This fall Palazzo Zabarella in Padua will host from October 16, 2025 to January 25, 2026 the exhibition Modigliani Picasso and the Voices of Modernity from the LaM Museum, curated by Jeanne-Bathilde Lacourt, organized by Palazzo Zabarella and LaM in collaboration with Manifesto Expo. The exhibition is in fact made possible thanks to the LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d’art moderne, d’art contemporain et d’art brut, which for the occasion will lend 65 works by thirty avant-garde artists belonging to the collection of the important French museum institution.
The exhibition aims to be a celebration oftwentieth-century art with big names of the historical avant-garde and lesser-known artists who open up unprecedented artistic scenarios closer to the contemporary. Prominent among the masterpieces on display are five works by Pablo Picasso and six by Amedeo Modigliani.
Divided into six thematic sections, which take the visitor on an in-depth tour dedicated to Cubism, with works by Picasso and Georges Braque, and then delving into Fernand Léger’s “Tubism,” represented by six works, the exhibition will devote special attention to Amedeo Modigliani: Moïse Kisling, Boy with Red Hair, Seated Nude with Shirt and Motherhood will be featured. These works, created at different times in his short but very intense career, restore the expressive richness and deep emotionality that distinguish his painting.
Alongside these works will be singular and poetic creations by important 20th-century figures such as Joan Miró, Youla Chapoval, André Lanskoy, Alexander Calder and Bernard Buffet, offering visitors a broad panorama of 20th- and 21st-century European art. But it also includes works by self-taught artists, referred to as naïfs, including Gertrude O’Brady and Camille Bombois, alongside works made under the spiritualist influence of Auguste Lesage and Victor Simon. The exhibition also includes Art Brut works that tell of alternative creative paths steeped in lyricism and deep spirituality.
The intent is to create a polyphonic narrative, an opportunity to view masterpieces by some of the great masters of the 20th century alongside works by lesser-known but equally powerful voices of modernity.
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| Padua, at Palazzo Zabarella works from the LaM Museum in Lille tell the story of the 20th century, with Modigliani, Picasso and many others |
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