VAN GOGH EXHIBITION – MUDEC

The exhibition of Van Gogh’s fantastic works at Mudec in Milan is made possible by a collaboration with the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, which has an extraordinary collection of the Dutch painter’s paintings and drawings, from which about 40 of the works on display come, such as the studies of heads and figures for The Potato Eaters, and the drawings of seamstresses and gleaners from the Dutch phase; Moulin de la Galette, Self-Portrait, from the Parisian years (1886-87); Orchard Surrounded by Cypresses, View of Saintes-Marie-de-la-Mer, The Green Vineyard, from the Arles period (1888-89); Landscape with Haystacks and Rising Moon, Sheaf under a Cloudy Sky, Pines in the Hospital Garden, painted during his internment at the Saint-Rémy Hospital (1889-90).
Through an itinerary at once chronological and thematic, the exhibition offers a novel reading of Van Gogh’s works that particularly highlights the relationship between the pictorial vision and the depth of the artist’s cultural dimension, through the development of two major themes: on the one hand that of his passionate interest in books, and on the other the fascination with Japan fueled by his love of Japanese prints.