An exciting exhibition is coming to mark the program of the Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, starting with the Rio de Janeiro museum -
Marc Chagall: dream of love. There will be 186 works by the 20th century artist, who stood out for his use of colors and creation of a lyrical, poetic and fantastic universe in his paintings and writings, and for his unique trajectory, guided by the love he devoted to life and the arts.
The exhibition is now available for visitors in Rio and will remain open until June 6, when it will travel to Brasília, Belo Horizonte and São Paulo.
Below, check out the complete calendar: National opening: Banco do Brasil Cultural Center Rio de Janeiro When: from 3/16 to 6/6/2022
Other cities: - CCBB DF: 6/28 to 9/18/2022
- CCBB BH: 10/12 to 1/9/2023
- CCBB SP: 1/2 to 10/4/2023
Right at the entrance to the exhibition, the “Dream of Love” is announced by the contemporary installation Air Fountain, kindly provided by the artist Daniel Wurtzel. In the exhibition rooms, the continuous route presents a selection of works produced by Chagall throughout his career, from which the themes emerge: Russian origins and traditions; love and exile in the representation of the sacred world; lyricism and poetry, rediscovered in his return to France, and transcendent love, an ode to the feeling of being in love, present in the figure of the lovers who float on the screens or are immersed among branches of flowers.
According to the exhibition's curator, Lola Durán Úcar, the selection included works “that show different techniques and supports that Chagall used with great virtuosity: oils, temperas and gouaches, lithographs and black and white etchings and hand-colored ones”.
The exhibition that arrives in Brazil presents four sections, which deal with different themes of the Russian painter's work. The first part is entitled
Chagall. Russian Origins and Traditions . This section presents two paintings of significant importance, the
cattle seller (
The beast dealer), of 1922, and
Russian Village (
Russian village ), 1929.
Also part of this first section of the exhibition is one of Chagall's most important projects, in which his idea of tradition is closely linked to the peasant life of his childhood and adolescence in the village of Vitebsk, in the company of animals and surrounded by nature. We highlight the complete graphic series of
Fables inspired by the work of La Fontaine, a 17th century French writer, in which he dialogues with popular culture and delves into human behavior, metaphorized in the French writer's texts.
