Carrara, at Palazzo Cucchiari the sea of Fattori and Signorini told by Federico Giannini

Telemaco Signorini and Giovanni Fattori are the protagonists of two lectures to be held in Carrara at Palazzo Cucchiari on August 25 and September 1 at 9:15 p.m. on the sidelines of the exhibition The Sea. Myth, History, Nature, scheduled at Palazzo Cucchiari until Oct. 30, 2022. Narrating the connection between the two artists and the sea will be Federico Giannini, director of Finestre sull’Arte. Some of Signorini’s and Fattori’s works will be on display until October 30 precisely at Palazzo Cucchiari as part of the exhibition, and so these two appointments, organized by the Giorgio Conti Foundation in collaboration with Finestre sull’Arte are meant to be an opportunity to learn more about and understand how the link between the sea and Giovanni Fattori was born and matured, and even more specifically how the link between Riomaggiore and Signorini came about.

The first lecture, scheduled for Thursday, August 25 at 9:15 p.m., is entitled When Telemaco Signorini Discovered Riomaggiore. Probably without Telemaco Signorini, the Cinque Terre would not have the same appeal. In fact, it was the great Macchiaioli painter who was among the first to venture to Riomaggiore, when the first of the Cinque Terre was a village isolated from the world, inhabited by a few inhabitants with no contact with large cities, and that could only be reached on foot by descending from Biassa, or by sea. Signorini arrived here for the first time in the 1860s, when the railroad did not yet exist: he, an elegant and cultured Florentine, immediately encountered a world that was totally different from what he was used to, but which captured him from the start. Signorini, who had come to Riomaggiore as a young man in search of inspiration, would return again and again, becoming familiar to the inhabitants of the village, which he helped make known through his paintings. The lecture, also with the reading of Signorini’s little-known but delightful Diaries, presents to the public the Riomaggiore described and painted by the great Tuscan painter.

The second lecture, Thursday, Sept. 1 at 9:15 p.m., is entitled The Sea According to Giovanni Fattori. “I love the sea because I was born in a sea town”: this is how the great Leghorn painter Giovanni Fattori, the father of macchia painting and a leading exponent of the Macchiaioli group, described the bond that united him to the sea. It was a relationship that never failed: at the sea were born the first paintings with which Fattori expressed the new poetics of the macchia, the sea saw the birth of his masterpieces, to the sea he went with his colleagues, figures in contemplation of the sea are the protagonists of the paintings of the last phase of his career, a sort of spiritual testament of the artist. The lecture, also through readings from Fattori’s correspondence, from which all the sanguine character of the great artist emerges, and through the analysis of his most important paintings, will trace the stages of the relationship between Giovanni Fattori and the sea.

Both lectures are free admission, without reservations.

Pictured: Giovanni Fattori, In Maremma (c. 1890-95; oil on panel, 14 x 26 cm; Livorno, Galleria d’Arte Goldoni), work on display at the exhibition Il Mare. Myth, History, Nature.

Carrara, at Palazzo Cucchiari the sea of Fattori and Signorini told by Federico Giannini

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