{"id":1573,"date":"2019-12-11T12:09:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T12:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/konradmagi.ee\/?post_type=exhibitions&p=1573"},"modified":"2023-09-21T13:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T13:43:52","slug":"musei-reali-turin","status":"publish","type":"exhibitions","link":"https:\/\/konradmagi.ee\/en\/exhibitions\/musei-reali-turin\/","title":{"rendered":"Musei Reali Torino"},"content":{"rendered":"

The exhibition Konrad M\u00e4gi. The Light of the North<\/em> was opened at the Musei Reali Torino<\/a> on 29 November by the President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid.<\/p>\n

This exhibition has been put together jointly by the Art Museum of Estonia, the Musei Reali and the Konrad M\u00e4gi Foundation and it comes at the same time as the passing of one hundred years since M\u00e4gi\u2019s trip to Italy. The exposition consisting of more than fifty paintings, portraits and sketches is one of the largest solo exhibitions of this artist\u2019s works in Europe. The works that will be displayed are from the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia, the Tartu Art Museum, the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre, the private collections of Enn Kunila and Peeter V\u00e4rnik, and the art collection of the Estonian Students\u2019 Society.<\/p>\n

For Enrica Pagella, the director of Musei Reali, the exhibition Konrad M\u00e4gi. The Light of the North<\/em> is simultaneously a discovery and a challenge for the public. \u2018On the one hand, we\u2019re still introducing to them a relatively unknown artist and his world, which has been formed by experiences and contacts with Estonia, St. Petersburg, Paris and Rome. On the other hand, M\u00e4gi\u2019s paintings present a real challenge to the viewer because his pictorial language is admittedly direct, but it contains symbols from different art trends starting with the art nouveau style and fauvism all the way to impressionism and expressionism. This has to be interpreted on the background of concrete personal sources of inspiration, like something that originates from a distant foreign country and only observes the customs of its own homeland,\u2019 she discussed. She further said that M\u00e4gi is a painter who has added a separate chapter to Europe\u2019s cultural history with his use of images, colour and light.<\/p>\n

A documentary film on Konrad M\u00e4gi created especially for this exhibition by the film director Marianne K\u00f5rver can be watched at the exhibition.<\/p>\n

The curator of the exhibition is Eero Epner, its designer is T\u00f5nis Saadoja, and its graphic designer is K\u00e4tlin Tischler.<\/p>\n

The exhibition Konrad M\u00e4gi. La Luce del Nord<\/em> will be open to the public from 30 November 2019 to 8 March 2020.<\/p>\n

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