The Milanese adventure of Amedeo Modigliani, splendid, delicate yet angular artist of the twentieth century, and will continue until 4 November 2018. The one on Modì is a different exhibition from those that art lovers are used to knowing and experiencing, it is in fact an experience – hence the title given to the exhibition “Modigliani Art Experience” – made of sounds, videos, sometimes of perfumes. An all-round journey through the life and experiments of the artist understood both as a sculptor and as a painter.
The exhibition was produced by 24 ORE Cultura in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan-Culture, with the scientific support of the MUDEC conservatories and the Museo del Novecento in Milan.
The exhibition was conceived by Crossmedia Group and curated by Francesco Poli and is proposed as a real multisensory excursus offering the visitor the discovery of Modigliani's artistic code and the influence that primitivism in particular African, Egyptian and Cycladic sculpture , they had on his work; a bohemian life in his Parisian existence as a Livorno exile in Montmartre and Montparnasse in the early twentieth century. The curator Francesco Poli commented on the exhibition saying: “Modigliani was a stateless person and a cosmopolitan, he had no roots. He was both Italian and French, but above all he aimed at an empyrean of ideas, in an absolute time. The purity of his images and thoughts of him acted as a counterweight to the dissipation of existence ”.
The project set up at the MUDEC includes an introductory room, identified with the "casket room", which houses some masterpieces of African primitive art of the XNUMXth century from the permanent collection of the MUDEC and three portraits of Modì from the Museo del Novecento in Milan, which allow the visitor to have in sight in a single environment those artistic models of primitive art that the genius from Livorno undoubtedly had as inspiration for his art, as the direct comparison with the portraits placed side by side in the same room will allow everyone to ascertain.
A second room is the Experience room – the main place of the exhibition, where images and videos are projected – where the story comes to life in the bohemian world of Amedeo Modigliani, describing the years as an exile from Livorno in Paris and which led him to be the artist we know with his muses and lovers who will be his main source of inspiration.
The exhibition closes inside the "Infinity room" which houses some of the artist's most significant works which will reappear in the eyes of the visitor in a continuous game of decompositions and refractions, which however will not fail to open with a more classic story about life of the artist and the historical-social-cultural context in which to place his production.
