Dall’Impressionismo alla Modernità: I Maestri della luce e del colore

“From Impressionism to Modernity: Masters of Light and Color”.
A new international exhibition at the former Santo Stefano church starting March 15

Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Édouard Manet, and Camille Pissarro, as well as Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, Paul Cézanne, Paul Signac, and Marie Laurencin. These are just some of the artists who, from March 15 to July 27, will grace the Santo Stefano Exhibition Center within the new exhibition “From Impressionism to Modernity: Masters of Light and Color” promoted by the Be Local association in collaboration with the Municipality of Mondovì and under the patronage of the Piedmont Region and the Province of Cuneo. A kaleidoscopic journey through the history of 19th and 20th-century art with more than seventy paintings, engravings, drawings, lithographs, ceramics, and sculptures. An international exhibition curated by Professor Vincenzo Sanfo, aiming to showcase how the vibration of color became an extraordinary tool to challenge conventions and explore new techniques, effectively paving the way for modernity.

Open from Tuesday to Friday from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM, and on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays from 10:30 AM to 7:30 PM, the exhibition will be accompanied by various educational and workshop proposals for schools and families. Numerous fare reductions are available (with special discounts for residents of the city of Mondovì), as well as the opportunity to use a free audio guide and to enter the Santo Stefano Exhibition Center with one's pet.

«We are delighted to welcome this new international-level exhibition - commented Mayor Luca Robaldo and Councilor for Culture and Tourism Francesca Botto - which we are sure will attract a vast and diverse audience, as happened with previous exhibitions on Baroque and Andy Warhol, visited by more than 18,000 people. We are grateful to Be Local for the attractiveness of the proposals and their professional integrity, as well as for the valuable work of coordinating with the territory. Not only a specific discount for residents but also fruitful synergies with other local cultural players such as Coop Culture, the Printing Museum, and the Ceramics Museum. This is the most visible sign of a city that wants to grow in the name of art and culture».

Curator Vincenzo Sanfo "Focused on the artists who participated in the official Impressionism exhibitions and their contemporaries, who gave birth to a new way of conceiving art, the exhibition aims to introduce the general public to the explorations and experiments that arose from the revolutionary innovations that disrupted the late 19th-century world, particularly in France but not only, embracing modernity through the use of light and color. During those years, electricity, the first hot air balloon flights, the first subway, the great industry, trams, vast railway networks, and the majestic Eiffel Tower—masterpiece of new engineering erected for the 1889 universal exhibition—were born.

Also, during those years, photography and cinema made their first appearance, forcing artists to find new forms of expression, breaking away from the rigid and now obsolete vision of academic art. Beginning with the precursors, Courbet, Troyon, Millet, Corot, and the echoes of the Barbizon School, it traces the evolution of the Impressionism protagonists, which, starting from that of 1874 in the studio of photographer Nadar, changed the history of art.

Alongside the legendary figures like Renoir, Manet, Monet, Cezanne, Degas, etc., we will find artists who, although not participating in the official exhibitions, breathed their ethos, such as Daumier, Bonnard, Cahours, Dufy, Laurencin, and many others. The exhibition also includes all the techniques used and experimented by them, from oil painting to pastel, from drawing to ceramics, from sculpture to extraordinary graphic reproduction research, through Cliché-Verre, etchings, and lithographs. A complete and rich exhibition full of insights for rediscovering a movement, that of Impressionism, of which much is still to be discovered. An exhibition of great historical and artistic interest capable of becoming a major highlight for cultural tourism in the city of Mondovì and Piedmont."

Hours:
• Weekdays (Tuesday to Friday): 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM (last entry at 6:30 PM)
• Weekend hours (Saturday-Sunday and holidays): 10:30 AM - 7:30 PM, with no break
Rates:
• Open € 12.00
• Full price € 10.00
• Reduced 1 € 8.00 (Over 65, Journalists enrolled in the order, Qualified Tourist Guides, Law Enforcement, Teachers with proof of status, members of associations and entities affiliated with the Be Local Association)
• Reduced 2 € 6.00 (Groups of a minimum of 10 people, youth aged 6 to 18, and university students with proof of status, as well as subscribers to the Abbonamento Musei Piemonte and Torino+Piemonte Card holders - for residents of the City of Mondovì excluding weekends and holidays)
• School Reduced Rate € 4.00
• Free: Children aged 0 to 5, People with non-self-sufficient disabilities
Guided tours and educational workshops by Coopculture:
Schools: € 80.00 per class (up to 25 students, excluding chaperones).
Groups: € 120.00 per group (maximum 25 participants).
• Email: mondoviculture@coopculture.it
• Phone: +39 011 19560449
For further details on opening hours and booking procedures, please visit the website www.belocalpiemonte.it or write to info@associazionebelocal.it or call 011 196 234 69.
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