- MILAN The photographic "stories" of the pioneer of photojournalism Margaret Bourke-White in Milan, the masterpieces of contemporary collecting in Piacenza, the career of star Amedeo Nazzari in Rome and Naples, the originality of Neapolitan Liberty: these are some of the main events of the weekend which closes the month of September.
MILAN - The photojournalist, forerunner of information and image, Margaret Bourke-White (New York, 1904 - Stamford, 1971) is the protagonist at the Palazzo Reale with over 100 images from the Life archive in New York.
Entitled "Prima, donna. Margaret Bourke-White" and curated by Alessandra Mauro, the exhibition will be staged from 25 September to 14 February and reconstructs the photographer's career in 11 thematic sections, highlighting her visionary and narrative capacity.
FERRARA - The Palazzina Marfisa d'Este hosts the XVIII Biennale Donna from September 20 to November 22 with the exhibition "Crossing the image. Women and photography between the 1950s and the 1980s": curated by Angela Madesani, focuses on 13 Italian and non-Italian photographers, from Diane Arbus to Letizia Battaglia, who were active in a period of political and social commitment that had a bearing on the history of the 20th century, and highlights their main research centers.
NAPLES - From September 24 to January 24 at the Gallerie d'Italia - Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano the exhibition "Naples Liberty. N'aria 'e primmavera", curated by Luisa Martorelli and Fernando Mazzocca and with the installation by Lucia Anna Iovieno: a surprising path that, through more than 70 works, including paintings, sculptures, jewels and various manufactures, documents the diffusion of the modernist style and the original characters of art in Naples in the period from 1889 to 1915. Among the authors Felice Casorati and artists of the avant-garde movement Secessione dei 23.
PIACENZA - Over 150 works, including paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos and installations by authors such as Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Paul McCarthy, Sislej Xhafa, Sophie Calle, Joseph Kosuth, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Marina Abramović, Tomás Saraceno, Sol LeWitt, Andy Warhol, Bill Viola, Dan Flavin, from 18 art collections: reopens on September 26 "We are the revolution. Contemporary Italian collecting"
, hosted by XNL Piacenza Contemporanea until 10 January.
Curated by Alberto Fiz, the exhibition is completed at the Ricci Oddi Modern Art Gallery, with the encounter of a series of works by artists including Ettore Spalletti, Wolfgang Laib, Fabio Mauri, Mike Nelson, Mimmo Jodice, Pietro Roccasalva, with the works of the 19th and 20th centuries collected by the Piacenza entrepreneur and collector Giuseppe Ricci Oddi.
ROME - At the Casa del Cinema from 21 September to 18 October "Amedeo Nazzari. Portrait of an actor", curated by Giulio D'Ascenzo and Elisabetta Centore: a journey made up of period materials including photos, envelopes, magazines and brochures, all rigorously original, to tell the career of the first and only star that our cinema has ever had.
"Namsal Siedlecki. Mvah? Chaî" is the title of the exhibition, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, scheduled at Pastificio Cerere from 22 September to 30 November, which concludes the Crisalidi project, which won the tender of the Italian Council 2019. Nucleo della personal a series of 5 bronze sculptures (which will later be donated to the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato) made by the artist during various periods of residence in Kathmandu, in which he experimented with the Nepalese lost wax casting technique.
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