The exhibition, in line with the insights on modern art between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries presented over the years at the regional exhibition venue, is curated by Valeria Gorbova and Daria Jorioz and proposes for the first time in Italy an anthological exhibition on the American painter, of Belarusian origin, through a selection of 35 paintings, documenting the refinement of an author appreciated in Europe and the United States, who interpreted in a personal way French modernism and the Italian Renaissance heritage. 

The exhibition will be open to the public until June 2, 2026.

Grigory Gluckmann (1898-1973) was born in Polotsk, then part of the Russian Empire. In 1917, he entered the School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in Moscow, but in 1920, amidst revolutionary upheavals, he abandoned his studies and emigrated to Berlin. 

In January 1924, Gluckmann left Berlin and went to Italy. He spent about nine months in Florence, where he worked systematically in museums and, for the first time, in his own studio. This period proved decisive in his artistic biography. Immersed in the study of Renaissance painting, he adopted the technique of painting on wooden panels, a method rarely used by artists of the Twentieth century and one that he would continue to employ throughout his career. During his Italian stay, he also participated in the Venice Biennale, thus entering the international exhibition circuit.

Later, still in 1924, Gluckmann settled in Paris, then the epicenter of the international art world. His Parisian debut took place at the Galerie Druet, where his first solo exhibition attracted the attention of leading critics. Throughout the twenties and thirties, he exhibited regularly in major Parisian salons, including the Salon des Tuileries and the Salon d'Automne. He became part of the cosmopolitan artistic milieu known as the École de Paris, a community largely composed of foreign artists for whom Paris represented both artistic freedom and cultural exchange.