Illegio’s new exhibition is all about revisiting the past while reflecting on the finest artists who have so far given their lives to art, leaving an indelible memory of what passion, discipline, and creativity combined look like. An opportunity to be inspired while having an emphasis on the roles of wisdom and hard work when it is lost in the age of GPT. The Illegio exhibition will display the finest 52 masterpieces one should necessarily see in their life, running from June 6, 2025, to November 9, 2025, in Casa delle Esposizioni – Piazza don G.B.Piemonte – ILLEGIO (UD).
The art show goes by the name, “Richness Dilemma Perenne,” and is curated by Don Alessio Geretti. The 52 masterpieces that come on the display, were selected to showcase a journey of beauty spanning five hundred years, from the mid-15th century to the mid-20th century.
One of the most exciting canvases of the exhibition is the very famous ‘Boy Bitten by a Lizard’ by Caravaggio, which is an extraordinary late sixteenth-century painting that shows a moment of action. The painting shows the rejection of artistic convention as Caravaggio painted it directly onto the canvas from live models. There is an immediacy and an emotional intensity in the work.
Some of the other canvases include: two works from Titian; a panel that depicts the moving mysticism between light, penumbra, and intensity of the characters on stage by Rembrandt; an unpublished painting by Pieter Brueghel the Elder; and one of the iconic and most powerful painting of the 20th century by Pellizza da Volpedo, ‘The Fourth Estate.’ Other artists whose paintings are included in this art show are Pablo Picasso, Renato Guttuso, Lorenzo Lotto, Filippino Lippi, Giovanni Bellini, and Mattia Preti.
One of the most interesting parts of the exhibition is that it will offer a unique opportunity to enjoy 17 works that were never accessible to the public as they resided in the secret collection. Furthermore, the topical theme selected for the exhibition will show wealth in human life and the affairs of the world, a theme chosen by Illegio first and foremost. Thereby, the exhibition will hearten the viewers on one side, but on the other side, it will send a strong ethical and spiritual message.
Featured Image: Boy Bitten by a Lizard by Caravaggio; Caravaggio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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