BETWEEN WATER AND SKY
October 24 @ 10:00 - November 30 @ 12:30
An infinite horizon and the immensity of the sea reflecting shifting clouds, serenity and restlessness, openness and limitation: this exhibition project explores the affinities between water and sky, two natural elements that intertwine and engage in constant dialogue, and invites visitors to immerse themselves in a journey of landscapes and aerial visions.
The rooms feature works by painters who, with profoundly different sensibilities and backgrounds, have captured the magic of the encounter between water and sky. Among the Italians, Giovanni Molteni (1898-1990) gently reveals the delicate harmonies of a springtime Portofino, Thayaht (1893-1959) enchants with a magnetic nocturnal seascape – exhibited at the Mart in Rovereto in 2005 –, Edgardo Corbelli (1918-1989) offers a more expressionist interpretation, while Luisa Albert (1969) enhances nuances and reverberations. The exhibition also features the Danish artist Birgitte Lykke Madsen (1960), who made water the primary focus of her pictorial production, and the French artist Henry Maurice Cahours (1889-1974), a master of light, whose evocative Breton seascapes are imbued with poetry. Russian artists from the Moscow and St. Petersburg schools, including Georgy Moroz (1937-2015) and Dmitry Kosmin (1925-2003), convey the lyrical power of Northern nature, with its vast rivers and deep skies. From figurative landscapes to pure abstraction, where color is used as a primary language capable of stimulating thought or arousing emotion: Dora Maar’s (1907-1997) Abstract Turquoise Composition is a prime example.
Alongside naturalistic influences, the exhibition opens up to a new dimension: that of flight, as narrated by the protagonists of Second Futurism. Its interpreters include the multifaceted Giovanni Acquaviva (1900-1971), Arturo Ciacelli (1883-1966), Renato Di Bosso (1905-1982), Umberto Di Lazzaro (1889-1968), Michele Falanga (1865-1937), Osvaldo Peruzzi (1907-2004), Ugo Pozzo (1900-1981), and a very rare Giuseppe Cominetti (1882-1930) from 1919. With them, the sky is no longer merely contemplation, but conquest, a dynamic space, traversed by broken lines, vibrant colors, and surges that speak of the exhilaration of soaring beyond human limits.
Between Water and Sky is therefore a dual narrative: the quiet of the landscape that welcomes and the futuristic impetus that projects upward. An invitation to gaze, to dream, to be swept away by the timeless power of the elements.
