.:. art / the missing lady 

Berthe Morisot
October 16, 2024 through March 16, 2025

Italy has not lacked exhibitions of Impressionist paintings this millennium. Though the style of Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne and their followers was strikingly innovative when the movement emerged in late-19th-century France, their works are perfectly perceivable today. People are no longer afraid, and queue up to buy tickets.
.:. Still, what the GAM Torino is doing these months under the curation of Chiara Bertola is not commercial at all. Gathering, presenting and commenting a number of paintings by Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) stands as an innovative move. It may even be considered something in a #MeToo approach, because Berthe had a quite difficult career. Women were barred from formal art training at the time and – in her words – "I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they." Despite being a friend of Berthe, another leading Impressionist like Édouard Manet tried to convince her not to take part in their exhibitions. By 1880, however, she succeeded in being considered by influential critics among the best painters in the group.
.:. The airy, light-soaked painting of Morisot is at the centre of the new GAM season. Fifteen rooms have been opened to give birth to the autumn 2024 programme, including works by Mary Heilmann, Maria Morganti, Gastone Novelli, Achille Perilli, Alberto Burri, Cy Twombly, and Stefano Arienti (also responsible for the display of Berthe's exhibition), among others. A complete list would anyway be too long.

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