Ugo Valeri (1873-1911) Sentiment and unease
At Museum Correr, in Venice from 4 March to 7 May 2006 will take place the exhibition, which organized by Musei Civici Veneziani and Edizionitrart. This exhibition contains around one hundred works in oils, ink, tempera and pencil. It illustrates the work of the Venetian painter, an emblematic figure of the restless and lively artistic world that existed in the city at the end of the nineteenth/beginning of the twentieth century. This exhibition is organized in such a way that it offers a compendium of the artist’s vast output and focuses on the use of line in his work. Also it demonstrating how he used serpentine outline to construct and model his figures, making them turns and twists in gestures that verge on the caricature. It also shows how Valeri then applied watercolors to dilute these effects, creating the sort of rarefied atmosphere one finds in his Folk Dancing: Prelude and Folk Dancing: Finale.