The exhibition tells the story of Modigliani through faces and the people behind those gazes. Visitors enter through the self-portrait, the threshold of the route, and move through his life in chapters: Modigliani's time, from 1884 to 1920, with the dealers Paul Guillaume and Léopold Zborowski; bohemian Paris, with Montparnasse, the Bateau-Lavoir and Chez Rosalie; the portraits of women, from Anna Achmatova to Beatrice Hastings, read as archetypes; Jeanne Hébuterne, the most intimate room; and finally the nudes. In 1917 they led the police to close his only solo exhibition. Today they are among the masterpieces of modern painting.
Works, historical photographs, letters and documents build the narrative. It continues in content available through QR codes, in a video room and in a virtual reality experience set in early twentieth-century Paris. The artist's quotations, present in every section, are also in Braille. During the weeks the exhibition is open, the rooms host school classes with drawing workshops. Of every ticket, 35% goes to the social cooperative "I Ragazzi della Luna", which works in Cinisello Balsamo with people with autism spectrum disorder.
Amalart conceived the exhibition and was responsible for its narrative, route, coordination and communication, with Sergio Banchellini of Ophis as artistic director. The project tests a way of working: an exhibition built as a narrative, rigorous in content and open to a wide public, in a public venue in the city.
Before, in Chivasso, November 2025: Modigliani at the Chivasso Biennale →
