Self-Reflection Omar Galliani | Lorenzo Puglisi | Tintoretto

The Art Museum #riga Bourse   Riga - Latvia in #collaboration with the Uffizi Galleries

Exhibits

Self-Reflection

Omar Galliani | Lorenzo Puglisi | Tintoretto 

21 August – 14 November 2021 

Curated by Astrīda Rogule 

Opening, August 20 at 17:00 

The Art Museum #riga Bourse, a department of the Latvian National Museum of Art specializing in the promotion of international art, proposes a reflection on self-portrait and does so by inviting two of the greatest Italian artists of today, Omar Galliani and Lorenzo Puglisi, choosing to support them with a master of the past, Jacopo Robusti, better known as Tintoretto (Venice, 1518-1594).

Thanks to the #collaboration with the Uffizi Galleries, The Boris and Ināra Teterev Foundation (Latvia) and the Embassy of Italy in Riga, the famous Portrait of a Man, a masterpiece of the Venetian master, will arrive for the first time at The Latvian National Museum of Art. This work becomes the fulcrum of a comparison around which the self-narration, through images, Of two contemporary artists, #omargalliani and #lorenzopuglisi, represents the peaks of the self-portrait in Italian art of today.

The two artists, who exhibited together in unique and evocative places such as the coronation chapel of the Riso Museum in Palermo (2016), the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples (2017), the Francesco Messina Museum in Milan (2018) continue their fruitful creative #collaboration, beyond the Italian borders for the Self-Reflection exhibition.
The exhibition will be held at #theartmuseumrigabourse located in a building from the second half of the 19th century that recalls the Venice of Jacopo Robusti in its architectural structure. In the large main hall, once the seat of the #riga Stock Exchange, #omargalliani and #lorenzopuglisi each present six large works and a self-portrait (already acquired for the Uffizi Galleries collection) with which they engage in an empathic dialogue and beyond time with Tintoretto's Portrait of a Man. 

The exhibition intends to lead the visitor to reflect on the act of artistic creation, where the artist's inner world is represented, sublimating even the outer world in the form of himself: the result of a process of "self-reflection" that has always occurred in different eras.   

Omar Galliani and Lorenzo Puglisi today, drawing on the centuries-old tradition witnessed by the great master of the sixteenth century, offer the opportunity to admire the evolution of this path: Tintoretto is their "ancestor" and his masterpiece exemplifies in an illuminating way the profound understanding of self and the nature of the human being. Philosophy and practice create a connection between the Sixteenth century and third millennium through the infinite possibilities of painting and drawing.

It is important to reiterate how Italian art still plays a leading role in the contemporary world, at an international level. The Self-Reflection exhibition, dedicated to Italian art of the past and present, is a great gift to Latvian viewers and tourists visiting #riga, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the #riga Bourse Art Museum.

Further information in the press release to download