An exhibition promoted and organized by the Civic Museums of the Municipality of Treviso, with the sponsorship of the Province of Treviso, the contribution and collaboration of the Treviso - Belluno Dolomites Chamber of Commerce and the support of the Main Sponsor Generali: Valore Cultura.

The exhibition, dedicated to one of the most secluded but central figures of Venetian art in the early 20th century, is proposed on the occasion of the Fiftieth anniversary of the artist's death and the 140th anniversary of his birth, with the aim of presenting to the public and critics the complexity and depth of his pictorial research and his independence and singularity not only in relation to historical avant-gardes, but also within the Treviso context, which was crossed in those years by a very lively generation of artists between Treviso and Venice, especially that of Ca' Pesaro.

Through a path of about a hundred works, coming from public and private collections, the exhibition presents Springolo as an independent author, faithful to the principle of a rigorous "artistic honesty", far from trends and programmatic adherence, but fully involved in European cultural ferment. Nino Springolo is an artist who cannot easily be attributed to a specific movement. He studies the segmented chromatism of the post-impressionists, experiments with divisionist solutions, makes Cezanne's lesson his own and reflects on the "ancients", until reaching, in later outcomes, a painting that seems almost naive. Every influence is filtered, decanted, reinterpreted in a personal way, as if he always had in mind the words that Cesare Laurenti wrote to him in 1909: "Always search for yourself." A warning that becomes the red thread of Springolo's production, an author of a painting founded on study and constant inner research that does not aim for spectacle, but for an intimate and thoughtful relationship with the observer.

The proverbial executive slowness - "five or six paintings a year," as Biason and Buzzati recall - is not a productive limit but a method: "I have produced little because I have always worked a lot," Springolo himself affirmed.