PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS

FRANCIS BACON
7 March – 20 June 1993
Less than a year after the death of the artist (Dublin 1909-Madrid 1992) more than seventy works were put on display, amongst them important triptychs, which documented his production from his inception at the end of the twenties to his last works in 1991. Side by side with his well-known keynote works from different periods of his career, lesser known paintings of great prominence were also exhibited.

EMIL NOLDE
13 March – 5 June 1994
A consistent and diversified collection of 70 paintings and more than a hundred water colours and engravings covered all the periods and themes in the career of Nolde, the pseudonym of Emil Hansen (Nolde, Germany 1867 – Seebüll 1956); from the works produced at the turn of the century to his imaginative landscape paintings and later, intense expressionist works.

CHAIM SOUTINE
12 March - 18 June 1995
An anthology with over eighty paintings provided a wide-ranging approach to the work of this artist (Smilovitchi, Bielorussia 1893-Paris 1943), who was trained in Vilna, Lithuania but settled permanently in Paris from 1913 onwards. The exhibition documents the varied themes of his production: landscapes, portraits and the famous still lifes.

CONSTANT PERMEKE
17 March – 2 June 1996
A consistent body of work from the Constant Permeke Museum in Jabbeke and the many loans from museums in Belgium and Holland (around seventy in all, produced between 1907 and 1951) illustrated the development of the artist’s career, starting with impressionism and symbolism and culminating in a special kind of expressionism, simplified over time and characterised by typically Flemish chromatic accents.

GEORGES ROUAULT
23 March – 22 June 1997
An exhibition which touched on the two sides of the art of Georges Rouault (Paris 1871-1958), in which seventy paintings produced between 1892 and 1956 were shown, accompanied by fifty-eight engravings of the “Miserere” published in 1948. All the themes of his production were documented, from those of a biblical and religious nature, to the world of the circus, to the famous Judges series, flowers, women’s heads, legendary landscapes.

EDVARD MUNCH
19 September – 13 December 1998
An anthology dedicated to one of the fathers of Expressionism who, with an important nucleus of graphic works and some seventy extraordinary pictorial works, including the celebrated masterpieces “The Scream”, “The Dance of Life”, “Girls on the Bridge”, illustrated the creative parabola of the great Norwegian master, from his naturalistic beginnings to the symbolist experience, up to the formal results which foreshadowed the birth of modern expressionist painting.


AMEDEO MODIGLIANI
28 March – 27 june 1999
The entire career of Amedeo Modigliani, from the early years in Livorno in the footsteps of the Macchiaioli to the Paris period, during which his own autonomous and personal language matured, is revisited in some sixty paintings, twenty drawings and exceptionally, also a few examples of his sculptures from private collections and museums around the world.

ERNST LUDWIG KIRCHNER
19 March – 2 July 2000
A collection of more than a hundred works made it possible to follow the creative path of one of the founding members of the first group of German expressionism, "Die Brücke": from the early works to the landscapes of the Swiss Alps, without forgetting the famous “Street Scenes” inspired by turn-of-the-century Berlin.

MARC CHAGALL
8 March – 1 July 2001
The retrospective provided a very complete overview of the production of the great master. Over seventy paintings dating from the years in Russia (1908-1910) to the last years in France (1960-1980), together with some forty works on paper including water colours, gouaches and drawings and a few sculptures.

EGON SCHIELE
16 March – 29 June 2003
The exhibition covered the main themes of the work of the great Austrian master, who died at the age of only 28, through 40 canvasses and as many works on paper. In the drawings section, exhibited on the first floor, some of his most famous erotic nudes were displayed; the second floor, entirely dedicated to the paintings, revealed lesser known facets of his production: portraits, landscapes and townscapes.

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT
20 March – 19 June 2005
The retrospective covered in some fifty paintings, twenty drawings and a few Collaborations produced with Andy Warhol and Francesco Clemente the entire artistic career of the enfant terrible of the art world, who soon became a symbol of the New York multiethnic culture of the eighties. Completing the visit to the exhibition were original photographs by the Lugano director Edo Bertoglio, some of which were taken during the shooting of the film New York Beat, later renamed Downtown 81, in which Basquiat played himself in the principal role of an as yet unknown artist in New York’s downtown at the beginning of the eighties.

CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE
12 March – 18 June 2006
The wide-ranging anthology documented the principal themes and times of the multifaceted career of the famous couple of artists who assumed an original and front-line role in the history of twentieth century art. Their chronological career revealed their special artistic development: from the first Packages and Wrapped Objects up to the realisation of works which depart from the spaces traditionally dedicated to artistic production. Through the preparatory drawings, studies, collages and scale models – which in themselves represent genuine art works – the itinerary of the Lugano exhibition gave the public a chance to get closer to the complex articulation of the planning phases of their interventions, revealing creations of a transitory nature, of which nothing remains but the historic memory and the photographs of Wolfgang Volz.


MIQUEL BARCELÓ
12 November 2006 – 4 February 2007
The retrospective revisited the fascinating career of the enfant prodige of Spanish and European painting through the presentation of works of absolute intensity and sculptures of rare expressive force, and provided a complete overview revealing the extraordinary character of the poetic spirit of Barceló between his devotion to nature and his visionary approach.
The exhibition presented on the first two floors, more than fifty paintings, produced as from the early eighties and characterised by autobiographical subjects and a figurative style, up to the more recent works dictated by a more essentially representative technique which is, however, strongly material in the use of pigments. The third floor presented his works on paper and sculptures: about thirty gouaches, drawings and bronzes completed the impression gained on the lower floors.


OTHER EXHIBITIONS

Giuseppe Antonio Petrini (1677-1758)
September 14 – November 24, 1991

Varlin. Dipinti
May 10 - July 19, 1992

Thomas Hart-Benton
September 6 – November 15, 1992

Emilio Vedova. Antologica
September 12 – November 7, 1993

Gilbert & George
June 19 – August 21, 1994

Antonio Saura
September 4 – November 6, 1994

Max Gubler
September 10 – November 5, 1995

Francisco Goya. L’opera incisa
September 22 – November 17, 1996

Fernando Botero
July 31 – October 12, 1997

Mario Comensoli
April 5 – July 5, 1998

James Ensor. L’opera incisa
September 12 – November 7, 1999

Igor Mitoraj
March 22 – June 30, 2002

Passioni d'Arte
September 22 – December 8, 2002

Giovanni Fattori
September 14 – November 30, 2003

Arnaldo Pomodoro
March 26 – June 13, 2004e

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