At last, in Italy, there will be an exhibition dedicated to Piet Mondrian with masterpieces, exceptionally granted on loan by the Gemeentemuseum of The Hague to the Museum of Santa Giulia (Brescia), that will be open to the public since 28th October 2006 until 25th March 2007.

This exhibition gathers about eighty Mondrian’s masterpieces, that are of very high quality because they show the artist’s whole pictorial journey.

For the first time, it will be possible to admire the figurative section, which, for almost fifteen years, characterized Mondrian’s works and which led, during the early 1920s, to the more and more geometrical abstraction. This abstraction led him to the geometrical shapes with black strips, white planes and red, yellow and blue squares, that we all know.

To Mondrian, painting arises from the union of three fundamental aspects: form, line and colour and its sole objective is the realisation of Beauty. Beauty, not as the attribute of reality, but as a spiritual entity in itself.

The artist’s strength and determination in searching for a harmony through essentiality and continuous evolution, by means of his works, personally impress us. He is an artist who first of all searched for the not material side of reality and who gave prominence to the spiritual side of what surrounds us.

We think this opportunity is worth seizing to know better Mondrian’s works. Perhaps, we’ll speak about it in some months, when we also will have the chance to admire this exhibition and to voice better our feelings about it.

Have a good time!

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