TAORMINA, 19 MAY - Two major Sicilian exhibitions, dedicated to Pietro Consagra and Alfredo Pirri, alongside the focus on Carlo Aymonino in Milan and the one on Baroque art in Rome: this is a week full of appointments with art, in a Italy now almost completely "in yellow" (except the Aosta Valley).
TAORMINA - At the Ancient Theater of Taormina comes "Pietro Consagra.
Color as matter", from May 17th to October 30th, set up on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Sicilian artist's birth.
Curated by Gabriella Di Milia and Paolo Falcone, the exhibition presents an en plein air journey, in which a selection of works created between 1964 and 2003 intertwines an exciting dialogue with the landscape and with the memories of the Ancient Theater.
SYRACUSE - Alfredo Pirri's exhibition is entitled "Passi", set up at the Maniace Castle from May 17th to December 31st, curated by Helga Marsala. The itinerant installation by Pirri, for the first time in Sicily, is configured in the Castle as a gigantic floor of walkable mirrors (800 square meters), on which ancient finds from the "Paolo Orsi" Archaeological Museum in Syracuse and above the which the public can walk, becoming the protagonist of a collective performance by shattering the mirrors.
MILAN - The exhibition "Carlo Aymonino - Faithfulness to betrayal" opened on May 14th, scheduled at the Milan Triennale until August 22nd. From an idea of Livia and Silvia Aymonino and curated by Manuel Orazi, the exhibition project, through archive materials, projects, paintings, texts, photographs and interviews arranged in chronological order, investigates Aymonino's work and the different contexts in which he lived and worked as an architect but also tells the man beyond the artist. "A kaleidoscope of repudiated gestures": this is how the artist and curator Peter Fischli defines the exhibition "Stop Painting", set up at the Venetian headquarters of the Prada Foundation (Ca 'Corner della Regina palace) from 22 May to 21 November.Investigating what have been the breaking moments in the history of painting in the last 150 years, the path is structured as a plurality of narratives told by Fischli himself, and presents over 110 works by more than 80 artists.
ROME - Until October 3 at Palazzo Barberini "Tempo Barocco", curated by Francesca Cappelletti and Flaminia Gennari Santori: open from May 15, the exhibition explores the concept of baroque placing time at the center, investigated in all its forms and declinations - love, seasons, beauty, action - through 40 works by Italian and foreign artists, from Pietro da Cortona to Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Guido Reni, from Nicolas Poussin to Anton Van Dyck. Also at Palazzo Barberini, from 19 May to 11 July, the Madonna del latte, a masterpiece by the Spanish painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, will be exhibited after a careful restoration that lasted almost 10 months. It is called "Qhapaq Ñan, The great path of the Andes",the great multidisciplinary exhibition project presented by IILA - an Italian-Latin American international organization and set up until 22 August at MUCIV - Museum of Civilizations - Palazzo delle Tradizioni Popular, which tells the public about the Andean road system created by the Incas on the basis of pre-Inca infrastructures. The exhibition represents an unprecedented and in-depth journey that highlights the traces left by the pre-Inca and Inca culture that crossed the Qhapaq Ñan. The space that becomes a "room picta" with painting covering every surface: "Eden" is the title of the first solo show in Rome by the Turin-based artist Elisa Filomena set up from May 15th to July 31st at Casa Vuota, and curated by Francesco Paolo Del Re and Sabino de Nichilo.
BOLZANO - The exhibition by Riccardo Dalisi "Forma Intervallo Spazio", scheduled at the Trevi Center and curated by Manuel Canelles, will close on 28 May: the exhibition explores the poetics and attention to social issues of Dalisi, a designer who with Sottsass, Mendini, Branzi and others, gave birth to the experience of Global Tools, a counter-school that brought together the work of those who identified with the so-called "radical architecture".
GUALTIERI (RE) - The exhibition "Ligabue, the rediscovered figure. 11 contemporary artists in comparison", curated by Nadia Stefanel and Matteo Galbiati, is set up at Palazzo Bentivoglio from 15 May to 14 November. The project, which arises from a new corpus of works by Antonio Ligabue, collected and selected by Francesco Negri, connects the master's works with those of Evita Andùjar, Mirko Baricchi, Elisa Bertaglia, Marco Grassi, Fabio Lombardi, Juan Eugenio Ochoa , Michele Parisi, Ettore Pinelli, Maurizio Pometti, Giorgio Tentolini and Marika Vicari.
VENICE - "Leonism" is the title of the exhibition by the young German artist Leon Löwentraut, at the Marciana National Library from 22 May to 27 June: the itinerary presents about 30 works including paintings, graphic editions and drawings that are related to the Renaissance works of Veronese , by Tintoretto and Titian.