From 1st April to 3rd Setember 2017
AMO PALAZZO FORTI - via Forti 1, Verona - Italy
Around 170 works from the collection of the Herakleidon Museum, Athens, are at AMO Arena Museo Opera - Palazzo Forti in Verona, from 1 April to 3 September 2017 in a major retrospective devoted to Toulouse-Lautrec, the aristocratic bohemian considered the greatest creator of posters and prints between the 19th and 20th century.
The works from the Herakleidon Museum in Athens illustrate the eccentric art and sophisticated yet anti-conformist and provocative poetic research – among the most innovative between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century – of one of the most popular and admired artists today. He was a "tormented artist" from his childhood who did not receive the recognition he deserved, though he was extremely optimistic and very aware of the beauty of life. A simple beauty, whose outlines were deliberately blurred, to be enjoyed in dissolute, vivid, wild moments, without embellishments, which he depicted both in his drawings and coloured works. No one since has been able to render so "perfectly" the face of imperfection. That is his style.
The exhibition includes coloured lithographs (like Jane Avril, 1893), advertising posters (like The Passenger in Cabin 54, 1895, and Aristide Bruant, in his Cabaret, 1893), pencil and pen and ink drawings, promotional graphics and magazine illustrations (as in La Revue blanche, 1895), that have become the emblems of an era inextricably connected with the images of Viscount Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
The exhibition Toulouse-Lautrec. La Belle Époque, with the patronage of the Comune di Verona, is organized by the Gruppo Arthemisia, with the support from the Gruppo AGSM – main sponsor of the initiative, and is curated by Stefano Zuffi.
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OPENING HOURS
Mondays 2.30pm – 7.30pm
Tuesday – Sunday 9.30am – 7.30pm
(last admittance at 6.30pm)
EXTRA OPENING HOURS
Sunday April 16: 9.30am – 7.30pm
Monday April 17: 9.30am – 7.30pm
Monday April 24: 9.30am – 7.30pm
Tuesday April 25: 9.30am – 7.30pm
Monday May 1st: 9.30am – 7.30pm
Sunday May 21: 9.30am – 7.30pm
Thursday June 2nd: 9.30am – 7.30pm
Tuesday August 15: 9.30am – 7.30pm
ADMISSION
Full price € 14,00 (audio guide included)
Concession € 12,00 (audio guide included)
Senior citizens over 65 (with ID); youths 11 to 18 years old; students under 26 with valid student ID; journalists with valid press card; Italian police officers and armed forces; disabled; Verona Card holders; ATV Lago di Garda ticket holders (buses from/to lago di Garda); coupon Qui! Cultura holders; AreAArte card holders; Idea Verona members; Associazione Verona Lirica members
Group concession € 11,00
min 15 max 25 people, booking required, mandatory microphone equipment
Special concession € 6,50 (audio guide included)
Children 4 to 11 years old
Schools € 5,00
min 15 max 25 people, booking required, mandatory microphone equipment for Secondary Schools only
Infant Schools € 3,00
min 15 max 25 people, booking required
Free admission (audio guide included)
children under 4; tourist guide with badge; disabled carer; teachers with school groups (2 per group); 1 tour leader each adult group; ICOM members (with ID); complimentary coupon holders; Arthemisia Group Vip card holders
BOOKING FEE
Individuals and adult groups € 1,50 each person
Schools € 1,00 each student
GUIDED TOURS (admission not included, booking required, min 15 max 25 people, mandatory microphone equipment)
Guided Tours for Schools € 80,00
Guided interactive Tours for Schools € 90,00
Guided tours in foreign language for Schools € 95,00
Guided tours for adult groups € 100,00
Guided tours in foreign language for adult groups € 115,00
MANDATORY MICROPHONE EQUIPMENT
Adults groups € 30,00
Schools € 15,00
INFO E RESERVATIONS
T+39 045 853771
(Monday to Friday 10.00am - 5.00pm)
GUIDED TOUR FOR INDIVIDUALS
(min 8 – max 25 pax)
LIFE IN ART
Nobody better than Toulouse Lautrec has been able to describe the beauty and the misery of the Belle Époque. He provides an uncensored depiction of the Paris of his time, living every extreme without hiding behind the scenes of that fascinating performance, which for him was “society”. Through his eyes and his spectacular hand, the spirit of the time is conveyed in the unforgettable images we will be able to admire in the exhibition in which the evocative ambiance of period s recreated.
Saturday, June 24th > 2.30 pm
Saturday, July 1st > 10 am
Information and booking T +39 02 20404175
(from Monday to Friday, 9 am > 6 pm)
COSTS
Entrance € 11,00 per person + guided tour € 8,00 per person + microphone equipment € 1,00 per person
The guided tour cost should be pre-paid during the booking.
Ticket and microphone equipment should be paid at the exhibition ticket office before the guided tour.