BOlogna, 23 sets. (askanews) – Forty paintings and designs of Italian and French authors of the 19th century and ‘900 to tell the female universe through faces, looks, attitudes, bodies, uses and customs. It is the exhibition “The other half of the sky”, set up at the Galleria de ‘Fusari in Bologna. “We – he told askanews Vincenzo Born, for 28 years at the helm of the gallery – began with a catalog 25 years ago that he was dedicated to the male portrait. There were 15 portraits of color men and a single woman, who was the wife of one of them, in black and white. It was a desired choice because the exhibition was named after his male portrait. Sometimes and interpretations’. women”.
The exhibition explores different areas of female life, and also different types of painting, to create a picture as much and more multifaceted possible, but also to involve the visitor in an experience of discovery. “The woman – added Natti – We chose it in the portrait, we chose it in the nude, we chose it in gender scenes, trying to grasp, especially as regards the first two aspects, the psychological side. And we would like the observer to stop only at this, but used the work of art as a mirror towards himself. And it is here that then the work of art has its higher and more important value. He is seeing. “
Among the paintings on display also “The test of the dress” of the Bolognese Gaetano Palazzi, a rediscovered painting that documents daily aspects of female life in the nineteenth century.
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