ROME - Boldini's ladies, Max Ernst's production and thought, Bosch's "anti-Renaissance", and then the dream world of the Surrealists and Pasolini's complex legacy: the uncertainty of the times and the constant threat del covid have not stopped the exhibition programming of museum institutions, with many ready-to-start projects ranging from eras, styles and languages. BRESCIA - "Women in art. From Titian to Boldini" is the exhibition dedicated to the representation of the female figure over the course of 4 centuries, scheduled from January 22 to June 12 at Palazzo Martinengo. Curated by Davide Dotti, the itinerary winds along more than 90 masterpieces signed by great artists from various eras, from the Renaissance to the Baroque to the Belle Époque.
NAPLES - The exhibition "Sing Sing. The body of Pompeii" by Luigi Spina is an exciting itinerary, set up from 21 January to 30 June at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples: the photographic project, to which the published book of the same name is linked from 5 Continents Editions, allows you to browse inside the cells of the Sing Sing deposits of the museum, until now closed to the public, to discover the daily life that animated the Vesuvian cities. Through 50 photographs, the bronze, glass, ceramic and terracotta artefacts that fill these rooms come "to life".
PADUA - "From Romantics to Segantini. Stories of moons and then of gazes and mountains. Masterpieces from the Oskar Reinhart Foundation" is the project, curated by Marco Goldin, set up at the San Gaetano Center from 29 January to 5 June: focusing on Germany and Switzerland first of all, the exhibition aims to raise awareness of the starting point of art in Europe at the beginning of the nineteenth century, romanticism, through 75 works from the Oskar Reinhart Foundation divided into 7 thematic sections.
TURIN - Over 250 images, many of which have never been seen in Italy, such as the series of shots taken in Genoa and Turin, or rare, such as those in color, make up the exhibition "Vivian Maier. Unpublished", at the Chiablese Halls of the Royal Museums from February 9 to June 26. Curated by Anne Morin, and arrived in Turin after a first stop in Paris, the exhibition tells little-known aspects of the life and career of Vivian Maier, one of the greatest figures in street photography.
ROVIGO - At Palazzo Roverella from February 26, 2022 to June 26, eyes focused on Vasilij Kandinskij: in the great retrospective dedicated to him, curated by Paolo Bolpagni and Evgenia Petrova, the evolution of his evocative and visionary art is documented, focusing on the fundamental passage from figuration to abstraction and on the dialectic between expressive freedom and ordering principles.
VENICE - Spring at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is full of dreams and the irrational: from 9 April to 26 September "Surrealism and magic. Enchanted modernity" curated by Gražina Subelytė, a path of about 60 works, ranging from de Chirico metaphysician to the iconic painting by Max Ernst The dressing of the bride, to the occult imagery of the latest works by Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo.
ROME - A tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini arrives in the capital in autumn, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth: in the respective museums, Palazzo delle Esposizioni (17 October 2022 - 20 January 2023), Palazzo Barberini (28 October 2022 - 13 February 2023) ) and the MAXXI Museum (November 16, 2022 - March 12, 2023) propose the great project "Pier Paolo Pasolini. Everything is holy". A complex and differentiated path, which intertwines disciplines, media, original works and archival documents to reflect on Pasolini's production and on the still very lively cultural heritage of the intellectual poet. Dense program also at the Borghese Gallery: "Guido Reni in Rome. The Sacred and Nature", curated by Francesca Cappelletti (9 February - 22 May), centered on the painting Danza campestre, recently returned to the museum,and the exhibition-dossier "Titian. Dialogues of Nature and Love", curated by Maria Giovanna Sarti (15 June - 18 September) born on the occasion of the loan granted by the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna of the Nymph with shepherd. Two exhibitions at Palazzo Bonaparte: from March 5 to June 26 "Bill Viola. Icons of light", dedicated to the famous video artist, and from March 12 to July 3, the first major exhibition of Jago, a rock star sculptor.and from 12 March to 3 July the first major exhibition of Jago, a rock star sculptor.and from 12 March to 3 July the first major exhibition of Jago, a rock star sculptor.
MILAN - Two interesting projects for autumn at Palazzo Reale: in October (until February 2023) the first Italian retrospective dedicated to Max Ernst, painter, sculptor, engraver, sculptor, poet and art theorist, in an investigation, curated by Martina Mazzotta and Jürgen Pech, entitled "Beauty and bizarre", conducted through 200 works from international museums, foundations and private collections.
In November (until March 2023) Bosch and his "anti-Renaissance" absolute protagonist: curated by Bernard Aikema and Fernando Checa, the exhibition "Hieronymus Bosch and Southern Europe" frames the artist as a creator of fantastic visions in relation to the trends of collecting of the time and artistic reception by the Spanish and Italian Renaissance.