Testata

Confini da Gauguin a Hopper

Canto con variazioni

Passariano di Codroipo (UD), Villa Manin, Esedra di Levante
11 October 2025 - 12 April 2026

Introduction

The exhibition is divided into large sections and several subsections, featuring 130 works from 42 museums and private collections in both Europe and the United States. It is an exhibition composed almost entirely of canvases, but it also includes essential and indispensable works on paper, as described in the following project.
It begins with an introductory room featuring five extraordinary paintings—some of them large-scale—offering a true summary of the themes that are further developed in the subsequent rooms.
Then follow several main areas, each containing further subdivisions that represent various stories of painting—various stories of boundaries.

Edward Hopper, Cape Cod Sunset, 1934
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, bequest of Josephine N. Hopper
© Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper

Here is the English translation of the entire passage, including the user-provided Italian rendering of the T. S. Eliot lines (I am **translating your Italian text**, not quoting the original poems):

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And here we arrive at that singular transformed into a plural: the multiplicity of experiences along the line of a boundary, in search of that boundary. Exactly that song with variations evoked in the subtitle of the exhibition. Now indeed the journey can begin.

And once again, we can do so by following the indication given to us by Thomas Eliot:

Forward, travelers! Without escaping from the past
into different lives or into any future;
you are not the same people who left the station
or who will arrive at any destination.

To conclude with the fateful statement—the one that brings all knowledge back into play, so that everything returns to its starting point and the boundary moves with us, indeed becomes something of us. Such is this exhibition:

We shall not cease from exploring,
and the end of all our searching
will be to arrive where we started
and to know the place for the first time.

exhibition curated by
Marco Goldin

Padua, Centro San Gaetano
10 October 2020 – 11 April 2021