2021

Exhibitions 2021

The Art Museum Riga Bourse Riga - Latvia with The Uffizi Galleries Florence
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Self-Reflection

Omar Galliani | Lorenzo Puglisi | Tintoretto
Curated by Astrīda Rogule

21 August – 14 November 2021. Opening, August 20 at 17:00

The Art Museum Riga Bourse, a department of the Latvian National Museum of Art specializing in the promotion of international art, proposes a reflection on self-portrait and does so by inviting two of the greatest Italian artists of today, Omar Galliani and Lorenzo Puglisi, choosing to support them with a master of the past, Jacopo Robusti, better known as Tintoretto (Venice, 1518-1594).
Thanks to the collaboration between the Uffizi Galleries, the Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation (Latvia), under the patronage of the Embassy of Italy in Latvia and thanks to the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the famous Portrait of a Man, a masterpiece of the Venetian master, will arrive for the first time at The Latvian National Museum of Art. This work becomes the fulcrum of a comparison around which the self-narration, through images, of two contemporary artists, Omar Galliani and Lorenzo Puglisi, represents the peaks of the self-portrait in Italian art of today.
The two artists, who exhibited together in unique and evocative places such as the coronation chapel of the Riso Museum in Palermo (2016), the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples (2017), the Francesco Messina Museum in Milan (2018) continue their fruitful creative collaboration, beyond the Italian borders for the Self-reflection exhibition.
The exhibition will be held at the Art Museum Riga Bourse located in a building from the second half of the 19th century that recalls the Venice of Jacopo Robusti in its architectural structure.
In the large main hall, once the seat of the Riga Stock Exchange, Omar Galliani and Lorenzo Puglisi each present six large works and a self-portrait (assigned for the Uffizi Galleries collection) with which they engage in an empathic dialogue and beyond time with Tintoretto's Portrait of a Man.
The exhibition intends to lead the visitor to reflect on the act of artistic creation, where the artist's inner world is represented, sublimating even the outer world in the form of himself: the result of a process of "self-reflection" that has always occurred in different eras.
Omar Galliani and Lorenzo Puglisi today, drawing on the centuries-old tradition witnessed by the great master of the sixteenth century, offer the opportunity to admire the evolution of this path: Tintoretto is their "ancestor" and his masterpiece exemplifies in an illuminating way the profound understanding of self and the nature of the human being. Philosophy and practice create a connection between the Sixteenth century and third millennium through the infinite possibilities of painting and drawing.

It is important to reiterate how Italian art still plays a leading role in the contemporary world, at an international level. The Self-Reflection exhibition, dedicated to Italian art of the past and present, is a great gift to Latvian viewers and tourists visiting Riga, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Riga Bourse Art Museum.

The Art Museum Riga Bourse is part of the Latvian National Museum of Art and is an architectural monument of national significance. It was built between 1852 and 1855 as a Palazzo of Venetian Renaissance, a symbol of wealth and magnificence It contains also a collection of Italian art, which is mostly associated with the extraordinary artistic and cultural period of the Renaissance and its great masters, who drew inspiration and knowledge from antiquity, from the greatness of the giants of Roman art, and who laid the foundations for the further development of the visual arts, styles and architectural trends up to the present day. The Art Museum Riga Bourse won the special European Museum of the Year Award (EMYA) in 2013. Among the partners of the Museum are the Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Prado in Madrid, the V&A in London, the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, the MOMA in New York, the Washington National Gallery, the Russian Museum and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Forbidden City in Beijing, the Shanghai Museum and many others.

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EXHIBITION CURATOR: Astrīda Rogule, Contemporary Art Collection Curator, Latvian National Museum of Art

Art Museum RIGA BOURSE / Doma laukums 6, Riga, Latvia

OPENING HOURS: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays 10.00–18.00, ticket office 10.00–17.45.

Fridays 10.00–20.00, ticket office 10.00–19.45. Closed on Mondays

The museum is closed on all public holidays: 1 January, Good Friday, Easter, Midsummer Eve and Day (23–24 June), Christmas (25–26 December), 31 December.

CATALOGUE: Corsiero Editore (in Italian and English)

Edited by Astrīda Rogule and Guicciardo Sassoli de’Bianchi Strozzi

Foreword by Daiga Upeniece, Eike Schmidt - Marzia Faietti

Texts by Astrīda Rogule and Guicciardo Sassoli de’Bianchi Strozzi

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Lorenzo Puglisi

Natività

"Natività" is a painting by Lorenzo Puglisi on display in the Rucellai Chapel in the Marino Marini Museum in Florence: the Chapel houses one of the “wonders” of the florentine Renaissance:

the Tomb of the Holy Sepulcher, a jewel by the architect Leon Battista Alberti.

This work, an oil painting on a canvas 3 meters high created with the tones of iridescent blacks and whites flecked with red, an emblematic moment of the artist's pictorial research, enters an extraordinary space of silence and light, an is hosted on the wall behind the altar which for the occasion will see return of the restored original wooden crucifix of the Chapel.

Living in an infinite cycle of life, birth and death, man in every historical era can only question himself about the mystery of his existence, about the meaning of his own life: the strong contrast between these two founding moments of human being's life is concentrated in this unique place, where the Temple of the Holy Sepulcher is: an absolute masterpiece by Leon Battista Alberti made of white and dark green marble, it takes us back to the inevitable transience of man's experience; and at the same time, thanks to the fresco painted inside the Sepulcher by Giovanni da Piamonte, Piero della Francesca's pupil, takes us back to the possibility of rebirth, to resurrection.

The Nativity therefore, which is renewed every year in the Christian tradition with the Holy Christmas, exactly as it is in the natural cycle of the seasons, Nativity as an opportunity for a renassaince, a rebirth which is always possible for human beeings in every circustances of life, a reason for faith and hope in the time to come.

In his painting Puglisi identifies a vertical line between the figures of Caravaggio's masterpiece "Nativity with San Lorenzo and san Francis of Assisi", filtering with his iconography just some highlights: from the hand of the angel which points upwards and descends through the head and the mother's hand down to the child, the Newly Born, there where the energy of life mysteriously takes shape;

darkness and then light, together in a contrast and in a complementary energy of existence.

The pictorial dimension of Lorenzo Puglisi silently enters a timeless space, whose beauty leaves you breathless, in the heart of a centuries-old tradition of light, shadow, mystery: Nativity.

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Lorenzo Puglisi | Natività

22.12.2021 | 22.01.2022
Marino Marini Museum
Piazza San Pancrazio, Florence
T. 055 219432
www.museomarinomarini.it

OPENING | 22.12.2021 at 5.00 pm
Open Saturday, Sunday and Monday 10.00 – 19.00
Full ticket €6, reduced €4
free on the first Sunday of the month

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