Stanislao Pointeau, a Tuscan Macchiaiolo of French origins. - San Casciano in Val di Pesa

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EVENT NAME: Exhibition "Stanislao Pointeau, a Tuscan Macchiaiolo of French origins".

EVENT PLACE: Giuliano Ghelli Museum, San Casciano in Val di Pesa, Metropolitan City of Florence

EVENT DATE: from 26 October 2024 to 16 February 2025

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

Terre degli Uffizi returns to San Casciano with a monographic exhibition dedicated for the first time to the Franco-Florentine painter Stanislao Pointeau and the role he played in the genesis and maturation of the "macchia" in Florence and Tuscany. Son of Jean-Louis, a wine representative originally from Blois, in the Centre-Loire Valley region, and Giovanna Piacenti, from Florence, Stanislao was born in Florence. At the beginning of the fifties, he studied in the local Academy of Fine Arts. At the same time, he attended Caffè Michelangiolo founded, together with Telemaco Signorini and other artists, the Macchiaioli group. Carlo Del Bravo was the first to rediscover his drawings and canvases, publishing an essay in the "Annali della Scuola Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia" in 1979.

The exhibition is set up in the premises of the Ghelli Museum in San Casciano in Val di Pesa and is open to the public from 26 October 2024 to 16 February 2025. The event is a unique opportunity to continue to explore the interests of Carlo Del Bravo, through a new look at his research linked to the rediscovery of certain nineteenth-century Italian and European paintings, in an ideal path of valorization that follows the successful Jacopo Vignali exhibition in San Casciano. Paintings from the Uffizi Galleries in memory of Carlo Del Bravo, curated by Lorenzo Gnocchi and Donatella Pegazzano (1 October 2022 - 26 February 2023).

This, thanks to the exhibition project curated by Michele Amedei, student of the prof. Del Bravo, with whom he studied at the University of Florence.

The exhibition includes the presence of works largely coming from private collections - in particular from the Pointeau heirs - but also from the GAM-Gallery of Modern Art of Palazzo Pitti and from the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints of the Uffizi, thus strengthening? the link between the Ghelli Museum and the Uffizi Galleries. Two paintings were also exceptionally lent by the Matteucci Institute of Viareggio.

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