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Vincent van Gogh at the MUDEC

Vincent Van Gogh comes to the Museum of Cultures in Milan from Sept. 21, 2023 to Jan. 28, 2024, with an exhibition presenting a chronological and thematic exploration of the painter’s work.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, La capanna dello Zio Tom Adolphe Delahays, 1857

Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Charles Blanc, La Rose des couleurs In: Grammaire des Arts du Dessin, 1882

Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Vincent van Gogh, Donna che cuce e gatto, 1881

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Luke Fildes, Houseless and Hungry, 1869

Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Vincent van Gogh, Gli zappatori, 1880

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Maximilien Luce, Terrain à Montmartre, rue Chiampionnet / Montmartre, rue Championnet 1887

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Pini al tramonto, 1889

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Ritratto di Joseph-Michel Ginoux, 1888

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Moulin de la Galette, 1886

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Uliveto con due raccoglitori di olive, 1889

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Natura morta con statuetta in gesso e libri, 1887

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Autoritratto, 1887

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Il burrone, 1889

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Veduta di Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Salici al tramonto, 1888

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Jean-François Millet, Il seminatore, 1851

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Paesaggio con covoni e luna che sorge, 1889

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Interno di un ristorante, 1887

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Donna sul letto di morte, 1883

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Donna che cuce e gatto, 1881

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Le portatrici del fardello, 1881

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, I mangiatori di patate, 1885

Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Anonimo, Studio di erbe, 1888

Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami, 1885

Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Jean-François Millet, Les Glaneuses - Le spigolatrici, 1881

Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Pierre Loti, Madame Chrysanthème, 1888

Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Utagawa Hiroshige, Sull’isola di Enoshima nella provincia di Sagami, 1833

Courtesy © Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone, Comune di Genova

Utagawa Hiroshige, Il fiume Sagami, 1858

Courtesy © Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone, Comune di Genova

Utagawa Hiroshige, Il giardino dei prugni di Kameido, 1857

Courtesy © Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone, Comune di Genova

Utagawa Hiroshige, Acquazzone serale sul ponte Shin-Ohashi ad Atake, 1857

Courtesy © Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone, Comune di Genova

Utagawa Kunisada, Nakamura Fukusuke I nel ruolo di Ōhara Takematsu, 1860

Courtesy © Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone, Comune di Genova

William Shakespeare, Dicks’ Complete Edition of Shakespeare’s Works, 1866

Courtesy Collezione M.G.

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Valentina Petrucci
07 September 2023

“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream”. Intellectual, romantic, excessive and expressive, one of the most famous painters of the 19th century; Vincent van Gogh comes to the Museum of Cultures of Milan from 21 September 2023 to 28 January 2024. The aim of the exhibition is to overturn the stereotype of the obscure and tormented artist, presenting a Vincent van Gogh who was less an outsider and more surprisingly in line with the cultural debate of his time. The exhibition offers a chronological and thematic journey that provides a new reading of the work of the Dutch artist, and that highlights the relationship between the artistic vision and the depth of the cultural aspect of the artist. It explores two important themes; on the one hand his love for literature, and on the other his fascination with Japan, which was driven by his love of Japanese prints, “Japonaiserie”, as he would call them, which he collected extensively, also thanks to their relatively reasonable cost at the time. It was a passion that began in 1886, when the artist moved to Paris and met the French-German merchant Siegfried Bing.

Vincent van Gogh, Veduta di Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888. Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

The exhibition has been created and promoted thanks to the excellent collaboration between the Kröller-Müller museum of Ottlero, 24 Ore Cultura- Gruppo 24 Ore, the Municipality of Milan and the MUDEC, as well as to the curation of Professor Francesco Poli, Mariella Guzzoni, Aurora Canepari and Edoardo Chiossone. As the painter wrote in a letter to his brother Theo: “I can do nothing about it if my paintings don't sell. The day will come, though, when people will see that they're worth more than the cost of the paint”.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, La capanna dello Zio Tom Adolphe Delahays, 1857 Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Charles Blanc, La Rose des couleurs In: Grammaire des Arts du Dessin, 1882 Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Vincent van Gogh, Donna che cuce e gatto, 1881 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Luke Fildes, Houseless and Hungry, 1869 Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Vincent van Gogh, Gli zappatori, 1880 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Maximilien Luce, Terrain à Montmartre, rue Chiampionnet / Montmartre, rue Championnet 1887 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Pini al tramonto, 1889 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Ritratto di Joseph-Michel Ginoux, 1888 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Moulin de la Galette, 1886 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Uliveto con due raccoglitori di olive, 1889 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Natura morta con statuetta in gesso e libri, 1887 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Autoritratto, 1887 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Il burrone, 1889 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Veduta di Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Salici al tramonto, 1888 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Jean-François Millet, Il seminatore, 1851 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Paesaggio con covoni e luna che sorge, 1889 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Interno di un ristorante, 1887 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Donna sul letto di morte, 1883 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Donna che cuce e gatto, 1881 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, Le portatrici del fardello, 1881 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Vincent van Gogh, I mangiatori di patate, 1885 Courtesy Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo

Anonimo, Studio di erbe, 1888 Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Guy de Maupassant, Bel-Ami, 1885 Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Jean-François Millet, Les Glaneuses - Le spigolatrici, 1881 Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Pierre Loti, Madame Chrysanthème, 1888 Courtesy Collezione M.G.

Utagawa Hiroshige, Sull’isola di Enoshima nella provincia di Sagami, 1833 Courtesy © Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone, Comune di Genova

Utagawa Hiroshige, Il fiume Sagami, 1858 Courtesy © Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone, Comune di Genova

Utagawa Hiroshige, Il giardino dei prugni di Kameido, 1857 Courtesy © Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone, Comune di Genova

Utagawa Hiroshige, Acquazzone serale sul ponte Shin-Ohashi ad Atake, 1857 Courtesy © Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone, Comune di Genova

Utagawa Kunisada, Nakamura Fukusuke I nel ruolo di Ōhara Takematsu, 1860 Courtesy © Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone, Comune di Genova

William Shakespeare, Dicks’ Complete Edition of Shakespeare’s Works, 1866 Courtesy Collezione M.G.

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