Nino Springolo (1886-1975) and “The Two Companions”

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Buy a ticket for the exhibition Nino Springolo (1886-1975) and “the two companions” at the Bailo Museum

From March 14 to November 1, 2026, the Bailo Museum in Treviso is hosting the exhibition. Nino Springolo (1886-1975) and “the two companions”, curated by Fabrizio Malachin, Eleonora Drago and Manlio Leo Mezzacasa
An exhibition promoted and realized by the Civic Museums of the City of Treviso, with the sponsorship of the Province of Treviso, the contribution and collaboration of the Treviso – Belluno Dolomites Chamber of Commerce and the support of Main Sponsor Generali Valore Cultura.
The exhibition, dedicated to one of the most secluded but central figures of early 20th-century Veneto art, is proposed on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death and the 140th anniversary of his birth, with the aim of restoring to the public and the critics the complexity and depth of his pictorial research and his independence and singularity not only in relation to the historical avant-gardes, but also in the Treviso context, crossed in those years by a very lively generation of artists between Treviso and Venice, especially that of Ca’ Pesaro.
Through an itinerary of about one hundred works, from public and private collections, the exhibition presents Springolo as an independent author, faithful to the principle of strict “artistic honesty,” far from fashions and programmatic adhesions, but fully participating in European cultural ferments. Nino Springolo is an artist who is not easily traced to a precise movement. He studies the dissected chromatism of the Post-Impressionists, experiments with Divisionist solutions, makes Cezanne’s lesson his own and reflects “on the ancients,” until he arrives, in his later results, at a painting that seems almost naïf. Every influence is filtered, decanted, reinterpreted in a personal way, as if he always had in mind the words Cesare Laurenti wrote to him in 1909: “Always seek yourself.” A warning that becomes the red thread of Springolo’s production, the author of a painting based on study and constant inner research that does not aim at spectacle, but at an intimate and meditated relationship with the observer.

The proverbial slowness of execution-“five or six paintings a year,” Biason and Buzzati recall-is not a production limitation but a method: “I have produced little because I have always worked so much,” Springolo himself claimed.

 

Tickets

The exhibition can be visited with the entrance ticket to the Bailo Museum, which gives access to the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions
– Full price: 10€
– Reduced: 8€
– Free
For more information and to purchase presale tickets online click here or contact us via email at prenotazioni@visitmuseumtreviso.com

 

Guided tours

Every weekend a guided tour of the exhibition Nino Springolo (1886-1975) and “The Two Companions“ to discover one of the protagonists of the Treviso art scene, Agostino “Nino” Springolo, a painter of lagoon perspectives and panoramas of the Treviso countryside, among the animators of the exhibitions at Ca’ Pesaro, the Venice Biennale and the Quadriennale in Rome: an author far from Novecentist magniloquence, straddling Divisionism and Cézannean memories.

Every Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Cost: €7 per participant + entrance fee according to the reduction or free tickets
For more information or reservations click here or contact us by email at prenotazioni@visitmuseumtreviso.com
Guided tours of the exhibition are also available at different times and days upon request by asking prenotazioni@visitmuseumtreviso.com

 

Workshop activities for children and families

In conjunction with the exhibition, activities for children ages 5 to 12 and for families are organized on weekends. To stay up-to-date on initiatives planned for April and May click here. For more information contact us by email at didattica@visitmuseumtreviso.com

 

Exhibition catalog

This volume, published by Scripta and edited by Fabrizio Malachin, Eleonora Drago, and Manlio Leo Mezzacasa, accompanies the exhibition at the Bailo Museum dedicated to Nino Springolo, a secluded but central figure in early 20th-century Veneto art. The exhibition, proposed on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the artist’s death and 140th anniversary of his birth, restores to the public and critics the complexity and depth of his pictorial research and his independence and singularity with respect to the historical avant-gardes and to the artistic context of Treviso.
152 pages
Cost: €24 including VAT
For more information or to purchase the catalog click here.

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