and the maternal Juno, Salome the seductress and Circe the sorceress.
"A gallery of snapshots taken from an ideal family album that has been forming in the most diverse seasons of life”, he anticipates Giuliano Matteucci.
"Figures who do not aspire to a place on Parnassus and who, beyond any metaphor, offer the most authentic, sophisticated and attractive face of women. Images that, although shared, seem to have been secretly stolen, due to the ease with which the artist has given the model a personal dignity, bringing out its hidden charm".
"A gallery of anti-divas, in which the certain femininity of a Marie Curie or a Coco Chanel would certainly feel uncomfortable, since it is another type of woman who prevails who has no difficulty in confirming herself as wife and mother, in those roles, in short, that in the daily routine ennoble the feelings and the spirit”, highlights the curator again.
Even two artists like Hayez and Boldini, which on the model of Venus without veils, carnal and sensual, posed by Titian, Fragonard, Goya or Courbet, have built a large part of their fortune, appear here with works that leave no room for the imagination.
02 June 2019 – 03 November 2019 – Viareggio, Matteucci Center for Modern Art
