(ANSA) - VICENZA, DECEMBER 28 -
Ancient Egypt next to the Byzantines, but also the Riace Bronzes seen by Luigi Spina and the art that survived the Second World War
: these are the exhibitions inaugurated during the festive period that can be visited in this last week of the year.
VICENZA
- The life of ancient Egypt, told through 160 works from the Egyptian Museum and 20 from the Louvre in Paris, including masterpieces of statuary, decorated sarcophagi, papyrus rolls, bas-reliefs, painted steles, amphorae and amulets: this is the exhibition "The creators of Eternal Egypt. Scribes, craftsmen and workers at the service of the pharaoh" set up at the Palladian Basilica, from 22 December to 7 May.
Curated by the Egyptian Museum, (Corinna Rossi, Cédric Gobeil and Paolo Marini), under the coordination of the director Christian Greco, the exhibition focuses on Thebes and Deir el-Medina, the village, founded around 1500 BC, where scribes, draftsmen and craftsmen worked to build and decorate the tombs of the pharaohs.
Collateral and contemporary to this exhibition, the project set up at
the Museo del Gioiello
entitled "Jewels and Amulets. Beauty in Ancient Egypt", curated by Christian Greco with the collaboration of Paolo Marini and Cédric Gobeil: along the route scarabs, lotus flowers or the typical eye of Horus in the form of an amulet, but also necklaces and bracelets in terracotta, strings of pearls and ivory rings, seals with the name of the pharaoh, and more finds, paintings and reliefs, as well as the analysis of the equipment of some mummies reveal the attention that the ancient Egyptians reserved for the jewel .
SENIGALLIA (
AN) - The "Sounds of silence" exhibition by South Korean photographer Sue Park, multiple winner of the Photo Awards and director of the Shatto Gallery in Los Angeles, is scheduled at Palazzo del Duca from 23 December to 4 June.
Curated by Lorenzo Uccellini, the exhibition is divided into 100 photographs that reveal the beauty of nature, images taken in Asia, Europe and the Americas where post-production is reduced to a minimum.
ROME
- At the Scuderie del Quirinale until April 10
"Arte Liberata 1937-1947. Masterpieces saved from war",
curated by Luigi Gallo and Raffaella Morselli: more than 100 masterpieces saved during the Second World War, together with a vast documentary and photographic panorama and sound, to recount the farsighted action of Superintendents and officials of the Fine Arts Administration - often forced to rest after refusing to join the Republic of Salò - who, assisted by art historians and representatives of the Vatican hierarchies, put much of the artistic and cultural heritage has been saved.
For the hundredth birthday of the painter and engraver
Guido Strazza, the exhibition "Strazza / Cento
" is set up, curated by Luisa De Marinis, Ilaria Fiumi Sermattei, Giorgio Marini, from 17 December to 26 February at the Central Institute for Graphics which made tribute to the master by printing a folder of engravings taken from a selection of original matrices present in their collections.
On display are the matrices and sheets produced for the folder, together with a selection of around 60 engravings made by Strazza between 1974 and 2015, including sheets and artist's books.
FLORENCE
- The exhibition by the Danish Jesper Just, curated by Caroline Corbetta, set up at the Marino Marini Museum from 17 December to 20 March is entitled "Seminarium": through a series of suggestive multimedia stations (6 multi-screens, manipulated to become real installations sculptures) the artist stages the relationship of interdependence between human beings and nature.
At the Galleria dell'Accademia from 20 December to 12 March the exhibition "The Riace Bronzes. A journey through images. Photographs by Luigi Spina", curated by Carmelo Malacrino: the project, a tribute 50 years after its discovery, hosts 16 photographs large format (90 X 134 cm), eight plus eight, dedicated respectively to statue A and statue B.
NAPLES
- The "Byzantines. Places, symbols and communities of a millennial empire" exhibition, curated by Federico Marazzi, will be held at the Man National Archaeological Museum of Naples from 21 December to 13 February: over 400 works in 15 sections to recount the historical phases following the Western Roman Empire, with a focus on Naples ("Byzantine" city for about six centuries, after the conquest by Belisarius and his armies in 536 AD) and a particular attention to Greece and southern Italy.
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