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The first big Italian exhibition of the greatest representative of US Realism, the painter who more than anyone else was able to represent the daily life and solitude of the modern man, Edward Hopper, ended on 31st January at the venue of Palazzo Reale in Milan, recording an exceptional turnout of 202,127 visitors, with an average of more than 1,840 visits a day.
From 14th October, the success was constant with long queues especially at the weekends and on Thursday evenings thanks to its late opening hours extended until 10 pm.
The confluence increased in the last month and in the last two days of the exhibition, thanks to the extraordinary opening time until 1 at night, recording the peak of the turnout and queues with more than 9,000 visitors in two days.
Great confluence even for school children, more than 17,000 pupils visited the exhibition to admire the masterpieces of the American artist and more than 12,000 participants arrived in guided groups. Finally, success for the special closed-door evenings which weighed on the confluence with more than 13,000 presences at the exhibition.
The exhibition will soon be in Rome, at the Museo Fondazione Roma, from 16th February to 13th June 2010. Produced by Palazzo Reale, Fondazione Roma and Arthemisia Group, the exhibition will subsequently be in Lausanne for the summer 2010. The event is promoted by the City of Milan – Culture and by Fondazione Roma, joined for the first time in a cultural partnership, together with Arthemisia Group, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Foundation Hermitage of Lausanne.
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