Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is the most important representative of American realism and is famous for his painting scenes from everyday life and landscapes. Held in Palazzo Reale, this exhibit is the first of its kind in Italy and was curated by Carter Foster of the famed Whitney Museum, intrinsically connected to the artist since 1920. On display at Palazzo Reale more than 160 works with masterpieces and several paintings never before displayed. The works are on loan mainly from the Whitney Museum but also from the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago and the Columbus Museum of Art.
The first major exhibition of Edward Hopper in Italy
Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is the most popular and well-known American artist of the twentieth century: a painter of everyday life and landscapes of human loneliness, is certainly the acknowledged dean of American Realism.
The exhibition is unprecedented in Italy, is promoted by the Municipality of Milan - Roma Culture and the Foundation together for the first time in a cultural partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Hermitage Foundation in Lausanne. The stage in Milan is organized and coordinated by the Royal Palace. The design, organization and coordination of the entire project on three sites is Arthemisia Group.
The exhibition is curated by Carter Foster, curator and curator of the Whitney Museum. The history of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the artist Edward Hopper are intrinsically linked: the first personal exhibition of Edward Hopper in 1920, was held at the Whitney Studio Club Over the years, the Whitney hosts various exhibitions of the artist, including memorable as those of 1950, 1960 and 1984. After the death of Hopper, in 1970, he left his widow Josephine at the Whitney Museum across the legacy of the artist in his possession: over 2500 works including paintings, drawings and engravings.
On display will be exhibited over 160 works, including famous masterpieces like Summer Interior (1909), Pennsylvania Coal Town (1947) Morning Sun (1952), Second Story Sunlight (1960), A Woman in the Sun (1961) and several paintings ever exposed, as the beautiful Girlie Show (1941). A path that crosses the entire production of Hopper and all the techniques of an artist now considered a classic painting of the twentieth century.
The works are mainly drawn from the Whitney Museum, but also by the major American museums including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago and the Columbus Museum of Art
The narrative anthology will go hand in hand on the method of work of Hopper - extremely complex and rigorous - through the juxtaposition of the preparatory drawings to the finished works. This view reveals that the "realism hopper" is often the result of a synthesis of many images and situations captured in different times and places and not a reproduction from the truth.
Divided into seven sections, the exhibition traces the entire production of Hopper by years of studying in Paris - with the masterpiece of this period Soir Bleu - until the "classical" period and best known of the '30s, '40s and '50s concluding with the large and intense images of recent years. The course examines all the techniques favored by the artist, oil, watercolor and etching, with particular attention to the fascinating relationship between the preparatory drawings for paintings: a fundamental aspect of its production until now still not considered in the review dedicated to him. The exhibition also one of its exceptionally Artist's ledger book, the famous notebooks filled his wife, where you see sketched many of his oil paintings. Will take the visitor the opportunity, via a touch screen, to browse a virtual reproduction.
The exhibition will be enriched by an apparatus of biography and history, where it will be revisited in American history from the 20s to the 60s of the twentieth century: the Great Depression, the dream of the Kennedys, the economic boom, etc.. Therefore also an opportunity to understand more and better America, Barak Obama.
The exhibition contains an exception and for the first time in Italy the installation Friday, 29th August 1952, 6 AM, New York Gustav Deutsch, known film-maker and video artist in Austria: an interactive installation and multimedia which reconstructs the scene depicted in painting Morning Sun (1952) offering visitors the chance to physically enter the world of Hopper and become the protagonists of the painting.
After the Milan office, the festival will be in Rome at the Museo della Fondazione Roma, from 16 February to 13 June 2010 and then to Lausanne for the summer of 2010.
The first major exhibition of Edward Hopper in Italy
Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is the most popular and well-known American artist of the twentieth century: a painter of everyday life and landscapes of human loneliness, is certainly the acknowledged dean of American Realism.
The exhibition is unprecedented in Italy, is promoted by the Municipality of Milan - Roma Culture and the Foundation together for the first time in a cultural partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Hermitage Foundation in Lausanne. The stage in Milan is organized and coordinated by the Royal Palace. The design, organization and coordination of the entire project on three sites is Arthemisia Group.
The exhibition is curated by Carter Foster, curator and curator of the Whitney Museum. The history of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the artist Edward Hopper are intrinsically linked: the first personal exhibition of Edward Hopper in 1920, was held at the Whitney Studio Club Over the years, the Whitney hosts various exhibitions of the artist, including memorable as those of 1950, 1960 and 1984. After the death of Hopper, in 1970, he left his widow Josephine at the Whitney Museum across the legacy of the artist in his possession: over 2500 works including paintings, drawings and engravings.
On display will be exhibited over 160 works, including famous masterpieces like Summer Interior (1909), Pennsylvania Coal Town (1947) Morning Sun (1952), Second Story Sunlight (1960), A Woman in the Sun (1961) and several paintings ever exposed, as the beautiful Girlie Show (1941). A path that crosses the entire production of Hopper and all the techniques of an artist now considered a classic painting of the twentieth century.
The works are mainly drawn from the Whitney Museum, but also by the major American museums including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, Terra Foundation for American Art in Chicago and the Columbus Museum of Art
The narrative anthology will go hand in hand on the method of work of Hopper - extremely complex and rigorous - through the juxtaposition of the preparatory drawings to the finished works. This view reveals that the "realism hopper" is often the result of a synthesis of many images and situations captured in different times and places and not a reproduction from the truth.
Divided into seven sections, the exhibition traces the entire production of Hopper by years of studying in Paris - with the masterpiece of this period Soir Bleu - until the "classical" period and best known of the '30s, '40s and '50s concluding with the large and intense images of recent years. The course examines all the techniques favored by the artist, oil, watercolor and etching, with particular attention to the fascinating relationship between the preparatory drawings for paintings: a fundamental aspect of its production until now still not considered in the review dedicated to him. The exhibition also one of its exceptionally Artist's ledger book, the famous notebooks filled his wife, where you see sketched many of his oil paintings. Will take the visitor the opportunity, via a touch screen, to browse a virtual reproduction.
The exhibition will be enriched by an apparatus of biography and history, where it will be revisited in American history from the 20s to the 60s of the twentieth century: the Great Depression, the dream of the Kennedys, the economic boom, etc.. Therefore also an opportunity to understand more and better America, Barak Obama.
The exhibition contains an exception and for the first time in Italy the installation Friday, 29th August 1952, 6 AM, New York Gustav Deutsch, known film-maker and video artist in Austria: an interactive installation and multimedia which reconstructs the scene depicted in painting Morning Sun (1952) offering visitors the chance to physically enter the world of Hopper and become the protagonists of the painting.
After the Milan office, the festival will be in Rome at the Museo della Fondazione Roma, from 16 February to 13 June 2010 and then to Lausanne for the summer of 2010.
