The "Peter Greenaway Artworks" Exhibition"

The exhibition at the "Voltoni del Guazzatoio" in the Palazzo della Pilotta is made up of about 180 paintings, produced from 1963 to the present, using a variety of techniques.
The study of landscape from a modern perspective is apparent in various series of paintings (e.g., Stellarscape), as well as the artist's interest in maps (A Walk Through H), the use of the grid as a structure and a tool to interpret a polymorphous reality (e.g., The Frame Series), the repetitiveness of numerical series, the piecing together of fragments through collage (The Chinese Wallet, In the Dark), the gradations of colour as a non-narrative unifying element and the theme of water as a traditionally crucial element for Greenaway (Flying Over Water), etc.

Series featured in the exhibition:
Stellarscapes (1968; 4 works)
Pointilist Relief (1977; 7 works)
The Chinese Wallet (1972; 4 works)
Dear Phone (1973; 8 works)
A Walk Through H (1976-78; 36 works)
100 Windmills (1978; 17 works)
The Falls (1978-80; 6 works)
Prospero's Allegories (1991; 11 works)
The Audience Series (1993; 6 works)
The Frame Series (1994; 4 works)
In the Dark (1996, 4 works)
Flying Over Water (1997; 3 works)

In addition, the exhibition presents some of the Blackboard paintings series of 1999, painted on blackboard surfaces.
The most recent paintings on show belong to a new project, a series to be named 92, and which will indeed be composed of 92 paintings.

"I have quite recently embarked on a large series of paintings which, as a collection, will probably be called simply 92. The atomic number of uranium is ninety-two";
"It may one day be said that the history of the twentieth century could centre around uranium, first nuclear fuel and literal and metaphorical reason for much of the twentieth century's history".

Greenaway's latest projects, even his films, are collectively centred on a reflection on this number, the atomic number of uranium which, in the English artist's opinion, has marked our century from the explosion of the bomb at Hiroshima to the fall of the Berlin wall, as well as his own life ("In a sense I am a uranium baby. In some way, the history of uranium follows a political and psychological path running parallel to my life").
And the artist's latest film project, called Tulse Luper's Suitcase, presented in Venice this year, bears the subtitle A History of Uranium in the 20th Century.