FLORENCE - Strongly believing in a restart of art and beauty, after last season made disastrous by the pandemic, museums and places of culture have organized themselves to guarantee the public a rich and quality exhibition offer, capable of ranging between great masters , different artistic genres and eras.
FLORENCE - Shine as a game of ambiguity between splendor and glow, being and appearing is at the center of "Shine", Jeff Koons' solo show scheduled in the halls of Palazzo Strozzi from 2 October to 30 January 2022.
The itinerary, designed in close dialogue with the American artist, hosts loans (sculptures and installations) from the most important collections and major international museums. At the Monumental Complex of Santa Croce, from September 14, Felice Limosani presents "Dante. The Eternal Poet", the cultural project he conceived to pay homage to the Supreme Poet in his Florence. Open until January 10, 2022, the project aims to update Dante's "visible talk" through an unprecedented visual score created with the engravings of Gustave Dorè (135 plates all digitized), in dialogue with the architectural masterpiece of the Pazzi Chapel, and a dramaturgy of choirs and soundtracks that emphasize the otherworldly settings of the poem.
ROME - The world of the damned and its iconography are at the center of the great autumn exhibition of the Scuderie del Quirinale, entitled "Inferno": from 5 October to 9 January 2022, curated by Jean Clair, the exhibition is set up to celebrate the 700 years after the death of Dante Alighieri. A spectacular and ambitious project, which unfolds along over 200 works by great masters (from Beato Angelico to Botticelli, from Brueghel to Balla, from Delacroix to Goya and Manet), on loan from 80 Italian and international museums.
MILAN - Many unmissable events at Palazzo Reale in autumn: Claude Monet inaugurates the season on 18 September (until 30 January 2022), with a selection of works from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris to deepen the theme of the reflection of light and its changes, all inserted in a chronological path that traces the career of the father of Impressionism. Paintings, sculptures, drawings and documentary material make up the "Magic Realism" exhibition, from October 19 to February 27, designed to investigate the anxieties of the Italian pictorial movement that developed in the 1920s and 1930s. The focus dedicated to the Uruguayan sculptor Pablo Atchugarry who designed a "Italian garden ", following exactly the proportions of the ellipse and the two circles of the ceiling.
GENOA - Two very different artists animate the next season of Palazzo Ducale, Escher and Hugo Pratt. The largest and most complete exhibition dedicated to the great Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher will open on 9 September: divided into 8 sections and divided into over 200 works, the exhibition travels through art, mathematics, science, physics, nature and design and allows you to explore the imaginative Escherian universe through unprecedented immersive rooms and impossible structures, compared with works by great visionary artists such as Piranesi and Vasarely.
"Hugo Pratt from Genoa to the South Seas", from 15 October to 20 March 2022, presents about 200 original pieces including plates and watercolors by the famous illustrator; for the public also an original multivision, to tell the undying myth of Corto Maltese.
NAPLES - There will be 100 Flemish paintings that will make up the exhibition "The Brueghel dynasty", scheduled at the Basilica of Pietrasanta from 11 November to 15 April 2022: an intense journey, in which the public will be able to admire the talented hand of Pieter Brueghel the Elder , and his sons Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Jan Brueghel, in dialogue with the centuries-old history of the basilica.
ANCONA - "Sacred land. The earth, magic, man, our time", curated by Flavio Arensi, is the exhibition that on November 26 will occupy the rooms of the Mole Vanvitelliana.
Set up until May 5, 2022, the exhibition was created with the intention of making contemporary art dialogue with some of the ancient works that, following the 2016 earthquake, were brought to the deposits of the Mole to be examined and restored. 35 artists called to participate in the project, from Mimmo Paladino to Gina Pane, to Quayola, from Gregorio Botta to Flavio Favelli, from Salvo to Zerocalcare, in a path consisting of 120 works. (HANDLE).