After more than sixty years Van Gogh returns to Milan with a major exhibition that traces the Dutch painter’s works.

The recurring themes will focus on the phases of rural life, enunciated by ploughing in the fields, sowing and harvesting, symbols of human effort to dominate the cycles of nature: a complex and poetic dialogue by the artist between the human being and the nature that surrounds him.

The core collection of paintings and drawings are taken from the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands and will be supplemented by loans from many international museums.

Curated by Kathleen Adler, a renowned scholar of nineteenth-century art who served for eleven years as Director of Education at the National Gallery in London, the exhibition presents some of the most famous masterpieces of the great artist shown for the first time in Milan, including ‘Self-portrait’, 1887, ‘Landscape with wheat sheaves and the crescent moon’, 1889, ‘Portrait of Joseph Roulin’, 1889 and ‘Still life with a plate of onions’, 1889.

The exhibition explores the evolution of painting through the master's early work, his encounter with Impressionism and the Neo-Impressionism of Seurat and Signac; it ends with the period in Arles and his time in the hospital of Saint-Remy where he died.

The exhibition layout will be curated by the Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, the much-acclaimed international architect with a very poetic vein whose involvement represents the crowning of this ambitious project for the exhibition that totally "immerses" the visitor into each work of art.

ADDRESS:

Palazzo Reale

Period:

From October 2014 to March 2015:

Mon: 2:30pm-7:30pm

Tue-Wed: 09:30am-7:30pm

Thu: 09:30am-10:30pm

Fri: 09:30am-7:30pm

Sat: 09:30am-10:30pm

Sun: 09:30am-7:30pm

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