The weekend exhibitions, from ancient art to 20th century photographers

FLORENCE - Some of the masters of twentieth century photography, from Berengo Gardin to Modotti to Erwitt, alongside Renaissance works and artists of the caliber of Rembrandt: these are some of the exhibition events scheduled for next weekend.
FLORENCE - Tomás Saraceno's monographic entitled "Aria" will arrive at Palazzo Strozzi on February 22nd, scheduled until July 19th. By combining art, natural and social sciences in his research, the artist invites the public to relate to phenomena and non-human elements such as dust, spiders and plants that become the protagonists of his immersive installations. The exhibition begins with the large site specific installation "Thermodynamic Constellation", consisting of three large suspended mirror spheres, which the artist conceived for the courtyard of the Palazzo.
MILAN - The many faces of the city of Milan, told by the attentive gaze of a great Italian photographer of the twentieth century, historian, critic, curator of important exhibitions, animator of debates since the post-war period: from 21 February to 14 June at Castello Sforzesco the dedicated exhibition to Cesare Colombo (1935-2016), a journey that retraces sixty years of urban development, work transformations and changes in the social fabric of the Lombard capital. An important selection of masterpieces of French art of the 19th and 20th centuries, from the Vatican Museums Collection of Contemporary Art, composes the exhibition "Gauguin Matisse Chagall. The Passion in French art from the Vatican Museums", at the Diocesan Museum Carlo Maria Martini from February 21 to May 17. Over twenty exhibited works that offer food for thought on the Passion and Resurrection of Christ, and at the same time on the relationship between modernity and tradition in sacred art between the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
ROME - After the first stage of Ascoli Piceno, "Marchigiano Renaissance. Works of art restored from the earthquake sites" arrives on February 18 at the Monumental Complex of San Salvatore in Lauro: thirty six works from the 15th to the 18th century restored after earthquake of 2016, part of the precious heritage scattered in the Marche region, which will be exhibited until July 5. The exhibition will then be set up in Senigallia in the summer. At the Corsini Gallery from 21 February to 15 June "Rembrandt at the Corsini Gallery: the Self-portrait like Saint Paul": the exhibition offers the unique opportunity to review, for the first time since 1779, the artist's self-portrait. The work, from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, signed by Rembrandt and dated 1661, in the eighteenth century was part of the Corsini collection and was exhibited in the halls of the Palazzo at Lungara.
As part of Rome Photography 2020 Eros, "Eros of the Revolution" opens on 23 February, an exhibition by Tina Modotti set up in Palazzo Merulana until 8 March. In the itinerary, the work of a revolutionary artist is proposed through thirty-eight works, beyond definitions, beyond her time, who became the most influential photographer of the early twentieth century. At the WeGil space, about seventy of Elliott Erwitt's most famous shots outline a cross-section of twentieth-century history and costume: it is the "Icons" exhibition, scheduled from February 22 to May 17, which celebrates the great photographer and also offers the famous portraits by Che Guevara, Marlene Dietrich and the series dedicated to Marilyn Monroe.
TURIN - "Memory and passion. From Capa to Ghirri. Masterpieces from the Bertero Collection" is the title of the exhibition scheduled at the Camera Centro Italiano per la Fotografia from February 20 to May 10. At the heart of the exhibition is our past and the roots of our present, through over two hundred photographs signed by authors of the caliber of Basil, Berengo Gardin, Cartier-Bresson, Ghirri, Carmi. (HANDLE).