FLORENCE, 07 JUL - Burri and Giacomelli, but also Penone, Hirst and Niki de Saint Phalle are some of the main protagonists of this week's exhibitions.
FLORENCE - "Trees in verse" is the title of Giuseppe Penone's exhibition inspired by the plant symbolism of a famous verse from Paradise in the Divine Comedy and scheduled from 6 July to 3 October at the Uffizi Gallery. Sculptures, installations, drawings and engravings, for a total of about 30 works, are scattered along the rooms of the museum to pay homage to the 700 years since Dante's death and to explore at the same time the theme of the tree, central to the artistic research of Penone, considered by him the archetype of sculpture and at the same time living matter.
CAPALBIO - More than 100 works, including sculptures, drawings, videos, photographs between the sixties and nineties, some of which unpublished and never presented to the public: it is the exhibition "The place of dreams: The Tarot Garden by Niki de Saint Phalle ", in Capalbio from 9 July to 3 November. Curated by Lucia Pesapane, the exhibition is set up in two places: at Palazzo Collacchioni, which retraces the history of the Tarot Garden, from the late seventies to today through photos, videos, sculptures, maquettes, collages, and at the Galleria Il Frantoio, where some historical works are exhibited, including assemblages from the 1960s, raw clay maquettes preliminary to the creation of the Garden and unpublished archive videos.
SENIGALLIA - Palazzo del Duca hosts from 1 July to 26 September the traveling exhibition "Giacomelli / Burri. Photography and material imagery", curated by Marco Pierini: the itinerary tells the artistic and human events that linked the two great artists of the 20th century through a substantial nucleus of photographs dedicated by Mario Giacomelli to Alberto Burri. Giacomelli's photographs are combined with some graphic works by Burri, such as the Combustioni 1965 series, Cretti 1971, and again, Sacchi, Combustioni on paper and wood, a precious white Cretto.
After Senigallia, the exhibition will arrive in Rome and then in Città di Castello.
ROME - There are also works from the "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable" project, with sculptural finds recovered from an imaginary shipwreck off the coast of East Africa, among the works exhibited in Damien Hirst's exhibition entitled "Forgiving and Forgetting "at the Gagosian Gallery from 6 July to 23 October. In conjunction with Hirst's other Capitoline exhibition at the Borghese Gallery, this exhibition also presents the latest paintings from the "Reverence Paintings" series, which highlight the link between the artist and color. At Gaggenau DesignElementi from 5 July to 12 November "Invisible flowers", the exhibition of the duo TTOZOI curated by Sabino Maria Frassà: in the itinerary works of art made from organic materials (flour,water and natural pigments) in which the creative process is determined by mold, an emblem of nature as an extraordinary force of creation (and also of death) that manifests itself.
PIACENZA - At the Ricci Oddi Modern Art Gallery from 4 July to 9 January 2022 the exhibition "Klimt and the 'secret' masters of Ricci Oddi", curated by Elena Pontiggia: starting from Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of a Lady" - recently re-exhibited in following the discovery - and from his "Portrait of an old man" (1917), exhibited only once before, the itinerary presents works by Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, Pietro Marussig, Arturo Tosi and Gianfilippo Usellini, to define the intentions that over the years they animated the collector Giuseppe Ricci Oddi.
PERUGIA - The exhibition "#Incursioni", from 7 July to 14 November at Palazzo Baldeschi al Corso (curated by Carla Scagliosi), proposes an interesting dialogue between the works of the National Gallery of Umbria and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Perugia. 20 works, including paintings and drawings, from the collections of the National Gallery of Umbria, which offer a focus on some aspects and protagonists of seventeenth-century painting, with some encroachments in the eighteenth century and the Roman Baroque.
BOLZANO - From 7 to 15 July at the Trevi Center "Can I tell you the truth?", Curated by Roberta Melasecca, fourth stage of Manuel Canelles' On stage project. In the Canelles project he tackles the theme of staging, narration, the subtle and ambiguous border between representation and reality and, through a stratification of dramaturgical processes, develops the concepts of illusion, conditioning and manipulation.