Paul Klee. Genius and Regularity” by Gregorio Botta

The meeting will take place in the presence of the author with speeches by: Alessia Bettini, deputy mayor and councilor for culture of the Municipality of Florence; Sergio Risaliti, director of the Museo Novecento; Adriano Sofri, writer, commentator and activist.

Paul Klee is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century and certainly one of the most loved: his painting reaches everyone, enchants children like the philosophers who have written a lot about it. He painted ten thousand works, experimenting, creating new techniques, using different languages, always reinventing himself: he was abstract and figurative, they called him post-cubist, surrealist, expressionist, but no definition can enclose him. He said he was ‘elusive’. And somehow it is. Who was Paul Klee really? This book investigates the mystery of a genius endowed with many gifts: he could have been a poet or a musician, but it is with painting that he changed the history of art. Dominated by a powerful inspiration and an inexhaustible creative fury, which he knew how to regulate and educate with the most methodical of lives: a very rare case among his fellow artists. Through his diaries and the dense theoretical writings he left behind, Gregorio Botta reconstructs and intertwines the formation of a man and the birth of an aesthetic that marked the century.