This weekend's art show
openings across Italy feature prominent names such as Francis
Bacon in Rome, Andy Warhol in Naples, Natalia Goncharova in
Florence, and De Chirico in Milan.
The exhibition "Bacon, Freud, The London School: Works from
the Tate" opens September 26 at Rome's Chiostro del Bramante and
runs through February 23.
The show features six artists whose work spans from 1945 to
2004, including Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud together for the
first time in a show in Italy.
Over 45 paintings, drawings, and engravings will be on
display by artists grouped under the School of London movement.
In Naples, an Andy Warhol exhibition opens September 26 and
runs through February 23 at the Basilica della Pietrasanta -
Lapis Museum.
The show features over 200 works, including icons, portraits,
Polaroids, and drawings from one of the leading figures in the
Pop Art movement, with an entire section dedicated to Italy and
a focus on the city of Naples.
Natalia Goncharova, the Russian avant-garde painter, costume
designer, illustrator, graphic designer, stylist and set
designer, is the focus of the show "Natalia Goncharova: A Woman
and Avant-Garde Among Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso", at
Florence's Palazzo Strozzi.
The exhibition puts 130 works on display in a large
retrospective on Goncharova's life and career, opening September
28 and running through January 12.
The complex art of Giorgio de Chirico returns to Milan's
Palazzo Reale from September 25 to January 19, with more than
100 works from Italian and international institutions, including
the Tate Modern in London, the Metropolitan Museum of New York,
and the Centre Pompidou of Paris.
Japonism is highlighted at Rovigo's Palazzo Roverella from
September 28 to January 26 in the show "Japonism: Winds of the
East in European Art, 1860-1915".
The exhibition is divided into four sections and presents
works (graphic design, painting, applied arts, posters,
furnishings, illustrations) from Japan next to others made in
Europe by great masters (including Gauguin, Van Gogh, Klimt, and
De Nittis) inspired by Japanese culture.
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