Max Ernst. Da collezioni francesi e italiane pubbliche e private

This solo exhibition of Max Ernst, 20 years after his death, wants to retrace his evolutionary itinerary through a display of more than 80 important works (divided into paintings, drawings, frottages, collages and documents from 1909 to the ’70s), which come from important French and Italian collections, mostly displayed for the first time in Italy.
The works by Max Ernst portray a very personal interpretation of the artistic vision of Surrealism, a movement in which the artist is one of the main representatives. In combining images of different nature and absolutely estranged to each other Ernst finds the suitable technique to represent the idea of systematic disorientation at the basis of his art. His natural strength of invention took him to experiment new techniques; of interest is the collage, where Ernst is the inventor and the frottage, the scrubbing of wood grains, of a leaf, of burlap, on colored surface or simple paper. Max Ernst has experimented with the frottage using both pencil and oil painting in “magic” works, born from the vision of a wood material that reveals elements and images from the subconscious, which can all be interpreted according to different points of view.