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closed Portrait of a Woman

Curated by: Stefania Portinari

The show

Female friendship, dreams, the double reflection in the mirror, the relationship between the painter and the model, proud women to the point of becoming feline, the nostalgia for lost paradises, but also the rawness of reality, are the central themes of the exhibition. .

Wonderful paintings, beautiful dresses, jewels, dreams of exoticism, wishes for travel and loves pervade the exhibition space, in beautiful dialogue with the architecture of the Palladian basilica. The effect will be magical, recalling those Twenties in which, as the first female art critic, the powerful Margherita Sarfatti, wrote, "painting appears above all the magical art par excellence".

The writer Massimo Bontempelli , almost evoking the girls of today, recounted with fascinated wonder the close-ups of distracted women in cafes. We are in the 1920s and, in Europe that has just emerged from the First World War, women are beginning to conquer their own role : increasingly autonomous, seductive and modern. Hair gets shorter like the length of skirts, while their influence in society and culture becomes more and more intense. Coco Chanel changes fashion, Amelia Earhart flies across the Atlantic, Josephine Baker's dances enchant Paris, Virginia Woolf writes her masterpieces.

Gallery

Works on display

Timetable and tickets

Address

Piazza dei Signori
36100 Vicenza

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POP/BEAT

Until 30 June 2024


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