From Orazio Gentileschi to Quayola, up to the 'creative protest' of four young Iranian artists: these are this week's exhibitions,
BERGAMO - "Leap into the void. Art beyond matter" is set up from 3 February to 28 May at the Gamec to explore the theme of dematerialization.
The last chapter of the Trilogy of matter, curated by Lorenzo Giusti and Domenico Quaranta, the exhibition is divided into three thematic sections - Emptiness, Flow and Simulation - and compares the works of some great protagonists of the history of art of the 20th century and pioneers of digital art together with authors of the most recent generations.
BOLOGNA - "Ways of seeing" is the title of Quayola's solo exhibition scheduled from 3 February to 31 May at CUBO, the company museum of the Unipol Group, in the Torre Unipol headquarters.
Curated by Federica Patti, the exhibition proposes 'Storms', a series of videos and prints, including six unpublished ones made especially for the occasion, in which the artist conducts her own research on the tradition of landscape painting, exploring its substance pictorial through advanced technologies.
The works of four young Iranian artists (Pegah Pasyar, Reyhaneh Alikhani, Golzar Sanganian and Khorshid Pouyan), trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, make up the exhibition "Voices from the abyss", from 2 to 5 February at the Galleria di Palazzo Fava - Palazzo delle Esposizioni.
MURANO (Ve) - At the Murano Glass Museum until May 7 "Shattering Beauty", a solo exhibition by Simon Berger curated by Sandrine Welte and Chiara Squarcina in collaboration with the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia and Berengo Studio.
Through a selection of around 20 works, all unpublished and created with an alternative approach to glass portraiture (that is, by shattering the material, in a process that Berger defines as "morphogenesis"), the artist focuses on exploring the fragility of the human condition .
ROME - At Palazzo Barberini until April 10 "Orazio Gentileschi and the image of Saint Francis. The birth of Caravaggism in Rome", curated by Giuseppe Porzio and Yuri Primarosa.
On display for the first time is a painting by Orazio Gentileschi depicting St Francis in ecstasy, compared with three works conserved in Palazzo Barberini and with a painting from the Prado museum: the St Francis in meditation attributed to Caravaggio, the St Francis supported by an angel by Gentileschi himself, the San Francesco in prayer by Cigoli and the San Francesco supported by an angel from Madrid, another masterpiece from Gentileschi's youthful phase.
At the Conciliazione Auditorium from 6 to 21 February "Women of Rome. Photographic and documentary exhibition", conceived and organized by the Chelu e Mare cultural association: in a chronological journey that from ancient Rome reaches the present day, the exhibition aims to tell the many female figures who have given a significant historical contribution to the Eternal City, retracing their cultural, social, political and economic conquests.
MILAN - "Duetto" is the double solo exhibition set up from 31 January to 24 March in the spaces of Viasaterna which brings together the radical work of Giuseppe Chiari (Florence, 1926-2007) and the multidisciplinary practice of Luca Massaro (Reggio Emilia, 1991) .
Along the way, a selection of works on paper and collages created by Chiari between the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 90s and the metal "canvases" of linear purity and exuberant sculptures by Massaro taken from the recent Dictionary Vol.1 ( Art Paper Editions, 2023).
PALERMO - Until March 4 at Villa Zito "Cesare Viel. Foreign bodies/Touching a treasure", curated by Elisa Fulco and Giulia Ingarao, the last stage of the Foreign bodies project.
Using writing in his works, i.e. making the word image, walldrawing, manuscript, writing on banners, voice and performance from time to time, the artist enters into a relationship with the Villa Zito collection, between short circuits, approaches and recognitions.