Through twenty-four works by Ignacio Zuloaga (1870-1945) and twelve by Hermen Anglada-Camarasa (1871-1959), this exhibition lets us enjoy the coincidences and differences between these two painters. In their works, they both depicted the themes so in vogue in the Paris of the times, such as gypsies, Madrid's maja cultural costumes, and landscapes. Despite both artists having a strong and highly similar influences from Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, the divergences between their painterly languages and individual focuses were quite clear.

The exhibition, described as the world's largest presentation of works by Archibald Knox, features over 200 works by the Manx artist from collections across the British Isles, including pieces of silverware, pewter and jewellery, alongside rarely seen paintings, sketches, manuscripts, ceramics, textiles and furniture.

Jointly curated by Manx National Heritage and the Archibald Knox Forum, the show offers visitors the unique experience of delving into the artistic creation of the leading exponent of the ?British Celtic Revival' design style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, while exploring his home country of the Isle of Man, to which Knox's work was intimately attached.  

The opening of the exhibition will be marked by a seminar on 5 and 6 April at the Manx Museum. The event will feature keynote speeches by Stephen Martin and Anthony Bernbaum, two of the world's leading experts on Archibald Knox's life and work. The seminars will explore the artist's Cymric style and the mythical and symbolic influence of Manx culture and history on his work.

The exhibition focuses on the magazine Versacrum and the role it played in disseminating the Secession's aesthetic principles. Curated by Giovanni Biancardi, Edoardo Fontana and Silvia Scaravaggi, it was created around the original graphics published in Versacrum, from Biancardi's own Milan collection. This is flanked by illustrated books, folders, exhibition catalogues, loose sheets and graphic works by numerous artists linked to the Secessionist movement.

Works on display include those by Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Alfred Roller, Josef Maria Auchentaller, Carl Moll, Adolf Böhm, Egon Schiele, Alphonse Mucha, Carl Otto Czeschka, Jan Toorop, Emil Orlik, Giovanni Segantini, George Minne, Franz von Stuck, Heinrich Lefler, Félix Vallotton, Frank Brangwyn, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Margaret McNair, Jessie King, among others.

The initiative is promoted and produced in collaboration with the Museo d'Arte Orientale - Mazzocchi Collection of Coccaglio and the Mnemosyne Cultural Association of Dello. The Austrian Cultural Forum of Milan, the Aldus Club - International Association of Bibliophilia and the A.L.A.I. - Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Italy - have granted patronage.

On Thursday 9 October 2025 at 6.30 pm, at the D'Ieteren Gallery, don't miss the lecture by Benjamin Zurstrassen, curator of the Horta Museum and specialist in applied arts between 1850 and 1950. Entitled "Entre continuités et ruptures : de l'Art nouveau à l'Art Déco", this lecture offers a detailed reinterpretation of the bridges between these two major aesthetic movements. Beyond the differences that are often highlighted, there are also similarities: a love of pattern, vernacular sources, the use of machinery, the figure of the engineer, and the desire to democratise art through social furniture. This lecture will shed light on a period of transition that was more fluid than we might think, in which styles both dialogued and contrasted with each other.
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The exhibition focuses on The Bride, Klimt's large painting, unfinished due to his unexpected and premature death in February 1918. The exhibition is contextualised with numerous pencil drawings in which Klimt had carefully worked out many of the painting's figures, and further studies found in the artist's last sketchbook. A large number of these studies are now being shown to the public, allowing direct comparison with the painting. As part of preparations for the exhibition, in-depth technical analyses including X-rays were conducted on the painting, the results of which will also be presented.

The exhibition is a selection of works by artists from the Brücke group, from the Museumsberg Flensburg, a place where the group first exhibited at the beginning of the 20th century.