The photography of Erwitt and Cerati, the 'deformed' painting from Leonardo to Bacon, and again, Cecco's discovery of Caravaggio and the focuses to remember the Shoah: these are the exhibitions of the last week of January.
VENICE - Palazzo Loredan welcomes "Monstrous faces and caricatures. From Leonardo da Vinci to Bacon", an exhibition curated by Pietro C. Marani and staged from 28 January to 27 April.
Promoted in Venice by the Giancarlo Ligabue Foundation, the exhibition presents 75 works from international museums and private collections.
Along the way there are numerous comparisons and references, from Leonardo (of which 17 autographed drawings are on display, including the well-known "Testa di Vecchia") to Anton Maria Zanetti and Tiepolo, passing through Francesco Melzi, Paolo Lomazzo, Aurelio Luini, Donato Creti, Arcimboldo , but also Carracci and Parmigianino, up to the 1900s with Francis Bacon's masterpiece "Three studies for a portrait of Isabel Rawsthorne".
BERGAMO - "Cecco del Caravaggio. The Model Student" is scheduled from 28 January to 4 June at the Carrara Academy, curated by Gianni Papi and M. Cristina Rodeschini.
The first exhibition ever dedicated in Italy and in the world to Cecco del Caravaggio (about 1585 - after 1620), pupil, lover and model of Merisi, the exhibition presents 41 works: 19 of the approximately 25 known paintings by Cecco, 2 works by Caravaggio and, together, artists who inspired and were inspired by this painter.
FORTE DEI MARMI - A visual counterpoint of great intensity, between matter and form, to enter the creative process: "Expression" is the title of the solo exhibition by the French artist Henri Beaufour, set up at the Fortino Loeopoldo I from 29 January to 12 March.
Curated by Valerio Dehò, the itinerary tells the art of Beaufour through the comparison between marble sculptures and the production of drawings, paintings and engravings.
MILAN - Dream, magic, metaphysical and surrealist painting in its most feminine declination: from 24 January to 27 March the Other Size Gallery hosts "The company of dreams", a solo show by Ilaria Del Monte, curated by Claudio Composti.
Eleven medium and large format paintings on display - created from 2017 to today - in which the artist's ability to create suspended atmospheres and worlds on the canvas in which the everyday merges with the supernatural is manifested.
From the bodies of the actors of Living Theater to that of female nudes, from the denunciation photography of Dying of class to the worldly Milan of Mondo Cocktail: there is all this in the exhibition "Forma e Movimento" dedicated to Carla Cerati (Bergamo, 1926 - 2016 ) and scheduled at the Leica Store Milano from 25 January to 8 April.
By Elena Ceratti,
Fabio Achilli and Denis Curti, the exhibition presents to the public photographs selected from different projects created by the artist during his life.
The voice of the poor and marginalized in the shots of a great photographer: at the Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum the Lee Jeffries exhibition "Portraits. The soul beyond the image", from 27 January to 16 April.
Curated by Barbara Silbe and Nadia Righi, the project exhibits around fifty black and white and color images in which the English author captures the faces of a hidden and invisible humanity.
at the Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum the Lee Jeffries exhibition "Portraits. The soul beyond the image", from 27 January to 16 April.
Curated by Barbara Silbe and Nadia Righi, the project exhibits about fifty black and white and color images in which the English author captures the faces of a hidden and invisible humanity.
at the Carlo Maria Martini Diocesan Museum the Lee Jeffries exhibition "Portraits. The soul beyond the image", from 27 January to 16 April.
Curated by Barbara Silbe and Nadia Righi, the project exhibits around fifty black and white and color images in which the English author captures the faces of a hidden and invisible humanity.
ROME - The exhibition "The Nazi Hell. The death camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka" curated by Marcello Pezzetti will open on January 27, Holocaust Memorial Day, scheduled at the Casina dei Vallati, exhibition venue of the Holocaust Museum Foundation .
In the itinerary documents, photos, films, interviews and reconstructions tell the story of these three extermination camps in a complete way for the first time.
FLORENCE - From 26 January to 28 February at Palazzo Guadagni Strozzi Sacrati the exhibition "Sauro Cavallini. The work of an intern" is being set up, curated by Maria Anna Di Pede.
On display for the first time are 16 works, made between 1961 and 1963 in iron and brass, which tell the terrible experience lived in the internment camp by Cavallini, arrested by the fascist police in September 1943 at the age of 16 and imprisoned in the Gradaro camp in Mantua, where he remained for about a year.
ABANO TERME - Elliott Erwitt protagonist at the Villa Bassi Rathgeb Museum in the "Vintage" exhibition, from 28 January to 11 June: curated by Marco Minuz, the exhibition presents 154 vintage photographs rarely exhibited to the public and 30 iconic photographs, works in which deals with the main themes that characterize Erwitt's great work.
