The Experience of Art / Gianluca Poldi talks about Giovanni Boldini
25.05.2023 from 18:00 to 19:30
The Experience of Art
25 May 2023, 6pm* – 7.30pm
Gianluca Poldi, Giovanni Boldini tra finito e non finito
Sala delle Orchidee – Villa Cerruti
On 25 May 2023, from 6pm to 7.30pm, Gianluca Poldi, expert in scientific analyzes for the study and conservation of works of art, will analyze the creative process of Giovanni Boldini, an Italian painter who between nineteenth and twentieth centuries was a beloved portraitist of Parisian high society. The meeting is an opportunity to present the new volume edited by Poldi, with Fabio Frezzato, Giovanni Boldini. Il processo creativo. Indagini scientifiche e conservazione, Antiga Edizioni, Cornuda (Treviso) 2022.
* Tickets must be collected by 5.45pm at Castello di Rivoli Ticket Office
The conference, for a maximum of 16 people, is held in the Sala delle Orchidee of Villa Cerruti and includes a special visit to the Villa.
Reservation is required on the page https://www.castellodirivoli.org/tickets/#
The cost of the full ticket is € 26.50; reduced ticket € 19.50 (journalists, groups of 3 or more people, Abbonamento Musei Piemonte Valle d’Aosta); € 10.00 for university students up to the age of 26 and equivalent institutions. The ticket includes admission to Castello di Rivoli which can be visited on the same day, before the meeting. The Museum closes at 5.30pm, but it is possible to go to the Ticket Office in the Manica Lunga until 5.45pm.The shuttle to the Cerruti Collection leaves at 5.55pm from the square in front of Castello di Rivoli.
To collect the ticket, it is necessary to go to the Castello di Rivoli Ticket Office at least 15 minutes before the departure of the shuttle.
[Image: Giovanni Boldini, Reclining Nude, c. 1889-1893. Oil on canvas, 74 x 65 cm. Collection Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte, long-term loan Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin]
Gianluca Poldi
Professor, Università di Bergamo. Physicist, he holds a doctorate in Science for Cultural Assets (Florence) and one in Literature (Bergamo). He specializes in scientific analysis, above all non-invasive, for the study and conservation of works of cultural interest. He has taught at the universities of Milan and Verona and examined thousands of paintings in museums and private collections in Italy and abroad, dedicating numerous studies to the pictorial technique of various artists, among them Mantegna, Bellini, Bramantino, Carpaccio, Lotto, Titian, Tiepolo, up to Segantini, Boccioni, de Chirico, Albers.