EXHIBITIONS ITALY MuDeTo APS - Museo del Design Toscano Association  FROM APRIL 2022 | MuDeTo Collection - Vol. V  www.mudeto.it/yearbook2019_21.htm   NEWS RECENTLY ADDED    Palazzo Strozzi presents a major exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest masters of the 20th and 21st century art, Anselm Kiefer. The exhibition allows direct contact with the art of the German artist thorough new and historical works that engage in a profound dialogue with the Renaissance architecture of Palazzo Strozzi, including a new work especially created for the palace's internal courtyard. Curated by Arturo Galansino, General Director of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Anselm Kiefer. Fallen Angel is a journey that reflects on topics such as identity, history, and philosophy. Through painting, sculpture, installation and photography, Kiefer's art offers deep introspection into the human condition, in a complex weaving of connections between the past, present and future. Since his debut on the art scene in the late sixties, Anselm Kiefer is involved in an impactful, richly-layered work that explore themes of memory, myth, history, literature, and poetry. Every work of Kiefer expresses a refusal of limits-not only through scale and materiality-but also through the infinite richness of resources with which he probes the depths of memory and the past. Until 21 July 2024. Everyday 10.00-20.00. Thursdays until 23.00. Palazzo Strozzi  > 21 JUL. 2024  Piazza Strozzi - Firenze At the Magnani-Rocca Foundation the largest Italian exhibition on one of the most iconic figures of design and visual communication of the 20th century – Bruno Munari – created after the memorable exhibitions of the Rotonda della Besana (2007) in Milan, and the Ara Pacis ( 2008) in Rome. One of the greatest creative geniuses of the twentieth century, the inventor Bruno Munari (Milan 1907-1998), defined by Pierre Restany as the Leonardo and the Peter Pan of Italian design. Seventy years of ideas and works in all fields of creativity are concentrated in the exhibition, from art to design, from graphics to pedagogy: precisely because of the difficulty of clearly resolving the linguistic territories he addressed over time, the exhibition will divided by attitudes and concepts, so as to be able to show the connections and design relationships between objects, even apparently very different ones from each other. Graphics, objects, works of art, TUTTO (EVERYTHING) responds to a design method that is becoming more precise over the years, with major courses in American universities and with the most ambitious project, which is that of laboratories to stimulate children's creativity, which from 1977 are still at the forefront in teaching pre-school and early school age. From 16 March to 30 June 2024. Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10am-6pm; Saturday, Sunday and holidays continued 10am-7pm. Also open April 25th, May 1st, June 2nd. Closed Monday, open Easter Monday. Fondazione Magnani-Rocca  > 30 JUN. 2024  Via Fondazione Magnani-Rocca, 4 - Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma) Tel. 0521 848327 / 848148 info@magnanirocca.it www.magnanirocca.it From 17 November 2023 to 24 March 2024, Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo will host an extraordinary artistic and cultural operation with the Yayoi Kusama exhibition. Infinito presente. The exhibition presents for the first time in Italy Fireflies on the Water, one of the most iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms by the most popular artist in the world, coming from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. The event, curated by Stefano Raimondi, promoted by The Blank Contemporary Art in cultural agreement with the Municipality of Bergamo, takes place as part of Bergamo Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023. The exhibition, conceived by Maria Marzia Minelli, consists of an introductory path that delves into Yayoi Kusama's research through poems, films and documentation, creating a space for physical and digital sharing of the lived experience and allowing entry from multiple points of view in the imagination of the famous Japanese artist. Palazzo della Ragione  > 24 MAR. 2024  Piazza Vecchia - Bergamo For the fifth edition of the Furla Series program, Fondazione Furla and GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Milan announce Somethings in the World, a solo exhibition by Suzanne Jackson, curated by Bruna Roccasalva. The exhibition will offer a glimpse of the research Suzanne Jackson has been carrying out for over fifty years, along an exhibition path that retraces key moments of her career. Suzanne Jackson is an American artist whose practice embraces a broad field of investigation exploring the potential of painting, nourished by experiences in dance, theater, and poetry. From her dreamlike paintings of the 1970s to the radical experiments of the most recent, free-hanging "anti-canvases," the exhibition highlights the most salient moments of the artist's production through a selection of iconic works, previously unseen works and new productions that enter into dialogue with the museum context and its own collection. From September 15 to December 17, 2023. GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna  > 17 DEC. 2023  Villa Reale di Milano Via Palestro, 16 - 20121 Milano www.fondazionefurla.org www.gam-milano.com The exhibition One hundred years of NasonMoretti. The Story of a Murano Glass Family celebrates a well-known Murano company, NasonMoretti which in 2023 celebrates one hundred years of activity. Founded in 1923, as Cristalleria Nason & Moretti, the company immediately chose a specific direction – the art of the table – and, with an air of profound modernity, is able to keep faith with the technical tradition of the past by reinterpreting it according to contemporary formulas and a manufacturing, even then, semi-industrial for the extensive use of the "mould". In fact, the first room will welcome the visitor with a spectacular setting of great effect which will immediately highlight how the peculiarity of NasonMoretti is linked to the art of the table with objects of the most varied shapes and very intense colours. The exhibition itinerary continues chronologically from the symbolic services, such as the Francesca from 1926, of which a copy is kept in the Museo della Wolsfoniana in Genoa, and the Service for the Vittoriale from 1930 in black and coral red glass or the Rep, the official goblet of the tables del Quirinale – always in a close dialogue between drawing and object created. Until January 6, 2024. Museo del Vetro  > 06 JAN. 2024  Fondamenta Giustinian, 8 - 30141 Murano - Venice Tel. +39 041 739586 museovetro.visitmuve.it Pinacoteca Agnelli presents Strike, an unprecedented solo exhibition dedicated to Lee Lozano (1930-99), a pioneering artist and key figure from the New York 1960s art scene. The exhibition, conceived and realised by Pinacoteca Agnelli, is open to the public until Sunday 23 July 2023 in the museum spaces in Turin. It will then be presented at the Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection in Paris from September 2023 to February 2024. Curated by Sarah Cosulich and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, Strike is the first monographic survey in Italy dedicated to Lee Lozano. The exhibition fits in with the institution's renewed contemporary mission, which aims to bring to light unprecedented artistic practices in dialogue with the historical and symbolic legacy of the exhibition venue and its industrial past. Pinacoteca Agnelli  > 23 JUL. 2023  Via Nizza, 230 - 10126 Torino www.pinacoteca-agnelli.it At OGR Torino, from 29 March to 25 June 2023, the exhibition Perfect Behaviors. Life redesigned by the algorithm, curated by Giorgio Olivero, provides a space to explore evolving individual and collective behaviors in a society where we are perpetually categorized, evaluated, replicated, and even reprogrammed. The transformation of the definition of human, on a planet firmly entrenched in an invisible, pervasive, and ever-expanding system of computation is explored through the works of Universal Everything (UK), Paolo Cirio (Italy), Eva and Franco Mattes (Italy), Brent Watanabe (USA), Geumhyung Jeong (South Korea) and James Bridle (UK). Thursdays and Fridays, 6 PM - 10 PM, Saturdays and Sundays, 10 AM - 8 PM. OGR Torino  > 25 JUN. 2023  Corso Castelfidardo, 22 - Torino www.ogrtorino.it From 4 March until 18 June 2023 the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo are coming together to celebrate some of the luminaries of contemporary art in the exhibition Reaching for the Stars. Da Maurizio Cattelan a Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Over 70 works by leading Italian and international contemporary artists including Maurizio Cattelan, Cindy Sherman, Damien Hirst, Lara Favaretto, William Kentridge, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Sarah Lucas, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye celebrating the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection's 30th anniversary, one of the world's most celebrated and prestigious collections of contemporary art. Curated by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi Director General Arturo Galansino, Reaching for the Stars explores the most important strains in art through a constellation of artworks on display in every space in Palazzo Strozzi. The exhibition uses painting, sculpture, installations, photography, videos, and performance art to enhance the dialogue between Palazzo Strozzi and contemporary art, offering visitors a journey of discovery among the stars of global art in recent decades. Palazzo Strozzi  > 18 JUN. 2023  Piazza Strozzi - 50123 Firenze Tel. +39 055 26 45 155 Galileo Chini knew how to adapt his poetics to the fashions of the time, attentive to the decoration that becomes an emotional pattern. The exhibition at MIC - Museo internazionale delle Ceramiche di Faenza Galileo Chini. Ceramiche tra liberty e déco. curated by Claudia Casali and Valerio Terraroli, exhibits about 300 ceramics, some of which unpublished, and prepartory drawings to document the different steps of Chini's activity, one of the greatest protagonists of Italian Liberty. Chini was a versatile artist, among the pioneers of Art Nouveau in Italy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but also a refiner of the Deco taste developed during the twenties. He devoted himself passionately to the art of ceramics, with a varied, original and highly personal production, as well as to painting and fresco painting. He painted still lifes, beautiful landscapes of his Versilia, portraits and environments that recall his experience in Bangkok, where he was a guest of the King of Siam, precisely to fresco the imperial residences, after the celebrated experience in 1909 of decorating the "Sala della Cupola" of Biennale in Venice, in full Art Nouveau style. Chini's ceramic work is recounted through a rich ceramic itinerary consisting of five sections, with scenic insights recreating the historical and cultural environment in which the artist worked. Until 14 May 2023. MIC Faenza  > 14 MAY 2023  Viale Baccarini, 19 - Faenza (Ravenna) From February 16 to May 14, 2023, Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain are proud to present in Milan a major solo survey exhibition of Aboriginal artist Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori. Conceived and curated by Fondation Cartier and opened in Paris in 2022, the outstanding success of the exhibition is due to the striking discovery of a powerful painting as well as to a strong story of an artist whose work is deeply rooted in the traditions of her people. This is the fifth exhibition presented under the eight-year partnership between the two institutions, confirming the interest of Fondation Cartier and Triennale Milano toward artists and geographies very rarely presented in western museums and exhibitions. Triennale Milano  > 14 MAY 2023  Viale Alemagna, 6 - 20121 Milano T. +39 02 724341 www.triennale.org The exhibition presented by Triennale Milano until April 23, 2023 celebrates the work of Milanese architect and designer Angelo Mangiarotti rediscovering the creativity of one of the most prominent figures of Italian architecture and design. Angelo Mangiarotti: When Structures Take Shape, is curated by Fulvio Irace, with Francesca Albani, Franz Graf (Architecture section), Luca Pietro Nicoletti (Sculpture section), and Marco Sammicheli (Design section), with the support of Giulio Barazzetta. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Angelo Mangiarotti Foundation, which has made the treasures in its archive available for display. The installation design is by Ottavio Di Blasi & Partners, with the participation of Renzo Piano. Angelo Mangiarotti: When Structures Take Shape is one of the most complete and comprehensive retrospectives ever devoted to the Milanese architect. It retraces 60-year of career with a wide selection of works, projects, documents and materials, many of which have never been exhibited before. Triennale Milano  > 23 APR. 2023  Viale Alemagna, 6 - 20121 Milano T. +39 02 724341 www.triennale.org Gió Marconi is pleased to announce Who is Who-Dimensional?, Simon Fujiwara's third solo exhibition at the gallery, in the historical venue in Milan. Building on a string of international exhibitions centered around his cartoon character Who the Baer, Fujiwara presents a body of new two dimensional or 'flat works' from his highly acclaimed series which debuted in 2020 at the Fondazione Prada, Milan. Who the Baer was developed by the artist during the first pandemic lockdown as a 'Dada-esque response to an increasingly absurd and incomprehensible world.' Faced with the seemingly unresolvable questions raised by global protests and the dissolution of our traditional identity structures, Fujiwara created an avatar in the form of an identity-free cartoon character named 'Who' - a white, fuzzy bear with a golden heart and an impossibly long tongue. February 17 - April 19, 2023. From Tuesday to Saturday, 11am - 6pm. Gió Marconi  > 19 APR. 2023  Via Tadino 15 | 20124 Milano Tel +39 02 29404373 info@giomarconi.com www.giomarconi.com   NEWS BY DATE  An exhibition opening at the end of the year necessarily has to contain an element of transition. This is the case with this one, titled Dora Garcia. Letters of Disappointment. It is a show featuring works that were preparatory or research studies to other larger or collective works, together with some recurring "reading" formats such as I Read It with Golden Fingers or Annotated Books. The work that gives the title, Letters of Disappointment, condenses three years of going through texts written by remarkable, historical authors such as Rosa Luxemburg, Alexandra Kollontai, Audre Lorde, Clara Zetkin or Angela Davis, on the subject of disappointment. March 25, 2023. Hours: Monday-Saturday 10am-7pm. Laveronica arte contemporanea  > 25 MAR. 2023  Via Grimaldi 93 - 97015 Modica (Ragusa) T +39 0932 188 1704 info@gallerialaveronica.it www.gallerialaveronica.it Starting 22 September 2022 the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi will be hosting Olafur Eliasson: Nel tuo tempo, the largest exhibition in Italy to date exploring the art of Olafur Eliasson. One of the most original and visionary artists of our time, Eliasson's multifaceted practice places the visitor at the heart of his reflection on the notion of shared experience and interaction with reality. Curated by Arturo Galansino, Director General of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, the exhibition is a creation of the artist's direct interaction with the spaces of Palazzo Strozzi. The artist has worked on all of the Palazzo's Renaissance spaces, from the courtyard to the Piano Nobile and the Strozzina undercroft in a path that features new installations and historic works that combine elements as colour, water, and light to create an interaction with our senses and the Renaissance architecture. The historical and symbolic architecture of the Palazzo is reimagined with installations built around the visitor who becomes an integral part of the artwork. The exhibition is produced in conjunction with the Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea which will be hosting a site-specific installation by the artist from November 3rd, 2022. Until 22 January 2023. Palazzo Strozzi  > 22 JAN. 2023  Piazza Strozzi - Firenze Dart - Chiostro del Bramante in Rome presents CRAZY. Madness in Contemporary Art, a collective exhibition curated by Danilo Eccher. 