ROME
Photo Credit:: Scuderie del Quirinale
OVIDIO. LOVES, MYTHS AND OTHER STORIES
Until 20 Jan 2019 – Scuderie del Quirinale
Over 200 works including frescoes and ancient sculptures, precious medieval manuscripts and paintings of modern age will accompany the story of the poet’s life and the themes at the core of his writings: love, seduction, the relationship with power and myths.
Inside the exhibit halls of the Scuderie in Rome, different itineraries will unfold between works, words and laboratory experiences. A rich program of meetings, readings and insights will allow you to discover and rediscover the complexity of the Ovidian universe.
https://www.scuderiequirinale.it/mostra/ovidio-amori-miti-e-altre-storie-000
Photo Credit:: Complesso del Vittoriano
ANDY WARHOL
Until 3 Feb. 2019 – Complesso del Vittoriano – Ala Brasini
Featuring over 170 works, this exhibition traces the extraordinary life of one of the most acclaimed artists in history and attempts to define the ‘essence’ of Warhol’s art, marking the 90th anniversary of his birth.
Photo Credit:: Complesso del Vittoriano
POLLOCK AND NEW YORK SCHOOL
Until 24 Feb. 2019 – Complesso del Vittoriano
This exhibition is dedicated to Jackson Pollock, marking the 90th anniversary of his birth, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline and many other representatives of the New York School welcome one of the most precious members of the Whitney Museum collection in New York.
http://www.ilvittoriano.com/index.html#
FLORENCE
Photo Credit:: Palazzo Strozzi
THE CLEANER – MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ
Until 20 Jan 2019 – Palazzo Strozzi
Palazzo Strozzi in Florence is hosting Italy’s first ever major retrospective devoted to Marina Abramović. One of the most celebrated and controversial figures on the contemporary art scene, a woman who with her works has revolutionised the very idea of performance art, putting her body to the test probing her outer limits and her potential for expression.
The event takes the shape of a mesmerising retrospective bringing together some 100 artworks by the artist, offering visitors an overview of the most celebrated works in her career stretching from the 1960s to the 2000s with videos, photographs, paintings, objects, installations and the live re-performance of her celebrated performances by a group of performers specifically selected and trained for the show.
Photo Credit:: Palazzo Medici Riccardi
BANKSY – THIS IS NOT A PHOTO OPPORTUNITY.
Until 24 Feb 2019 – Palazzo Medici Riccardi
The anonymous British artist and writer, considered one of the leading artists of contemporary street art and beloved by younger generations, is celebrated with an exhibition of 20 iconic images.
www.palazzomediciriccardi.it/project/banksy-this-is-not-a-photo-opportunity/
MILAN
Photo Credit:: Mudec Museum
THE ART OF BANKSY. A VISUAL PROTEST
Until 14 April 2019 – Mudec Museum
Banksy, a British artist and writer whose identity is still unknown, is considered one of the leading representatives of contemporary street art. His works are often laced with satire and deal with universal subjects such as politics, culture, and ethics. The shroud of mystery that, by choice and out of necessity, is perpetuated when we talk about Bansky has turned him into an absolute legend of our day and age.
http://www.mudec.it/ita/banksy-mudec-milano/
Photo Credit:: Palazzo Reale – Milano
CARLO CARRA’
Until 17 Feb 2019 – Palazzo Reale
Thirty years after the last retrospective dedicated to the artist at Palazzo Reale, the exhibition traces the Maestro’s prolific artistic career through his most significant works: from his divisionism experiments to the great masterpieces that made him one of the greatest artists of Futurism and Metaphysics, along with paintings ascribable to ‘plastic values’, his landscapes and still live paintings that attest his return to reality in the 1920s, not forgetting his great compositions of figures dating back to the 1930s.
More information: http://www.palazzorealemilano.it/wps/portal/luogo/palazzorealeEN/exhibitions/currentexhibitions/CARLO_CARRApr
Photo Credit:: Palazzo Reale – Milano
PICASSO – Metamorphosis
Until 17 Feb 2019 – Palazzo Reale
This exhibition is dedicated to the multifaceted and fruitful relationship that the Spanish genius has developed, throughout his extraordinary career, with myth and antiquity. It proposes the exploration from this particular perspective of its intense and complex creative process.
TURIN
Photo Credit:: GAM Galleria Arte Moderna
I MACCHIAIOLI: Italian art towards modernity
Until 24 Mar 2019 – GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna
The exhibition focuses on the antecedents, birth and highly successful debut period of Macchiaioli painting, spanning the experimentation of the 1850s and the masterpieces of the 1860s. For the very first time, the GAM in Turin is exploring in depth the artistic dialogue established between Tuscany, Piedmont and Liguria through research from life.
https://www.gamtorino.it/en/events-exhibitions/macchiaioli
Photo Credit:: Galleria Sabauda – Musei Reali
VAN DYCK. COURT PAINTER.
