ROME - While Italy almost entirely assumes the color orange given the still high spread of infections, there are few regions in which the exhibitions can be visited in person.
Obviously, however, there are also digital appointments and those that can be visited outdoors.
ROME - Inaugurated at the Vallicelliana Library on the symbolic date of 8 March, Emanuela Mastria's installation "Desdemona's handkerchief" will remain open until April 21 in the Borromini hall.
Inserted in the Opera 00 | 20 exhibition curated by Paola Paesano, the installation is made up of one hundred floating sculptural elements in white porcelain through which the artist tackles the theme of femicide.
Each sculpture is made with a particular process that provides the impression of lace and depicts a woman's handkerchief with the initials, written in red, of the person to whom it is dedicated.
"A quel Paese" is the title of the first retrospective in Italy of the artist Rogelio López Cuenca, curated by Anna Cestelli Guidi, created by the Real Academia de España en Roma and Acción Cultural Española AC / E, in collaboration with the Baruchello Foundation.
The exhibition, scheduled from 12 March to 13 June in 3 locations (in the spaces of the Spanish Academy on the Janiculum Hill, at the Baruchello Foundation and in some public spaces in the city of Rome) illustrates themes such as travel, migration policies, memory history, urban speculation and the spectacularization of culture as a function of tourism through paintings, installations, videos, editorial texts.
At the Maxxi there are three exhibitions arriving on March 10: until October 17, "Aldo Rossi. The architect and the cities", curated by Alberto Ferlenga, a retrospective that documents the theoretical and practical contribution of an "anomalous architect", through materials coming not only from the MAXXI Architettura archive, but also from archives and collections from all over the world, including drawings, projects, writings and a sequence of models.
Until May 2nd, "Ciao da Roma" by Navin Rawanchaikul, curated by Hou Hanru with Donatella Saroli, on the dialogue between Bollywood and the Roman suburbs, the diaspora and cultural integration through an impressive oil on canvas that will become part from the Museum Collection.
Finally, as part of the Graziadei Award for Photography, on display in the spaces of the MAXXI Architettura Archives Center, the works created by Rachele Maistrello and Alba Zari, young photographers who reflect on the theme of the archive and memory (curated by Simona Antonacci , until April 11).
BOLOGNA - There is time until March 14 to join "Dear You", the project of the MAMbo - Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, curated by Caterina Molteni, designed to reach the public through postal correspondence in this period of forced closure.
Thanks to the project, anyone who registers will receive six works by international artists at home: Hamja Ahsan (London, 1981), Giulia Crispiani (Ancona, 1986), Dora García (Valladolid, 1965), Allison Grimaldi Donahue (Middletown, 1984), David Horvitz (Los Angeles, 1982) and Ingo Niermann (Biefeled, 1969).
For each entry, six letters will be sent, one for each artist involved, containing a work in the form of a letter and an accompanying text on the project.
A letter will be sent every 2 weeks, approximately until May, and an access ticket to the MAMbo collections is included in the registration, which can be used by 2021.
PALERMO - The "Heroes - Bowie By Sukita" exhibition, set up at Palazzo Sant'Elia, has been extended until 30 April: one hundred shots and a video installation tell the creative world of David Bowie following the gaze of photographer Masayoshi Sukita.
The exhibition testifies to the long relationship, professional and personal, between the rock star and the Japanese master.
MILAN - The third artist of the annual exhibition project "The shape of gold", curated by Melania Rossi, arrives at Building Box.
From 10 March to 8 April, the Roman artist presents "Allunati # 19", an installation visible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from the window in via Monte di Pietà 23. In the site-specific work, an image can be seen in poised between immediate identification (a man in the act of walking, just as one finds oneself doing in front of the window) and superimposition of visual memories given by the collage of photographs of the lunar soil disclosed by NASA.
ONLINE - A story between Italy and Malaysia dedicated to the concept of fragility in contemporary artistic production: "Fragility", an exhibition project conceived and produced by particle in collaboration with the ICA Foundation in Milan, curated by Alberto Salvadori, Luigi kicks off on March 10 Fassi and Lim Wei Ling.
The exhibition, in which the physical and digital dimensions are completed and integrated into a "phygital" reality, foresees the involvement of eight artists, four Italians and four Malaysians: Anida Yoeu Ali, Riccardo Benassi, Anurendra Jegadeva, Masbedo, Maria D. Rapicavoli , Wong Chee Meng, Francesco Simeti, Rajinder Singh.
At the moment the project can only be used virtually at the address particle.art/fragilita, while the path in presence in Kuala Lumpur has been suspended due to the health emergency.