13 September 2024
Edvard Munch on display at the Palazzo Reale in Milan
From 14 September 2024 to 26 January 2025 a major exhibition dedicated to the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch, a protagonist in the history of modern art
40 years after his last exhibition in Milan, Edvard Munch (Norway, 1863 -1944) is celebrated with a major retrospective, promoted by the Municipality of Milan - Culture, under the patronage of the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Rome, and produced by Palazzo Reale and Arthemisia, in collaboration with the Munch Museum in Oslo.
Edvard Munch Starry Night 1922–1924 Oil on canvas, 80.5x65 cm Photo © Munchmuseet. Photos for press use only.
Undisputed protagonist in the history of modern art, Munch is considered a precursor of Expressionism and one of the greatest symbolist exponents of the nineteenth century, as well as the interpreter par excellence of the deepest anxieties of the human soul.
Edvard Munch The Girls on the Bridge 1927 Oil on canvas, 100.5x90 cm Photo Halvor Bjørngård © Munchmuseet. Photo for press use only.
Munch's life was marked by great sorrows that dragged him to the limits of madness: the premature loss of his mother and sister, the tragic death of his father, the tormented relationship with his girlfriend Tulla Larsen. Everything contributed to forming Munch's poetics, who was able to express, thanks to an exceptional talent, his inner cry by transforming it into works of art. His gazeless faces, the bewildered landscapes, the powerful use of color manage to reach every human being, transforming his works into universal messages, the existential malaise that afflicts every human being. This is what determined Munch's greatness, making him one of the most iconic artists of the twentieth century.
Edvard Munch The Death of Marat 1907 Oil on canvas, 153x149 cm Photo © Munchmuseet. Photo for print use only.
The exhibition, curated by Patricia G. Berman, one of the world's greatest scholars of Munch, will tell the artist's entire universe, his human journey and his production, and will do so through 100 works, including one of the lithographic versions kept in Oslo of The Scream (1895), but also The Death of Marat (1907), Starry Night (1922–19249), Girls on the Bridge (1927), Melancholy (1900–1901) and Dance on the Beach (1904).
Edvard Munch Melancholy 1900-1901 Oil on canvas, 110.5 °- 126 cm Photo © Munchmuseet. Photo for print use only.
To enrich the Milanese exhibition, there will be a rich schedule of events that will involve different cultural realities of the city and which will deepen the figure of the artist and expand the themes of his works by exploring different languages, from cinema to architecture, from music to literature and much more. The exhibition will have a second stop in Rome, at Palazzo Bonaparte, from February 18 to June 2, 2025.
Edvard Munch The Scream 1895 Lithograph (lithographic crayon and tusche), 46.5x36.5 cm Photo © Munchmuseet. Photo for press use only.
"In my childhood home lived sickness and death. I never got over the unhappiness of that time."
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch
Who is Edvard Munch?
Munch is one of the artists who has best been able to interpret the feelings, passions and anxieties of his soul, communicating them in a powerful and tragic way. Initially shaped by the Norwegian naturalist Per Lasseu Krohg, with whom he began his painting career in 1880, he moved to Paris for the first time in 1885 and here he was influenced by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist who suggested a more intimate, dramatic use of color but above all a psychological approach.
Edvard Munch Madonna 1895/1902 Lithograph, 64x48 cm Photo © Munchmuseet. Photo for press use only.
Munch was conditioned throughout his life by the suffering and lack that he already knew as a child, when he suffered the shocking loss of his mother and sister, suffering from tuberculosis.
In Berlin he contributed to the formation of the Berlin Secession and in 1892 his first solo exhibition was held, which was not only not appreciated, but was also considered scandalous: from that moment Munch embodied the figure of the subversive and cursed artist. A precarious life lived "on the edge of a precipice" that led him to alcoholism and a psychological crisis, until he was admitted to some nursing homes between 1908 and 1909. Choosing seclusion, he then moved to his Ekely property in Oslo until his death in 1944, a month shy of his eightieth birthday.
About the exhibition
MUNCH. The inner cry.
Where: Palazzo Reale, Piazza Duomo, 12 - Milan.
When: from 14 September 2024 to 26 January 2025.
Information and reservations: T +39 02 892 99 21.
By the editorial staff of Avion Tourism Magazine
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