The Museo della Grafica (Municipality of Pisa, University of Pisa) presents Golf is Art. Images and Stories of Sport, an exhibition that tells the history and stories of one of the most practised and loved sports in the world.

Curated by Alessandra Castellani Torta and Alessandro Tosi, the exhibition - whose title takes up Rudyard Kipling's words ("Why Golf is Art and Art is Golf / we have not far to seek...", 1898) - proposes a surprising and refined path that, between art and literature, tourism and fashion, accompanies the visitor in the discovery of the imaginary linked to golf, its gestures, its landscapes.

Through a selection of works granted by an important private collection, a gallery is composed of prints, drawings, posters and objects from the early modern age to contemporary times.

From precious 17th-century engravings to the famous cartoons by Charles Crombie (The Rules of Golf Illustrated, 1905), from 19th-century graphics to the plates of the great 20th-century illustrators, from exquisite ceramics and porcelain to the plates of Les Joies du sport, an edition that appeared in Paris in 1932, which among the many illustrations, by the artist Milivoj Uzelac, also includes "Le Golf" with a commentary by Henri Duvernois.

An evocative selection of posters from the Salce Collection also documents the imagery that in the first half of the 20th century included golf in the most elegant itineraries of Italian and international tourism.

Golf is Art. Images and Stories of Sport was conceived on the occasion of the 50th edition of the Coppa città di Pisa, an important event organised by the historic Golf Club of Tirrenia, and will be open during the period of the World University Golf Championships (20-23 July) organised by Cus Torino.

The exhibition is organised by the Museo della Grafica (Municipality of Pisa, University of Pisa) with the patronage of CONI, the Italian Golf Federation, Golf Club Tirrenia, Cus Torino, the University of Pisa's Centre for Rehabilitation Medicine "Sport and Anatomy", Cus Pisa, Accademia di Sant'Uberto (Turin), Club delle Balette (Jesi), Europeana, the University of Pisa's University Museum System, Terre di Pisa and with the collaboration of the National Museum Collezione Salce of Treviso - Veneto Regional Museums Directorate.

The inauguration of the exhibition will take place on Friday 1 July, at 19:00.

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