21 international artists, more than 11 new site-specific installations: for the first time the works of art will invade the interior and exterior spaces of the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, because madness can have no limits. A perception of the world is the first sign of instability, the first contact between external reality and the brain, between physical truth and poetic creativity, between laws of optics and neurological disorders. The 21 artists called to participate are part of this madness: Carlos Amorales, Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter, Massimo Bartolini, Gianni Colombo, Petah Coyne, Ian Davenport (photo), Janet Echelman, Fallen Fruit / David Allen Burns e Austin Young, Lucio Fontana, Anne Hardy, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alfredo Jaar, Alfredo Pirri, Gianni Politi, Tobias Rehberger, Anri Sala, Yinka Shonibare, Sissi, Max Streicher, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu. Madness, like art, refuses established patterns, escapes from any rigid framework, rebels against constraints. No ordinary and predictable path in favor of a creative explosion capable of expanding, like Ian Davenport’s pigment flowing on the stairs, and of modifying the spatial perception, like Gianni Colombo’s environment (1970). A violent shockwave that invades every accessible room, mixing and ensuring strong expressive leaps between the exposed works. A complex, subjective, oblique narration; an inclusive and participatory atmosphere; a distribution of artworks and isolated and autonomous spaces in all available places, even invading those usually excluded from the museum pathway. Until 8 January 2023. From Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 20.00. Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 to 21.00. Dart - Chiostro del Bramante  > 08 JAN. 2023  Via della Pace - Roma From 11th September 2021 onwards, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare will be exhibiting Charlotte Posenenske's first show in Italy, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis. An internationally acclaimed artist and a figure central to the German minimalist movement, Charlotte Posenenske (1930-1985) worked mainly with sculpture, and received numerous accolades in Germany and from the international scene up until her decision, in 1968, to dedicate her life to sociology. From B to E and more is Posenenske's first retrospective in Italy, and it traces the evolution of this artist, who died prematurely, by concentrating on a series of works that were created in the span of a decade. In her early works on paper, present in the exhibition in a selection of 17 items, the artist already focused on the exploration of abstract space. In her brief artistic career, Posenenske exhibited widely alongside illustrious peers such as Hanne Darboven, Donald Judd, Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt, with whom she shared an interest in seriality and the formal rigour of geometrical forms. At the same time, her work is distinguished by its radically open-ended nature. Until May 28, 2022. Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare  > 28 MAY 2022  Rafensteiner Weg 19, Bolzano Driven by the quest to understand the texture of his own personal and cultural identity within the African diaspora, filtered through the superstructures of his American experience, artist Basil Kincaid (1986, St. Louis, Missouri) debuts a new body of works in the Milan headquarters of the Galleria Poggiali with his first Italian solo exhibition titled The Rolling Fields to My House. Through collage, photography, installations, performance and, especially, the technique of quilting - made using found, salvaged or donated materials -Basil Kincaid questions social practices while designing alternative cultural fabrics. Resourcefulness and freedom of imagination emerge as critical components in the liberation of the spirit. Co-creating places that stimulate the ancestral memory of love understood as inborn freedom, activating space to participate in shared liberation on local and global scale. Until November 20, 2021. Galleria Poggiali | Milano  > 20 NOV. 2021  Foro Bonaparte, 52 - Milano www.galleriapoggiali.com From 16 September to 31 October 2021, an almost completely unseen collection of photographs by Luigi Ghirri is the protagonist of the Luigi Ghirri. The Marazzi Years 1975-1985 exhibition, curated by Ilaria Campioli, at the Palazzo Ducale, Sassuolo. The Project, put on by Gallerie Estensi in partnership with the Archivio Luigi Ghirri and Marazzi Group, will be presented at the 21st edition of the Festival Filosofia (philosophy festival) in Modena, Carpi and Sassuolo, whose topic, Freedom, perfectly represents the spirit of the long-standing partnership between the artist and the ceramics company founded in the 1930s. Luigi Ghirri first met Marazzi in Sassuolo in 1975, in a phase of personal growth and experimentation which communicates well with the direction of the company's research and development, focused at that time on some fundamental points such as colour, dimensions and internationalisation. The result is a unique partnership, where the artist creates an important corpus of works, almost completely free from the criteria of the advertising image: a research in which ceramics are read as surfaces and mental space, an infinite possibility of composition, light and colour. Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo (Gallerie Estensi)  > 31 OCT. 2021  Piazzale della Rosa 10 - Sassuolo, Modena www.gallerie-estensi.beniculturali.it www.ghirri.marazzi.it From 28 May to 29 August 2021 Palazzo Strozzi presents American Art 1961-2001. From Andy Warhol to Kara Walker, a major exhibition taking a new perspective on the history of contemporary art in the United States. The exhibition brings together an outstanding selection of more than 80 works by 55 artists including Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Louise Nevelson, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Bruce Nauman, Barbara Kruger, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Kara Walker and many more, exhibited in Florence through a collaboration with the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Exhibiting many formative works for the first time in Italy, the exhibition examines the most important figures and movements that marked the development of American art from the beginning of the Vietnam War until the 9/11 attack. Curated by Vincenzo de Bellis and Arturo Galansino, the exhibition takes an in-depth look at the breadth of American artistic production: from Pop Art to Minimalism, from Conceptual Art to the Pictures Generation - and including more recent artistic developments in the 1990s and 2000s. Paintings, photographs, videos, sculptures, and art installations propose an unprecedented reinterpretation of forty years of history, exploring the role of art as a powerful tool for addressing such topics as consumerism, mass production, feminism and gender identity, racial issues, and the struggle for civil rights. Exhibition hours Monday-Friday 14.00-21.00, Saturday, Sunday and Holidays 10.00-21.00. Palazzo Strozzi has also unveiled a major new installation by acclaimed French contemporary artist JR, whose site-specific artwork La Ferita (The Wound) has reinterpreted the façade of the Renaissance palazzo, opening it up to reveal a vision of an interior at once real and imaginary achieved with a black and white photographic collage to trigger a debate on the accessibility of culture in the age of Covid-19. Until 22 August 2021. Palazzo Strozzi  > 29 AUG. 2021 (American Art 1961-2001. From Andy Warhol to Kara Walker)   > 22 AUG. 2021 (La Ferita / The Wound)  Piazza Strozzi - 50123 Firenze Tel +39 055 2645155 info@palazzostrozzi.org Triennale Milano with its Museo del Design Italiano presents Enzo Mari curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Francesca Giacomelli, an exhibition devoted to the work and ideas of Enzo Mari, one of the most important designers, artists, critics and theorists. The show includes projects, models, drawings, and materials, many of which have never been shown before, from the Enzo Mari Archive, recently donated to CASVA, the centre for advanced studies in the visual arts of the City of Milan. The exhibition has emerged from the incessant dialogue and exchange of ideas over the years between Mari and the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, looking at more than 60 years of art and design, architecture and philosophy, teaching and graphics. The exhibition consists of a historical section, curated by Francesca Giacomelli, and a series of contributions from international artists and designers - Adelita Husni-Bey, Tacita Dean, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mimmo Jodice, Dozie Kanu, Adrian Paci, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Danh Vo, and Nanda Vigo - who have been invited to pay tribute to Mari with site-specific installations and new, specially commissioned works. One contribution in particular is that of Nanda Vigo, whose work, made specially for the exhibition shortly before her death and never shown previously, uses light to reinterpret 16 animali and 16 pesci, two of Mari's most famous works. The Enzo Mari retrospective is part of a series of major exhibitions put on by Triennale and its Museo del Design Italiano to examine the great masters of design (Sottsass, Bellini, and Castiglioni). The journey will continue in April 2021 with an exhibition devoted to Vico Magistretti. Until September 12, 2021. Triennale Milano  > 12 SEP. 2021  Viale Alemagna, 6 - 20121 Milano T +39 02 724341 www.triennale.org The exhibition Tomás Saraceno. Aria has reopened and will continue until 1st November 2020 in Palazzo Strozzi, Florence. Devoted to one of the world's most original and visionary contemporary artists whose multi-disciplinary practice encompasses art, social and life sciences the exhibit (curated by Arturo Galansino) is the largest project ever made in Italy. Saraceno creates immersive works and participatory experiences that suggest a new way of living in our world by making connections to non-human phenomena such as dust particles and plants. This major exhibition will be his largest project to date in Italy, responding to the specific context of Palazzo Strozzi, and its relationship to the cultural and scientific history of Florence. "The art of Tomás Saraceno prompts us to reflect on the emblematic and increasingly urgent problems and challenges or our age, the Anthropocene era, such as pollution, climate change, sustainability and overcoming geographical and social barriers", said Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi Director General Arturo Galansino , the exhibition curator, adding: "In Palazzo Strozzi, the artistic research of Tomás, who unveils utopian and yet very real worlds with his open and interconnected vision, is further exalted in terms both of its significance and of its unique aesthetic power by being juxtaposed with the setting of our palazzo, a symbol of Humanism. The exhibition title, Air, does not simply refer to themes and elements that are typical features of the artist's work, it also sets out to sound the alarm bell for our planet and its atmosphere, now in a critical condition, and to herald the transition to a new geological era, the Aerocene, which centres precisely on this extremely precious and valuable element". Palazzo Strozzi  > 01 NOV. 2020  Piazza Strozzi - 50123 Firenze Tel +39 055 2645155 info@palazzostrozzi.org Palazzo Strozzi celebrates Natalia Goncharova, a leading female artist of the 20th century, in a major retrospective. The exhibition will explore her unconventional life and career, presenting her rich and multifaceted artistic output with masterpieces from major international collections by celebrated artists including Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso, Balla and Boccioni. Taking visitors on a journey from the Russian countryside to Moscow and Paris, two of the most important cities to Natalia, the exhibition features 130 artworks and gives an account of the unorthodox life of a woman who lived for her art and successfully forged her own unique fusion of tradition and innovation, of East and West, making her own work a unique example of experimentation with artistic genres and styles ranging from New-Primitivism to Rayonisme, painting and graphic art to her work for the theatre. Natalia Goncharova. A Woman of the Avant-garde with Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso runs from 28 September 2019 to 12 January 2020. Palazzo Strozzi  > 12 JAN. 2020  Piazza Strozzi - 50123 Firenze Tel +39 055 2645155 info@palazzostrozzi.org Claudio Parmiggiani (Luzzara, 1943), one of the leading exponents of international contemporary art, has just had his first exhibition in a North American museum at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville and returned with the project Prehistory, currently running at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. In what is his first true solo show in Florence, he will be displaying his works in a specially-conceived project at the Galleria Poggiali, opening on Friday 24 May 2019. Eleven works installed in the two areas of Via della Scala and Via Benedetta, the majority made specifically for this show, along with older works: a bronze heart compressed between two steel tubes lying on the Divine Comedy, the wax cast of an ancient statue with a paraffin lamp, a musical instrument such as a harp with butterflies on the strings, a bell strung up like a hanged man, a bookshelf made of ashes. In the Via Benedetta premises, displayed for the first time since the Venice Biennale of 2015, lonely as an arrow fired against the rear wall, is the huge anchor gripping the bricks with all its strength after having shattered a glass wall. The exhibition A cuore aperto remains on view until 29 October 2019. Tue - Sat 10-13, 15-19. Galleria Poggiali Firenze  > 29 OCT. 2019  Via della Scala, 35/A Via Benedetta, 3r Paola Pivi (1971) Leone d'Oro at the Biennale of Venice in 1999, presents to MAXXI a project site specific, immersive and engaging, where there are a succession of historical works and more recent works between sculpture and installation. Paola Pivi's works, which range from monumental installations to minimal interventions, appropriate spaces and turn them into artistic contexts and moments characterised by specific material, formal, ludic, ironic and surprising features. With the project PAOLA PIVI. World record, MAXXI continues its research work and enhancement of significant Italian artists In the international art scene, promoting their knowledge also to the general public. 03 April 2019 - 08 September 2019. Closed Mondays, 1 May. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 08 SEP. 2019  Via Guido Reni, 4° - 00196 Roma Tel 06 320 1954 From 2 April to 28 June 2019 the Galleria Poggiali of Milano presents Soulmate / Cellmate, a solo show by the multifaceted artist Zhivago Duncan (Terre Haute, USA, 1980), with a critical essay by Kit Hammonds. Soulmate / Cellmate brings together a new body of works specially conceived and produced by the artist for the Milan premises of the Galleria Poggiali. This series of works ranges from painting to sculpture, with ceramics and paintings that symbolise and represent Zhivago Duncan's cosmology. In the exhibition the artist has recreated an image of his mind. Starting from a free and fluid speculation, in the paintings he has sketched out worlds in formation, mythical and imaginary landscapes in psychedelic colours. Opening hours: Tue - Sat 11 - 19. Galleria Poggiali Milano  > 28 JUN. 2019  Foro Buonaparte 52 | 20121 Milano Tel +39 02 72095815 Riccardo Crespi gallery presents Echo, the third solo exhibition in the gallery by Gal Weinstein, one of the most popular Israeli artists in recent years: he represented his Country in the last edition of the Venice Biennale and in countless other International events. Weinstein's work is based on iconic subjects, then manipulated to represent contemporaneity, not without a subtle irony. After the success of his Israel Pavilion in the last edition of the Venice Biennale, the artist returns to Italy with works that have been conceptually originated from that experience, they show the diverse resistance of some materials, manifesting procedures of dissolution, decomposition and aging. Until May 4, 2019. Galleria Riccardo Crespi  > 04 MAY 2019  Via Mellerio 1 - Milano, MI 20123 t +39 02 89072491 t +39 02 36561618 f +39 02 92878247 info@riccardocrespi.com www.riccardocrespi.com Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea launches its new season of exhibitions with Joint is Out of Time, a new grafting which redefines the current staging of the collections, renewing them with the works of seven contemporary artists of international provenance. Arranged throughout the various rooms of the National Gallery, the works of Elena Damiani, Fernanda Fragateiro, Francesco Gennari, Roni Horn, Giulio Paolini, Davide Rivalta and Jan Vercruysse mingle with the pre-existing ones, thus delineating the emergence of a pioneering constellation whose design seems capable of finding a place for itself within the corpus of Time is Out of Joint. Until June 2, 2019. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea  > 02 JUN. 2019  Viale delle Belle Arti, 131 (Ingresso disabili Via Gramsci, 71) - 00197 Roma T +39 06 3229 8221 lagallerianazionale.com MAXXI presents the exhibition LA STRADA. Dove si crea il mondo (The Street. Where the World Is Made). The street as a place of sharing and innovation, the principal laboratory for artists, architects and creatives. More than 140 artists and over 200 works to compose the multicultural, polyglot, colorful, scary, stimulating, deafening story of the streets of the whole world, the real great laboratory for discussion, creation, comparison, where the contemporary era is invented. Works of art, architectural projects, photographs, performances, site-specific interventions and videos welcome visitors to a sequence of galleries that form a street dozens of metres long. The exhibition is organised based on themes - public actions, daily life, politics, the community, innovation, the role of the institution - fundamental for understanding the new functions and identity of the modern-day street. Starting from the belief that this space is the place where the world is created, it is analysed as a manifesto of contemporary life, a scenario, and a privileged point of view, a landscape in which the creative community and citizens give life to a new community and a new world of urban creativity. MAXXI presents also Dentro la Strada Novissima an insight on 1980 exhibition which started the international debate on post-modern. Among archive documents, pictures, project drawings and direct testimonies,a physical and hystorical path, which allows to end up dentro la Strada Novissima): a collective experience orchestrated by Paolo Portoghesi /em> on the occasion of the First international architectural exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which opened to the public on 27th July 1980 and was entitled La Presenza del Passato (The Presence of the Past). Both on view until 28 April 2019. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 28 APR. 2019  Via Guido Reni, 4/a - 00196 Roma RM Tel 06 320 1954 www.maxxi.art | #LaStradaAlMAXXI After John Currin's and Glenn Brown's monographic retrospectives, the Bardini Museum in Florence will host Senza Data, Luca Pignatelli's (Milan, 1962) personal exhibition curated by Sergio Risaliti. The event - from January 26 to March 25, 2019 -, patronized by the City of Florence, coordinated by MUS.E in collaboration with Poggiali Gallery in Florence, launches a new course of exhibitions scientifically conceived by the Museo Novecento and realized in the outdoor spaces of Santa Maria Novella square. Even for this exhibition, similarly to the previous solo of Currin and Brown, Luca Pignatelli's artworks will be in close relation to the Bardini Museum's art collections, renowned globally for the peculiar mise-en-scene of the antiquities once owned by the great Florentine merchant and collector Stefano Bardini between the end of the Nineteenth Century and the beginning of the Twentieth. Open daily 11-17. Closed Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Museo Bardini  > 25 MAR. 2019  Via dei Renai, 37- 50125 Firenze Quartz Studio is pleased to present her spinning takes place near the mouth / I see what I eat / I eat what I see / It is an eating that is about risk, the first solo show in Italy by the Swedish artist Astrid Svangren (Göteborg, Sweden, 1972), drafted by the Danish curator Nina Wöhlk. The site-specific installation conceived for Quartz Studio will seek to think through colour as a living entity. Something that has agency, the ability to shape and be shaped by the context that gives it its form. It will explore colour as a language that gives meaning to feelings, thoughts, and dreams and all their contradictions, and which resists any other form of expression. Colour as irreducible to language; experienced only as lived. The work is an attempt to know what cannot be said. Until March 23, 2019. Quartz Studio  > 23 MAR. 2019  Via Giulia di Barolo, 18/D - 10124 Torino T +39 338 429 0085 F +39 011 826 4640 info@quartzstudio.net www.quartzstudio.net The exhibition From Gesture to Form. Postwar European and American Art from the Schulhof Collection curated by Gražina Subelyte and Karole P. B. Vail on view until 18 March 2019, is an opportunity to view the Schulhof Collection nearly in its entirety. Privileging formal artistic developments, this presentation provides insights into the art movements and styles that evolved and matured towards the end of World War II through to the 1980s. Abstract imagery, as a quest into issues of color, form and space as well as their interrelationships, characterized the postwar decades, becoming the foundation of the Schulhof Collection. The display reflects this overarching abstract crescendo of minimalism and refinement, opening with works by artists such as Afro Basaldella, Alberto Burri, Willem de Kooning, Lucio Fontana, Hans Hofmann, Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko and Cy Twombly, proceeding with those by Eduardo Chillida, Jean Dubuffet, Hans Hartung, Anselm Kiefer, Agnes Martin, and eventually arriving at the paintings and sculptures by Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Kenneth Noland, Robert Ryman, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol, among others. The works are grouped and arranged according to style, theme and affinity, exploring notions that include but are not limited to gestural abstraction, materiality, the monochrome, the mark and the grid, hard-edged geometries and elemental form. Collezione Peggy Guggenheim  > 18 MAR. 2019  Palazzo Venier dei Leoni Dorsoduro 701 - 30123 Venezia Tel (39) 041 2405 415 guggenheim-venice.it Over 150 photographs to discover the creative journey and themes animating the quest of this great photographer. He has travelled throughout the world with his camera, recounting people, wars and humanitarian emergencies, along with stories of great poetry and extraordinary, pulsating nature. After working for two years on the archive of Paolo Pellegrin, the exhibition Paolo Pellegrin. Un'antologia presents the themes that animate the work of the photographer who, over decades has entwined the vision of a reporter with the visual intensity of an artist. Winner of ten editions of the World Press Photo Award and a member of Magnum agency since 2005, Pellegrin's work is analysed in two large sections: the first one is dedicated to the human being, the second is focused on his vision of nature, showing intense and suffering scenes. 07 November 2018 - 10 March 2019. Gallery 5 curated by Germano Celant. The exhibition Zerocalcare. Digging Ditches · Feeding Crocodiles is the first solo exhibition dedicated to the publishing phenomenon of Italian comics Alaways linked to the underground scene, a spokeperson of the 90s' generation, which grew up amongst precariousness and the web, the G8 in Genoa and TV series, Michele Rech, under the pseudonym of Zerocalcare is the protagonist of a large exhibition organised in co-production with Minimondi Eventi. The project is organised around three core themes - Pop and Tribe, Resistance and Politics, Non-Reportage - and it traces every year of his work featuring posters, a wide selection of illustrations, record covers, original illustrated pages from his 9 books, T-shirts, logos and a site specific work designed by the artist for this occasion. 10 November 2018 - 10 March 2019. Spazio Extra MAXXI. Curated by Giulia Ferracci, produced in collaboration with Silvia Barbagallo. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 10 MAR. 2019  Via Guido Reni, 4/a, 00196 Roma RM From the 7th to the 30th of November 2018, the stunning spaces of the Sala della Musica in the Monumental Complex of San Firenze will host the exhibition featuring the works of Chinese artist Mao Jianhua, titled Mountains. Secret Harmony of the Earth, curated by Cristina Acidini, and promoted by the Franco Zeffirelli Foundation, with the support of the City of Florence, of the Regional Council of Tuscany and with the collaboration of the Cultural Association Acontemporaryart. The exhibition project showcases a selection of twenty-five pictorial works by the artist, carried out using a brush and ink on sheets of hand-made paper, of different sizes, ranging from small formats to other, more impressive ones, reaching even eleven metres in length. Through these remarkably-sized yet personal works, Mao Jianhua gives shape to the secret harmony, to the earth, to the music of the sacred mountains, to the primordial sounds of the universe, which, in Chinese tradition, echoed through the strings of the guqin, an ancient Chinese musical instrument. The exhibition can be visited from the 7th to the 30th of November 2018 at the following hours: From Tuesday to Sunday: from 10 am to 6 pmClosed on Mondays. Centro Internazionale per le Arti dello Spettacolo - Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli onlus Piazza San Firenze, 5 - Firenze  > 30 NOV. 2018  055 2658435 info@fondazionefrancozeffirelli.com www.fondazionefrancozeffirelli.com MAXXI presents an exploration of the technological and surreal imaginary of the artists of today, from computer-generated dreams to creative algorithms and avatars that question the meaning of existence. More than just an exhibition, but a workshop for study and debate on themes and issues associated with our relationship with technology and the incredible scenarios opened by its evolution: Low Form. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is an immersive, multimedia and multisensory display. In an era in which technologies evolve increasingly rapidly and we are questioning how far the relationship between man and machine can go, the exhibition presents the visions of 16 international artists showing a present and a future, the representation of which is the offspring of technological unconsciousness and a dilated imaginary, in which traditional analogical references and the contemporary hyperconnected digital consciousness are combined. Gallery 2, curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi from 20 October 2018 to 24 February 2019. When Sound Becomes Form is the story of the Italian sonic avant-garde through photographs, films, videos, historic posters, original LPs and audio contributions. How did sound progressively liberate itself from rules and codes to be investigated as pure vibration? How did the new electronic technologies stimulate the birth of innovative artistic idioms that including sonic manipulation? From silence to noise, from phonemes to instruments, through to the infinite possibilities of technical reproduction, the exhibition describes how over the years sound has permeated the artistic fabric to the point where it contaminate film, theatres, choreography, literature, publishing and the mass media. From the works of the great fathers of sonic experimentation of the 1960s, Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna, to the happenings inspired by Fluxus, John Cage and the Gruppo Gitai; from the sonic poems of Maurizio Nannucci to the audio visual environments of Ugo La Pietra and Gruppo T; from the experimentation and the first festivals of the 1970s, Punk and Carmelo Bene, the spread of computers and the first works of interactive art in the 1980s through to the present day with collaborations between the likes of Mimmo Paladino and Brian Eno. All this to tell the story of sonic experimentation in Italy between 1950 and 2000, in an exhibition housed in the museum hall and the space devoted to the archives. Through 17 March 2019. Lobby / archive wall curated by Carlo Fatigoni. Closed every Monday, 1 May, 25 December. MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 24 FEB. 2019   > 17 MAR. 2019  Via Guido Reni 4A - 00196 Roma From 21 September 2018 to 20 January 2019 Palazzo Strozzi is hosting Italy's first ever major retrospective devoted to Marina Abramovic, 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 to probe 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. The exhibition titled The Cleaner is the result of direct cooperation with the artist and - coming as it does after Ai Weiwei and Bill Viola - is part of an ongoing drive to continue the series of exhibitions that have brought the greatest exponents of contemporary art to show their work in Florence. The palazzo will once again be used as a single exhibition space, thus allowing Marina Abramovic for the very first time to take her measure of Renaissance architecture, underscoring the close tie that the artist has always enjoyed, and indeed continues to enjoy, with Italy. The exhibition is organised by the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and produced by Moderna Museet, Stockholm in conjunction with the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk and the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn. Curated by Arturo Galansino, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, and Lena Essling, Moderna Museet, with Tine Colstrup, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, and Susanne Kleine, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn. Exhibition opening hours: daily including holidays 10-20, Thursdays 10 -23. Palazzo Strozzi  > 20 JAN. 2019  Piazza Strozzi - Florence Tel +39 055 2645155 The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents two exhibitions until January 14, 2019. Osvaldo Licini. Let Sheer Folly Sweep Me Away Eleven exhibition galleries and over one hundred works retrace the disruptive and tormented artistic path of Osvaldo Licini (1894 - 1958), a major protagonist of Italian and international modernism, as confirmed by the award conferred a few months before his death at the Venice Biennale in 1958. Sixty years after that important recognition the museum commemorates Licini with the long-awaited retrospective curated by Luca Massimo Barbero. 1948: The Biennale of Peggy Guggenheim (Project Rooms) The museum commemorates the 70th anniversary of the exhibition of the collection of Peggy Guggenheim in the Greek Pavilion at the 24th Venice Biennale - a milestone event in the history of 20th-century art - with an homage exhibition that partially recreates the setting of the pavilion where the collector exhibited her masterpieces. Open daily 10am-6pm. Closed Tuesday, and December 25. