RITRATTI: Espressioni e moti dell’animo | Bologna
RITRATTI
Espressioni e moti dell’animo
You shall make the figures in such an act, which is sufficient to demonstrate what the figure has in its soul; otherwise your art will not be laudable
Leonardo da Vinci
Enter the artwork and plunge into it to grasp its soul.
A seductive journey of discovery inspired by the thesis that modern European art is an uninterrupted analysis of man's inner truth.
Every portrait is capable of conveying a soul.
And the exhibition in our Bolognese venue exhibits twenty portraits: all together they show how man has seen, thought and depicted himself through the centuries.
Painters have always been the greatest researchers and theorists of the portrait - regarded not as a simple pictorial genre, but as an exploration of the soul.
The exhibition traces six centuries of painting and study of the individual through the work of artists such as: Alessandro Allori, Leandro Bassano, Bartolomeo Passerotti, Jacob Ferdinand Voet, Natale Schiavoni, Lorenzo Bartolini and Giovanni Boldini. The journey ends with Andrea Federici and Christian Valente Paris, contemporary artists in whose works the human being is now reduced to a simple individual who discovers his own unconscious through psychoanalysis.
The leitmotif of the exhibition is physiognomy, i.e. the art of evaluating a man's character from his appearance, which then evolved into psychology.
The parallelism existing between the changes in the figurative arts and the evolution of studies on the unconscious is thus analysed. It also demonstrates how humans, through art, have been able to represent their own disturbances, their anxieties, their hopes: in other words, the mystery of the 'motions of the soul', as Leonardo said, or of the Psyche, as we say after Freud.
RITRATTI
ESPRESSIONI E MOTI DELL’ANIMO
Maurizio Nobile Fine Art
Via Santo Stefano 19/a, 40125 Bologna
23 April - 29 May 2023
Opening: 22 April from 6 p.m.
Opening hours: from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Free entrance.
Contacts: +39 (0)51 23 83 63
Email: bologna@maurizionobile.com