ROME - From Roy Lichtenstein to the languages of Abstract and Informalism, up to the re-reading of twentieth-century history by photographer Maurizio Galimberti: these are this week's exhibitions.
PARMA - Roy Lichtenstein is the protagonist at Palazzo Tarasconi with "Pop Variations", an exhibition curated by Gianni Mercurio which celebrates the centenary of the New York artist's birth.
Scheduled from 11 February to 18 June, the exhibition will include a selection of over 50 works (editions and serigraphs, experiments on metal, fabrics and plastic as well as photographs and videos) from European and American collections with the aim of documenting and explore the many and diverse themes Lichtenstein addressed throughout his career.
IVREA - The exhibition "Abstractism and Informalism in the Olivetti Collection and in the Civic Collection" opens at the PA Garda Civic Museum in Ivrea with works by Picabia, Balla and Kandiskij and Mirò, with references to futurism and the variegated roots of abstractionism It's February 11th to March 26th.
Along the way, over 90 works delineate, through the comparison between the two collections (one corporate and the other public), an articulated panorama of the new languages of art that emerged in Italy from the 1950s to the early 1990s.
CREMONA - From 10 February to 21 May at the Violin Museum "Pictura Tacitum poema. Myths and landscapes painted in the domus of Cremona", curated by Nicoletta Cecchini, Elena Mariani, Marina Volonté.
The exhibition, born from a collaboration between the Civic Archaeological Museum of Cremona and the Superintendency of the territory, tells the stories and the artistic culture derived from Hellenism in the ancient Cremonese residences: numerous fragments on display which, after years of studies, analyzes and restorations, are restored in their meaning and beauty also thanks to comparisons with some frescoes from Pompeii, Rome, Ostia and Verona, and with scenographic multimedia reconstructions.
ROME - About sixty works by 14 artists born in the 1960s and linked to the 'basin' of Rome (Andrea Aquilanti, Paolo Canevari, Gea Casolaro, Marco Colazzo, Bruna Esposito, Alberto Di Fabio, Stanislao Di Giugno , Marina Paris, Giuseppe Pietroniro, Roberto Pietrosanti, Gioacchino Pontrelli, Andrea Salvino, Maurizio Savini, Adrian Tranquilli) to reconstruct, from personal points of view, a new story of contemporary art, Roman and beyond: it is the exhibition "A present indicativo", curated by Antonello Tolve, scheduled from 9 February to 2 May at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art.
LISSONE (MB) - The MAC Museum of Contemporary Art in Lissone is hosting from 12 February to 30 April "Instances of History", a personal exhibition by photographer Maurizio Galimberti curated by Francesca Guerisoli and Denis Curti.
Through about 60 large-format works, made up of photographic snapshots that reproduce the most "iconic" images of recent decades, the artist reinterprets the collective memory and history of the last century.
The unpublished cycle dedicated to the tragedy of Marcinelle, one of the most serious mining accidents in history in which 262 people died, including 136 Italian immigrants, is exhibited for the first time.
PESCIA (PT) - The "Pehhia. And the great wave" exhibition dedicated to Claudio Gaddini, scheduled at the Poma Liberatutti Foundation, opens on 9 February (until 26 March).
Accompanied by a critical text by Chiara Serri, the exhibition - whose title, chosen by the artist, is a tribute to the city of Pescia (pehhia in Longobard toponymy is the equivalent of river) and its link with water - presents about twenty unpublished works, all created between 2019 and 2022 and with an abstract matrix.
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