Until 17 Mar 2019 – Musei Reali – Galleria Sabauda
A unique exhibition on Anthony van Dyck, the great Flemish painter who revolutionized 17th-century portraiture. He was also an internationally famous personality, refined gentleman, charming conversationalist, brilliant artist and official painter to the most important European courts. The exhibition aims to reveal the exclusive relationship the artist enjoyed with Italian and European courts, through the four sections comprising 45 canvases and 21 engravings on display.
https://www.museireali.beniculturali.it/events/van-dyck-pittore-di-corte/
FERRARA
Photo Credit:: Palazzo dei Diamanti
COURBET AND NATURE
Until 6 Jan 2019 – Palazzo dei Diamanti
Considered the ‘father of realism’, French artist Courbet said nature was his main source of inspiration, and two-thirds of his works are nature scenes, panoramas and rural landscapes. The exhibition will present about 50 works coming from some of the most important international museums and lead the visitor through an exciting itinerary. From the views of his native Franche-Comté painted in his youth, to the spectacular seascapes, often tempest tossed, to the mysterious grottos where springs bubble forth in Karst caves before widening into streams, from sensual nudes immersed in lush greenery to striking hunting scenes, to the powerful masterpieces of his maturity.
http://www.palazzodiamanti.it/895/palazzo-dei-diamanti
VENICE
Photo Credit: Parigi, Musée du Louvre – Départment des Peintures. Jacopo Tintoretto, Autoritratto, 1588 ca.
TINTORETTO 1519 – 1594
Until 6 Jan 2019 – Palazzo Ducale
The exhibition celebrates the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto, one of the giants of sixteenth-century European painting. The itinerary in the Doge’s Apartment contains fifty autograph paintings and twenty drawings by Tintoretto, lent by great international museums, together with the famous cycles painted for the Doge’s palace between 1564 and 1592.
ASTI
Photo credit: Palazzo Mazzetti
CHAGALL. COLORE E MAGIA
Until 3 Feb 2019 – Palazzo Mazzetti
The exhibition structure follows chronological order and at the same time focuses on the major topics of interest for the artist, from religion to love to his relationship with poets and war. In this exhibit we can see complex compositions where we can already see the completely new and unique universe created by Chagall; a poetic world, fantastic or dreamed, where everything is possible and mixes the memories of his youth and his innate sense of color with the geometry and the de-composition of forms of the avant-garde.
BOLOGNA
Photo credit: Palazzo Albergati
WARHOL&FRIENDS. NEW YORK NEGLI ANNI ’80.
Until 24 Feb 2019 – Palazzo Albergati
About 150 works telling about Warhol, his life and his production. Among stories of excess, transgression and worldliness, the protagonists of the lively artistic atmosphere of an ever-new New York like Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat (this year marks the 30th anniversary of his death), Francesco Clemente, Keith Haring, Julian Schnabel and Jeff Koons.
http://www.palazzoalbergati.com/warhol-friends/
NAPLES
Photo Credit:: Palazzo delle Arti Napoli
ESCHER
Until 22 April 2019 – PAN – Palazzo delle Arti Napoli
The show not only features works by the visionary Dutch genius, so popular with the general public, but also a wide-ranging section devoted to the influence his creations have had on the creations of later generations of artists, from album sleeves to comics, advertising and cinema. A total of around 200 works, ranging from Escher’s early period to the present.
REGGIO EMILIA
Photo Credit:: Palazzo Magnani
JEAN DUBUFFET. L’ARTE IN GIOCO. Materia e spirito 1943 – 1985
Until 3 Mar 2019 – Palazzo Magnani
The exhibition explores the numerous creative cycles, the vast researches, the unpublished technical experiments of one of the most original and inventive artists, universal and multifaceted genius. On display 140 works including paintings, drawings, graphics, sculptures, artist’s books, musical, poetic and theatrical compositions.
https://www.palazzomagnani.it/in-corso/mostre/jean-dubuffet-larte-in-gioco/
GENOVA
Photo Credit: Palazzo Ducale Genova
DA MONET A BACON. CAPOLAVORI DELLA JOHANNESBURG ART GALLERY
Until 3 Mar 2019 – Palazzo Ducale
Palazzo Ducale hosts an important collection of masterpieces from the Johannesburg Art Gallery. The exhibition presents over 50 works, including oils, watercolors and graphics, which bear the signature of some of the main players of the international art scene of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: from Edgar Degas to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from Jean Baptiste Corot to Alma Tadema, from Vincent Van Gogh to Paul Cézanne, from Pablo Picasso to Francis Bacon, from Roy Lichtenstein to Andy Warhol and many others.
