Goya. La ribellione della ragione

Exhibition at Palazzo Reale Milan from October 31, 2023 to March 3, 2024

This exhibition and the accompanying catalog do not have as their object the creation of yet another exhibition of an anthological and collected nature, to be added to those already accomplished.

Although the works describe the painter’s artistic evolution, the stages of that evolution, and the themes covered, Goya’s background and otherworldliness, his experience of History, his attitude as an artist, his thinking, and his ideology prevail as the common denominator.

For Goya is, from the point of view of plasticity, one of the artists who opens up to modernity. But he is also – and as a result of this – the first artist whose works are the result of his experiences, personal feelings, passions and sufferings, as well as his view of the world around him.

He is one of the first artists to identify with life. Hence, his obsession with shedding the constraints of patronage in order to paint freely. That is why it is not possible to understand his painting without knowing his life, nor his life except through his painting.