Pablo Picasso, Ellsworth Kelly and Dara Birnbaum, and then many other Italian and foreign contemporary artists are at the center of this week's exhibitions.
TURIN - At the Polo del '900, Claudia De Luca's exhibition "The day after the revolution", curated by Elisabetta Mero, scheduled from 10 April to 10 May.
By creating nine groups of works, each dedicated to a single revolutionary act, the artist focuses on "failed" revolutions, which, although not completed, nonetheless open up a new horizon of reflection.
MILAN - "Tungsten. Memories and false memories from the Careof Video Archive", curated by Marta Cereda, is scheduled from 12 April to 19 May at the Fabbrica del Vapore: drawing on the vast Careof archive, covering a time span of fifty years, the exhibition presents the works of twenty-six artists who, from the 1970s to the present day, have narrated - through "found footage", period images, "home movies" and the creation of "fiction" - how memory, as well as the archive itself cannot be considered granite, but living, fallible, magmatic material.
From 13 April to 25 September at the Fondazione Prada the anthology "Dara Birnbaum", curated by Barbara London with Valentino Catricalà and Eva Fabbris:
the exhibition offers different perspectives to understand the artist's investigative work between video art, television and consumer technologies.
Viasaterna hosts the solo exhibition of Teresa Giannico, entitled "Archives of Empathy", curated by Giangavino Pazzola.
At the heart of the project is the theme of the renewal of emotions explored in 21 works, including individual portraits and landscapes.
The portrait interpreted by 9 contemporary artists - Dimitris Angelopoulos, Taisia Korotkova, Dodo Marzipano, Nikos Moschos, Victor Pastor, Achilleas Pistonis, Maria Pogorzhelskaya, Alexander Pogorzhelsky and Chantal Van Houten - in the group show "Cosmopolita", conceived and organized by Isorropia Homegallery at the Citadel of the Archives from 12 April to 7 May.
The itinerary is divided into 23 works in which the artists reflect on the conception of the human figure through a genre that has never faded in the history of art.
"Picasso. Un tableau me vient de loin. 15 drawings from 1905 to 1970" is on display in Building Terzo Piano from 14 April to 27 May: curated by Paolo Rusconi, with the collaboration of Antonello Negri and Veronica Bassini, the exhibition documents how much drawing has been for Picasso throughout his career the instrument for the spontaneous recording of the idea, a gateway to understanding the genesis of the work.
VENICE - At the Monumental Complex of San Zaccaria "The sign of Irony", the one-man exhibition with the works from 1998 to 2023 by the Neapolitan artist Bruno Donzelli: staged from 15 April to 7 May, the exhibition presents 30 works in which, in a sort of synthesis of his fifty-year work, the artist builds an expressive universe made of audacious mixtures and unprecedented contaminations.
ROME - From 13 April to 11 July, the Nicola Del Roscio Foundation hosts "Ellsworth Kelly: Line, Form, Color", curated by Jack Shear, the only Italian stage of the international project dedicated to the American artist, pioneer of abstraction.
On display is a rich selection of drawings taken from the famous series dedicated to the floral universe and monochromatic panels, in which the artist "reduces" painting to its essence, eliminating gesture and detail.
SIENA - The exhibition by Emanuele Giannelli "The visionaries", set up in the historic center and in the Magazzini del Sale, will remain open until 16 June.
The one-man show is made up of monumental works and installations, including "Korf", a five-metre giant who stands hieratic and domineering with a sort of virtual reality goggles, and the half-man half-machine figures of "Stati di alert" , a work that speaks of the other, of the different and of fear.
