Matisse and the Light of the Mediterranean

28.09.2024 – 04.03.2025

Mestre, Centro Culturale Candiani
Second floor exhibition rooms

Exhibition curated by
Elisabetta Barisoni

For the exhibition, Muve Education is offering a series of activities in the form of guided tours and workshops aimed at schools of all levels, families with children and adults, including individuals with specific needs. The proposals are structured, as always, with different levels of in-depth study, methods and approaches, in relation to the various audiences involved, including a multi-sensory route for everyone and an ad hoc activity for the elderly and guests from nursing homes.

FOR SCHOOLS | FOR ADULTS

Guided tour: Matisse and the light of the Mediterranean
After the successful exhibitions dedicated to Kandinsky and Chagall, we continue to explore the great twentieth-century masters, this time with Henri Matisse. A guided tour to investigate the light and colour expressed in the dazzling beauty of the Mediterranean Sea, the Midi, the French South and in the arabesque lines of female figures, through over fifty works exhibited in seven sections, in which Matisse forms a link with other interpreters of the inner qualities of painting, such as Henri Manguin, André Derain, Albert Marquet, Maurice de Vlaminck, Raoul Dufy and Pierre Bonnard.
Target: Secondary school I (class III only) and II grade, university | adults
Duration: 1h 30min

FOR SCHOOLS | FOR FAMILIES

Workshops:

An upside-down garden
What can a scrap of paper turn into? The young participants are invited to assemble and colour various shapes of plant-based cardboard – some of which they have already ‘discovered’ among the works on display in the exhibition – to create an individual thought-provoking cutout to hang in the classroom, one next to the other, and compose a large colourful roof garden.
Target: pre-school (medium and large) and primary school (cycle I) | for families with children aged 4 to 7 years old
Duration: 2h

Let’s paint with scissors
During a visit to the exhibition we have fun identifying the essential shapes that make up the drawings and paintings by Matisse, but also by other twentieth-century artists, on display here. In the workshop, we then experiment with the technique of papier découpé, a particular type of collage invented by the French artist, to create a personal composition housed in a ‘frame’ that recalls the theme of views from windows, so dear to Matisse.
Target: primary school II cycle, secondary school I grade (class I and II) | for families with children/young people aged 8 to 13
Duration: 2h

FOR SCHOOLS

Workshop: Positive and negative: from cutout to form
The visit to the exhibition is an opportunity to explore the Expressionist freedom in the use of colours and lines, the focus of Matisse’s research as well as that of other artists who sought to capture the Mediterranean light in their painting.
Following this, in the workshop, the creative outcomes of compositions of shapes and subjects on the positive and negative obtained with the papier découpé technique are explored with various exercises.
Target: Secondary school I (from grade II) and grade II
Duration: 2h

SPECIFIC NEEDS

Guided route: Multi-sensory route for everyone
The guided tour begins with a tactile exploration of the map of the Midi, a part of southern France where many artists, including Matisse himself, lived and found inspiration for their works.
The sensory experience continues with the sculptures by Marcello Mascherini, Giuseppe Romanelli and Emilio Greco in the exhibition, and with the exploration of reproductions of some of the French artist’s most representative forms using the papier découpé technique, which are then assembled by participants in the workshop to create new compositions.
Duration: 2h

Workshops:

Art conversations
Matisse and the ‘dance’ of shapes and colours
How many shapes can be hidden in a painting?
After a guided tour focusing on the search for primary shapes and colours in the paintings of Matisse and other twentieth-century artists on display in the exhibition, participants are taken to the workshop to experiment with the papier découpé technique. This is a type of collage that the French artist invented in the 1940s – during a period of illness – and which he himself defined as ‘drawing with scissors’ to obtain figures in colour that he then assembled and applied on canvas.
The elderly, together with their caregivers, are gradually led to create their own portable composition from paper cuttings of different shapes and colours.
Target: activity aimed at groups of elderly people with dementia and/or cognitive impairment, and their caregivers, divided into small groups; it involves two appointments: a first meeting at the exhibition and a second session of practical activity in the nursing home.

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HOW TO TAKE PART AND COSTS

The activities can only be booked online on our platform > click on the red button “Choose and book”

Prices

For schools
Guided tours and workshops
€ 100 / for classes of up to 25 pupils + 2 teachers (and any support teachers)

For families
Workshops
€ 100 / for family groups of up to 10 people (of which min 1 max 4 adults) 

For adults
Guided tours
€ 100 / for groups of up to 25 people

The ‘specific needs‘ proposals are offered free of charge and carried out by in-house curators and specialised museum educators. 

Reservation is required, to be made via:
education@fmcvenezia.it or +390412700370 (9.30am – 12.30pm, Mondays and Wednesdays)