Chagall

Autumn Pisano will be illuminated with warm colors of Chagall. From 9 October 2009 to January 17, 2010, the halls of Palazzo Blue at Pisa on the river bank will hold the exhibition Chagall and the Mediterranean.

With this initiative begins with the program that will characterize the exhibition activities of the new institution – BLU palace of art and culture – created by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa, with the goal of being a new landmark for the cultural initiatives of Pisa.

Chagall and the Mediterranean is in fact the first of a three-year cycle of exhibitions devoted to the great protagonists of the twentieth century and their relationship with tradition, the light and the cultures of the Mediterranean and that will draw in the autumn of 2010, Joan Miró .

Chagall and the Mediterranean, edited by Meret Meyer and Claudia Beltramo Ceppi, promoted by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa, in collaboration with the Municipality of Pisa, organized and implemented by Giunti Art museum exhibitions, will present 150 works, including paintings, sculptures, ceramics and table selected from the historical editions Tériade – from leading French public institutions, such as the Musée National Marc Chagall in Nice, the Center Pompidou in Paris, the Musée Matisse in Le Cateau Cambrésis and private collections – the Russian artist who created since 1926 when for the first time he met the light, the colors and landscapes of the Mediterranean.
All of these elements, in fact, helped change the art of Chagall painting in a more airy, more sensual, where the magic of colors is dominant, making his paintings, his pottery, his lithographs in bright spaces in which the color becomes autonomous, carrying the figures and characters who inhabit the space.

The exhibition is divided into five sections that will describe the major issues with which Chagall faced his new artistic life, an exile from native Russia, like the discovery of a landscape and a completely different experience of light but also in Paris and Vitebsk Berlin. In the first, the French Riviera, through a dozen large paintings, including works very famous as the music, the Circus in red, lovers in St. Paul, the great bunches of flowers, we will observe the change in the painter’s palette, including the mid-twenties and early thirties. A series of large drawings in black and white and many temples reveal a desire to make the air and light through different tools and techniques.

In the second, Greece, will present the complete series of 42 tables and some gouache of Daphnis and Chloe, which return the emotions experienced by Chagall in the face of classical civilization discovered in the Mediterranean.
The Wailing Wall and the landscape of Jerusalem, the view of the synagogue in Vilnius, the years preceding the war, will work as a prologue to the section of the Bible, which is crucial in the activity of Chagall. The series of tables for the Bible to Tériade, the extraordinary history watercolors, and especially the great paintings of the crucifixion of Christ dressed in Jewish clothes, will the importance and strength with which the artist approached this issue.

The exhibition ends with sections devoted to sculpture and ceramics and Collages. In the first, the desire to appropriate, working with fire, earth pushed Chagall’s new home and try to work in ceramics, including sculpture, a sort of voluntary confrontation with the classical art that is born on the edge of the Mediterranean. A dozen pottery, accompanied by corresponding gouaches, and several sculptures also document this aspect of its business. In the second, will discuss the perhaps less-known works by Chagall. At the end of his life, as often happens with all great artists who have experimented, Chagall devoted himself to the creation of dozens of collage, made by including different materials such as lace, fabrics, parts of paintings and drawings, have fun in a kind creativity without any limit.

Once a catalog accompanying the exhibition Art exhibitions museum, with essays by the curator, Gioia Mori, Tamara Karandasheva and texts Vivianne Tarenne, Sylvie Forestier, Gaston Bachelard, Meyer Shapiro.

Chagall and the Mediterranean
Pisa, Palazzo Blue (Lungarno Gambacorti 9)
October 9, 2009 – 17 January 2010

Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00 to 19.00 (ticket office closes one hour earlier). closed Monday

Tickets: full price euro 8.00; reduced euro 6.50; groups euro 6.00; schools Euro 3.00

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