2023-11-06 16:34:19
The Uffizi Galleries in Florence bring Titian and the Venetian Renaissance to Hong Kong, China. The Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMOA) welcomes the first large-scale exhibition of its kind hosted in the major Asian metropolis between now and February 28, 2024.
The exhibition, entitled “Titian and the Venetian Renaissance from the Uffizi” offers the Chinese public 50 works by Titian and Venetian artists of the same period, such as Giorgione, Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese and other masters; largely portraits and works of biblical and mythological subjects, they allow visitors to immerse themselves in the artistic world of the Venetian pictorial school. There are “Flora” by Titian, “Venus and Cupid with a dog and a partridge”, “Portrait of Tommaso Mosti” and “Madonna della Misericordia”; Giorgione’s “Moses Tried by Fire”, Tintoretto’s “Venus, Cupid and Vulcan” and Veronese’s “Baptism of Christ”. This exhibition is the second collaboration between the HKMoA and the Uffizi under the memorandum of understanding signed between the two museums in 2019. The first exhibition, held in 2019, was an exhibition on Botticelli and the Florentine Renaissance.
To accompany the exhibition, the HKMoA invited local artists Leung Chi Wo and Chan Kwan-lok to draw inspiration from the Venetian school of painting to create their works, establishing a dialogue that spans the centuries to build a bridge between contemporary art today and the Italian Renaissance. The site-specific art installation, “Tears of Tempo,” created by visual artist Leung with vintage 19th and 20th century Venetian glass lamps, allows viewers to explore the subtle yet inexorable signs of time; Instead, Chan Kwan-lok uses traditional ink techniques to personify natural elements in the 13 gongbi paintings of his ink art installation, “The Connection with Nature.”
The exhibition, organized by the Uffizi Galleries and Hkmoa, is presented by the LCSD and the MiC – Italian Ministry of Culture and sponsored by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust. In collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy in Hong Kong, the exhibition is supported by the Italian Cultural Institute of Hong Kong and is part of the ‘Italia in Stage’ programme.
The director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt, explained: “The exhibition gave us the opportunity to restore around ten works from the Uffizi deposits which until now were not in a condition to be exhibited. Now they finally shine in their original colors and it is Indeed, it was possible to observe that their quality was higher than previously thought, to the point that in the case of the Bacchanal, a work hitherto considered a seventeenth-century copy, it emerged that it was painted under the eyes – and perhaps with a few brushstrokes – of Titian himself, in his workshop. These findings therefore confirm the virtuousness of the principle of generating money to support restorations with the proceeds of exhibitions, while at the same time providing opportunities for new research thanks to exhibitions abroad”.
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