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection  > 14 JAN. 2019  704 Dorsoduro, 30123 Venice The Feeling of Things is the most extensive exhibition in Italy by Matt Mullican (born in 1951 in Santa Monica, California) and his major retrospective ever. In a continuous attempt to explain and structure what is around him, Mullican has been working since the early 1970s to develop a complex system of models and vocabulary that he calls the "five worlds," corresponding to different levels of perception and represented by five colors: green for physical, material elements; blue for everyday life (the "world unframed"); yellow where objects become valuable, as in art (the "world framed"); black and white for language and symbols; and red for subjectivity and ideas. For Pirelli HangarBicocca the artist has designed a massive sculptural structure that takes its shape from his most iconic five-color-cosmologies, occupying nearly the entire 5,000 square meter exhibition space. Visitors are invited to enter the structure to discover thousands of meticulously arranged works and objects. Representing an extremely rich selection of Mullican's seminal works from the 1970s as well as more recent times, they include paintings, rubbings, banners, glass sculptures, works on paper, videos, lightboxes, floor pieces and bigger installations and explore the most hermetic aspects of human life. Until 16 September 2018. Exhibitions hours Monday to Wednesday: closed Thursday to Sunday: 10am-10pm. On the occasion of his birth, MAXXI is devoting an exhibition produced in collaboration with the Fondazione Bruno Zevi to the great historian, lecturer, critic, politician and designer and to the modern and contemporary Italian architecture he supported and promoted through his work. Through drawings, models and other visual materials, the exhibition intends to clarify the fundamental role played by Zevi in the Italian post-war architectural debate, highlighting the importance of the relationship between architecture and active politics. Maurizio Sacripanti, Luigi Pellegrin, Franco Albini, Giovanni Michelucci, Mario Ridolfi and Carlo Mollino are just a few of the 35 featured architects whose designs, published and supported by Zevi, accompanied his career in over 50 years of critical, militant activity. Gli Architetti di Zevi. Storia e controstoria dell'architettura italiana 1944-2000 (Zevi's Architects. History and Counter-History of Italian Architecture 1944-2000) runs from 25 April 2018 to 16 September 2018. Closed Mondays, December 25, May 1. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 16 SEP. 2018  via Guido Reni, 4/a, 00196 Roma RM Tel +39 06 32.48.61, 320 1954 press@fondazionemaxxi.it MAXXI is reproposing the presentation of Revenge, the work with which Nico Vascellari, one of the protagonists of the younger generations in Italian art, won the 2007 edition of the Prize for Young Italian Art. The work, presented at the Venice Biennale that year, contains all the typical motifs of the artist's oeuvre, such as its relational, environmental and performative nature and the use of expressive media that range from the most advanced technology to the poorest of materials. 8 June - 2 September 2018, hours: 11-19. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 02 SEP. 2018  Via Guido Reni, 4/a 00196 Roma RM Tel 06 320 1954 www.maxxi.art Victoria Miro is delighted to present an exhibition by Do Ho Suh at its Venice gallery. Made at the STPI Creative Workshop in Singapore, the new works are part of the artist's ongoing "Rubbing/Loving" project, in which rubbings of interior spaces and everyday objects are created in a process that discloses and memorialises details of the artist's surroundings. Do Ho Suh has visited the STPI Creative Workshop several times a year over the past ten years. He is the first artist to be invited more than once to this internationally renowned resource for artists working with print and paper, and a long-term collaboration with the workshop has been instrumental in the development of his groundbreaking, large-scale thread drawings. Until July 7, 2018. Victoria Miro Venice Il Capricorno  > 07 JUL. 2018  San Marco 1994 - 30124 Venezia From 16 March to 22 July 2018 Palazzo Strozzi is hosting an exhibition entitled Dawn of a Nation. From Guttuso to Fontana and Schifano, a truly mesmerising exploration of art, politics and society in Italy from the 1950s to the protest years in the late '60s, with eighty works of art by such masters as Renato Guttuso, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, Piero Manzoni, Mario Schifano, Mario Merz and Michelangelo Pistoletto. The exhibition, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, is bringing emblematic works of art together for the first time to form a display illustrating the effervescence of Italian culture after World War II, the years of the so-called "economic miracle" that marked a major transformation in Italian society, up until the fateful year of 1968. It was in this 20-year period that we see the development of a new vision of art reaching out into the contemporary world in an extraordinarily vibrant and inventive bust of creativity that spared neither style, material or form. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey setting out from the diatribe between Realism and Abstraction, continuing on to the triumph of Informal Art and leading through the images, gestures and figures of Pop Art in strident juxtaposition with the experimental vision of monochromatic painting, right up to the language of Arte Povera and of Conceptual Art. Exhibition opening hours: Daily including holidays 10-20. Thursdays: 10-23. Palazzo Strozzi  > 22 JUL. 2018  Piazza Strozzi - Firenze Tel +39 055 2645155 info@palazzostrozzi.org Cardi Gallery Milan is delighted to present a solo exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Fred Sandback. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Estate of Fred Sandback; it is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with an essay by Germano Celant. Eight sculptures are displayed at Cardi Gallery, Milan, along with a large selection of drawings and photostats that present the evolution of the artist's investigation of space. The American artist Fred Sandback (1943-2003) worked with materials including metal, elastic cord and, later, acrylic yarn to delineate or bifurcate three-dimensional space, creating room-filling and volumetric forms. Using these most minimal of means allowed him "to play with something existing and not existing at the same time." February 22-July 6, 2018. Cardi Gallery Milan  > 06 JUL. 2018  Corso Di Porta Nuova 38 - 20121 Milano t. (+39) 02.45478189 mail@cardigallery.com www.cardigallery.com On the occasion of the inauguration of their exhibition Blackout, Guillermo Calzadilla, from the Puerto Rican artistic duo Allora & Calzadilla, the main protagonists of Gravity. Imagining the Universe after Einstein, will be in dialogue with the philosopher and evolutionist Telmo Pievani. They will be establishing a connection between the two exhibitions, reflecting on some of their common themes and analysing the ever-increasing impact of climate change on Earth as well as the consequences of human action on future transformations of the planet. 16 February 2018 - 30 May 2018. Closed Monday. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 30 MAY 2018  Via Guido Reni, 4/a - 00196 Roma Tel: 06 320 1954 Riccardo Crespi presents DAVANTI (IN FRONT) the second solo show by the Italian artist Marta Sforni at the gallery. Marta Sforni's works, based on ornament and the appropriation of decorative objects, lead to a "revived" abstraction, through the meticulous study of detail. The mirror is the focus of the artist's recent works. It is a point of departure for a meditation on the pairs: object and reflection, observer and observed, depth and surface, light and darkness, recalling the tradition of western allegorical painting. On display are a series of small oil on canvas paintings and a selection from the new corpus of works, entitled Mirror. Sforni presents precisely limited portions of great mirrors, richly framed: a volute, a curl, a delicate ornament that interposes itself between the spectator and the endless space in the mirror. Her work is a glance over the shoulder, a vision of the future that cannot disregard the past. Until April 28, 2018. Galleria Riccardo Crespi  > 28 APR. 2018  Via Mellerio 1 - Milano 20123 t +39 02 89072491 www.riccardocrespi.com Marino Marini. Visual Passions is the first retrospective dedicated to Marino Marini (1901 - 1980) and it intends to contextualize Marini's work in a broader art historical context. The intimate galleries of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the exhibition's second venue after Palazzo Fabroni in Pistoia, allow an unprecedented, concentrated and close examination of more than fifty sculptures by Marino Marini. These are exhibited together with twenty additional works ranging from antiquity to the 20th century which lend comparison to Marini's work. The exhibition allows for an intensive dialogue between Marini's sculptures and those from the Italian plastic tradition which interested the artist-the great models of the 20th century and important examples of the sculptural tradition from past centuries: Egyptian, ancient Greek and Etruscan antiquities, Medieval, Renaissance and 19th-century sculpture which have never before been exhibited at Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. Such dialogue offers a new and critically innovative point of view on the themes addressed by Marini, moving beyond the limits of chronology, styles and periods. Following Marini's artistic production from the 1920s to the 1950s, each room displays aspects of this dialogue. More than 70 works are exhibited in the temporary exhibition galleries as well as in the museum's Project Rooms and the adjoining veranda. Curated by Barbara Cinelli and Flavio Fergonzi. January 27 - May 1, 2018. Collezione Peggy Guggenheim  > 01 MAY 2018  Palazzo Venier dei Leoni Dorsoduro 701- 30123 Venezia Tel. 041.2405.404/415 Space-time, crises, confines: an exploration via mutually dependent and interconnected key concepts on view at MAXXI. In 1917, Albert Einstein published an article that gave rise to modern cosmology and transformed the models of the cosmos and the universe hitherto imagined by scientists and thinkers, revolutionising the concepts of time and space. One hundred years on from this publication, MAXXI is dedicating an exhibition to one of the figures to have had the greatest influence on contemporary thinking. The project is the result of a unique collaboration between the museum, the Italian Space Agency and the National Institute of Nuclear Physics for the scientific side and the Argentine artists Tomás Saraceno for the artistic aspects. Investigating the connections and the profound analogies between art and science, Gravity. Imaging the Universe after Einstein recounts the developments of the theory of relativity in the current vision of the universe and the fascinating spin-offs it is still producing in the field of art. Through the involvement of international artists, the exhibition pays tribute to the scientist who radically altered our knowledge and perception of the universe. Immersive artistic and scientific installations, iconic artefacts and simulations of experiments drawing us closer to the essence of the scientific innovations introduced by Einstein and revealing the underlying depths of the known universe, but also the mechanisms that bind together all those searching for knowledge, in a collective process in which artists and scientists play roles of equally fundamental significance to society. Until 29 April 2018. Tue-Sun 11-19, Monday closed. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 29 APR. 2018  Via Guido Reni - Roma Tel. 06.320.19.54 www.maxxi.art info@fondazionemaxxi.it After "Umberto Boccioni" and "An Eternal Beauty", the season of great exhibitions dedicated to early twentieth century Italian art continues at Mart, Rovereto with Magic Realism Enchantment in Italian Painting in the 1920s and 1930s. Constituting the first stage of the exhibition, that in 2018 will be at the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki and at the Folkwang Museum, Essen, Mart's great winter season exhibition will review the features of Magic Realism in Italy through a selection of painterly works of art from important public and private collections. Coined by critic Franz Roh in a famous essay dedicated to contemporary art (1925), the definition Magic Realism describes an international artistic season that reached its heights of creativity and originality between the twenties and thirties of the last century. This in a period that followed on from that of the historic avante-gardes, featuring a return to the pictorial and sculptural tradition. The objective representation emphasised by the term "realism" is accompanied, in this expression, by an adjective that evokes the suspended and surreal atmospheres that are a strong feature of the movement. Reality is in fact the point of departure for a transfiguration that goes by way of the imagination and marvellous wonderment, implemented by a group of artists featuring Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Felice Casorati, Antonio Donghi, Achille Funi, Carlo Levi and Ubaldo Oppi. Until 2 April 2018. Tue-Sun 10am-18pm, Friday 10am-21pm. Monday closed. MART  > 02 APR. 2018  Corso Bettini, 43 - 38068 Rovereto (TN) Infoline 800 397760 Mutina announces the opening of MUT, a new exhibition space inside its company headquarters. MUT is part of the new project Mutina for Art, dedicated to the presentation and support of contemporary art through shows in its own venue as well as external initiatives and international collaborations. Think of this as a Window is the first exhibition of MUT, which symbolically inaugurates with a curated selection of artworks from the collection of Mutina CEO, Massimo Orsini. The title-inspired by Cerith Wyn Evan's homonymous work-becomes the starting point of a show in which the window is not only an infinite space opening to our eyes and questions, but is also a space of desires and of the need to look beyond. Works by: Etel Adnan, Vincenzo Agnetti, Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Tacita Dean, Fischli/Weiss, Ceal Floyer, Francesco Gennari, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, On Kawara, Renato Leotta, Sherrie Levine, Marisa Merz, Cindy Sherman, Ettore Spalletti, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Wolfgang Tillmans, Goran Trbuljak, Franco Vimercati, Franz Erhard Walther, Cerith Wyn Evans. Up to February 23, 2018. MUT Mutina HQ  > 23 FEB. 2018  Via Ghiarola Nuova 16 - Fiorano (Modena) www.mutinaforart.com The exhibition Home Beirut Sounding the Neighbors intends to put forward some of the most important trends of creative explorations of the contemporary reality intensively incarnated in the city's development and destiny. It will present some 36 artists, architects, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, researchers, activists with their diverse forms of expressions negotiating between critical reflections of recent history of conflicts, through archiving and re-enacting memories, and prospections of the future, through attempts of urban transformation and global outreaching, periodically interrupted by urgent problems and frustrations of the present. It will be structured in several sections reflecting efforts to build homes in a highly complicated urban context to accommodate different intellectual claims and artistic imaginations as well as various political positions. 15 November 2017 - 20 May 2018. Closed Monday. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 20 MAY 2018  Via Guido Reni, 4/a - 00196 Roma info: 06.320.19.54 www.maxxi.art info@fondazionemaxxi.it More than fifteen years after the last major exhibition of his works in an arts institution, Francesco Lo Savio (1935-1963) is again the focus of a monographic museum exhibition that draws on new research to cast fresh light on the artist's oeuvre. Archival materials, sketches, plans and photographs, many exhibited for the first time, provide the basis for this novel project. At same time Mart presents the first major retrospective of the works of Carlo Alfano organized by a museum, the monographic exhibition explores the oeuvre of an artist who has left an indelible mark in the development of Italian conceptual art. In collaboration with Archivio Alfano. Up to 18 March 2018. Closed Monday. MART Rovereto  > 18 MAR. 2018  Corso Bettini 43, 38068 - Rovereto (TN) T 0464 438887 Marignana Arte has assigned to Aldo Grazzi and Maurizio Donzelli the task of interpreting the Project Room spaces, curated by Ilaria Bignotti, concurrently with their two-man show at the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua. In a score of works the artists tackle the theme of vision, as the tension between amazed perception and profound metaphysics, turning the exhibition spaces into a meditative place where a precious hortus conclusus of magic and beauty can be made to grow. Up to 23 December 2017. Marignana Arte  > 25 DEC. 2018  Dorsoduro 141 - Venezia Tel +39 041 5227360 info@marignanaarte.it www.marignanaarte.it A piece of jewellery is an object open to multiple readings, the first traditionally being aesthetic, regarding both the intrinsic beauty of the work and the idea of beauty that a jewel succeeds in conveying and transmitting. Alongside this plane exists structural research, in which what counts is the complexity of the structure of the jewellery and therefore the idea and the form. Here jewellery design finds many factors in common with architecture: albeit with different ends and scales, jewellery and architecture both relate to the body in movement, to which they respond with a structure capable of "inhabiting" that body or allowing it to inhabit a space. The exhibition Body, movement, structure. Contemporary jewellery and its construction explores this tie between the large and small scales, taking a new approach to certain features of the world of contemporary jewellery highlighted in the work of great international masters: Giampaolo Babetto, David Bielander, Helen Britton, Peter Chang, Monica Cecchi, Philip Sajet. 