Important Mexican muralists in Genoa, sketches by artists of the caliber of Picasso, De Chirico, and Bacon immortalized by Magnum photographers in Pistoia are some of the major exhibitions across Italy lined up for next weekend.
Other highlights include homage to Bruno Munari in Milano and installations by sound artist Bill Fontana in Venice.
GENOA - After Chile, Argentina and Peru, from May 23 until
September 9 the show "Mexico: Paintings of the Great Muralists
and Photos of the Life of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo" will be
at Palazzo Ducale.
The show presents 70 works by José Clemente Orozco, Diego
Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, high-profile figures also
known as "Los Tres Grandes" in the twentieth-century Mexican
avant-garde.
Over 40 years after the planned inauguration on September 13,
1973 was brusquely cancelled due to Augusto Pinochet's coup
d'etat, the "exposición pendiente" is finally being held.
PISTOIA - Sketches by Francis Bacon, Constantin Brancusi,
Giorgio de Chirico, Albert Einstein, Alberto Giacometti, Ernest
Hemingway, Frida Kahlo, Primo Levi, Giorgio Morandi and Pablo
Picasso, shown through the lens of 20 of the most important
Magnum photographers of the time including Werner Bischof, René
Burri, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Herbert List, Inge Morath,
Paolo Pellegrin and Ferdinando Scianna are in a show entitled
"Where Ideas Are Born: Places and Faces of Thought in Magnum
Photos".
The collective photographic exhibition will be held at
Palazzo Comunale from May 25 until July 1 and was curated by
Giulia Cogoli and Davide Daninos under Magnum Photos and
Contrasto.
Some 40 photographs will be in display, bringing the public
into the studios of artists, writers, architects, film
directors, and musicians and enabling them to see the places in
which their ideas were born and took shape.
MILAN - An 'Arithmetic Machine' from 1951, an example of a
'Concave-Convex', a 'Useless Machine' from 1956, a 'Travel
Sculpture' and many 'Original Xerographs' by Bruno Munari
(1907-1998) will be included in the 'Creator of Shapes'
exhibition from May 25 until June 23 at Galleria 10 A.M. Art.
Curated by Luca Zaffarano, the exhibition deals with the
complexity of the experimental research of one of the most
important Italian artists of the twentieth century, able to
create mobile shows and modifiable shapes full of unexpected
touches for the public.
VENICA - This will be the first weekend for the "Primal Sonic
Visions" show by American artist Bill Fontana, slated for May 26
until September 16 at Ca' Foscari Esposizioni.
Organized as part of the 16th International Architecture
Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the show presents a
multimedia work exploring the most important renewable energy
production systems in several locations throughout the world,
highlighting beneficial relations between humans, nature and
energy.
From May 26 until November 25, in the Ca' Corner della Regina
Palazzo, Fondazione Prada will be showcasing "Machines à
Penser", curated by Dieter Roelstraete.
The project, which focuses on the philosophers Theodor W.
Adorno, Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein, explores the
correlation between exile, escape and withdrawal and physical
and mental spaces that foster thought and intellectual
production, while at the same time looking into connections
between philosophy, art and architecture.
FLORENCE - The show "Another Flight on Solaris" will open May 27
at the Sala della Musica of the Complesso di San Firenze.
It will run through July 31 and was organized by Fondazione
Franco Zeffirelli with Moscow's Anatoly Zverev (AZ).
The exhibition juxtaposes Andrey Tarkovsky's film "Solaris"
with paintings, sculpture and other artwork by Russian
anti-conformist artists from the Moscow museum and the private
collection of Natalia Opaleva, general director of the Moscow
museum and producer of the show.
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