Emilio Vedova. Questa è pittura

Exhibition at Fortress of Bard (Aosta) from November 29, 2024 to June 2, 2025

Large paintings and works on paper, from the Vedova Foundation, Museo del Novecento in Florence, Guggenheim in Venice and Mart in Rovereto.

The exhibition on Emilio Vedova Questa è pittura at the Fortress of Bard (Aosta) from Nov. 29, 2024 to June 2, 2025 (in collaboration with 24 ORE Cultura and Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova) presents the work of the great Venetian artist in its pictorial valence, eschewing any temptation of historical and socio-political reading, to bring attention back to the excellence of his painting, which always astonishes with the dazzle of color and the vitality of its material, an expression among the highest of European informal art.

Entrusted to the curatorship of Gabriella Belli, the exhibition and catalog feature 33 large paintings and some 16 works on paper, mostly on loan from the Vedova Foundation, not without prestigious loans from the Museo del Novecento in Florence, the Guggenheim in Venice and the Mart in Rovereto.

The itinerary focuses on works in which the artist indulges in the exercise of painting, leaving us extraordinary evidence of his impetuous creative energy, which unquestionably marked post-World War II European painting.

GABRIELLA BELLI – An art historian, former director of the MART in Rovereto and the Fondazione Musei Civici in Venice, she is one of the best-known and most respected Italian scholars and curators in the field of modern and contemporary art, including abroad. She is the author of numerous publications devoted to the historical avant-gardes of the early 20th century, futurism, the Italian twentieth century, and magic realism in particular, as well as to some of the greatest protagonists of contemporary art. From the early 1990s to the present, she has designed more than 400 art exhibitions devoted to themes and figures of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as architecture and design.