15 November 2017 - 14 January 2018. Closed Monday. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 14 JAN. 2018  Via Guido Reni, 4/a - 00196 Roma info: 06.320.19.54 www.maxxi.art info@fondazionemaxxi.it From the 7th October to the 26th November 2017, artworks and artists from all around the world meet in Ravenna in occasion of the 5th edition of RavennaMosaico - Rassegna Biennale di Mosaico Contemporaneo (Biennial exhibition of contemporary mosaic) promoted and organised by the Municipality of Ravenna. Monuments, museums, cloisters and symbolic places of the city will become exceptional galleries where ancient and contemporary art will be in constant dialogue through exhibitions, presentations, meetings and specific installations. For the 5th edition of RavennaMosaico, from 7th October 2017 to 7th January 2018 the MAR - Ravenna Art Museum hosts the exhibition Montezuma, Fontana, Mirko. La scultura in mosaico della origini a oggi: a comprehensive display on the relationship between sculpture and mosaic art to analyse and investigate the origins, evolution and the different varieties explored by artists from the 30s of the Twentieth Century. It was in that moment, after Gino Severini's renewed approach towards mosaic art with architectural purposes, that the plastic researches by Lucio Fontana and Mirko Basaldella took off. This virtuous creative circle was also inspired by some Mesoamerican items, thanks to the growing interest in Italy towards ancient Latin American art. In this framework the new exhibition at the MAR shows the different expressions of 20th/21st-Century sculpture in its relationship with mosaic art, an art that became a "specific genre" in the late 70s thanks to artists such as Antonio Trotta, Athos Ongaro, Chia and Paladino, and especially thanks to technical and technological innovations resulting from new synthetic materials. From the second half of the 80s to the present days artistic research and production have increased, paving the way for the last glimpse of the 20th Century. The phenomenon of sculpture and mosaic combined flourished, also thanks to the realisation in Ravenna of artworks of international relevance, such as Rudolf Nureyev's tomb in Paris, featuring artists of different backgrounds that will characterise as tout court mosaic sculptors. MAR - Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna  > 07 JAN. 2018  www.mar.ra.it On Sunday October 1st 2017, Textile as Art: Antonio Ratti, Entrepreneur and Patron will open at Palazzo Te in Mantua. The exhibition examines the life and work of Antonio Ratti, the Como industrialist who created both an internationally recognised textile company and foundation, equating production and creativity in business with art and culture. The exhibition is produced by the Comune di Mantova and is curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Annie Ratti, and Maddalena Terragni. The life of Antonio Ratti weaves together business and art, creativity and cultural activities, public and private. Ratti's vision was founded on the idea that culture, knowledge and art are fundamental tools for understanding one's own time. The exhibition intends to paint a portrait of this distinguished and elegant, multi-faceted and eclectic man who, by investing in the education of human resources and the valorisation of textiles as art, emphasized the quality of his textiles. High quality, experimentation and innovation are the defining characteristics that distinguish the work of Antonio Ratti. These characteristics are shown throughout the course of the exhibition by establishing a dialogue between Ratti's textiles and the monumental rooms of Palazzo Te, which then continues into the exhibition spaces of the Fruttiere. Until 7 January 2018. Monday 13.00 - 19.30; Tuesday to Sunday 9.00 - 19.30. From 29 October 2017: Mondays 13.00 - 18.30; Tuesday to Sunday 9.00 - 18.30. Palazzo Te - Mantova  > 07 JAN. 2018  T +39 0376 323266 www.centropalazzote.it La Triennale di Milano presents There is a Planet, an exhibition that marks the centenary of the birth of Ettore Sottsass, (Innsbruck 1917 - Milan 2007) in the Triennale Design Museum curated by Barbara Radice. This is a monographic exhibition devoted to Ettore Sottsass in the spaces of the Galleria dell'Architettura with a large range of design and art production such as architecture, drawing, photography, furniture, sculpture, painting, ceramics and glass work, publishing and writing. The title of the exhibition, and of the book, refers to a project that Sottsass started in the 1990s but never completed. The project for the book, published by Electa, was to form five groups of photographs taken by Sottsass on his travels around the world, each with its own title and essay. The exhibition is on view through March 11, 2018. Triennale di Milano  > 11 MAR. 2018  Viale Alemagna 6 - 20121 Milano T. 02 724341 www.triennale.org Covering fifty years of celebrities caught in the lens, Arrivano i Paparazzi! - Fotografi e divi dalla Dolce Vita a oggi considers the paparazzo at work by examining the complex and fascinating ties that form between photographer and photographed, going on to reveal the paparazzi influence on fashion photography. By associating some of the genre's leading names, as Tazio Secchiaroli, Marcello Geppetti, Elio Sorci, Lino Nanni, Ezio Vitale with reflections on this modern-day myth the exhibition sets out to define the paparazzi aesthetic. The exhibition is on view through January 7, 2018. CAMERA - Centro Italiano per la Fotografia  > 07 JAN. 2018  Via delle Rosine 18, 10123 - Torino www.camera.to | camera@camera.to Cardi Gallery Milan, in collaboration with the Fondazione Morra in Naples, is delighted to present a major retrospective of Vettor Pisani, with works from the 1970s to the 2000s. The exhibition is curated by Piero Tomassoni. Achille Bonito Oliva has contributed an essay to the catalogue. Eschewing conventional classification within the history of contemporary art, venturing well beyond the temporal and poetic limits of the 1970s, Vettor Pisani (Bari 1934-Rome 2011) considered himself to be an architect, painter, and playwright. The works presented in this exhibition cover Pisani's entire career, over four decades. They showcase the breadth of media explored by the artist, from sculpture to installations, from collage to drawing to digital prints. September 19-December 21, 2017. Mon-Fri 10-19. Cardi Gallery  > 21 DEC. 2017  Corso di Porta Nuova 38 - 20121 Milano Tel (+39) 02 45478189 mail@cardigallery.com www.cardigallery.com After the exhibition at MOMA Nan Goldin arrives at Triennale. Comprising almost 700 snapshot-like portraits sequenced against an evocative music soundtrack, Nan Goldin's The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a deeply personal narrative, formed out of the artist's own experiences around Boston, New York, Berlin, and elsewhere in the late 1970s, 1980s, and beyond. Titled after a song in Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera, Goldin's Ballad is itself a kind of downtown opera; its protagonists-including the artist herself-are captured in intimate moments of love and loss. They experience ecstasy and pain through sex and drug use; they revel at dance clubs and bond with their children at home; and they suffer from domestic violence and the ravages of AIDS. «The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is the diary I let people read», Goldin wrote. «The diary is my form of control over my life. It allows me to obsessively record every detail. It enables me to remember». The Ballad developed through multiple improvised live performances, for which Goldin ran through the slides by hand and friends helped prepare the soundtrack-from Maria Callas to The Velvet Underground-for an audience not unlike the subjects of the pictures. The Ballad is presented in its original 35mm format, along with photographs that also appear as images in the slide show. Introducing the installation is a selection of materials from the artist's archive, including posters and flyers announcing early iterations of The Ballad. On view through November 26, 2017. Triennale di Milano  > 26 NOV. 2017  Viale Alemagna 6 - 20121 Milano T. 02 724341 www.triennale.org One of the most influential and visionary architects of our times, Zaha Hadid has redefined the architecture of the twenty-first century and captured the imagination of the whole world. One year since her untimely death, MAXXI is devoting to her The exhibition Zaha Hadid in Italy. Focusing on Hadid's projects in Italy, the exhibition highlights her intense and productive relationship with our country, presenting projects and works created by means of various instruments of representation, research, and experimentation that she honed in the course of her career; from pictorial and conceptual sketches to three-dimensional models, from virtual representations to the more recent interdisciplinary studies addressed to the application of new solutions and technologies, in a pioneering effort of investigation in design. The exhibition presents a portrait of Hadid's multifarious personality, it is conceived as a walk through; starting from the built work and projects in design development in Italy, to product design. The gaze of Hélène Binet, a photographer who has been one of the most mindful of Hadid's production over the years, interprets the strength and the dynamism of the architecture with a series of intense photographs that provide new details of her works. The constant drive towards an interdisciplinary search for new design methods is also presented in the sections dedicated to CoDe (Computational Design) and to ZHA Design DNA, a window on the creative legacy that the studio has fully welcomed. To paraphrase Zaha Hadid, there should be no end to experimentation. 23 June 2017 - 14 January 2018. Monday closed. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 14 JAN. 2018  Via Guido Reni, 4 - 00196 Roma info: 06.320.19.54 www.fondazionemaxxi.it info@fondazionemaxxi.it An Eternal Beauty. The Classical Canon in Early 20th Century Italian Art. The return-to-order climate in Europe devastated by the First World War brought forth artistic ventures and movements - Metaphysical art, the experiences surrounding "Valori Plastici", the Novecento italiano, and the poetics of Magical realism - that sought to recover and reaffirm themes and formal solutions from the artistic tradition. Allegorical subjects, portraits, figures, landscapes and still-lifes were interpreted in a new idiom providing a modern rendition of the values of ancient and Renaissance art. Technical knowledge gained the status of a tool for representing and transfiguring the real in search of a timeless, oneiric dimension.Featuring absolute masterpieces from the early twentieth century, The exhibition traces an itinerary among the works of the masters of Italian art who looked to the past and its classic canon as sources of inspiration. It presents over one hundred works by some of the major protagonists of Italian art: Carrà, Casorati, De Chirico, De Pisis, Savinio, Severini, Sironi as well as Bucci, Cagnaccio, Donghi, Dudreville, Funi, Malerba, Martini, Marussig, Oppi and Wildt. Until 5 November 2017. Tue-Sun 10am-18pm; Friday 10am-21pm. Monday closed. Mart di Rovereto  > 05 NOV. 2017  Corso Bettini 43 - 38068 Rovereto (TN) Infoline 800 397760 The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea presents the exhibition /Uncinematic. George Drivas, a selection of filmic works made between 2005 and 2014 by the Greek artist George Drivas, who currently represents Greece at the 57th Venice Biennale, 2017. Drivas creates narrative videos based on motionlessness, and in most of his works he makes use of a remarkable sequence of images which he alternates rhythmically so as to bring to the foreground the underlying link that has always joined photography and cinema, causing the fertile connections that unite static image and dynamic image underneath to resonate. The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea presents the exhibition Body To Body, curated by Paola Ugolini. The exhibition analyses the exact moment when the artist's work is characterized by the appropriation of new languages that range from dance to the event, from the happening to theatre, from painting to music, from theory to sculpture, and from cinema to video. Within these complex cultural events, the exhibition aims to cut out only the space in which the artist, having left behind the traditional art forms, uses his/her body as a means of expression. Artists: Claudio Abate, Marina Abramovic e Ulay, Renate Bertlmann, Tomaso Binga, Claire Fontaine, Chiara Fumai, Silvia Giambrone, Goldschmied & Chiari, Sanja Ivekovic, Ketty La Rocca, Valentina Miorandi, Gina Pane, Suzanne Santoro, Alice Schivardi, Francesca Woodman. Both exhibitions run until September 24, 2017. Monday closed. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea  > 24 SEP. 2017  Viale delle Belle Arti, 131 - Roma T +39 06 3229 8221 The 57th International Art Exhibition, titled VIVA ARTE VIVA and curated by Christine Macel, is organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta. The Exhibition is open to the public from Saturday May 13th to Sunday November 26th 2017, at the Giardini and the Arsenale venues. VIVA ARTE VIVA unfolds over the course of nine chapters or families of artists, beginning with two introductory realms in the Central Pavilion, followed by another seven across the Arsenale through the Giardino delle Vergini. 120 are the invited artists from 51 countries; 103 of these are participating for the first time. The Exhibition also includes 86 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic city centre of Venice. 