The history of chess told by books between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries alongside the art of Francesco Stefanini, Giuliano Vangi and Augusto Murer: these are some of the exhibitions of the first week of August.
SERAVEZZA (LU) - From 6 August Palazzo Mediceo hosts "Nel Tempo.
Opere 1972-2022", an anthology by Francesco Stefanini, curated by Stefano Cecchetto and Giuseppe Cordoni.
Set up until 2 October, the exhibition unfolds through 60 large-format works along an inverse chronological path: starting from the most recent works to run back to the 80s and 90s and up to the 70s, which mark the debut of the artist.
MAROSTICA (VI) - At the Lower Castle from 6 August to 18 September "The battle of two kings with fake hosts. The history of chess between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries in the books of the Bertoliana Library", exhibition curated by Laura Sbicego.
Along the way, some treasures from the Bertoliana Library of Vicenza, which houses a rare collection of universal chess literature: these are handwritten and printed works dated between the 13th and 19th centuries, often enriched with drawings and engravings.
BARGA (LU) - Claudio Cargiolli, Marco Manzella, Alessandro Tofanelli are the protagonists of "The painting of the imaginative", curated by Lucia Morelli, scheduled from 4 to 31 August at the Le Stanze della Memoria Museum.
Over 30 paintings, many of them unpublished, made for the exhibition by the three Tuscan artists, in which abstract, dreamlike and ephemeral places are represented, referring to the stones of the village of Barga.
LIVORNO - "The most beautiful in the world" is the title of the photographic exhibition by Maki Galimberti and Massimo Sestini scheduled at the City Museum from 3 August to 30 October, designed to celebrate the Amerigo Vespucci, the training ship of the Italian Navy.
Curated by Carla Bardelli, the exhibition presents about 50 shots in which the men and women of the crew are represented, intent on daily activities on board the ship.
ROVERETO - The exhibitions "Giuliano Vangi. Colloquio con l'antico. Pisano, Donatello, Michelangelo" and "Arte e Eros. Klossowski, Molinier, Bellmer, Rama" continue at the Mart until 9 October.
The first, curated by Massimo Bertozzi and Daniela Ferrari, in collaboration with Nicola Loi, Studio Copernico Milano, celebrates Vangi's 90th anniversary by presenting over 50 sculptures and about twenty drawings - one of which is 36 meters, specially made - that dialogue with the art of some great masters of the past, in an installation signed by Mario and Tommaso Botta.
The second project, curated by Denis Isaia, in collaboration with the Association of Fine Arts of Brescia, presents the largest group of works by Pierre Klossowski, brother of the painter Balthus and leading intellectual of the twentieth century, never presented in Italy:
BELLUNO - Until 18 September at the Civic Museums of Palazzo Fulcis it is possible to visit the exhibition "Augusto Murer (1922 - 1985)", designed to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the artist, protagonist of Italian sculpture of the twentieth century.
The retrospective, curated by Dino Marangon, focuses on the 40s and 50s, that is, those of the fundamental meeting with Arturo Martini, when Murer developed his own autonomous language, working with drawing and with and on wood.