Mario Reviglione | Amorous Disquiet

From an idea by Vittorio Sgarbi. Curated by Beatrice Avanzi and Adriano Olivieri

The Mart is dedicating a major exhibition to Mario Reviglione, a painter, engraver and draughtsman active in the early 20th century. Reviglione had a reserved temperament and began his artistic career in Turin in the early 20th century; he quickly moved away from academic artistic languages, which he considered outdated, and came into contact with the modernist circles that revolved around Leonardo Bistolfi. He was close to Symbolism, and absorbed some of its haunting and fantastic atmospheres. He defined his own original artistic language, far removed from the trends and endorsed by numerous critics. He received recognition and awards, participated in three Venice Biennales (in 1907, 1912 and 1926) and in the International Exhibition of Secessionist Art in Rome (1913).
After the First World War, Reviglione’s counter-cultural outlook and reserved character prompted him to retreat into private life and lead an increasingly secluded existence.

The exhibition "Mario Reviglione. Amorous Disquiet" restores well-deserved prominence to one of the most interesting and least known artists of the last century. Through 60 works, including paintings, drawings, engravings and documents, it reconstructs, for the first time, the entire span of Reviglione's artistic career.

Source: www.mart.tn.it