Modigliani Mon Amour: a tour in Livorno that tells the story of the great painter through street art

It is called Amedeo Modigliani Mon Amour the special experiential tour in Livorno that the local gallery Uovo alla Pop has invented to take participants to the places of Amedeo Modigliani ’s Livorno (Livorno, 1884 - Paris, 1920). The tour debuted successfully with the public on May 25, has already experienced other replications and is preparing to make additional dates in June, July and August. The idea is to travel the city following the great painter’s story told by a set of specially involved street artists.

The tour uses the narration of two guides (Libera Capezzone and Viola Barbara) who, in two modes(on foot or by boat), and with the use of augmented reality and the street art works of seven artists who have specially joined to tell the story of the great artist, describe Modigliani’s places with images, photos and works that will appear thanks to the special augmented reality application developed for the occasion. The artists involved are Ligama, Elisa Muliere, Giulia Oblo, Gio Pistone, Isabella Staino, Mart and Nicola Buttari.

Ligama reinterprets pointillist art (but with pixels) to reread a painting by Guglielmo Micheli (Livorno, 1866 - 1926) depicting the port of Livorno. Micheli, a post-Macchiaiolo, was Modigliani’s first painting master, who, with his fellow students, in search of inspiration, often wandered into the Livorno countryside, and even more often, into the shadier alleys of the city, trying to capture a colorful fragment of the life that flowed before his eyes. Elisa Muliere, with an abstract work, literally extracts Modigliani’s color palette onto canvas, the hot pink of his nudes, the aqua blue of his beloved Jeanne Hébuterne’s eyes, the gray blue of Modigliani’s last portraits from Pierrot.

Giulia Oblo ’s illustrations depict in stop-motion the sculptures of Modigliani’s heads angrily thrown by the painter into the water of the ditches, according to the legend that will forever surround them. As portraits of the women immortalized by the great artist emerge in a sudden photo-collage also by Giulia Oblo. Gio Pistone interprets the figures of the Caryatids, inspired by the artist’s fascination with early African sculptures, which he first saw in Paris. Chronicles tell that Modigliani never tired of looking at those African masks, bewitched by the pure and simple forms, which recalled an ancestral, feminine, archetypal figure. For the Caryatids, the artist worked directly in stone, with all the difficulties this caused by his health undermined by consumption since childhood. Of these figures he himself recounted, “The stone heads had a profound effect on me, for a few days I lived with the hallucination of meeting on the street people who could have been their models.” Gio Pistone interprets the Caryatids as Diana’s princesses, raising their arcane spirituality.

Finally, the tour route continues by evoking Modigliani’s presence in the narrow streets of Livorno with Isabella Staino, who on the pier in Piazza Garibaldi recounts the artist, with his red scarf, Maremma jacket, and wide-brimmed hat. The traces continue on Via della Pina d’Oro in the Riuso space and continue with Mart ’s impromptu sign with his homage made with stencils and Nicola Buttari with a special video installation hosted inside the Uovo alla Pop Gallery.

For information and to reserve a place at the upcoming tour dates, it is necessary to log on to the Uovo alla Pop Gallery website.

Modigliani Mon Amour: a tour in Livorno that tells the story of the great painter through street art

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