BRESCIA - The paintings of Lotto, Romanino, Moretto and Ceruti alongside the pop works of Andy Warhol and the shots of Inge Morath: these are some of this week's exhibitions.
BRESCIA - 80 masterpieces have been selected for the exhibition "Lotto, Romanino, Moretto, Ceruti. The champions of painting in Brescia and Bergamo", set up from 21 January to 11 June at Palazzo Martinengo and curated by Davide Dotti.
Part of the program of "Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023", the exhibition compares the works of the great Brescian Renaissance masters such as Foppa, Moretto, Romanino, Savoldo and Gambara with those of the Bergamo natives Moroni, Palma il Vecchio, Cariani, Previtali and Lotto to understand the common Lombard cultural substratum.
Along the way there are also 4 insights dedicated to themes characterizing the
GALLARATE (VA) - Andy Warhol with his multifaceted career is the protagonist at the MA*GA Museum from 22 January to 18 June in the exhibition "Serial Identity", curated by Maurizio Vanni and Emma Zanella: the anthology contains over 200 works, from first drawings made for publishing and fashion, to the most important pop works to the commercial brands of large companies.
Also on display for the first time in Italy is the video installation by the American photographer and director Ronald Nameth born from the performance Exploding Plastic Inevitable orchestrated by Warhol with the Velvet Underground and Nico.
The itinerary is then completed at the Porta di Milano of the Milan Malpensa airport, with a large video wall and an installation.
VENICE - "Inge Morath. Photographing from Venice onwards" opens at the Palazzo Grimani Museum on 18 January, curated by Kurt Kaindle and Brigitte Blüml, with Valeria Finocchi: until 4 June, about 200 photographs with a specific and unpublished focus on Venice (through the famous reportage that the Austrian photographer made in the Lagoon, when the Magnum Agency sent her to the city on behalf of L'Oeil).
Many of these Venetian photographs, about eighty, have never been exhibited before in Italy.
ROME - A collection of over 20 images taken with the Leica SL tell the story of Municipio 1, between the Pantheon and the Roman Forum: this is the "Pietre" exhibition by Nicoletta Leni Di Ruocco and Massimiliano Pugliese, set up from 18 January to the end of February at the Leica Store Rome .
Second appointment of Rome ChilometroZero, a project by Leica Camera Italia in collaboration with Contrasto, born with the aim of finding new talents and new perspectives for the 15 municipalities of Rome, through the use of a Leica camera.
At Palazzo Braschi there are two opening appointments on 20 January as part of Quotidiana.
We are talking about the exhibition of the artistic duo Eva & Franco Mattes (Landscape section, until 12 March) from a reflection by Nadim Samman and the presentation of the work Tana by Martina Biolo (Portfolio section, until 12 February).
MILAN - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is the protagonist of the exhibition "Lilibet. The Queen", from 19 January to 20 February 2023 at the Agostino Art Gallery, curated by Cinzia Lampariello Ranzi.
On display is a selection of unique and multiple pieces made by some of the protagonists of pop art and international street art (Endless, Marco Lodola, Mr. Brainwash, Raptuz, Jamie Reid, TVboy) which portray the queen as the last true pop icon of the our time.
"Acque chete" by Corrado Bonomi is set up at the Acquario Civico from 19 January to 26 February: curated by Alberto Fiz, the solo show presents 20 works, including paintings, sculptures and installations that have the marine world as a unifying element with its inhabitants , in which the
TERAMO - The "Chamber of Wonders" exhibition, conceived by Stefano Papetti and curated together with Antonio D'Amico, has just reopened at the Della Monica Castle in Teramo, scheduled from 21 January to 7 May.
For the first time a selection of precious and unusual late Renaissance furnishings (furniture, armour, finely decorated and carved chests, ivory caskets), collected in the mid-nineteenth century by the brothers Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi for their home in Milan, leave the museum headquarters to enrich another important period residence.
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