3 countries are participating for the first time: Antigua and Barbuda, Kiribati, Nigeria. Also for this edition, selected Collateral Events are featured. Promoted by non-profit national and international institutions, they present their exhibitions and initiatives in Venice during the 57th Exhibition. Golden Lion for Best National Participation: Germany / Anne Imhof. A special mention has been awarded to the following National Participation: Brazil / Cinthia Marcelle. Golden Lion for the Best Artist of the Exhibition Viva Arte Viva to: Franz Erhard Walther. Silver Lion for a Promising Young Artist to: Hassan Khan. The Jury has decided to award two special mentions to the following artists: Charles Atlas and Petrit Halilaj. Arsenale e Giardini della Biennale  > 26 NOV. 2017  Venezia Organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, Mark Tobey: Threading Light will be the first comprehensive exhibition of Mark Tobey's distinctive and original work in more than forty years and will provide further insight into his intriguing oeuvre and its complicated and contradictory receptions in the United States and abroad. Curated by independent scholar Debra Bricker Balken, the exhibition will include approximately eighty paintings from the late 1920s until his last works of the 1970s and will be accompanied by a catalogue published in English and Italian editions. Coinciding with the 57th Venice Biennale the exhibition will debut at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and then be presented at the Addison Gallery of American Art. 6 May-10 September 2017. Collezione Peggy Guggenheim  > 10 SEP. 2017  Palazzo Venier dei Leoni Dorsoduro 701 - I-30123 Venezia tel: 041.2405.411 Fondazione Memmo presents Giuseppe Gabellone's first solo exhibition in Rome, curated by Francesco Stocchi, thereby confirming its mission to promote contemporary art through site-specific creations and new works. Characterized by a strong formal rigor and a critical approach to traditional artistic media such as photography and sculpture, Gabellone's work is particularly sensitive to the surrounding exhibition space and its various sensory aspects. The artist's approach is a continuation of the tradition of great sculpture's innovators, such as Medardo Rosso, Umberto Boccioni and Arturo Martini: by emphasizing the dynamic relationships between light and shadow, full and empty, the artist expands the concept of sculpture to other techniques and practices, addressing the central issues that arise from his activity, especially in those areas where the mediated experience attempts to replace direct perception. May 5-October 15, 2017. Hours: Wednesday-Monday 11am-6pm. Fondazione Memmo Arte Contemporanea  > 15 OCT. 2017  Via Fontanella Borghese 56b - Roma T +39 06 68136598 artecontemporanea@fondazionememmo.it www.fondazionememmo.it The Restless Earth / La Terra Inquieta curated by Massimiliano Gioni borrows its title from a collection of poems by Édouard Glissant, a Caribbean writer who probed the question of how different cultures can coexist. The exhibition shares in Glissant's project-a pressing and necessary one that tries to describe this unstable and agitated present as a polyphony of voices and narratives. Through the works of more than sixty artists from more than forty countries-such as Albania, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, and Turkey-and with historical documents and objects of material culture, this exhibition charts both experiences and perceptions of migration and the current refugee crisis as an epoch-making transformation that is reframing contemporary history, geography, and culture. The exhibition is open to the public from April 28 to August 20, 2017. La Triennale  > 20 AUG. 2017  Viale Alemagna, 6 - Milano T. 02-72434247 www.triennale.org The MAXXI presents NATURE FOREVER. Piero Gilardi curated by Hou Hanru, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi and Marco Scotini. A 50-year career in which art, criticism and politics are closely intertwined. Starting out from the complex relationship between man and nature, the exhibition critically re-examines the society of consumption and new technologies, in an exhibition constructed around themes such as ecology, artistic work as research and social and political commitment. The exhibition is enhanced by archive documents illustrating the artist's various works from the planning stage, presenting some of the most significant pieces by Piero Gilardi from the 1960s through to the present. 13 April 2017 - 15 October 2017. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 15 OCT. 2017  Via Guido Reni, 4/A, 00196 Roma Tel 39 06 320 1954 Laveronica Arte Contemporanea is pleased to present Welcome to My Age of Anxiety, the first solo exhibition in Italy by Maryam Jafri. The exhibition investigates soft technologies of power invoking self-care at the heart of their disciplinary apparatus, forming what Jafri calls a global Military-Industrial-Wellness complex. April 15-June 30, 2017. Laveronica arte contemporanea  > 30 JUN. 2017  Via Grimaldi 93 - 97015 Modica (Rg) www.gallerialaveronica.it There are two paths into the exhibition From the Cavern to the Moon. A journey through the collection of the Pecci Centre between the large wing of the new museum building and half of the old edifice. They are dialogically divided into eight sections and are linked to spectacular substantiations through unreleased reports and original comparisons among the works which-time after time-include or avoid philological combinations of artistic genres, stylistic groups or historical chronologies. They illustrate the first part of the contemporary art heritage collected by the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art over the last three decades which will finally be presented to the audience. On this occasion, works by 60 Italian and international artists represent a non-exhaustive yet particularly significant summary of art from the last half century. This new exhibition presents an itinerary through artistic forms that occupy and become part of the environment; an experience which seems a true immersion among works of art that develop and repeat over time in the form of videos, actions and performances. The exhibition develops between the ancestral time evoked by the legendary Caverna dell'antimateria by Pinot Gallizio and the cosmic space of Luna by Fabio Mauri, passing through the energy proliferation that emerges in La spirale appare by Mario Merz, the feasible habitat of Supersuperficie imagined by Superstudio, the integration between art and architecture experimented in Intercamera plastica by Paolo Scheggi. Exhibition Itinerary curated by Stefano Pezzato. April 8, 2017-January 28, 2018. Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci  > 28 JAN. 2018  Viale della Repubblica 277 - 59100 Prato T +39 0574 5317 | F +39 0574 531901 info@centropecci.it | centropecci.it Words and Stars (2013-16) is a project born in 2013, when the Nobel prize-winner Orhan Pamuk, fascinated by the work of Grazia Toderi, invited the artist to create a work for his Museum of Innocence in Istanbul. The research and the exchange of words, sources and images that underpin the project focus on humanity's inclination to explore space and its innate propensity to investigate the stars. More than three years of conversations, encounters and correspondence have resulted in the realization of a project that hybridizes languages. A continuous process, in search of the affinities between the complexity of metaphysical questions and the simplicity of the joy of gazing at the stars. Against the background of Istanbul at night, the love of Füsun and Kemal, protagonists of The Museum of Innocence, evokes constellations and words. April 2-July 2, 2017. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-9pm. Mart Rovereto  > 02 JUL. 2017  Corso Bettini 43 | 38068 Rovereto TN T +39 0464 438887 info@mart.tn.it | www.mart.tn.it The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea has started a new chapter in its history with the exhibition Time is Out of Joint. The display is part of a wide process - initiated on June 21, 2016 and lead by Director Cristiana Collu - aimed at transforming, rearranging, and renovating the museum, which now offers the public totally renewed spaces and a profound reinterpretation of its collection. Thanks to the institutional autonomy granted by the latest reform of the Italian Culture Ministry (MiBACT), the Galleria Nazionale presents itself as a place for discover and research, contemplation and reflection upon art languages and practices and upon the role of a contemporary museum. The exhibition, whose title quotes a verse from William Shakespeare's Hamlet - "The time is out of joint" - investigates the notion of time in its fluidity, non-linearity, and stratification; a fragmented time which seems to embody art historian Hans Belting's dilemma "the end of the history of art, or art's freedom." October 11, 2016-April 15, 2018. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 8:30am-7:30pm. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea  > 15 APR. 2018  Viale delle Belle Arti, 131 - 00197 Roma T +39 06 3229 8221 lagallerianazionale.com Riccardo Crespi gallery and Opifici Dal Re present The Uninhabitants, an exhibition that stands on the borderline between art and design and is based on a group of works whose formal characteristics would make it easy to assign them to the area of the domestic, the world of inhabiting. The artists' works all suggest a connection with corresponding objects of everyday use, but the doors Patrizia Giambi and Patrizia Dal Re have created, like Gal Weinstein's disintegrating kitchen, display, on close examination, a quite different vocation that betrays an urge to un-inhabit rather than to inhabit: doors that do not protect, nor separate, a kitchen in which you can't cook, an alcove that offers no privacy. Instead of conveying a reassuring sense of hearth and home, once they have emerged from the artist's studio the works reveal their inability to function, thereby showing the fundamental divergence between the meanings implied in the creation of a work and its actual use. Until 20 May 2017. Galleria Riccardo Crespi  > 20 MAY 2017  Via Mellerio 1 - Milano, MI 20123 t +39 02 89072491 - t +39 02 36561618 f +39 02 92878247 info@riccardocrespi.com www.riccardocrespi.com For thousands of years we ground rocks, crushed flowers, and boiled small bugs to extract from them particles detached from their original "thingness"; we called them pigments and we made them stable through mixing them with various other elements in order to reproduce the colors of flowers, of fish, of butterflies, in our human world-so poor in color diversity, so rich in analytical thinking. We did this so that we could paint, so that we could dye, so that we could signal, so that we could decorate, so that we could seduce, so that we could love. Although, or perhaps because, colors are used to manipulate, design, and control behavior, can we muddle them up, play and produce a different logic, a different color than that of our screens? "They needed colored fire, and had only ground earths," Annie Besant wrote of visual artists in 1905. Now that we have only colored fire and liquid crystals, we need new tools. When bombs fall, the differently colored animate and inanimate things that make up our cities, streets, homes, people, and gardens fall into rubble; they mix until they reach an entropic shade of brownish gray. And so Henri Matisse, in the middle of World War I, and again in the middle of World War II, painted paintings of lively, vital color. Etel Adnan, in late 2016, stated "color is life. And as long as we live, we are alive." L'emozione dei COLORI nell'arte will be on view at Castello di Rivoli and at GAM from March 14 to July 23, 2017. Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea  > 23 JUL. 2017  Piazza Mafalda di Savoia - 10098 Rivoli Torino castellodirivoli.org GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea  > 23 JUL. 2017  Via Magenta 31 - 10128 Torino www.gamtorino.it Teresa Margolles is a visual artist, who examines the causes and social consequences of death, destruction and civil war in Mexico. The artist has developed a personal language like an intradiegetic narrator, a witness for the silent subjects and the victims defined as "collateral damage," often unnamed and therefore treated only as a number. Subtle and seductive, her works initially offer a pleasant aesthetic experience, which soon, however, becomes something else. The exhibition Sobre la sangre is part of this context of gender violence and comprises the touring installation Frazada (La Sombra) . The installation is made of a sheet mounted on a 1.9m high metal structure usually used for market stalls. The sheet was salvaged from the morgue at La Paz and it is soaked with the blood of a female victim of femicide, causing discomfort to anyone who uses its shade to get relief from the heat on sunny days, as they only gradually become aware of the strong odour of blood emanating from it. Cecilia Bertoni. Round midnight / ritratti (round midnight / portraits) Video installation is an adaptation and development of one of the videos shown originally at the eponymous performance by the director and artist Cecilia Bertoni, presented by Compagnia Dello Scompiglio in 2016. In the video we see the portraits of the five performers. On view from March 25 to June 25, 2017. Hours: Thursday-Saturday 2-6pm. Associazione Culturale dello Scompiglio - Tenuta dello Scompiglio  > 25 JUN. 2017  Via di Vorno, 67 - 55012 Capannori Lucca T +39 0583 971125 biglietteria@delloscompiglio.org www.delloscompiglio.org From March 10 to July 23, 2017 the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi will be introducing the Florentine public to Bill Viola. Electronic Renaissance, a significant exhibition celebrating this unchallenged master of video art. A single, comprehensive exhibition occupying both the Piano Nobile and the Strozzina will immerse you in space, music and sound as you track the career of this artist from his early experimental work in the 1970s right up to his monumental installations of the 21st century. Exploring spirituality, experience and perception, Viola probes humanity: people, bodies and faces are the leading players in his work with its poetic and strongly symbolic style in which man interacts with the forces and energies of nature such as water and fire, light and dark, the cycle of life and the cycle of rebirth. But more importantly, the Renaissance setting of Palazzo Strozzi fuels mesmerising interaction between the classic and the contemporary by fostering innovative dialogue between Viola's work and the masterpieces of the great masters of the past, from which he has drawn his inspiration and which have marked the development of his artistic vocabulary and style. Thus the exhibition is a celebration of Bill Viola's special relationship with Florence, where his career in video art began when he was technical director of art/tapes/22, a video production and documentation centre, from 1974 to 1976. Palazzo Strozzi  > 23 JUL. 2017  Piazza Strozzi - Firenze T +39 055 2645155 www.palazzostrozzi.org The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the exhibition Rita Kernn-Larsen. Surrealist Paintings, curated by Gražina Subelyte, Curatorial Assistant of the Collection, inaugurating its "Project Rooms": two new exhibition rooms at the museum dedicated to focused exhibitions. The exhibition brings together Surrealist paintings by Kernn-Larsen from public and private collections. Until 26 June 2017. Collezione Peggy Guggenheim  > 26 JUN. 2017  Palazzo Venier dei Leoni Dorsoduro 701-704 - 30123 Venezia www.guggenheim-venice.it Born during the postwar era from the friendship between Mario Sironi and Antonio Allaria, physician at the Codivilla Putti hospital in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the collection, now in Rovereto thanks to the deposit from Alessandra Allaria, reinforces Sironi's already significant presence in the Mart collections. Organized by thematic nuclei, the exhibition Focus. Mario Sironi in the Allaria Collection features a large group of drawings and paintings by Sironi that allows the artist's most intimate dimension to emerge, delineating several key points in his artistic enquiry: from the earliest dalliances with Futurism to the modern classicism of the Novecento group to the most mature phase of his work. Completing the exhibition are monographic rooms dedicated to Anton Zoran Mušic, Renato Guttuso and Graham Sutherland, also linked to Allaria through friendship, in a comparison between the works on deposit and the masterpieces of the same artists from the museum's permanent collection. The exhibition ends with a varied selection of graphic works by, among others, Filippo de Pisis, Giorgio Morandi and Giorgio de Chirico, giving visitors a glimpse of the vibrant cultural atmosphere of Cortina, back when it was frequented by artists and art lovers. Until 11 June 2017. MART Rovereto  > 11 JUN. 2017  Corso Bettini 43 - 38068 Rovereto (TN) T 0464 438887 www.mart.trento.it A meticulous selection of portraits from the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome has been curated to comprise the group of contestants for a beauty contest, directed by Spanish-born, New York-based artist Paco Cao. The selection of the contestants involved the active participation of the entire museum staff, from the director to the curatorial, education, and restoration teams, with special attention given to the security guards, considering their daily and constant relationship with the works of art. The beauty contest has established two categories: male and female; the objective is to select the most beautiful person in each category, based on physical appearance, demeanor, and attitude, independently of the style or technical quality of the works. The jury is the audience. In the competing line-up are portraits from the early 19th century to the late 20th century, created by masters ranging from Giorgio de Chirico to Vincent van Gogh, Umberto Boccioni, Giovanni Boldini, Vincenzo Gemito, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Vittorio Corcos and Amedeo Modigliani, as well as lesser-known and anonymous artists. Paco Cao Museum Beauty Contest Finals: the exhibition of portraits February 21-May 1, 2017. