From the women portrayed by Boldini, Selvatico, Martini and other artists between the 19th and 20th centuries to the protagonists of the new American Realism, up to Pizzi Cannella and the works of Horvitz: these are some of this week's events.
TREVISO - The exhibition celebrating the female figure in art between the 19th and 20th centuries, set up at the Santa Caterina Museum from 13 April to 28 July and curated by Fabrizio Malachin, is entitled "Woman on stage. Boldini, Selvatico, Martini". From Eleonora Duse to Wally Toscanini, from Lydia Borelli to Toti Dal Monte, alongside elegant exponents of the Treviso, Venetian and national bourgeoisie and nobility: there are many and all fascinating women portrayed by some of the main artists of the time, including Boldini , Grosso, Zandomeneghi and De Nittis up to Martini.
MONZA - Orangerie, Reggia di Monza and the Civic Museums of Monza host the exhibition "800 Lombardo. Rebellion and conformism, from Hayez to Previati", curated by Simona Bartolena: in the itinerary, organized by thematic areas, there are almost 100 works, including paintings and drawings of the most interesting protagonists of nineteenth-century Lombardy, from Hayez to Piccio, from Faruffini to Cremona, from Medardo Rosso to Previati and Segantini.
ROME - "Pizzi Cannella. The migrants" from 11 to 27 April at the Corsie Sistine of Santo Spirito in Sassia presents to the public 99 large unpublished canvases, all made in 2015, hung without the frame, like theatrical wings or clothes left hanging dry in the sun, around which each visitor can wander and be influenced by the possible stories evoked. More than 150 works are on display, all from the Aïshti Foundation collection, in the exhibition "Night Effect: New American Realism", curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Flaminia Gennari Santori. Scheduled at Palazzo Barberini from 14 April to 14 July, the exhibition presents works by artists active in the USA whose work deals with the crucial question of realism and the representation of truth.
From 9 April to 28 June the Accademia di San Luca hosts "Refractions. 15 curators x 15 artists", created by Marco Tirelli. The exhibition project involved 15 curators who identified fifteen artists called to develop their own interpretation of the spaces of the Academy, including the places where study, research, socialization and exhibition activities normally take place. Oscar Murillo protagonist at Gagosian Rome from 12 April with the exhibition "Marks and Whispers": in the itinerary, set up until 15 June, paintings and works on paper, all works that are characterized as signs, recalling states of fragility, desperation, vulnerability and precariousness.
From 12 to 30 April the photographic exhibition "Terra Mater" by Cristina Vatielli at Supernova: along the way 25 shots in which the theme of the fertility of the Earth emerges in relation to that of the human species.
MILAN - "Abandoning the Local" is the first major solo exhibition in Italy dedicated to David Horvitz, scheduled in the BiM spaces from 12 April to 30 June. Created on the occasion of the 28th edition of Miart, curated by Nicola Ricciardi, the exhibition brings together over 20 works that retrace as many years of career, works in which the artist tries to complicate and subvert the standardized idea of time or to undermine boundaries and limits spatial.
From 10 to 20 April at Hub/Art "Private Monument", a work by Roberta Busato, a performance installation by Hannes Egger, curated by Guido Musante, with Cecilia Cefis Zuliani. The project consists of three parts: "2019/20", "2020/21" and "2021/22", which correspond to the transition periods between three calendar years during which the total or partial deprivation of public space was the measure at the center of global concerns. Until May 11th at Fabbrica Eos, Giuseppe Veneziano's solo show entitled "Art Design": along the way, around ten works by the artist, including works on canvas and some graphite drawings, accompanied by some iconic design objects depicted in the works such as the Nemo chair by Fabio Novembre and the La cupola coffee maker by Aldo Rossi for Alessi.