PADUA - A "great nineteenth-century novel" that starts from the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich, a central figure of the Romantic era, and arrives at the beginning of the twentieth century with Giovanni Giacometti, father of Alberto, and Giovanni Segantini, passing through well-known artists, such as Bocklin, or to "discover" for the general public, such as Albert Anker or Ferdinand Hodler, whose painting, "Look towards the infinite", will significantly close the exhibition itinerary. Marco Goldin, after the exhibition on van Gogh marked by Covid restrictions, returns to Padua with "From romantics to Segantini. Stories of moons and then of gazes and mountains. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Foundation", from 29 January to 5 June next , at the Centro San Gaetano, which opens a new chapter in its curatorial history. The exhibition, in fact,is the first chapter of the project entitled "Geographies of Europe. The plot of painting between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries" which, through a sequence of exhibitions, will give life to "a vast artistic and historical scenario - notes the curator - which will give an account of the situation of painting in Europe throughout the course of the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century, according to a national division or in contiguous areas ". The first "stage" of the new project - presented today by Goldin, together with the mayor Sergio Giordani and the councilor for culture Andrea Colasio - develops through 76 works that bear witness to research and artistic movements, along almost 150 years of history and art, between Switzerland and Germany.The plot of painting between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries "which, through a sequence of exhibitions, will give life to" a vast artistic and historical scenario - notes the curator - which will give an account of the situation of painting in Europe throughout the course of the nineteenth and part of the XX century, according to a national division or in contiguous areas ". The first" stage "of the new project - presented today by Goldin, together with the mayor Sergio Giordani and the councilor for culture Andrea Colasio - is developed through 76 works that bear witness to the research and artistic movements, along almost 150 years of history and art, between Switzerland and Germany.The plot of painting between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries "which, through a sequence of exhibitions, will give life to" a vast artistic and historical scenario - notes the curator - which will give an account of the situation of painting in Europe throughout the course of the nineteenth and part of the XX century, according to a national division or in contiguous areas ". The first" stage "of the new project - presented today by Goldin, together with the mayor Sergio Giordani and the councilor for culture Andrea Colasio - is developed through 76 works that bear witness to the research and artistic movements, along almost 150 years of history and art, between Switzerland and Germany.a vast artistic and historical scenario - notes the curator - which will give an account of the situation of painting in Europe throughout the course of the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century, according to a national division or in contiguous areas ". The first" stage "of the new project - presented today by Goldin, together with the mayor Sergio Giordani and the councilor for culture Andrea Colasio - develops through 76 works that bear witness to research and artistic movements, along almost 150 years of history and art, between Switzerland and Germany.a vast artistic and historical scenario - notes the curator - which will give an account of the situation of painting in Europe throughout the course of the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century, according to a national division or in contiguous areas ". The first" stage "of the new project - presented today by Goldin, together with the mayor Sergio Giordani and the councilor for culture Andrea Colasio - develops through 76 works that bear witness to research and artistic movements, along almost 150 years of history and art, between Switzerland and Germany.councilor for culture Andrea Colasio - develops through 76 works that bear witness to research and artistic movements, along almost 150 years of history and art, between Switzerland and Germany.councilor for culture Andrea Colasio - develops through 76 works that bear witness to research and artistic movements, along almost 150 years of history and art, between Switzerland and Germany.
Less attracted to the art of the French nineteenth century (he preferred van Gogh and Cezanne to Impressionism), contrary to the major Swiss collectors of the time, Reinhart - who in the mid-20s of the last century left his entrepreneurial activity to devote himself entirely to collecting in a philanthropic vision - he has turned his attention above all to Swiss and German artists, starting with Friedrich, of whom all five paintings in the collection will be present in Padua, starting with "The white cliffs of Rugen, considered one of the emblems of romanticism ".
Seven sections of the exhibition, starting from "Of waters, meadows and mountains. The landscape in Switzerland from Wolf to Calame between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries" up to "The enchanted valley. Between eyes, villages and mountains in Switzerland that changes color from Segantini to Giacometti ", passing through the romantic idea in Germany around Friedrich," Italy, mythology and travel. Bocklin, Pan and the images of the Bel Paese "to portraits from Anker to Hodler to the story of life that faces realism and impressionism in Germany. This promises to be an exhibition made up of landscapes, mountains, portraits and social scenes, the relationship between man and nature; that nature that through large photographic images will be the background to the works. Themes that are very current, as Colasio recalled, indicating that "theman is not at the center of nature, but nature is at the center and man must respect it ".
