This weekend's art shows feature
Picasso at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, early 1900s Italian
art classics at Rovereto's MART, and in Pistoia, a collection of
photographs by Aurelio Amendola portraying sculptor Marino
Marini, ahead of a Marini retrospective that will open in
mid-September.
VENICE - The Peggy Guggenheim Collection will host the show
"Picasso: On the Beach" from August 26 through January 7,
revolving around one of Guggenheim's most beloved paintings,
Picasso's 1937 work La Baignade (On the Beach), which is part of
the Venice museum's permanent collection. The show aims to
explore and shed new light on the connections the Spanish artist
had with the Mediterranean, which played an important role in
his artistic career. Picasso had his roots in Spain, went on to
live in France, and had relationships with artists and art forms
that had the Mediterranean as their frame of reference. The
exhibition includes three paintings and ten drawings Picasso
completed between February and December of 1937 as well as a
sculpture, all of which are being displayed together for the
first time.
ROVERETO - At the MART Modern Art Museum, the show "An Eternal
Beauty: The Classical Canon in Early 20th Century Italian Art",
which opened July 2 and runs through November 5, has about 100
works on display by masters of Italian art from the early 1900s,
which use the past and the classical canon as a source of
inspiration. In the context of the European climate of the time,
the exhibition provides a new reading on genres such as
portrait, figure, landscape, and still life, and how they were
reinterpreted by masters such as Carrà, Casorati, de
Chirico, de Pisis, Savinio, Severini, Sironi, Cagnaccio, Donghi,
Funi, Martini, Oppi and Wildt.
PISTOIA - Ahead of a large retrospective of the work of Italian
sculptor Marino Martini to open September 16 at Palazzo Fabroni,
an exhibition of photos of the acclaimed 20th-century artist
will go on display through September 10 at Palazzo del Tau. The
exhibition - "Marino in the Images of Aurelio Amendola
(1968-1975)" - is a selection of shots by the famous
photographer, which almost always portray Marino alongside his
work.
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