In Padua Goldin tells the Van Gogh novel

OTTERLO (NETHERLANDS) - It is not an exhibition but a galaxy that Marco Goldin is designing for Padua, worthy of the sky in the Scrovegni chapel. In the city between 2020 and 2022 the 25 years of its Shadow Line will be celebrated with two exceptional events around which a myriad of events will rotate that cover the entire universe of art, worthy of the 11 million spectators who in this quarter of a century they visited the exhibitions curated by Goldin. From October 21 of this year to April 11 of 2021 Goldin will tell Vincent Van Gogh 'The colors of life' through 125 masterpieces of his and other artists ranging from Gauguin to Bacon. Then from the end of 2021 to 2022 he will start again from the Dutch painter to tell the skies painted in art, always in Padua in the renewed space of San Gaetano. As in Goldin's tradition, they will certainly be "between the four and five most visited exhibitions in the world", as has often happened in the past, in the 23 years that have just passed since the company that "has done something unique in Italy" 'he says with the passion that distinguishes him in all his businesses that started from small Treviso. This time to tell the new adventure he brought a fleet of journalists from all over the world to the heart of a forest in the Netherlands, in Otterlo, where hidden in a park of over 25 hectares in 1932 Helene Kroller Muller had a house museum built to house his art collection and where he came for the first time in the eighties sleeping in a tent. '' 180 drawings by Van Gogh and 90 of his paintings collected by the founder from the beginning of the twentieth century are kept here, to the point of being the second largest museum in the world by number of works by the artist after that of Amsterdam '', explains the director Lisette Pelsers, and of these '70s between paintings and drawings, will go on loan to the Padua exhibition, including some of the masterpieces, such as The Sower' '. It will be the most substantial loan of a mass of wonders from all over Europe, from the United States and in one case from Italy, with a loan from the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and there will also be the iconic self-portrait which is also the image chosen to promote the event. '' Loans in any case exceptional also because the works of this artist, often painted in precarious conditions and with perishable materials, are very very fragile and can no longer travel '', explains Goldin. '' The exhibition will be a novel - he says - a great story that will follow the phases of his life, from the Dutch years to those of France '', and will do so not in a chronological way but through the three or four vertical insights of each of the five sections. '' It starts from The painter as hero, who opens precisely with Francis Bacon who portrays Van Gogh on the return of one of those days in which humanity was loaded on his shoulders, opening the way to the modern world of the soul ''. The second section, opened by an extraordinary drawing by the miners of Marcasse, is dedicated to The years of formation, and here, for example, the insights will be on the role of his drawings. Then the third will be on Nuenen and Paris, where we will study the theme of weavers and peasants and then the landscape, the fourth on 1888 the decisive year when the light of Arles enters his life and finally the fifth of moon and clouds on landscapes of the countryside that surrounded the San Remy nursing home and that he saw from the window. '' The exhibition works on everything that touched Van Gogh's eyes and heart '', starting for example from the places to which three small documentaries are dedicated, which return to where he has painted in the seasons that he has brought back in the colors of his paintings , '' always based on the absolute dogma of complementary colors ''. References to the landscapes of the Japanese prints, to the letters, to the poems of Whitman, to every aspect of his art that will be told by Goldin in four monographic lessons already sold out, and in the conferences of Leo Jansen, Chris Stolwijk and Sjiaar van Heugten, among top experts of the artist, all here in Otterlo to bring their contribution. As also Elisa Baccini, main sponsor of the exhibition and the polite mayor of Padua Sergio Giordani, aware of the fundamental role of culture: '' we have made many important exhibitions and we intend to continue on this path because it is through these initiatives, first of all, that the climate of the city ​​is changing becoming more inclusive. '' So interdisciplinary that the exhibition also includes a series of concerts (from Alice singing Cantiato to Angelo Branduardi, passing through Capossela and Cristicchi), exhibitions by 11 contemporary artists on themes dear to Van Gogh and much more. '' I work because I have to leave pictures made not to leave a sincere human feeling '', Vincent wrote to his brother Theo and this Goldin will tell him with his voice in a novel, '' A painter's song in the wheat fields '' that will come out in September for Solferino and perhaps it will also become a theatrical show.