Landscapes and portraits in the MAMA collections

From 05 October 2017 to 29 October 2017

The Landscapes and Portraits exhibition in the MAMA collections is an overview of a small part of the museum's collections which have been built up in recent years largely thanks to donations from generous collectors.

The Landscapes and Portraits exhibition in the MAMA collections is an overview of a small part of the museum's collections which have been built up in recent years largely thanks to donations from generous collectors. Rich and varied in authors, mediums and artistic genres, this heritage deserves to be shown in order to bring the works to life by sharing them with the public.

With this exhibition, we begin a cycle that will focus on the themes, genres and mediums that make up the collections according to the works available.

In this first exhibition, works relating to the landscape and the portrait were selected. We can observe the diversity of the mediums, styles and approaches used by the artists who give to see multiple and different representations of the landscape and the portrait carried out at different periods and moments of their creative course.

The exhibition which brings together local and foreign artists offers a sample of these two genres which have existed in art since antiquity and which continue to live and express the life of men in their environment, their states of mind and their relationship to the world.

Globalization, new technologies, digital, internet have generated the social, economic and cultural transformations which are changing the face of the world; art has evolved towards new modes of expression, new mediums and new looks that are increasing at breakneck speed the quantity of images we consume. But whatever the upheavals that the representation of the world undergoes, the portrait as a look at ourselves and the landscape as a look at our environment (natural or artificial) remain present, in whatever form, in the imagination of artists. and man in general.