Genoa and Edvard Munch: the city prepares for the highly anticipated fall retrospective

Some artists are fortunate, or unfortunate, in being identified with one of their works, only one, which becomes iconic and overshadows all of the other works created throughout their career. This cumbersome presence often hinders other important aspects of the artist, or perhaps the most important, his complexity. Consider, for example, the Mona Lisa, which is certainly an extraordinary painting, but often makes us forget Da Vinci‘s other remarkable works. Turner’s erotic drawings, which came to light only at the beginning of this century, forced many critics to reassess their views of the man they had thought of as simply a landscape artist. The Norwegian painter, Edvard Munch, is probably one of the best examples of an artist being identified with a single work. His celebrated Scream, while undoutedly one of the most powerful works of Western art, has eclipsed and continues to eclipse the rest of his work. 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of his birth and exhibitions, in Italy and throughout the rest of Europe, are making...