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Nov. 7 - Nov.14, 2004 |
Degas Between Classic and Modernity
French master to enjoy his largest exhibition to date in Italy with over 150 works including his famous sculptures
By Carla Cace
The most complete exhibition ever organized on Degas in Italy has opened in the Vittoriano Complex in Rome, where it will run until February 1, 2005. The show displays over 160 works including 30 oil paintings, 20 pastels, about 40 drawings, the whole collection of 73 sculptures lent by the Museu de Arte of Sâo Paulo in Brazil, and finally a section devoted to photographs from Paris' Musèe d'Orsay, taken from the artist himself, who was constantly experimenting.
"With the opening of this exhibition," remarked Rome's alderman to cultural policies Gianni Borgna during the press conference presenting the event, "the Vittoriano and the City of Rome continue in the line of high-quality cultural proposals, one step ahead of other European capitals. The work of an internationally renowned Scientific Committee allowed us to present all the themes that the great French master confronted, ranging from his famous ballerinas to his intensely vibrant portraits, from racing horses and jockeys to women ironing laundry, from theatre characters to less known landscapes. This was made possible thanks to the collaboration of the most important public museums of France, the Netherlands, Norway, Serbia, Germany, the USA, Brazil, and Australia."
"What is most surprising in Degas' art," underscored alderman for Culture of the Province of Rome Vincenzo Vita, "is his ability to portray anything under the light of modernity. The thread of this exhibition, in fact, is the analysis of the simultaneous presence, in the paintings of this French master, of both classical and modern elements. If at first his artistic education, linked to the great models of the past, allowed the artist to acquire the tools needed for expressing his world, soon he felt the need of linking his activity to the contemporary reality, which generated a strong tension in the relation between the values of tradition and the attraction for modernity. This exhibition traces the complete creative and human evolution of this artist, also thanks to the precious presence of his sculptural production, wrongly considered, until recently, just a collateral activity of his late years, when blindness did not allow him to paint anymore. Our large exhibition, on the other hand, allows viewers to understand the links between his sculpture and his painting and drawing, in a subtle dialogue of constant references."
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