Homage to a great Cattolica painter.
The Santa Croce Gallery and the Museo della Regina in Cattolica are hosting an extraordinary retrospective exhibition dedicated to Emilio Filippini (1870-1938), one of the most important painters of twentieth-century Rimini: EMILIO FILIPPINI, POET OF LIGHT.
The exhibition, curated by art historian Alessandro Giovanardi in collaboration with Sabrina Foschini, Franco Pozzi and Chiara Tonti, celebrates the most significant and lesser-known works of the master from Cattolica. The title of the exhibition, Emilio Filippini, poet of light, pays tribute to his artistic sensitivity and his unique pictorial language.

Filippini, often described as a 'solitary' painter due to his reserve, is today recognised as one of the greatest exponents of 20th-century Rimini painting. His work, delicate and intense, explores themes of light, landscape and the human figure, with a particular focus on everyday life in Cattolica at the time. The exhibition, which marks the artist's return to the local exhibition scene, fills a gap of over forty years, since 1980, the year of the last exhibition dedicated to him.

The exhibition brings together over fifty works, including pastels, pencil and charcoal drawings, and oils, depicting rural and seascapes, as well as simple, authentic figures from everyday life. The works are on display at both the Santa Croce Gallery and the Museo della Regina. The exhibition catalogue, enriched with photographs by Gilberto Urbinati, was realised thanks to the contribution of RivieraBanca and offers an in-depth view of Filippini's work.

The exhibition was made possible thanks to the collaboration of three private collectors and the initiative of some of the painter's heirs, who made it possible to exhibit rare and intimate works.

Events and insights:

23 February 2025, 5 p.m.: La Natura Illuminata. Emilio Filippini between realism and symbolism - curated by Alessandro Giovanardi
9 March 2025, 5 p.m.: Finissage - The female figures in the work of Emilio Filippini - curated by Alessandro Giovanardi

Exhibition details:

When: Until 9 March 2025
Hours: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Entrance: Free
Where: Regina Museum and Santa Croce Gallery, Via Pascoli, 21-23, Cattolica

Telephone: 0541 966577 - 0541 966775
Email: museo@cattolica.net