From the retrospective dedicated to Masolino to the focus on Marco Polo, and then the human and political history of Giacomo Matteotti, the suggestions of Pop culture up to the war scenarios photographed by Gabriele Micalizzi: these are this week's exhibitions.
EMPOLI - The Museum of the Collegiate Church of Sant'Andrea and the Church of Santo Stefano will host "Empoli 1424. Masolino and the dawn of the Renaissance" from 6 April. Curated by Andrea De Marchi, Silvia De Luca and Francesco Suppa and on display until 7 July, the exhibition brings together the largest number of works by Masolino da Panicale ever presented so far, some preserved in Empoli, others coming from prestigious institutions such as the Uffizi and the Vatican Art Gallery.
VENICE - "The worlds of Marco Polo. The journey of a thirteenth-century Venetian merchant", scheduled at Palazzo Ducale from 6 April to 29 September, reconstructs the life and work of the great traveler and his itineraries 700 years after his death and his discoveries. Divided into various sections, the exhibition begins its story by illustrating the Venetian city and mercantile reality in the first half of the fourteenth century and the role of travel in Venetian commercial culture, before and after the Polos' experience.
ROVIGO - At Palazzo Roncale from 5 April to 7 July "Giacomo Matteotti (1855-1924). A story of everyone", curated by Stefano Caretti. The exhibition develops as a sort of story through images and documents, often rarely available, to tell the political and private dimensions, outlining an all-round, more truthful and concrete profile of the character, going beyond mythologizing.
MILAN - Global conflicts, from the Arab revolutions to current events in Ukraine and Palestine, going beyond mere documentation to capture the human experience in the midst of adversity: this is Gabriele Micalizzi's exhibition "A kind of beauty" at the 29 Arts gallery in Progress from 4 April to 28 June, curated by Tiziana Castelluzzo, which brings together a selection of the photojournalist's shots taken in different war scenarios.
ORZINUOVI - At Rocca San Giorgio "Urban & Pop World", from 6 April to 5 May: with over 80 works (among the authors Andy Warhol, TvBoy, Jeff Koons, Romero Britto, Mr. Savethewall, Alessandro Padovan, Vincenzo Mascoli, Mr Brainwash) the exhibition, curated by Nicolò Giovine and Sebastiano Pepe, recounts Pop Art, Neo Pop and Street Art, outlining their origins, developments and suggestions.
ROME - The Menna Foundation presents Marco Cingolani's solo show "Keeping trace of a missing body in reconstructing the signs of an absence", curated by Antonello Tolve: from 6 April to 10 May, the exhibition brings together some new series of works, which continue the artist's research on material and incorporeal fabrics, including State of Tension and Shadow Bodies.
CERTALDO (Fi) - The "Stars and Stones" exhibition by Vincenzo Marsiglia, curated by Davide Sarchioni, will close on May 12th.
Set up at Palazzo Pretorio, the solo show is a poetic and visual journey through works in marble and fabrics, slates and alabasters, drawings and photographs, but also light installations, holograms and mixed and augmented reality mapping, in a journey entirely dedicated to the Tuscan village , birthplace of Giovanni Boccaccio.
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