FLORENCE - Picasso with a painting never seen in Italy, Cartier-Bresson and his legendary reports on China, but also Daniele da Volterra with the effigy of Michelangelo and the discovery of a talented photographer like Lenardo: these are some of the exhibitions of this week.
FLORENCE - At the Accademia Gallery from February 15 "Michelangelo: the bronze effigy of Daniele da Volterra", exhibition curated by Cecilie Hollberg set up until June 19: for the first time the 9 busts are exhibited in a single location in bronze by Michelangelo attributed to Daniele da Volterra (3 specimens already preserved in Florence at the Accademia Gallery, the National Bargello Museum and Casa Buonarroti, the others on loan from various Italian and international museums), all works submitted for opportunity for an intense campaign of non-invasive analyzes, both classic of materials and with sophisticated latest generation tools and innovative methodologies.
MILAN - Over 100 original prints and a collection of documents and archival materials for an unprecedented excursus that recounts two key moments in the history of China, the fall of the Kuomintang (1948-1949) and the "Great leap forward" of Mao Zedong (1958): is the exhibition "Henri Cartier-Bresson: China 1948-49 | 1958", scheduled at Mudec from February 18 to July 3, which presents the two Chinese reports through which the great photographer achieved international fame .
Fulvio Morella's tactile sculpture paintings at the Istituto dei Ciechi in Milan: from 14 to 21 February the "Fiat Lux" exhibition curated by Sabino Maria Frassà promoted by the non-profit Cramum project is set up;
works are exhibited (belonging to the Blind Wood project) to be seen with the eyes and hands,
in which turned wood is combined with metal and Braille, the latter used not only as a form of writing but also as an aesthetic-decorative element.
"Role Play", curated by Melissa Harris, is set up from February 19 to June 27 at the Fondazione Prada Observatory in Milan and focuses on the concept of individuality: through a selection of photographs, videos and performances, 11 international artists question gender metaphors, stereotypes, the sense of place and future perspectives to explore the processes of research, projection and creation of possible alternative identities, poised between authentic, idealized and universal selves.
Metamorphosis, interdependence, ecosystem and symbiosis are the concepts at the heart of "Metaspore",
ROME - At the Rhinoceros Gallery of Palazzo Rhinoceros al Velabro, with the Alda Fendi - Experiments Foundation, the cubist painting by Pablo Picasso "Young woman" from 1909, belonging to the collection of the State Hermitage Museum of San Petersburg, which will be exhibited from February 15 to May 15.
Curated by Raffaele Curi, the exhibition project focuses on the painting in a path capable of mixing music, dance (from the Ballet Nacional de España to Erik Satie's ballet Parade) and photographic memories of the painter's life, also dedicating a focus in the exhibition to the relationship between the Spanish artist and the Italian actor Raf Vallone.
The exhibition scheduled at WeGil from 12 February to 8 May is entitled "Alberto di Lenardo. The unpublished gaze of a great photographer": curated by Carlotta di Lenardo, nephew of the photographer, the exhibition reveals the talent of an author of the second Twentieth century remained unknown until his death (which occurred in 2018) presenting 154 images taken in over 50 years of activity.
"Crazy. Madness in contemporary art" is the exhibition set up in the internal and external spaces of the Chiostro del Bramante from February 19 to January 8 2023, curated by Danilo Eccher: with 21 artists of international importance (and more than 11 installations site-specific unpublished), the exhibition proposes a complex and subjective narration of reality and reflects on the madness which, like art, rejects established patterns, escapes from any rigid framework, rebels against constraints.
Until February 20 "Inhabit - Murales Ethiopia", collective exhibition curated by Mirko Pierri (a.DNA Project), set up at Ethiopia Temporary Art Hub: the project exhibits the pictorial reworking of the drafts with which the 21 selected international artists have participated in the tender launched a year ago by Maurizio Albano of PCT srl, a company that will commission the first selected work to produce a work of 28 m high by 24 m wide in the Africano district, adjacent to the location where the exhibition will be set up.
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