(ANSAmed) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 16 - The turmoil of a fragile
soul that intensely desires to live but has a hard time doing
it, the colors and the shape of an extraordinary artistic
talent, which exploded in just 10 years of activity, which was
not understood in his time but would conquer the world in the
centuries to come, are on display at an exhibit in Rome
dedicated to Vincent van Gogh. Organized by Arthemisia, the show
opens on October 8 at Palazzo Bonaparte in the Italian capital.
Curated by Maria Teresa Benedetti and Francesca Villanti, the
show presents to the public 50 masterpieces by the artist coming
from the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, which will be
exhibited in Rome until March 26, 2023.
"There is a human component that arrives immediately, van
Gogh was a pained creature full of desperation who suffered life
but wanted to live it", the show's curator Maria Teresa
Benedetti told ANSA, explaining the reason why van Gogh is
probably the most-loved painter of all time, even by a public
that doesn't know art. "He had no love, no money, but he was
full of a unique talent which he could express in just 10 years:
people like his strong sensibility, even when it reveals its
most obscure components".
The "path of the soul", as described by the curator, is
showcased in Rome through the different phases of the painter's
life (on the eve of the 170 years of his birth, which occurred
in the Netherlands on March 30, 1853) in parallel with the
evolution of his style. This includes not only the key episodes
of his story (the attacks of insanity, the relationship with his
brother Theo in the famous letters, until his suicide in Auvers)
but also the phases of his painting, from the dark landscapes of
youth to the sacred study of agricultural work, to the many
self-portraits (like the Self-portrait of 1887, showcased at the
exhibit) until the metaphysical chromatism of the end.
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