The Riga Stock Exchange will mark the tenth anniversary of the museum with an exhibition of Italian works of art / Article

Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Riga Stock Exchange Art Museum in cooperation with the world-famous Florence Uffizi Gallery will open an Italian art exhibition, Self-Discovery. Tintoreto, Omar Galljani, Lorenzo Puljizi “, the museum representatives informed. The center of the exhibition will consist of the Renaissance outstanding Venetian Tintoreto’s painting “Portrait of a Young Man”, which, according to the organizers of the exhibition, will be on display in Riga for the first time. The exhibition will be open from August 21 to November 14.

“The image of the Riga Stock Exchange is undeniably connected with Italy, which is also reflected in the building built in the glorious Venetian palazzo forms. Therefore, it was a clear choice to mark this anniversary, just like the opening of the museum premises, with the presence of Italian culture. 10 years ago it was the collection of glass objects of the Berengo studio “Glasstress Riga” and a year later – the work of Dmitry Gutov in the atrium of the “Gondola” museum. This summer it will be a interplay of contemporary and classical art in “Self-Revelation”. The exhibition is created in collaboration with the world-famous Galleria degli Uffizi and would not have been possible without the support of the Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation, ”says Daiga Upeniece, Head of the Riga Stock Exchange at the Art Museum.

Italian contemporary artists Omar Galliani and Lorenzo Puglisi will introduce the audience to large-format compositions created especially for the exhibition, whose ideas and choice of means of artistic expression are rooted in the Italian painting tradition. Both artists have repeatedly created joint exhibitions in Italy – at the Museo Francesco Messina in Milan (2018), the Pio Monte della Misericordia in Naples (2017) and the Palazzo Riso in Sicily at the Palazzo Riso (2016), so the exhibition is on the Riga Stock Exchange. for a purposeful continuation of their creative cooperation.

Each author will exhibit seven works in the exhibition, which will form a dialogue about the values ​​of existence that are important to them: man’s place in the world, beautiful and valuable, threats and fears, courage and love. Although the artistic manuscripts of Galliano and Puljizi are very different, they are united by a faith in the search for artistic truth by the great masters of the Italian Renaissance.

Both artists are united by the view that the great teachers of the past are an inexhaustible source of inspiration, both in art and in the way an artist must serve his talent. Therefore, the center of the exhibition will be the “Portrait of a Young Man” by the outstanding Renaissance Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin, Tintoretto, 1518–1594), which will be shown for the first time in Riga thanks to the collaboration with the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

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