Il Mare – The Sea: Myth, History, Nature – Art Exhibition in Carrara (last week)

The Sea: Myth, History, Nature. Italian art 1860 – 1940

Palazzo Cucchiari – Carrara

Curated by Massimo Bertozzi and divided into six different sections, the exhibition takes you on a journey through various Italian artistic schools in decisive years, between the birth of the Kingdom of Italy and the outbreak of the Second World War.

It is a panorama of art that, in about a hundred works, ranges from the Macchiaioli (Fattori) and post Macchiaioli (Lloyd, Ulvi Liegi, Puccini) to the so-called Labronian painters (March and Natali), from symbolist figuration (Sartorio, Benvenuti , Baracchini Caputi), from the colorful world of the Divisionists (Nomellini) to the season of the avant-garde (Ram and Thayaht) and of the “return to order”, with references to the great individualities of Italian art, De Chirico, Savinio, De Pisis, Campigli , Morandi, Nathan and among the sculptors Martini, Marino, Manzù and Messina.

Obviously, particular attention is paid to the Ligurian-Apuan area, and therefore to the native Versilian painters, such as Chini, Moses Levy, Viani, or by adoption, such as Carrà, Carena, De Grada, Funi, and therefore to the cantors of the lands of Liguria, such as Telemaco Signorini and the Apuan sculptors such as Carlo Fontana and Arturo Dazzi.

For all, a single common denominator: the sea and those lands – flat or steep – that overlook it and that for millennia have welcomed peoples who have chosen to live there. Behold, that sea belongs to everyone, but it does not belong to anyone; and even if these artists have seen the same sea, in the end everyone has imagined and figured it in their own way.