The Royal Palace of Colorno, a few kilometers from Parma, until January 12, 2025, on the thirtieth anniversary of his death, offers a monographic exhibition dedicated to the portraits of Carlo Mattioli (Modena 1911 - Parma, 1994).
The exhibition brings together about sixty works by this master painter in an exhibition itinerary that opens with the sixteen portraits of historical Colornese personalities preserved in the City Council Hall and commissioned to the artist in 1963 by Augusta Ghidiglia Quintavalle, art historian and Superintendent of the Galleries of Parma. A corpus, this, that apenly walks the fine line of irony. Some of them play on an amused transposition of the faces: Ottobono Terzi becomes the poet Attilio Bertolucci, the philosopher Zaccaria Olivieri, the painter Carlo Carrà and the bishop Martino da Colorno, the reigning Pope John XXIII.
The exhibition continues with a long sequence of portraits that progressively enter into the artist's inner circle, up to his most famous colleagues and with the heartfelt and private nucleus of family portraits and self-portraits.
