{"id":4123,"date":"2026-10-15T16:34:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/?page_id=4123"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:35:07","slug":"aprireleportedellanotte","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/madeinart.it\/en\/picabia\/aprireleportedellanotte","title":{"rendered":"The Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Night with Francis Picabia<\/h2>\n

From 9 October 2026 to 24 January 2027, Palazzo Reale presents the largest exhibition ever held in Italy on Francis Picabia (1879-1953), one of the most original and influential figures in twentieth-century art.<\/p>\n

Over 170 works from European museums and international collections, together with photographs, personal documents and previously unseen family archives. The exhibition does not follow a chronological order: it unfolds as a sleepless night spent in the artist\u2019s company, from dusk to dawn. Each room corresponds to an hour of the night and to a theme.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFor him, it was not enough simply to live; one had to live twice, to live by day and by night, to live with style, turning existence into a celebration, an adventure pursued to the point of ecstasy.\u201d
\nAnne Berest Picabia, curator<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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An Artist Who Never Stopped Changing<\/h3>\n

Born in Paris to a Spanish father and a French mother, Picabia lived and worked between Paris, New York, Barcelona, Zurich and the French Riviera, mixing with Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Isadora Duncan and Erik Satie. He moved through Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism and Dada without ever identifying with a single movement, and was among the first pioneers of abstraction, alongside Kandinsky and Malevich. Every time his visual language became recognisable, he abandoned it to start over.<\/p>\n

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The Journey: Eleven Rooms, Eleven Hours of the Night<\/h4>\n

Passionate love, dance, music, Spanish roots, war, collective creation: the themes that shaped Picabia\u2019s life and work become the stages of an immersive, sensory journey. For Picabia, night was the moment when \u201call things coexist without contradicting one another,\u201d and a way of intensifying existence.<\/p>\n

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  1. Opening the Doors of the Night.<\/strong> The title comes from a line by Victor Hugo. Here visitors enter the artist\u2019s mental laboratory through the thirteen \u201cBlack Albums.\u201d<\/li>\n
  2. The Spanish Night.<\/strong> The Sevillian nights of his childhood, Holy Week, flamenco.<\/li>\n
  3. Rel\u00e2che.<\/strong> The 1924 Dada ballet created with Erik Satie, and Ren\u00e9 Clair\u2019s film Entr\u2019acte<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  4. Dancing on the canvas.<\/strong> Dancers, machines and movement: the road to abstraction.<\/li>\n
  5. Love Parade.<\/strong> Desire.<\/li>\n
  6. Night Fever.<\/strong> Night as a space where perception is transformed.<\/li>\n
  7. Mysteries.<\/strong> A secret chamber at the heart of the exhibition, with a work to be viewed on both sides.<\/li>\n
  8. Monsters and Nightmares.<\/strong> When the night turns upside down and faces become distorted.<\/li>\n
  9. The Mystical Night.<\/strong> Virgins, saints and Baroque Spain.<\/li>\n
  10. Picabian Parties.<\/strong> The Riviera galas, Dada as a collective celebration, listening stations with music.<\/li>\n
  11. Day Is Not the Opposite of Night.<\/strong> Opposites do not clash, they overlap: the morning light and the last paintings.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Some of the Works on View<\/h4>\n