In Italy half-colored in yellow, the appointments with the exhibitions continue in these first days of January, with several finissages scheduled.
ROME - At the Borghese Gallery from 4 January to 7 February "I Quadri descend le stairs", an exhibition project created to enhance some of the works of art preserved in the deposit of the Capitoline museum and not normally present in the usual tour itinerary.
For the public, the opportunity to admire about 15 works - from the Portrait of a Lady by Lucia Anguissola to The Three Graces by Ventura Salimbeni - which will be exhibited in rotation.
VENICE - The "Hypervenezia" exhibition, curated by Matthieu Humery and created to celebrate the 1600th anniversary of the foundation of the Venetian city, closes on 9 January at Palazzo Grassi. Three installations that make up the project: a linear path of about 400 photographs to reconstruct an ideal itinerary for the sestieri of Venice, a video installation of over 3,000 photographs that flow accompanied by an unpublished musical composition created specifically by Nicolas Godin, and a site-specific map of Venice made up of a mosaic of about 900 geolocated images that offer an overview of the city.
TURIN - At the Merz Foundation until January 9 "Marisa and Mario Merz. The tip of the pencil can perform an overtaking of conscience", curated by Mariano Boggia: the path (which also includes the works of Richard Long, Giulio Paolini and Remo Salvadori) tells of the relationship, between similarities, differences and interferences, that the work of Marisa and Mario Merz had with that of other artists they met during their careers.
MILAN - Until January 9, Emilio Isgrò is the protagonist at the Braidense Library with the work "May 5th canceled": a tribute to the Manzoni ode kept in the Library, the erasure of the artist closes the year of the celebrations in honor of Napoleon.
BERGAMO - "Statements", a project by The Blank dedicated to the reaction of artists to the trauma of the pandemic, will close on 9 January at Palazzo della Ragione.
The exhibition collects the statements in visual and textual form - presented both inside and outside the building - that some internationally renowned artists have conceived in the last difficult months.
PAVIA - "Marginalia. The forms of freedom", curated by Valerio Dehò, set up at Castello Visconteo continues until 28 February: the itinerary celebrates the free and out-of-the-mainstream art of 13 artists capable of expressing themselves without compromise, from Yayoi Kusama to Carol Rama, from Aldo Mondino to Carlo Zinelli.
LUGANO - Last weekend to visit the first major monographic exhibition by Nicolas Party (Lausanne, 1980) in a European museum, entitled "Ruins", at the Masi Museum of Italian Switzerland, in the headquarters of the Lac cultural center.
The itinerary, curated by Tobia Bezzola and Francesca Bernasconi, documents the alienating universe conceived by the artist through large site-specific murals, polychrome sculptures and bright pastel paintings.