The exhibition Umberto Prencipe and Tuscany Between modernity and tradition opens 27 February, 17.30 and remains on show in the cloister of the Church of San Micheletto until 22 June.
Umberto Prencipe (Naples 1879 – Rome 1962), extraordinarily productive and award-winning painter and engraver, was active as an independent artist in the first half of the 20th century using a lyrical, intimist, contemporary language, yet closely tied to the romantic and symbolist culture.
The exhibition examines the artist’s relationship with the landscape and the cultural scene of Tuscany and in particular with the town of Lucca and its surrounding area, where he often lived, also due to his teaching career, passing from Versilia to Garfagnana.
The exhibition, curated by Teresa Sacchi Lodispoto and Sabrina Spinazzè, is organised by the Ragghianti Foundation, which recently acquired through donation a conspicuous collection of works by Prencipe.
Funded by the Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca Foundation with the collaboration of the Umberto Prencipe Archive in Rome.
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A cura di Teresa Sacchi Lodispoto e Sabrina Spinazzè Edizioni Fondazione Ragghianti Studi sull’arte, Lucca, 2014
ARTI VISIVE – pittura e disegno|ARTI PLASTICHE – scultura|ARTI PLASTICHE – ceramica, legno, vetro, ecc
From the station: cross the roundabout and take the underpass of the Town Walls, Via della Rosa, Via del Giardino Botanico, Via San Micheletto (10 min) By car: motorway exit (A11 and A12) overpass, turn right into Viale Carducci in the direction of the Station, Viale Giusti, Porta Elisa, Via Elisa, Via San Micheletto (10 mins).
Parking: adjacent Porta Elisa, Via Elisa, Via dei Bacchettoni, Piazza S. Ponziano and Caserma Mazzini (paid).
Foundation Study Centre of Lycian Art and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti
Monumental complex of San Micheletto Church, Via San Micheletto, 3 Lucca
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Organizzazione: Fondazione Centro studi sull’Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti
Mostra a cura di: Teresa Sacchi Lodispoto e Sabrina Spinazzè
In collaborazione con: Archivio Umberto Prencipe e Archivio dell’Ottocento Romano
Allestimento curato da: Studio Arrigoni Architetti
Realizzazione: Mostre&Mostre
Progetto grafico: Studio Riccucci.
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Umberto Prencipe (Naples 1879 – Rome 1962)
Educated at the Accademia di belle arti in Rome, after the success obtained in 1905 with the painting Clausura, awarded by the purchase by the Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna, Prencipe moves to Orvieto, where he carries on a symbolist research focused on the idea of landscape as a mood, painting desert corners of the town in deep accordion with his own interior melancholic condition.
During one of his stays in Tuscany (1914-1921), the artist progressively abandons the symbolist evocations , making landscapes in which the tradition of the XIX century matches with the constructive synthesis of Cezanne and with the chromatic lightening of the French expressionism.
Back to Orvieto in 1921, Prencipe chooses once again the “city of silence” as his privileged inspiring muse, alternating a personal elaboration of the Cezanne’s ruralism and a “making” in a neo-romantic inspiration, with subtle atmospheric suggestions. The artist shows how he prefer an alternative line, a sort of moderate modernity rather than the ideas of a return to the order.
During the after-war period, far from the issues and matters of the painting of that time, Prencipe, already living in Rome where he teaches at the Accademia di belle arti from 1936, remains faithful to his own aesthetics of silence, going on painting melancholic urban views, often similar, for the choice of a sophisticated tonalism, to the atmospheres of the Scuola Romana.
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Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Lucca
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