Exhibitions, on the weekend we return to the museum between Canova and Banksy

From Canova's return to Rome to Gnam finally Open !. And then Banksy in Genoa and Giacomelli's shots in Senigallia (AN), 15th century painting in Bologna and Boboli's classic sculptures in Florence. Art returns to show itself in the first weekend of "real" reopenings and exhibitions, to be discovered all live. Even if still in a leopard spot, after two months of lockdown, museums and galleries begin to reopen, including "missed" exhibitions, whose debut had been canceled due to the pandemic, extraordinary extensions and new projects. Face masks, distance between visitors, reservations and contingent groups are the new rules to follow. Sometimes, however, they also offer the joy of a crowd-less, almost "exclusive" visit. Here are some events not to be missed.

ROME - The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art is "Open!", As is the title of the project that collects the site-specific installation by Marti Guixè and the new exhibition in the central hall "At close range". A journey through time and space to tell the concept of abstractionism, geometric and gestural, drawing from the museum's permanent collection 30 works by artists such as Afro, Franco Angeli, Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Ettore Colla, Pietro Consagra, Luisa Lambri, Gastone Novelli, Pino Pascali. Some not exhibited for some time as for Toti Scialoja, Daniela De Lorenzo or Corrado Sassi.

ROME - With a record of over 145 thousand visitors before the lockdown, "Canova. Eternal Beauty" (exceptionally extended until 21 June) reopens at the Museo di Roma at Palazzo Braschi, an exhibition curated by Giuseppe Pavanello, with 170 works by the sculptor and contemporary artists, on loan from some of the largest collections in the world. In 13 sections, the Canovian art and the context that the sculptor found arriving in Rome in 1779.

FLORENCE - Waiting for the Uffizi, to open the gates from tomorrow is the Boboli Gardens, a real open-air museum unique in the world, with an extraordinary botanical heritage and a landscape and architectural structure that houses flowerbeds among its avenues and groves, a collection of over 300 sculptures from the classical, Renaissance and Baroque ages.

BOLOGNA - Exhibition missed in March, due to pandemic, finally makes its debut at Palazzo Fava "The Rediscovery of a Masterpiece", which, 500 years after its realization and 300 since its dispersion, brings back to Bologna the tables of the Griffoni Polyptych by Ferrarese Francesco del Cossa and Ercole de 'Roberti. The two of them, right here, with the majestic altarpiece built between 1470 and 1472 for the chapel of the Basilica of San Petronio, started their artistic partnership. Two sections: "The Griffoni Polyptych is reborn in Bologna", with the display of the original surviving panels from nine international museums, together with the reconstruction of the Polyptych as it should have appeared in the fifteenth century; and "The Materiality of the Aura: New Technologies for Protection", dedicated to the future of the works.

GENOA - Nobody has ever seen him, nobody knows his face, there are no photos showing him. Yet Banksy has the great ability to speak to the world. Until Sunday, Palazzo Ducale reopens to the public "The second principle of an artist called Banksy", an exhibition that brings together original works and objects by the British street artist who has become a real star. They range from freehand paintings from the earliest stage of his career and numerous stencils to screen prints that Banksy considers vital to spread his messages. Up to works from Dismaland, such as the Mickey Snake sculpture with Mickey Mouse swallowed by a python.

SENIGALLIA (AN) - The city of photography celebrates the twenty years of Mario Giacomelli's disappearance with "Sguardi di Novecento: Giacomelli and his time" (until September 27). A gallery of shots divided into two sections. An international part curated by ONO contemporary art is in Palazzo del Duca with twenty photographs by Giacomelli in comparison with about ninety shots of great photographers of the mid-twentieth century, such as Nino Miglior, Gianni Berengo Gardi, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau. A Palazzetto Baviera "Twentieth century glances in Senigallia. The Misa Association, for an artistic photograph. Works from 1954 to 1958" by the Eredi Giacomelli instead offers a selection of photographic works by the members of the Misa Association, from the City of Senigallia.