PAUL GAUGUIN. ARTISTA DI MITO E SOGNO (PAUL GAUGUIN. ARTIST OF THE MYTHS AND DREAMS)

Paul Gauguin had an eventful life. He was born in France, spent his childhood in Peru (his mother was a Peruvian Creole), lived for long periods in Paris and Tahiti, attempted to settle in Brittany and died in the Marquesas islands in French Polynesia...

Paul Gauguin was anchored to classicism, a sedative alienation against a dissatisfactory present. He was a symbolist deeply struck by the work of Cézanne and Pissarro and was obsessed by the idea of pure and untamed painting and by a quest to merge both art and life.

Paul Gauguin was rejected by France and considered subversive, he spoke using colour, clear contours and rarefied atmospheres. He allowed his primitive and mythical characters to inhabit a literary Eden, possibly in a quest to locate the Peru of his infancy...

Paul Gauguin will sate our hunger for beauty. Venue: the Vittoriano museum.