- Great names in photography such as Tina Modotti and Luigi Ghirri alongside famous surrealists, including Ernst and Magritte, and futurist aerial painters, such as Dottori and Peruzzi: they are some of the protagonists of next weekend's exhibitions.
VENICE - "Surrealism and magic. Enchanted modernity" is scheduled from 9 April to 26 September at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and reveals the interest of surrealists in magic, esotericism, mythology and the occult.
Curated by Gražina Subelytė, the exhibition brings together around 60 works from over 40 major international institutions and private collections, including works by Victor Brauner, Leonora Carrington, Salvador Dalí, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Delvaux, Maya Deren, Max Ernst, Leonor Fini, René Magritte, Roberto Matta, Wolfgang Paalen, Kay Sage, Kurt Seligmann, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, and Remedios Varo.
GENOA - Offers the portrait of a woman who has become a symbol of emancipation and modernity, whose art is inextricably linked to social commitment, the exhibition project "Tina Modotti. Women, Mexico and Freedom", set up at Palazzo Ducale from 8 April to 9 October.
Curated by Biba Giacchetti, the exhibition through a selection of images focuses on the essential traits of the human and professional parable of the photographer who went through fame and misery, art and political and social commitment, arrests and persecutions, and whose artistic rediscovery began in the 70s, thanks to his partner Vittorio Vidali.
JESI - The exhibition "Luigi Ghirri (non) places", curated by Massimo Minini, is set up at Palazzo Bisaccioni, headquarters of the Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi Foundation, from 9 April to 31 July.
Organized on the thirtieth anniversary of Ghirri's death, the exhibition collects 40 photographs from private collections to construct a sort of emotional story, capable of revealing the sometimes melancholy, enchanted, suspended and romantic universe of the photographer, also underlining the intimate relationship that he established with things and places.
BOLOGNA - A journey along 70 iconic and memorable shots of important masters: the exhibition "Photos! The masterpieces of the Julián Castilla Collection: Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau, Capa, Man Ray and the greatest photographers of the twentieth century" arrives at Palazzo Albergati .
Held from 8 April to 4 September, the exhibition brings for the first time to Italy one of the most important private collections in Europe, belonging to the Spanish collector Julián Castilla, which covers more than a century of photographic art, from the birth of modern photography at the beginning of the twentieth century to the present one of the twenty-first century.
MILAN - "The learning photographer" is the Hans Georg Berger exhibition set up at the 29 Arts in Progress Gallery from 8 April to 16 July.
The exhibition - also linked to the limited edition art book personally signed by the German photographer and embellished with an original work of art - brings together more than 30 black and white photographs printed with silver salts on baryta paper, for tell a career spanning 50 years that began when, in the 1970s, the artist was involved in the restoration of the Hermitage of Santa Caterina on the Island of Elba.
SATURNIA - "Gastone Novelli: Saturnia, the origins, the magic of the sign" is scheduled from 9 April until 8 January 2023 at the Pietro Aldi Cultural Center, an exhibition that presents the artist's drawings, sculptures and canvases in relation to a selection of Etruscan and Roman finds from the Ciacci archaeological collection.
50 years after Novelli's death, the exhibition, curated by Guglielmo Buda and Anna Cristina Caputi, reveals the artist's ties with Saturnia, a place that greatly influenced his poetic imagery.
FONTANELLATO (PR) - "From above. Futurist Aeropainting" is the title of the exhibition scheduled at the Labirinto della Masone by Franco Maria Ricci from 9 April to 3 July.
Curated by Massimo Duranti, the project proposes about 100 works (mainly paintings, but also drawings, watercolors, medium-sized graphics and some aerosculptures) to tell the peculiarities of the artists of Aeropainting, from Gerardo Dottori to Enrico Prampolini, from Osvaldo Peruzzi to Tullio Crali.
Also present were the futurist women, Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, Leandra Angelucci Cominazzini, Barbara, Marisa Mori, as well as the last of the air-painters, Guido Strazza, who turns one century this year.
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