The three ages, masterpiece by Gustav Klimt of the 1905 – loaned by National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rome, inaugurates at National Gallery of Umbria ithe new exhibition cycle A masterpiece in Perugiawhich includes great contemporary and non-contemporary artists, in dialogue with the permanent collection of Perugia.
Constantine of Horace – director of the Museums of Umbria – spoke of «an exhibition of suggestion and atmosphere» stating how masterpieces are always «difficult to obtain and in the case of Klimt we turned to a large Italian museum that granted us a work that is the icon of the gallery, a work that has developed an extraordinary relationship with Italy for a long time”. A truly extraordinary loan, as the head of the exhibition office also reiterated YUM Joanna Knivesgiven that The three ages «it rarely comes out both because it is very delicate and because it is among the most distinctive in the gallery. But bringing works like this outside is also important for us, because everything becomes a further moment of study and in-depth analysis.”
More and more synergy between YUM driven by Cristina Mazzantini hey Museums of Umbria by Costantino D’Orazio: we remember, at the end of May, the event of The Art Symposium at the Roman institution that saw the two directors and other influential personalities from the world of culture. The same From Horace had announced «a concrete collaboration with the Director Mazzantini and with other directors», underlining «the ability to transform this way of working in art at an institutional level, not by carrying out individual projects but always ready to create exchanges and present themselves to the outside as a reality in which the system is made».
From June 28th to September 15th 2024
National Gallery of Umbria
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