{"id":1215,"date":"2026-03-23T14:42:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T13:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage-muvemestre.visitmuve.it\/mostra\/matisse\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T12:58:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:58:41","slug":"matisse","status":"publish","type":"mostra","link":"https:\/\/muvemestre.visitmuve.it\/en\/exhibition\/matisse\/","title":{"rendered":"Matisse and the Light of the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new exhibition project conceived for the Centro Culturale Candiani again stems from the <strong>civic collections of modern art at Ca\u2019 Pesaro<\/strong> and another all-important master of the 20th century: <strong>Henri Matisse<\/strong>. The exhibition starts from the precious graphic collections of the Galleria Internazionale d\u2019Arte Moderna, which has three important lithographs by the French artist dated to the 1920s and two drawings from his output in 1947.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Works by the Fauve master create a dialogue<\/strong> with artists who were close to him in life and took part in the same artistic revolutions, such as <strong>Henri Manguin<\/strong>, <strong>Andr\u00e9 Derain<\/strong>, <strong>Albert Marquet<\/strong>, <strong>Maurice de Vlaminck<\/strong>, <strong>Raoul Dufy<\/strong> and <strong>Pierre Bonnard<\/strong>. Expressionist freedom in the use of colours and lines was at the heart of Matisse\u2019s work, as well as of those artists who sought to capture the Mediterranean light in their painting. As Derain wrote in a letter to Vlaminck, they wanted to express a \u201cgolden light that suppresses shadows\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In the exhibition, Matisse forms a sort of thread running through the history of 20th-century art, connecting various artists who worked on the inner qualities of mimetic painting, optical and conceptual at the same time. <strong>Light and colour<\/strong> are the fulcrum of the whole exhibition, expressed in the <strong>dazzling beauty of the Mediterranean and the arabesque lines <\/strong><strong>of female figures<\/strong>. The importance of drawing, almost an obsession in Matisse, is here flanked by reflections on the decorative art, on ornament, the arabesque line, and at the same time on the \u201cpleasure in drawing\u201d that the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy writes of.<\/p>\n<p>Distinct research projects and productions, however, create <strong>a choral narrative<\/strong> all through the exhibition. They range from the friendship between Derain and Matisse, travelling on the Mediterranean coast of France in the summer of 1905, to the centrality of certain places, such as <strong>Nice and Saint-Tropez<\/strong>, the latter becoming an icon of 20th-century art and culture. The background to these events is <strong>the Midi, the French South<\/strong>, a fundamental place for the evolution of modern European art. <strong>A geography of the soul and artistic creation, the Mediterranean is the protagonist<\/strong> of colour freed by the wild expressionism of the Fauves, the \u201cbeasts\u201d, and then enters the study of form that is perhaps the most important artistic and moral legacy left by Matisse to the new generations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>#MatisseMUVE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Free admission upon registration. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdzpL-qouQ923j1QcVFyjuUIBb8NLwhL--L-AnDfYHsqKHtTA\/viewform?pli=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fill in the online form &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please show the email confirming your registration at the entrance to the exhibition.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-1215","mostra","type-mostra","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Matisse and the Light of the Mediterranean - MUVE a Mestre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Light and colour are the fulcrum of the exhibition dedicated to Henri Matisse in Mestre. 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