With next weekend's exhibitions it will be possible to travel between different eras and languages, from van Gogh with his powerful colors to the courageous experiments of Carla Accardi, alongside the suffering and hopeful face of Italy wounded by the pandemic in the shots of international photographers and history of the thriller genre in the images of the Rai archives.
PADUA - A powerful selection of 82 paintings and drawings by van Gogh to tell the crucial points and the lesser known aspects of his life, shedding light on some fundamental periods lived by the painter, from the Dutch one to the French time lived in Paris, Provence and Auvers-sur-Oise.
It is the exhibition "van Gogh. The colors of life", curated by Marco Goldin, from 10 October to 11 April at the Altinate San Gaetano Center: along the way, alongside famous masterpieces such as the "Self-portrait with a felt hat "," Il sower "or" L'Arlesiana ", also some works by important artists influenced by van Gogh, including Bacon, Gauguin, Seurat, Signac, Hiroshige.
Also in Padua at the San Gaetano Cultural Center, from 10 October to 27 November, the artists Andrea Martinelli and Piero Vignozzi reflect on the legacy of van Gogh with the exhibitions respectively entitled "The eyes of time" and "The garden of iris": if the first investigates the mystery of the face as an emblem of life, the second deals with the poetic suggestion that linked the Dutch artist to the irises.
MILAN - From 8 October to 27 June in the spaces of the Museo del Novecento "Carla Accardi. Contexts", curated by Anna Maria Montaldo and Maria Grazia Messina: first monographic dedicated by a public institution to Carla Accardi (1924-2014) , six years after his death, the exhibition presents 70 works including paintings, plastics (sicofoil) and installations, together with photographs and documents from the Accardi Sanfilippo Archive, to document the historical, social and political context with which the artist was related, also revealing the linguistic comparisons with other artists and his courage to experiment at a time when the instances of painting were almost male competence.
ROME - "Lockdown Italy. Seen by the Foreign Press. Italy at the time of Coronavirus" is the exhibition scheduled at the Capitoline Museums from 8 October to 1 November: through images signed by international photojournalists, the exhibition tells about our country in health emergency and the Italian model of good management recognized throughout the world.
The photographs document the dramatic situation in hospitals and in the red areas, and more generally the impact of the pandemic in Italy, even reaching the so-called "phase two" and "phase three", when colors, hope and life return for the streets, strictly with a mask and spacing.
The story of a genre, the detective thriller and noir, through a rich selection of images from the RAI archive: at the Museum of Rome in Trastevere from 7 October to 6 January the exhibition "On the trail of crime. and black Rai "that from the great dramas arrives at the streaming video of the most exciting crime series of today covering about 70 years.
MONZA - "Alfred Hitchcock in the films of Universal Pictures", curated by Gianni Canova, arrives at the Arengario on 10 October: staged until 10 January, the exhibition represents a thrilling foray into the world of the great director 40 years after his death.
Along the way, 70 photographs and special contents from the archives of the American Major to get to know the backstage and the sets of some of his most famous films, from The window on the courtyard to The birds, from The woman who lived twice to Psycho.
CREMONA - The Pinacoteca Ala Ponzone hosts for the first time together two versions of "Rest during the flight into Egypt", masterpieces by Orazio Gentileschi in the exhibition curated by Mario Marubbi "Orazio Gentileschi. The flight into Egypt and other stories", staged by October 10, 2020 to January 31.
Alongside the two canvases by Orazio Gentileschi - the first from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna and the second from a private collection - there is also a very precise selection of ivories, sculptures, miniatures, paintings and engravings on the theme of "Fugue" in its various iconographic variations.
TODI - Until November 28, the most remote deserts in the world (including Dubai, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Mauritania, Oman, Russia and the United States) seen through the eyes of John R. Pepper in the "Inhabited Deserts" exhibition at Palazzo Comunale of Todi, Sala delle Pietre and Nido dell'Aquila / Torcularium: a path, inaugurated last October 3 and curated by Gianluca Marziani and Kirill Petrin, composed of 53 analogue black and white images that document the long journey made by the artist in three years for a total of 18,000 km.
