Hammershøi e i pittori del silenzio
Culturali
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21/02/2025 - 29/06/2025
Descrizione
Dal 21 febbraio al 29 giugno 2025 a Rovigo a Palazzo Roverella si terrà la prima mostra italiana dedicata a Vilhelm Hammershøi (Copenaghen, 1864-1916), il più grande pittore danese della propria epoca, uno dei geni dell’arte europea tra fine Ottocento e inizio Novecento.
Del grande artista danese giungerà a Rovigo un nucleo fondamentale di opere, selezionate da Paolo Bolpagni nella rarefatta produzione dell’artista. Allievo prima di Niels Christian Kierkegaard e Holger Grønvold, poi di Frederik Vermehren alla Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, e infine di Peder Severin Krøyer, debuttò nel 1885.
Da anni è ormai in atto la sua riscoperta a livello internazionale. “Hammershøi e i pittori del silenzio”, dopo un breve affondo sui precedenti storici del tema degli interni silenti, approfondirà i quattro ambiti portanti della ricerca dell’artista: gli interni, le vedute architettoniche, quasi sempre prive di presenze umane, i ritratti e la pittura di paesaggio.
A completare il percorso sarà una originale comparazione di carattere tematico e stilistico tra la produzione di Hammershøi e i dipinti di artisti coevi scandinavi, francesi, belgi e olandesi, per evidenziare affinità e differenze, nell’enucleazione di alcuni Leitmotive: gli interni silenziosi, la solitudine, le “città morte”, i “paesaggi dell’anima”.
From February 21 to June 29, 2025, at Palazzo Roverella in Rovigo, the first Italian exhibition dedicated to Vilhelm Hammershøi (Copenhagen, 1864-1916) will take place. He is the greatest Danish painter of his time and one of the geniuses of European art between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
A fundamental core of works by the great Danish artist will arrive in Rovigo, selected by Paolo Bolpagni from the rarefied production of the artist. A student first of Niels Christian Kierkegaard and Holger Grønvold, then of Frederik Vermehren at the Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi, and finally of Peder Severin Krøyer, he debuted in 1885. His rediscovery on an international level has been underway for years: major and important exhibitions dedicated to him have been held in Paris at the Musée Jacquemart-André, in Tokyo at the National Museum of Western Art, in New York at Scandinavia House, in London at the Royal Academy, in Munich at the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstifung, in Toronto at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Barcelona at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània, in Krakow at the Muzeum Narodowe, etc.
To date, there has still been no Italian retrospective that adequately highlights the figure of Hammershøi, a reserved yet fundamental protagonist of late 19th-century art and the first fifteen years of the 20th century. This is a gap that the great exhibition in Rovigo aims to fill.
“Hammershøi travelled several times throughout Italy, visited Rome, collected postcards with views of cities, and above all reflected on classical antiquity and looked to the so-called Primitives: Giotto, Beato Angelico, Masolino, Masaccio, Luca Signorelli, and Desiderio da Settignano. Although he painted only one work with an Italian subject, during his stays he paid extreme attention and absorbed inspirations and teachings that helped shape his very personal language. One must not ignore the role that the traditional stay in Rome played in the education of young Danish artists.”
Hammershøi and the Painters of Silence, after a brief exploration of the historical precedents of the theme of silent interiors, will delve into the four main areas of the artist's research: interiors, architectural views, almost always devoid of human presence, portraits, and landscape painting.
To complete the path will be an original thematic and stylistic comparison between Hammershøi's production and the paintings of contemporary Scandinavian, French, Belgian, and Dutch artists, to highlight similarities and differences, in the elucidation of some Leitmotive: silent interiors, solitude, "dead cities," "landscapes of the soul."
Accompanying the exhibition will be a comprehensive catalog published by Dario Cimorelli Editore (which also manages the organizational secretariat of the exhibition), featuring original essays by curator Paolo Bolpagni and by Claudia Cieri Via, Luca Esposito, Francesco Parisi, and Annette Rosenvold Hvidt.
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