Forty years after the last major exhibition dedicated to him, the Mart presents an extensive monographic show on the Trentino artist Luigi Bonazza (Arco, 1877 – Trento, 1965). Trained in the milieu of the Viennese Secession, Bonazza was one of the leading figures of the cultural ferment at the beginning of the twentieth century, in a Trentino that acted as a hinge between different yet deeply interconnected cultural worlds.

His fascination with the art of Klimt and his teacher von Matsch, as well as the Secessionist models absorbed in Vienna, never left his work. His style remained faithful to a unified concept of art, without distinctions between major and minor arts, displaying a consistency evident from his earliest works to his final creations—a coherence that finds its most visual synthesis in the decorative cycle of his own home.

A friend of d’Annunzio and a former pupil of Klimt, this modern Orpheus had placed the following inscription at the entrance to his studio: “Art has taught me the beauty of the world.”