Cézanne / Renoir | Skira - palazzo reale milano LIGHT, SPACE AND THE ATELIER- immersive installation / museum exhibition

Renoir and Cézanne shared a fascination with light, the element that gives colour and shape to the world and arouses myriad emotions. Controlling, choosing and reconstructing the light are the stylistic approaches used by Cézanne and Renoir to transmit emotions. The dynamic perception of reality enabled them to capture the differences in light with the passing of the hours. This space is a tribute to their exploration. Thanks to today's technology, we have represented an ideal studio, with sunlight that can be controlled and fixed on forms, without changing. In this way, we can stop time to manage to see the essence of the two artists' research. Defining the subtle relationship between instant, reality and interpretation, the difference between day and night allows us to observe the colour of shadows, which are never black but full of blue tones and infinite reflections. The impression, consisting in overlapping colours and movements, is created over more than a single, fleeting moment. Reality, nature and the artist's emotion are brought together by the light, the thread linking research en plein air and work in the studio. Based on documentation of Renoir's studio in Cagnes-sur-Mer and Cézanne's in Jas de Bouffan, this room reproduces the relationship of each artist with his own space. The studio becomes a meeting place between "reality" and the artist, a space that overcomes its character as a closed “place/space". Not only is the studio represented but also the artist's intimate relationship with the outside world. In effect, the studio is an open place which allows you to look out onto the world, to observe, to take shelter, to leave and to return. Nature teaches through its forms, which the artist interprets with an ever more personal vision.
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