Come ti spiego la sensualità. Un approccio in 65 mosse
This exhibition of mainly French Art Nouveau will explore the drama and spectacle of contemporary life at the turn of the 20th century. The majority of the seventy works, in various media, are on loan from the legendary collection of Victor and Gretha Arwas and the show marks the initiation of a significant collaboration between the Sainsbury Centre and Gretha, to establish the Victor and Gretha Arwas Foundation dedicated to the study and presentation of Art Nouveau. Sense and Sensuality presents some 65 works drawn from the Arwas Collection, the Anderson Collection of Art Nouveau (already in the Sainsbury Centre holdings), and from various other private collections. Following on from the 2012 exhibition, The First Moderns: Art Nouveau, from Nature to Abstraction, which focused on Art Nouveau as the forerunner of international Modern design, this exhibition looks at those Art Nouveau designers who were interested in the darker, more complex side of life. The show embraces the sensualit...