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 8:30am-7:30pm Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea  > 01 MAY 2017  Viale delle Belle Arti, 131 - 00197 Roma T +39 06 3229 8221 gan-amc.uffstampa@beniculturali.it lagallerianazionale.com From February 10 to April 23, 2017 the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici will host the first solo exhibition in Italy by Annette Messager, one of the most famous, innovative and nonconformist French artists on the contemporary art scene. Internationally speaking the exhibition is already looking like one of the big cultural events of the season. Titled Messaggera, the show combines the most remarkable works of a prestigious career with new ones specially created for the Villa. Taken together they testify to the eclecticism of an artist who makes nonchalant play with references both to art history and popular culture. With Annette Messager, and at the instigation of director Muriel Mayette-Holtz, the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici is initiating Une, its new series of contemporary art exhibitions, curated by Chiara Parisi: women artists internationally famed as contemporary icons will be presenting major shows with works for the most part not seen in Italy before. Each exposition will highlight the expressive force of the artist's project and their vision. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-7pm. Villa Medici  > 23 APR. 2017  Viale Trinità dei Monti, 1 - 00187 Roma T +39 06 67611 standard@villamedici.it www.villamedici.it FENDI presents the first exhibition of contemporary art at Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in Rome. From January 26 until July 16, 2017, the Maison's headquarters hosts a solo exhibition entitled Matrice by Italian artist Giuseppe Penone. The exhibition takes place in the extraordinary first floor of Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, which FENDI has restored and opened to the public for exhibitions and installations. Matrice is a unique opportunity to admire a selection of historical works and new productions realized specifically for this occasion by Giuseppe Penone, one of the greatest living sculptors. The exhibition features 17 artworks that date from the 1970s to the present, including many that are rarely seen and will be shown in Italy for the first time. The entire exhibition has been conceived in dialogue with the monumental architectural spaces of the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, presenting a collection of artworks that contrast the clear-cut geometry and the marble facets of this building. Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana  > 16 JUL. 2017  Quadrato della Concordia - 00144 Roma www.fendi.com Cardi Gallery in Milan is delighted to present the Italian debut of Arman: Emersions. The exhibition, staged in collaboration with Corice Arman and the Arman Marital Trust, features 13 works from the series conceived in 1998 and 1999 by the artist, a French-born naturalized American. This exhibition mark a new relationship between painting, which he had practiced since his childhood in Nice, and objects, to which he was drawn starting with his exhibition Allure d'objects (Galerie Saint Germain, Paris, 1960). February 17-June 23, 2017. Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-7pm. Cardi Gallery  > 23 JUN. 2017  C.so di Porta Nuova 38 - 20121 Milano T +39 02 45478189 F +39 02 45478120 mail@cardigallery.com www.cardigallery.com Jennifer West. Action Movies, Painted Films and History collage. The first solo exhibition of Jennifer West (USA) in an Italian museum, curated by Lorenzo Giusti, is comprised of ten films created starting from 2005, a group of 11 zines and a new work. Until May 21, 2017. The exhibition of Berenice Abbott. Topographies, curated by Anne Morin, presents for the first time in Italy, a selection of 82 photographs, from the middle of the 1920s to the first years of the 1960s. Subdivided into three categories-Portraits, New York and Scientific Photographs-it provides an overall view of Abbott's talent and variegated activities. Until May 21, 2017. The Permanence of Resistance #3. Prelude. February 17 will mark also the opening of the site specific installation Golden Zimmer by the Italian artist Leonardo Boscani, the first of a series of initiatives, curated by Micaela Deiana, introducing the third and final appointment of the several-year exhibition project dedicated to the most innovative research which from the end of the 1950s to the present have marked the artistic world in Sardinia. Jakub Julian Ziolkowski. Nasellini. July 1-October 1, 2017. Jakub Julian Ziolkowski (Poland, 1980) is known for his surrealist paintings inhabited by fantastic and often disquieting creatures. His is a "pictorial organicism" nourished by heterogeneous references to a mixture of Western and Eastern traditions that converse with the history of the artistic avant-gardes. Revolutionary love. Artist Couples of the Russian Avant-gardes. July 1-October 1, 2017. Organized on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution, the exhibition, curated by Heike Eipeldauer and Lorenzo Giusti, assumes an innovative standpoint, that of artist-couples, to revisit the experience of Russia's avant-garde in the visual arts through the contribution of six artists of the first generation, joined together by their search for new expressive languages as well as their lives together. Museo MAN  > 21 MAY 2017  Via S. Satta 27 - 08100 Nuoro tel. +39 0784 25 21 10 www.museoman.it Fondazione Prada presents Slight Agitation 2/4: Pamela Rosenkranz, the second iteration of a four-part project of newly commissioned, site-specific works hosted in sequence within the Cisterna, one of the pre-existing buildings at Fondazione Prada's Milan venue. The title of the project was inspired by the poetic expression "une légère agitation," employed by the French historian Fernand Braudel to describe the tidal movement of the Mediterranean. Pamela Rosenkranz' work explores how physical and biological processes affect art. Her forthcoming installation Infection is based on a neuro-active parasite, of which an estimated 30% of the world's population is affected. A huge, almost sublime mountain of sand is formed inside the Cisterna's tall spaces. Its scale pressuring against the historic architecture. The sand is impregnated with fragrance of synthetic cat pheromones that activates a specific, biologically determined attraction or repulsion and subconsciously influence the public's movement. RGB green light illuminates the peak of this chemically altered nature gently evaporating the scent. February 9-May 14, 2017. Fondazione Prada  > 14 MAY 2017  Largo Isarco 2 - 20139 Milano www.fondazioneprada.org Lili Reynaud-Dewar (La Rochelle, France, 1975) opens Museion's 2017 exhibition programme. Hailed as one of the most original artists on the contemporary scene, Reynaud-Dewar explores the sexual, racial and political conditioning and stereotypes that influence our cultural identity. The spacious areas on the fourth floor of the museum play host to installations, film works, videos and objects which revolve around two main themes. On one hand it explores the human body, or rather a particular, intimate element of it: teeth. In a film and performance piece set in Memphis, a city known for its racial and social conflicts, the artist explores stories, practices and identities that gravitate around grills, the teeth decorations that are a status symbol in rap and hip hop culture. Another key element of the show is the essay "A Cyborg Manifesto" published by Donna Haraway in 1985. Lili Reynaud-Dewar TEETH GUMS MACHINES FUTURE SOCIETY runs until May 7, 2017. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm, Thursday 10am-10pm. - See more at: www.museion.it/2017/01/lily-reynaud-dewar-teeth-gums-machines-future-society/#sthash.EOwwRQOP.dpuf. MUSEION of Modern and Contemporary Art Bolzano  > 07 MAY 2017  Piazza Piero Siena, 1 - 39100 Bolzano www.museion.it Give Me Yesterday, curated by Francesco Zanot, will inaugurate the program of Osservatorio, Fondazione Prada's new exhibition space located in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II in Milan and dedicated to photography and visual languages. Extending across the fifth and sixth floors of one of the Galleria's main buildings, Osservatorio is located above the central octagon, at the level of the glass and iron dome that covers the arcades, realized by Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1867. The spaces, rebuilt after the Second World War after downtown Milan was bombed in 1943, have now been fully restored, providing an 800-square-meter exhibition space that develops across two levels. The show includes works by 14 Italian and international artists (Melanie Bonajo, Kenta Cobayashi, Tomé Duarte, Irene Fenara, Lebohang Kganye, Vendula Knopová, Leigh Ledare, Wen Ling, Ryan McGinley, Izumi Miyazaki, Joanna Piotrowska, Greg Reynolds, Antonio Rovaldi, Maurice van Es), and explores the use of photography as a personal diary over a period of time ranging from the early 2000s through today. Until March 12, 2017. Fondazione Prada Osservatorio  > 12 MAR. 2017  Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II - 20121 Milano www.fondazioneprada.org One of Florence's leading photography archives opens its treasures to the city with the first single-subject exhibition. On 9 January 2017, Fashion in Florence through the lens of Archivio Foto Locchi will open in Palazzo Pitti's Andito degli Angiolini: 100 very rare pictures taken from the 1930s to '70s tell the story of fashion in Florence through the lens of the photographers of Foto Locchi. The project stems from a collaboration between Archivio Storico Foto Locchi (a cultural patrimony of priceless value comprising more than five million photographs), director of the Uffizi Galleries Eike Schmidt, the Centro di Firenze per la Moda Italiana - thanks to which the exhibition will be inaugurated with an event during the 91st edition of Pitti Immagine Uomo - and the Gruppo Editoriale publishing group, with the intention of promoting the importance of the photography archive and paying tribute to the historic connection between Florence and fashion. The Florentine maisons that birthed the modern history of Italian fashion such as Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo and Emilio Pucci told by their founders and the celebrities who made them fashion around the world. The deus ex machina of the great Italian designers who showed their collections in the Sala Bianca: Roberto Capucci, Emilio Schuberth, Sorelle Fontana and Simonetta Colonna di Cesarò. Celebrities who had no qualms about taking a chance alongside Giovanni Battista Giorgini and who revolutionized modern Italian clothing starting in Florence. In addition to the special guests who flew in from Paris, like Christian Dior and Elsa Schiaparelli, the foreign aristocracy such as the Duke of Windsor and fated Hollywood stars, from Audrey Hepburn to Paulette Goddard and the divine Maria Callas. From 9 January to 5 March 2017. Tuesday to Sunday, 8.45am-6.50pm. Palazzo Pitti  > 05 MAR. 2017  Piazza Pitti - Firenze On the centennial of Umberto Boccioni's death (1882-1916), the City of Milan and Mart of Rovereto celebrate the artist with two exhibitions highlighting his artistic path and international calibre with the aid of previously unpublished archival materials. The exhibition at Palazzo Reale (23 March - 10 July 2016) will be echoed by the grand exhibition at Mart (5 November 2016 - 19 February 2017). Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916): Genius and Memory is a project offering a selective itinerary through the visual sources that contributed to Boccioni's artistic training and stylistic development. After Milan, Umberto Boccioni's oeuvre is explored in Rovereto by juxtaposing it with the works of his contemporaries, many coming from the MART collections, and with invaluable archival materials. The exhibition dialogues with the exhibitory work of the Casa d'Arte Futurista Depero and is amplified by the international research of the Archive of the 20th Century, home to the International Futurism Study Centre. MART Rovereto  > 19 FEB. 2017  Corso Bettini 43, 38068 - Rovereto (TN) T 0464 438887 Numero verde 800 397760 info@mart.trento.it After the solo exhibitions by Giuseppe Penone and Robert Morris, the Mart exhibition season continues with an ambitious project dedicated to the work of the italian sculptor Eliseo Mattiacci (1940). Passing the baton among artists of the same generation, the project continues the exploration of sources and forms in contemporary sculpture. The exhibition expresses a dialogue between the artist and the Mart interiors: a selection of works-most of them large format-retraces the career of the sculptor in the spacious museum galleries. The powerfully evocative retrospective presents works that have rarely been exhibited before, such as Locomotiva (Locomotive) (1964), works presented at the 1972 Venice Biennale, and sculptures whose size and complexity make them nearly impossible to install in an ordinary gallery, such as Motociclista (Motorcyclist) (1981), La mia idea del cosmo (My Idea of the Cosmos) (2001) and Piattaforma esplorativa (Exploration Platform) (2008) . The exhibition is curated by Gianfranco Maraniello, director of Mart. Until March 12, 2017. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-9pm. MaRT Rovereto  > 12 MAR. 2017  Corso Bettini 43 - 38068 Rovereto TN T +39 0464 438887 info@mart.tn.it | www.mart.tn.it Kunstverein Milano is pleased to announce Exposition littéraire autour de Mallarmé (Literary exhibition around Mallarmé), Michalis Pichler's first solo exhibition in Italy. Its title recalls an exhibition of the same name by Marcel Broodthaers in 1969 at Wide White Space in Antwerp, Belgium. The exhibition is centered around re-readings and re-writings of Un Coup de Dés jamais n'abolira le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice will never abolish Chance) across different media, reproducing that icon of the avant-garde. The exhibition also features the film Une Seconde d'Éternité and a reading room of "greatest hits". December 15, 2016-January 28, 2017. Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-4pm. Kunstverein Milano Il Lazzaretto  > 28 JAN. 2017  Via Lazzaretto 15 - 20124 Milano www.kunstverein.it A fundamental phase in Fortunato Depero's artistic quest involves the body and how it is expressed: anticipating the concept of performance art by several decades, the futurist artists staged pseudo-theatrical exhibitions involving improvisation and audience engagement. The body as an instrument of political action is, on the other hand, a leitmotif that recurs in many works from the Sixties and Seventies, well documented in the materials found in the Archive of the 20th Century. The exhibition Performance. Private body and social body will be on view until 7 May 2017. MART ROVERETO Casa d'Arte Futurista Depero  > 07 MAY 2017  Corso Bettini 43, 38068 - Rovereto (TN) T 0464 438887 Numero verde 800 397760 info@mart.trento.it The exhibition Letizia Battaglia. Just for Passion, curated by Paolo Falcone, Margherita Guccione and Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, presents over 200 photographs, contact sheets and vintage prints from the great photographers own archive, together with magazines, publications, films and interviews. Not just the "Photographer of the Mafia" but also a witness to life and society in our country: Letizia Battaglia is recognised as one of the most important contemporary photographers, not only for shots firmly present in the collective consciousness, but also for the civic and ethical value she brings to the practice of photography. A major solo exhibition testifying to 40 years of Italian life and society. 