David Bowie and Raffaella Carrà, but also the Bassano family of painters and Déco in Italy: these are some of the exhibitions on the first weekend of December.
TURIN - At the State Archives from 1 December to 26 February, in national preview, the exhibition "David Bowie | Steve Schapiro: America. Dreams. Rights", curated by ONO arte.
The exhibition presents 70 shots by American photographer Steve Schapiro to tell the highlights of Bowie's career.
The music star and the photographer met for the first time in 1974: from that moment a professional and human harmony was born that saw them collaborate until the end of the 80s.
BASSANO DEL GRAPPA - At the Civic Museum from 3 December to 2 May "The Bassanos. History of a family of painters", an exhibition curated by Barbara Guidi and Melania Mazzucco.
At the center of the itinerary is the epic of the Dal Pontes, known precisely as "the Bassanos", undisputed protagonists of Venetian Renaissance painting, told through their works (about 40 as well as precious objects and documents), and with the words taken from the book by Melania Mazzucco, published by the same Civic Museums of Bassano del Grappa.
AOSTA - 230 works including paintings, sculptures, wall decorations, applied arts, posters and illustrations are exhibited in the exhibition "Deco in Italy, the elegance of modernity", from 2 December to 10 April at the Bard Fort.
Curated by Francesco Parisi, the exhibition reveals the evolution of Déco in Italy starting from the Italian section present at the famous Parisian exhibition of 1925, Exposition International des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, from which the term Déco derives.
ROME - "Mario Merz. Balla, Carrà, de Chirico, de Pisis, Morandi, Savinio, Severini. Rome 1978" is the exhibition set up at Palazzo delle Esposizioni from 29 November to 26 February, curated by Daniela Lancioni.
As part of the Exhibitions on display cycle, the exhibition offers the public the historic exhibition inaugurated at the Galleria dell'Oca in Rome on 15 March 1978, and the result of the collaboration between Luisa Laureati Briganti, founder of the gallery, and the gallery owners Luciano Pistoi and Gian Enzo Sperone.
The "Lucciole" exhibition by Lucianella Cafagna, curated by Elena Del Drago, will remain at Palazzo Merulana until 1 January: conceived as a tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini, for whom the disappearance of the fireflies indicated the destructive power of neo-capitalism, the exhibition presents 20 canvases of various formats, all made by
MILAN - Eleven examples of cribs (Neapolitan, Lombard, African, Burmese made with the most diverse techniques) from the Dalmine Presepio Museum make up the widespread exhibition "Presepi all'Ambrosiana", scheduled from December 1 to January 31 at the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana.
Among the specimens on display there are also some on paper, with the reproduction of the Crib created by Giuseppe Carsana in 1868 for the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Sorrows in Rho and the transposition into print of some characters from the "Gernetto crib" painted by Francesco Londonio.
"Gian Paolo Barbieri: Unconventional" is set up at the 29 Arts In Progress gallery from 29 November to 25 March: intimate and spontaneous shots of models and celebrities such as Eva Herzigova and Donatella Versace are on display,
FLORENCE - "Happy Birthday. Raffaella Carrà, icon of advertising" is on display from 3 to 23 December at Informacittà The art of communicating.
Curated by Maria Paternostro and Silvia Minelli, the exhibition pays tribute to Raffaella Carrà one year after her death through a unique and unpublished collection of vintage advertising images that tell the artist's evolution and the changes in society.
VENICE - From 2 to 23 December, Palazzo Bembo hosts "Women in Love", a video exhibition by Benedetta Paravia (Princess Bee): the project aims to raise public awareness on the issue of Female Genital Mutilation and presents the photographic frames of 7 NFT videos which portray as many female volunteers of different nationalities.
With the use of a QR Code it will be possible to view the videos and stories of the 7 models: the images, through the representation of a real orgasm, contrast the force of female nature with the violence of mutilations.
