A Turin exhibition of paparazzi photos from Rome's dolce vita era features among the weekend's art exhibition openings, along with masterpieces by sculptor Marino Marini in Pistoia and over 250 works of Renaissance-inspired blown glass in Venice by 1920s artist Vittorio Zecchin.
PISTOIA - The show "Marino Marini: Visual Passions", opening
September 16 and running through January 7 at the Fabroni Palace
Contemporary Arts Museum, features the Italian sculptor and his
inspirations.
About 60 of the 100 works on display are by Marini.
The other 40 were chosen from among the themes and artists
that Marini studied and used for inspiration, including ancient
Egyptian and Etruscan art through to Middle Ages sculptor
Giovanni Pisano, Renaissance-era artists including Donatello and
Verrocchio, and contemporary experimental work by Picasso and
Henry Moore.
The show aims to recreate in its individual sections
hypothetical walks by Marini through the museums that he loved
to periodically explore.
TURIN - The Italian Centre for Photography plays host to a
range of celebrity photos dating back to Rome's days of the
dolce vita and Anita Ekberg, through to more recent paparazzi
subjects such as Princess Diana, in its exhibition "Arrivano i
paparazzi!" (The paparazzi are coming).
The show opened September 13 and runs through January 7, with
150 photographs from famed celebrity photographers such as Tazio
Secchiaroli and Lino Nanni as well as more recent contemporary
artists.
The context of the dolce vita and Rome's Via Veneto frames
the show, with shots of stars such as Ava Gardner, Walter
Chiari, Richard Burton and Liz Taylor, as well as directors
Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini.
VENICE - About 250 monochromatic works of blown glass by
artist Vittorio Zecchin, inspired largely by 16th-century
glassblowers, will be on display on the island of San Giorgio
Maggiore in the Stanze del Vetro.
Titled "Vittorio Zecchin: The Transparent Glasses for
Capellin and Venini", the show focuses on how Zecchin
reinterpreted classic glassblowing in the 1920s to modernise the
Murano technique.
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