Finmeccanica sponsors "Chagall's Wonderland" | |
Rome - Complesso del Vittoriano, March 9 - July 1, 2007
Finmeccanica is one of the sponsors of the exhibition devoted to Russian
painter Marc Chagall, entitled "Chagall delle Meraviglie" (Chagall's
Wonderland) being held from March 9 to July 1, 2007, at the Vittoriano gallery
in Rome. In recent years, this prestigious gallery has presented a number of
important events focusing on 20th century artists, including "Matisse and
Bonnard".
"Chagall's Wonderland" brings together more than 150 of his works,
including paintings, gouaches, drawings, sculptures and engravings. The show
sets out to look at his career through a number of key works that are
recognised as classics by art critics. So the exhibition presents Chagall's
works in the light of how he was influenced by other painters and art
movements, enabling visitors to appreciate his works through traditional types
of painting which were always a sort of proving ground for his extraordinary
and highly original creativity.
This enables us to see how Chagall, beyond his apparent simplicity, is a
painter with a considerable depth of culture and tradition. What seems to be
lightness is far from being an ingenuous choice; rather, it is the result of
layer upon layer of experiences which include complex ideological and cultural
aspects; these lead to an interweaving of influences that range from the world
of the established avant-garde, especially Surrealism and Expressionism, up to
abstract and conceptual art in the period immediately following the Second
World War.
This major exhibition is organised by Meret Meyer as curator, president of
the "Comité Marc Chagall" in Paris, representing the Chagall family
heirs, backed up by a scientific committee consisting of Alan Crump, professor
of Modern Art History at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg;
Claudia Zevi and Claudio Strinati, Superintendent of the Rome Museum Group;
Jean-Claude Marcadé, Emeritus Director of Research at the "Centre National
de la Recherche Scientifique" in Paris; Marcello Massenzio, professor of
History of Religions, University of Rome; Eugenia Petrova, deputy-director of
the Russian Museum in St Petersburg; and Ekaterina Selezneva, curator of
Moscow's Tretjakov Gallery.
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