The new year has begun, while museums are anxiously awaiting the date on which it will be possible to open their doors to the public again, appointments continue online, outdoors and by appointment in the smaller exhibition spaces.
FLORENCE - "A riveder le stelle" is the title of the great digital exhibition dedicated to Federico Zuccari's drawings on Dante's Divine Comedy and presented by the Uffizi as the first appointment in the celebrations for the 700th anniversary of the death of the Supreme Poet.
For the first time, the public will be able to admire on the museum site every smallest detail of the works (a total of 88 sheets, all digitized in high definition) that the painter created at the end of the 16th century.
ROME - Franco Mazzucchelli's solo show "I love multiple" reopens on January 7, set up in the spaces of Gaggenau DesignElementi, which presents 10 unpublished works by the master of inflatables.
Curated by Sabino Maria Frassà, artistic director of Cramum, and extended until February 5, the exhibition (open by appointment only) documents the artist's reflection in his 50-year career on reproducibility and repetition in contemporary art.
VENICE - "Everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey" opens on January 8, a group show scheduled in the artisan spaces of Legno & Legno until February 7, presented by Giudecca Art District and Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice.
The path, which investigates how visual art has always been an instrument of truth and lie narration, consists of the works of 23 students of the Venetian institution, some of whom are at their first experience outside the academic context.
MILAN - The exhibition "Philippe Daverio in Milan", organized by Cittadella degli Archives in via Gregorovius 15, in collaboration with the Master Digital Humanities of the University and the Daverio family, opened shortly before the Christmas holidays, and set up until March 20 (for now it can only be visited online on the philippedaverioamilano.it website): the itinerary tells about the activity and the many projects that the art critic who died last September carried out for the Municipality of Milan, when from 1993 to 1997 he was appointed councilor for culture.
For the exhibition some official documents relating to the period of the Daverio councilorship, the press review of the time, photographs and a dress by Philippe himself were collected and exhibited.
SAVONA - The "Artist Showcases" of Banca Carige, in the historic center of Savona, have been dedicated to Vittorio Patrone since 4 January in an exhibition curated by Silvia Bottaro.
On display until February 5, the works document the artist's experimentation with acrylic colors in painting and research with ceramics.
NAPLES - "Il Mann per la città" promoted by the National Archaeological Museum of Naples continues until January 31st.
Mann therefore focuses on outdoor spaces to enhance art with a series of initiatives: twelve tables from the Comix calendar are reproduced on the cladding of the Museum's yards and, in the evening, are illuminated by the building's light beams;
in the Galleria Principe, details of the photomontages of "Escape from the Museum" by Dario Assisi and Riccardo Maria Cipolla are reproduced on large totems arranged in a circular setting;
finally, in the Amici Shops, which are located in the arterial roads adjacent to the museum, it is possible to admire an original work or a reproduction of it.
