The Confini exhibition at Villa Manin for Go!2025.
Villa Manin will host a new major exhibitionwhich will collect the works of most famous painters of the 19th and 20th centuries: the initiative, which is part of GO!2025, will allow visitors to admire the masterpieces of artists who they range from Van Gogh to Modigliani, from Turner to Hopper.
“We are extremely proud to be able to host ‘Confini’, one of the most prestigious exhibitions in Europe – said the governor Massimiliano Fedriga today at the presentation -. A unicum that cannot be replicated, given that this is not one of the many traveling exhibitions that we can frequently see, but of an initiative of thevery high artistic depth which involves the arrival of works from different collections from all over the world. It is a extraordinary event that can be appreciated exclusively in Friuli Venezia Giulia“.
“We believe – he continued – that this proposal clearly represents how much our Region is investing in promotion of the territory through art and culture, tools capable of involving the general public. A real pearl for an already epochal event like Go!2025 which will be full of interesting events.”
“Borders. From Turner to Monet to Hopper. Singing with variations” is the title of the exhibition included in the calendar of initiatives for Nova Gorica Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025 and edited by Marco Goldin What will be open to visitors from 11 October 2025 to 12 April 2026 in the spaces totally renovated and adapted to international initiatives of theEastern exedra of Villa Manin in Passariano di Codroipo.
The artists on display.
More than one hundred masterpieces of “Confini”, granted by around forty European and American museums and private collections. Impressive the list of 19th and 20th century authors collected in this exhibition: Hopper, Van Gogh, Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Pissarro, Courbet, Munch, Matisse, Modigliani, Segantini, Mondrian, Kiefer, Constable, Friedrich, Bacon, Nolde, Homer, Church, Hodler, de Staël, Rothko, Cole, Gifford, Diebenkorn, Wyeth, Hokusai and Hiroshige.
As illustrated by the curator Marco Goldin, it is an obsolete exhibition with no shortcuts, the result of a year of work that will continue throughout 2024 and for a good part of 2025. At Villa Manin immortal works can be appreciated, starting from the contemporary and how modern man gives meaning to the concept of borders, to the desire to go beyond and seek elsewhere.
In the decisive dialogue between art and literaturein this case the boundariesin fact, they are not barriers but areas of creative contamination, exchanges, new horizons, stimuli, glances, paths ranging from the infinitely large of the universe and nature to the secret of one’s soul.
“Nova Gorica Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025 represents a extraordinary opportunity to affirm a future vision of our Region and to explore border culture, building new dialogues and new cross-border relationships. From this perspective – added the vice-president of Friuli Venezia Giulia with responsibility for Culture on the sidelines Mario Anzil – the great ‘Confini’ exhibition fits perfectly which, thanks to works of immortal artists, will lead visitors through aabsolutely unique experience capable of transmitting pleasure, elevate our lives and give precious moments of reflection“.
To present “Confini” was chosen painting “Midday” created by Hopper in 1949. At Villa Manin it will also be possible to come across the self-portraits by Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh. Also of the immense Dutch painter two absolute rarities: the only two paintings that the artist made in life companions of the mental hospital of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence where he himself was locked up.
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