Van Gogh will be in Genoa with Gaugin with an exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale from November 12, 2011 April 15, 2012 . The exhibition’s title, is Van Gogh and Gauguin’s journey and includes about 80 paintings by authors who lived between nineteenth and twentieth centuries, among them, as well as Van Gogh and Gauguin, are Caspar David Friedrich Kandinsky and Hopper. After the success of the Impressionists in the past year, this time Genoa hosts an exhibition dedicated to the journey (both physical and mental), and its various representations in the course of the last century.
The trip is an issue close to many artists of the nineteenth and twentieth century and for the same Van Gogh , which, in the course of his life, he moved many times, going from Holland to England to France, where he lived in many different cities. Gaugin hand went up in Polynesia in Tahiti, where he painted the famous picture Where have we come? Who are we? Where to now?, Which is one of the most important pieces of the exhibition.
We speak fact not only travel in the sense of physical movement, but also mental and the journey of man is through his own personal history, is that of 'whole of humanity, constantly placing questions about his own life.
Questions to which Van Gogh himself was troubled that so strongly reflected in his painting and the exhibition aims to bring before the eyes of visitors.
The exhibition will take place from November 12, 2011 April 15, 2012 at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa , in Piazza Matteotti 9, at the following times: Monday-
Friday: 9-19 Saturday and Sunday
: 9-20
1 January 2012: 10-20 hours
24.25 and closed on December 31, 2011.
Cost of tickets is:
Full: € 12 Reduced
students over 65: € 6 Reduced
under 18: € 7 Reduced
schools: € 6
