VENETA CUCINE CELEBRATES EXCELLENCE IN ART

The partnership confirms the company’s commitment to enhancing all forms of beauty and art, by supporting a highly prestigious cultural project that brings works from the world’s most important museums to Italy.

This exhibition has been organized by the city of Treviso and curated by Marco Goldin and has brought together sixty-one nineteenth and twentieth-century paintings from the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, which was named the best museum in the United States in 2025 and is currently involved in a major modernization and expansion programme.   

Goldin’s long-standing relationship with the American Museum means that an absolutely special edition of the exhibition has reached Treviso. The curator has in fact enhanced the original corpus by concentrating on an additional core of outstanding works that will leave the museum for the first time and which you will be able to see again only by travelling to Ohio. The Toledo Museum of Art is in fact by tradition an institution that is very jealous of its innumerable masterpieces and very rarely loans even one of them.

By choice, the exhibition works critically backwards from American abstraction of the second half of the twentieth century, from Richard Diebenkorn to Morris Louis, from Ad Reinhardt to Helen Frankenthaler, and then moves on to some capital experiences of European abstraction, from Ben Nicholson and Josef Albers to Piet Mondrian and Paul Klee, in order to look in depth back from the twentieth to the nineteenth century and then to the three great topics: still life, the figures and the portraits, the landscapes. 
In the first case, we meet two of the greatest artists who dedicated themselves to still life in the twentieth century, Giorgio Morandi and Georges Braque, whereas Henri Fantin-Latour and Camille Pissarro, who were in the midst of the formation of the impressionist group show us how impressionism honed the skills of the finest painters, especially those of the first group. The section dedicated to portraits, figures and figures in settings is very extensive and offers an exciting sequence of works, starting with Matisse, Bonnard and Vuillard, and going on to De Chirico and Modigliani and a magnificent cubist Picasso from 1909.
Then there is the narrative of outdoor figures depicted by American and French impressionists, with works by William Merritt Chase, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro and finally Courbet and Millet. The masterpieces by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas crown this section spectacularly. 

Also the part dedicated to landscapes, which closes the exhibition, has exceptional features. Firstly with the visions of certain painters who are very different from one another that are dedicated to Venice (Signac) or to Paris (Delaunay and Léger) that allow us to enjoy an inspiring sequence of impressionist and post-impressionist landscapes. These include some of the finest and last versions of Monet’s water lilies, alongside masterpieces by Gauguin, Whistler, Cezanne, Caillebotte, Renoir, Sisley.
Lastly, on a separate wall, the Wheat Fields with Reaper with which Van Gogh said his final goodbyes. A painting whose absolute qualities and wealth of colour and humanity make it a splendid example of the works in the Toledo Museum of Art.
Alongside this iconic painting, the lowest room of Treviso museum houses a 50-seat cinema that shows continuously the film written and directed by Marco Goldin – animation and editing by Alessandro Trettenero, music by Remo Anzovino - entitled Van Gogh’s Final Days. The half-hour film starts with the great artist’s final weeks spent in the village of  Auvers and moves between the marvellous images of the paintings, the glimpses of Auvers, Van Gogh walking and painting and is accompanied by music and narration that is always poetic.

Treviso, Museo Santa Caterina

November 15,  2025 –  May 10, 2026

For further details: Da Picasso a Van Gogh - Una storia precedente