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Good news for art lovers – Vincent Van Gogh returns to Milan after more than sixty years. The theme of this major exhibition, titled “Man and the Earth”, focuses on the various stages of rural life, from plowing to sowing and harvesting, symbols of human effort to dominate the forces of nature, the complex of the artist’s poetic dialogue between the nature of man and the nature that surrounds him.
The most important works come from the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands, supplemented by others borrowed from many international museums.
Curated by Kathleen Adler, a 19th-century art expert who served as Director of Education at the National Gallery in London for eleven years, the Milan exhibition presents for the first time some of the great artist’s best-known masterpieces, including the 1887 “Self-Portrait”, Evening Landscape with the Rising Moon from 1889 Portrait of Joseph Roulin from 1889 “Still life: drawing board, pipe, onions and stamping wax” from 1889. The exhibition shows the evolution of painting through the early works of the master, his encounter with Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism Seurat and Signac, ending with the period in Arles and the artist’s stay in the hospital in Saint-Rémy, where he died.
The curator of the exhibition will be the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, one of the most important international architects with a very poetic spirit, whose commitment is the crowning achievement of the ambitious exhibition design, which aims to let visitors “immerse” in the work of art.
Address
Palazzo Reale, Piazza del Duomo, 12 in Milan – access is best by metro MM1 or MM3 – Duomo station.
The exhibition will run from October 18, 2014 to March 8, 2015.
Opening hours
- Monday: 14:30 – 19:30
- Tuesday, Wednesday: 09:30 – 19:30
- Thursday: 09:30 – 22:30
- Friday: 09:30 – 19:30
- Saturday: 09:30 – 22:30
- Sunday: 09:30 – 19:30
Ticket prices:
- normal: 12 euros
- reduced: 10 euro
- special reduced price: 6 euro
- special family: adults – 10 euro, children – 6 euro
I lived in Milan for 18 years, and it was there that I came to know the city’s daily life best - not just its landmarks, but also its rhythm, its habits, and its less obvious sides. Today I live in Wrocław, but I still return to Milan regularly.