From the genius of Leonardo to the masterpieces of Raphael, Titian and Rubens, from Pascali to the history of tattooing: these are some of the exhibitions of Easter week.
TURIN - At the Royal Museums from 28 March to 30 June "Leonardo's self-portrait. History and contemporaneity of a masterpiece": the exhibition presents over 60 works, of which 15 are originals by Leonardo, among which 6 sheets of the Codex Atlanticus created stand out in France, in the period in which he was drawing his famous Self-Portrait. Enriched by numerous loans, and with original testimonies of Leonardo's activity in the last years of his life, the itinerary is completed by a large selection of paintings, drawings, engravings, intaglio matrices and photolithographs that document the fortune of the famous Turin drawing .
ROME - The exhibition that marks the unprecedented collaboration between the National Galleries of Ancient Art and the Borghese Gallery is entitled "Raphael, Titian, Rubens. Masterpieces of the Borghese Gallery at Palazzo Barberini": from 29 March to 30 June, in fact, 50 paintings from the Pinacoteca of the Borghese Gallery will be exhibited in the South Wing of the main floor of Palazzo Barberini. Among the paintings on display, there are some absolute masterpieces, such as the Portrait of a Man by Antonello da Messina, the Portrait of a Young Woman with a Unicorn by Raphael, Susanna and the Elders by Peter Paul Rubens, Sacred Love, Profane Love by Titian.
Until April 22nd at the Case Romane del Celio "Proud of you.
Works by Emilio Conciatori", curated by Romina Guidelli and Tanja Mattucci. The exhibition, the first homage to the artist who even conquered Hollywood with the "divine" light and the hypnotic colors of his canvases (so much so that Stanley Kubrick wanted him to create the first poster for the film "2001: A Space Odyssey"), brings together 10 works belonging to Conciatori's latest production.
MILAN - "Tattoo. Stories from the Mediterranean", from 28 March to 28 July at Mudec and curated by Luisa Gnecchi Ruscone and Guido Guerzoni, tells the long history of tattooing. From prehistory to the contemporary, the route has an anthropological slant that looks at Italy and the Mediterranean area, and presents original finds or reproductions and projections of photographs and films covering over 7 thousand years of human history.
From 28 March to 23 September at the Prada Foundation, a large retrospective on Pino Pascali, curated by Mark Godfrey.
Divided into 4 sections, the itinerary includes 49 works by Pino Pascali, 9 works by post-World War II artists; a selection of photographs and a video portraying the artist with his works.
VENICE - At Le Stanze della Fotografia from 28 March to 11 August the exhibition "Out of focus", which presents the last ten years of photographic research by the artist Patrick Mimran through 30 unpublished photographs never exhibited in Italy.
Also opening on March 28 is "Helmut Newton. Legacy" (until November 24), the extensive retrospective curated by Matthias Harder and Denis Curti which traces the human and professional life of the great photographer.
ORANI (NU) - At the Nivola Museum "Chimere", Siro Cugusi's first solo exhibition in an Italian institution. Curated by Luca Cheri and Camilla Mattola, set up from 30 March to 3 June, the exhibition is a journey through the artist's most recent production, characterized by large canvases that revisit the traditional genres of landscape, still life, nude and portrait.
ALESSANDRIA - At Palazzo Monferrato until 6 October "Alessandria Preziosa. An international laboratory at the end of the sixteenth century", curated by Fulvio Cervini: divided into 7 sections, and created in collaboration with the Uffizi of Florence, the exhibition reveals the creative civilization between sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries of the city and its territory, focusing in particular on the sumptuary arts, close to the advent of international Mannerism in the years of the Catholic Counter-Reformation.
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