art
Painting - Sculpture
Carlo Carrą on display
Palazzo Salmatoris
from 11.10.2008 to 14.12.2008
The exhibit dedicated to Carlo Carrà, the artist from Alessandria, open at the Palazzo Salmatoris of Cherasco, is offering a full exposition that ranges from the artist’s first paintings (of an academically figurative style), dating back to the early 20th century, to the final anarcho-primitivism testing of the 1950’s. Approximately 70 works are on display, those “post-metaphysic” works, among others, hold particular importance since this period is a decisive moment of Carrà’s artistic evolution. At this time, during the mid 1920’s, he begins a solitary quest and takes steps to further himself from group experiences. He is interested in landscape above all, a constant element of many of his paintings behind which, aside from a depiction of the real world, he grasps the essence of things in an attempt to bring external reality to his canvas by connecting it to his own inner reality made up of memories, sensations and feelings. This is Carrà’s thought and it is what stands at the foundation of all of his painting, flooded with poetry, that emerges from his work.
