ABANO TERME - Sironi and Ligabue, but also Sienese art from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century and Ferdinando Scianna: these are some of the protagonists of this week's exhibitions.
ABANO TERME (PD) - From September 17, the Villa Bassi Rathgeb Museum hosts "Mario Sironi. A tale from the great Italian collectibles", curated by Chiara Marangoni and Alan Serri: scheduled until January 8, 2023, the itinerary tells the story of man and the artist, reconstructing all the phases of his career, from the small oil, dedicated to a landscape of 1900, the work of a very young Sironi, to the last works of a painful maturity, including the Last Judgment of the 60s which closes the exhibition itinerary.
SIENA - Works by masters of the caliber of Pietro Lorenzetti, Tino di Camaino, Stefano di Giovanni known as Sassetta, Giovanni Antonio Bazzi known as Sodoma, Domenico Beccafumi, Bernardino Mei, Cesare Maccari and Fulvio Corsini, coming from the collections of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena compose "Sienese art. From the late Middle Ages to the twentieth century", an exhibition scheduled from 15 September 2022 to 8 January 2023 at the Santa Maria della Scala Museum Complex.
The project traces the love of Siena for the figurative arts, through some great artistic personalities, while at the same time recounting the value of the bank's collections, the result of a prolonged historical sedimentation.
ROME - Accessible beauty, in 42 shots of people with disabilities by the Roman photographer Samanta Sollima in different spaces of the capital: from 15 September to 20 November the Museum of Rome in Trastevere hosts the exhibition "GirovagArte", a project of the Handicap Noi and the Others, created to improve the use and accessibility of the places of culture and art in Rome and its surroundings.
From September 16 to November 1 "The memory of the stations", an exhibition curated by Chiara Sbarigia, president of Cinecittà, scheduled at the Auditorium Garage, at the Parco della Musica: an exciting journey in which documents and images of
Archivio Luce - enriched with some shots of the FS Foundation and unpublished shots by Anna Di Prospero - are linked to the stories of important writers to offer a portrait of the country through eight stations in large Italian cities.
At the Mastroianni Gallery in the Museums of San Salvatore in Lauro, from 16 September to 16 October, "Roman Holidays" is set up, the first solo show in Europe of the Taiwanese-American artist Lucia Heffernan, curated by Marco di Capua: 40 works created in oil on canvas on wooden panel in which the artist explores the world of animals, building an extravagant and theatrical imagery.
MODENA - The dossier exhibition organized by the BPER Banca Gallery in the spaces of via Scudari 9 on the occasion of festivalfilosofia is entitled "Antonio Ligabue. The shadowless hour. Recognition as an artist and as a person".
Set up from 16 September (until 5 February 2023), the exhibition, curated by Sandro Parmiggiani, develops from four important paintings belonging to the art collection of BPER Banca, alongside a selection of works from private collections.
CARPI (MO) - Opens on September 16 at the Museums of Palazzo dei Pio in Carpi "Only the shirt. The textile tradition in Carpi in the photographs of Ferdinando Scianna", curated by Manuela Rossi and Luca Panaro.
The exhibition, which will end on January 30, 2023, opens with 11 original prints by Scianna from his archive together with 26 images from the book of the fashion photographic campaign, created for Dolce & Gabbana's 1987 spring collection.
MILAN - From 14 to 25 September at the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci arrives "The shapes of the air: from Leonardo to Pagani Utopia", an exhibition focused on the dialogue between art, science and technology.
Curated by Pagani Automobili and Pietro C. Marani, the exhibition tells on the one hand Leonardo's genius through some sheets taken from the Atlantic Code and dedicated to studies on air and on the other the process that led the designer Horacio Pagani to conceive the new Hypercar Pagani, the Pagani Utopia.
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