Weekend exhibitions, from Lego to art between the 19th and 20th centuries

by Marzia Apice (ANSA) - TERNI, DECEMBER 27 - The colorful Legos, the costumes designed by Cantini Parrini for Pinocchio di Garrone, some examples of great art between the 19th and 20th centuries: these are the main events of the next weekend. TERNI - "Imaginary.
Art logic in Italy since 1949 "is the exhibition set up from 20 December to 1 March at Palazzo Montani Leoni to trace a map of the main artistic experiences that have taken place in Italy since the immediate post-war period of the Second World War up to our days: exhibited works by central artists in the twentieth-century Italian art, from Afro to Alberto Burri, from Mario Merz to Corrado Cagli to Bice Lazzari.
ROME - At Palazzo Bonaparte from December 24 to April 19 "I love Lego" is the program, the perfect exhibition for Christmas parties that will conquer young and old: in the colorful and fun course spectacular dioramas, detailed small-scale reproductions of fantastic worlds, artistic creations with series countless of the world's most famous colored bricks, "character hunt" in creative computer installations open to all.
PRATO - "Pinocchio in the costumes of Massimo Cantini Parrini" tells from 21 December to 22 March in the halls of the Museo delTessuto the work done by the great costume designer for the film "Pinocchio" by Matteo Garrone, which was released on 19 December in theaters: 30 costumes of the main characters of the film, as well as a section dedicated to the artist, his inspiration sources and his creative work through videos, samples of fabrics, historical clothing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from his personal collection.
FERRARA - From December 21 to March 15 the exhibition "The Farina collection.
Art and Avant-garde in Ferrara 1963-1993 ", which documents the activity of Franco Farina, who died in 2018, in the years of his direction at Palazzo dei Diamanti and at the CivicaGalleria di Arte Moderna di Ferrara. Along the way, a nucleus of the Farina collection, which testifies to the liveliness and cultural ferment of those years, through works by masters such as Carlo Carrà, Giorgio de Chirico and Filippo de Pisis, EmilioVedova, Robert Rauschenberg, Mimmo Rotella and Mario Schifano.
TURIN - The rediscovery of a splendid and imposing painting, which has not been exposed to the public for 38 years: from 19 December to 13 April laGAM hosts "Horses, costumes and dwellings" to show the majestic "Fiera di Saluzzo" (17th century), presented by Carlo Pittara in 1880 at the IV National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Turin. Ildipinto, which recalls a seventeenth-century fair with animals, set just outside the walls of Saluzzo, has documentary dimensions: 4.08 meters high by 8.11 meters wide.
TRENTO - Il Mart presents "Tullio Garbari. Primitivism and modernity" at Palazzo delle Albere from 21 December to 23 February: it shows a selection of works by the artist, active between the end of the 1800s and the first decades of the 1900s, which highlights how many simple, almost naive, forms of his painting are an expression of a "cultured primitivism", capable of dialoguing with the art of the past and with the cultural context of the past century. (HANDLE).