THEthe itinerary of the exhibition Klimt and Italian art develops around two masterpieces by the Viennese master: Judith II And The three ages. Klimt’s very personal and innovative style in fact, he influenced an entire generation of Italian artists which, between the 1910s and 1920s, ended up profoundly renewing their language.
The exhibition presents about 40 artists including painters active in Venice, such as Vittorio Zechin the so-called “Italian Klimt”; or the young “dissidents” of Ca’ Pesaro, such as Happy Casorati; without forgetting those involved in the great decorative enterprises of the Biennale, this is the case for example of Galileo Chini.
Those who, due to geographical and cultural proximity, were particularly close to the climate of the Secessions, such as Trieste, cannot be missing Vito Timmel or the Trentino people Luigi Bonazza, Luigi Ratini and Benvenuto Disertori. The Austrian and Germanic atmospheres inevitably also inspire the sculptor’s work Adolfo Wildtdefined by critics as “the Klimt of sculpture”.
Galileo Chini, “The life and animation of meadows”, 1914
Although with an eye to the Nordic language, to the Vienna and Munich Secessions, the Italians rework Klimt’s influence in an autonomous and original way: the references are visible in the decorations, in the lines, in the colors and in the style which ends up mixing with the local artistic characteristics, allowing the birth of new researches.
Through approx 200 works from important public and private collectionsthe Mart therefore illustrates a varied and complex panorama, in which different disciplines – from painting to the decorative arts – coexist under the sign of a recognizable sumptuous, seductive and decadent taste.
INFO: Mart di Rovereto (TN), until 18 June.
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