24 November 2016 - 17 April 2017. MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 17 APR. 2017  Via Guido Reni, 4/A, 00196 Roma Tel +39 06 3225178 Retrospettiva a luce solida ("Retrospective in solid light") is the title of the monographic exhibition dedicated by Madre museum to Fabio Mauri (Rome, 1926-2009) on November, masterful exponent of the neo-avantgardes of the second half of the 20th Century, whose artistic practice - turning on the exploration of the mechanisms of' ideology and languages of propaganda, as well as the collective imagination and the structures of media narratives, especially film - places him among the greatest and more seminal contemporary artists internationally. Organized in close collaboration with the Studio Fabio Mauri, the exhibition is the fullest ever dedicated to the artist since the retrospective, in 1994, at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome. Within a layout specifically designed for the individual spaces of the museum, it will present more than a hundred works, installations, actions and documents, that explore modern and contemporary history through its conflicts and contradictions and find their intellectual and emotional fulcrum in the intrinsic relationship between the historical and ethical dimensions. 26 November 2016 - 6 March 2017. At the same time as the exhibition at the Madre, from October 7th, 2016, to January 15th, 2017, the GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Bergamo will be hosting a different retrospective devoted to the artist, which, together with the exhibition in Naples and complementing it, will help to present an exhaustive profile of his research. Museo d'arte contemporanea Donnaregina Palazzo Donnaregina  > 15 JAN. 2017 | 06 MAR. 2017  Via Luigi Settembrini, 1 - 80138 Napoli T +39 081 1931 3016 From November 23, 2016 to February 26, 2017, UBS and Milan's Galleria d'Arte Moderna will be hosting Rear Window. Glimpses of Private Collections. Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, this exhibition investigates the idea of private collectors by establishing a dialogue between artworks from different Italian contemporary art collections - the Panza di Biumo Collection and the Berlingieri collection - and the permanent oeuvres of the Galleria d'Arte Moderna. By weaving unusual connections between modern, contemporary and nineteenth century artists - from Christo, Dan Flavin, Joseph Kosuth, Giulio Paolini, Richard Serra to Giovanni Fattori, Francesco Hayez, Edouard Manet and Giorgio Morandi - the show draws together apparently fragmented events into one big narrative that defines the visitor's "field of vision" and recalls the atmospheres of Hitchcock's famous film "Rear Window", from which the exhibit borrows its title. Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano  > 26 FEB. 2017  Via Palestro 16, Milano Riccardo Crespi gallery presents Anthropocene, a group exhibition that, starting from a text by Paola Cavalieri, analyzes the possibility that we are living in a new geological era, dominated by the human. The works by 15 artists will establish a path within which reflection, be it manifest or only hinted at, will help to open up possible ways out of this new disturbing scenario. Artists: Romain Bernini, Stefano Cagol, Simone Cametti, Emma Ciceri, Ingar Krauss, Marcelo Moscheta, Stéphanie Nava, Gioacchino Pontrelli, Lisi Raskin, Lucas Recchione Gentzsch, Zineb Sedira, Caterina Silva, Veronica Smirnoff, Sebastiano Sofia, Gal Weinstein. From November 24, 2016 to January 21, 2017. Galleria Riccardo Crespi  > 21 JAN. 2017  Via Mellerio 1 - 20123 Milano www.riccardocrespi.com Saturday, November 26, 2016, at 11:30 am, Studio la Città opens 3 exhibitions: Shaun Gladwell - Skateboarders vs. Minimalism where will be presented the eponymous video, made thanks to the collaboration of three of the world's top skaters - Hillary Thompson, Jesus Esteban Correa, and Rodney Mullen - was shot in an exhibition area where the skaters ably jumped over copies of sculptures by Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, and other artists who helped the spread of Minimal Art in the 1960s and 1970s. Luigi Carboni: La forma, un attimo prima. On show will be new works by the artist with an extremely intricate interweaving of marks that condense and disperse over the surface, to the point of creating perspectival planes and a total absence of traditional space. The large-scale oils and acrylics on canvas are flanked by works of smaller dimensions that allude to three-dimensionality and that use geometric forms held captive by a reticular painting. Back to the Land curated by Andrea Lerda. On show will be presented several works by Italian and international artists: Andreco, Cristian Chironi, Neha Choksi, Andrea Nacciarriti, Giorgia Severi, Francesco Simeti, Julius Von Bismarck. This is not simply an exhibition but a further step along a virtual path that for some time, at a global level, has singled out contemporary art as a tool for bringing to the fore ecological questions and for stimulating environmental ideas. Until 4 February 2017. Studio la Città  > 04 FEB. 2017  Lungadige Galtarossa 21 - 37133 Verona T. +39 045 597549 F. +39 045 597028 ufficiostampa@studiolacitta.it www.studiolacitta.it Joseph Beuys. La Tenda Verde (Das Grüne Zelt/The Green Tent) curated by Marco Scotini, may be seen as the third chapter of an ideal trilogy, completing the cycle of exhibitions with which the PAV aimed to reconstruct a genealogy of the relationship between the artistic practices and the ecological consciousness in Europe during the 1970s. After the exhibitions "Earthrise" (2015) and "ecologEast" (2016), this project will focus on the activity of one of the most recognized artists from the second half of the last century: Joseph Beuys, putting a particular emphasis on his involvement with the political institutions and his response to the threats of environmental crisis. The exhibition, which coincides with the 30th anniversary of Beuys' death, wants to become a tribute to the author of the "social sculpture," within the institution founded by Piero Gilardi, who was the first to write about Beuys in Italy, as early as in 1967. November 5, 2016-March 19, 2017. Parco Arte Vivente (PAV)  > 19 MAR. 2017  Via Giordano Bruno 31 - 10134 Torino T +39 011 318 2235 parcoartevivente.it My Weapon Against the Atom Bomb is a Blade of Grass. Tancredi. A Retrospective 12 November 2016 - 13 March 2017. With over ninety works, this much-awaited retrospective marks the return to Venice of Tancredi Parmeggiani (Feltre 1927-Rome 1964), among the most original and prolific Italian painters of the second half of the twentieth century. With a remarkable selection of paintings, the exhibition re-creates, step by step in intimate galleries, between creative fury and lyrical expressionism, the brief but meteoric trajectory of this great postwar painter. Open daily 10am-6pm. Closed Tuesday, and December 25. Collezione Peggy Guggenheim  > 13 MAR. 2017  704 Dorsoduro - 30123 Venezia Tel 041.2405411 Between tradition and innovation the architecture of the Japanese house recounts an entire culture. Co-organized by the Japan Foundation, Tokyo and MAXXI - the National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, and coproduced by the Japan Foundation, MAXXI, Barbican Centre and the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the exhibition The Japanese House. Architecture & life after 1945 describes the importance of house design in Japan through the work of archistars such as Kenzo Tange, Toyo Ito, Kazuyo Sejima and Shigeru Ban, as well as their masters less well known in the west such as Shirai, Shinohara, Sakamoto and extraordinarily promising youngsters. On the occasion of the exhibition "The Japanese House", dedicated to tradition and innovation in the architecture of Japanese homes, the Archives Centre is hosting Carlo Scarpa and the Japan an investigation of the multiple and deep-rooted motivations that link the architect and designer Carlo Scarpa to Japan, to its architectural culture, its literature and its historical, cultural and constructional traditions. A story composed of projects, photographs and documents, many on show for the first time. A complex system of relationships, suggestions and studies that have over time linked Carlo Scarpa, a lover and connoisseur of the country from 1969, and Japan itself which held the architect in great esteem, in particular for his published materials. Until 26 February 2017. Hours: Tuesday to Friday and Sunday 1119, Saturday 11 22. Closed Mondays, December 25, May 1. MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 26 FEB. 2017  Via Guido Reni, 4/A, 00196 Roma Tel +39 06 3225178 The retrospective of Wael Shawky (Alexandria, Egypt, 1971), held at the Castello di Rivoli, presents a series of film works, sculptures, and new wooden high-reliefs inspired by the Crusades and narrated from an Arab rather than a European point of view. The artist transforms the space of the Manica Lunga, whose walls have been painted blue, into a spectacular stage design. "Visitors - writes Marcella Beccaria - are swept off into the distant past, the echoes of which are nonetheless recognizable in our unstable present of Middle Eastern wars and new uncertainties". The trilogy treats the issue of history and human events overwhelmed by ambition and rivalry, by betrayal and violence. Until February 5, 2017. Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea  > 05 FEB. 2017  Piazza Mafalda di Savoia - 10098 Rivoli Torino www.castellodirivoli.org Fondazione Merz is pleased to present Al Araba Al Madfuna, an exhibition of newly commissioned work by Wael Shawky, winner of the first edition of the Mario Merz Prize, curated by Abdellah Karroum. The site-specific installation centres on the artist's film trilogy Al Araba Al Madfuna, here shown together for the first time. The viewer is led through a series of immersive environments that physically reproduce the films' contents-architectural set designs and sculptures specially designed to recreate the original atmosphere of the historical, literary and cinematographic references on which the stories are based. November 2, 2016-February 5, 2017. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-7pm. Fondazione Merz  > 05 FEB. 2017  Via Limone, 24 - 10141 Torino T +39 011 1971 9437 info@fondazionemerz.org www.fondazionemerz.org www.mariomerzprize.org The 16th Art Quadrennial at Palazzo delle Esposizioni until 8th January 2017 under the title Altri tempi, altri miti (Other times, other myths), is the main show in the agenda of contemporary Italian art. 11 curators, 99 artists, 150 works will provide an overview of the distinguishing features of our times, ranging from topical issues like the digital media, the relations between nature and the built environment, the value of democracy to more intimistic themes. Most of the works will be on purpose and will include a high number of performances, video, audio installations. Palazzo delle Esposizioni  > 08 JAN. 2017  Via Nazionale 194, Roma www.palazzoesposizioni.it www.quadriennale16.it Quartz Studio is delighted to present The Great Silence, a special project by Puerto Rico-based artists Jennifer Allora (Philadelphia, USA, 1974) and Guillermo Calzadilla (Havana, Cuba, 1971) who, for the occasion, have made a single channel version of their acclaimed three channel video installation "The Great Silence" (2014). The video installation, presented for the first time in 2014 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, focuses on the world's largest single aperture radio telescope, located in Esperanza (Hope), Puerto Rico, which transmits and captures radio waves to and from the farthest edges of the universe. The site of the Arecibo Observatory is also home to the last remaining wild population of critically endangered Puerto Rican Parrots, Amazona vittata, who make their habitat in the surrounding Rio Abajo forest. November 4-January 7, 2017. Quartz Studio  > 07 JAN. 2017  Via Giulia di Barolo, 18/D - 10124 Torino T +39 338 4290085 F +39 011 8264640 info@quartzstudio.net www.quartzstudio.net The Museo del Novecento and Electa Publishers present BOOM 60! Era arte moderna (BOOM 60 - Modern Art Era), curated by Mariella Milan and Desdemona Ventroni, in collaboration with Maria Grazia Messina and Antonello Negri. The exhibition is devoted to Italian art between the early 1950's and the early 1960's, with a special focus on its coverage in the most popular communication media of the time, notably magazines and newspapers. These were the years of the Italian economic boom, when 'illustrated news magazines', such as Epoca, Le Ore, and L'Europeo just to cite a few, reached their peak circulation and faithfully mirrored people's aspirations and common way of thinking. The themes of art - whether it was a criticism of abstract art or new materials, or the praise of portrait, or photos of successful artists - were intertwined with the coverage of celebrities from the world of cinema, television, music. In the setup devised by Atelier Mendini, approximately one hundred and fifty works including paintings, sculptures and graphic artworks, will dialogue with pages from magazines and television and cinematographic footage, where artists are transformed into real stars: from immortal Picasso to Bernard Buffet, "the painter in a Rolls Royce"; at the time protagonist of the chronicles of art and gossip. A rich documentary section will feature the various magazines and their way of illustrating art, from cover pages to interviews, from critics columns to advertisements, from photojournalism to satire. Until March 12, 2017. Museo del Novecento  > 12 MAR. 2017  Via Marconi, 1 - Milano T. +39 02 884 440 61 | F. +39 02 884 440 62 c.museo900@comune.milano.it Museion presents the first solo show in an Italian museum by Judith Hopf (Karlsruhe, 1969). Her works stand out for the playful spirit with which they deconstruct certainties and undermine social parameters and conventions; an ironic, self-deprecating awareness of human limits, and the use of slapstick, a deliberately amateurish language and simple, basic materials. These are the elements that characterise the work of Judith Hopf, invited by Museion for the unique position she occupies within the globalized, hyper-connected art world. The exhibition Up, which occupies the Passage area and the fourth floor of the museum, presents more than 30 works by the artist including videos, sculptures and drawings. Until January 8, 2017. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm, Thursday 10am-10pm. Museion. Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea  > 08 JAN. 2017  Piazza Piero Siena 1 - 39100 Bolzano t. + 39 0471 22 34 13 | f. + 39 0471 22 34 12 info@museion.it info@pec.museion.it www.museion.it On occasion of its grand opening, the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art presents the inaugural exhibition La fine del mondo / The End of the World, curated by director Fabio Cavallucci in collaboration with an international team of advisors including Antonia Alampi, Luca Barni, Myriam Ben Salah, Marco Brizzi, Lorenzo Bruni, Jota Castro, Wlodek Goldkorn, Katia Krupennikova, Morad Montazami, Giulia Poli, Luisa Santacesaria, Monika Szewczyk and Pier Luigi Tazzi. Including the work of over 50 international artists in an exhibit which will occupy a space of over 3,000 square metres, the exhibition encourages us to take an outsider's perspective on our current reality. Spectators will enter through the new wing of the museum, designed by Maurice Nio, and once inside will experience a feeling of being projected a few thousand light years away from the present to review our world as if it were geological eras from our current time. October 17, 2016-March 19, 2017. Grand opening: October 16, 2016, h 11.00. Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci  > 19 MAR. 2017  Viale della Repubblica, 277 - 59100 Prato T +39 0574 5317 F +39 0574 531901 info@centropecci.it www.centropecci.it The exhibition Figurative Geometry brings together works by nine artists who can be thought to represent abstraction or, equally, to abstract representation. To these ends, geometry and figuration are intermingled; shapes are shifted, geometry bends around itself, patterns emerge, while figuration refers to bodies in space-bodies which come forward and recede-as well as to numbers and their temporal register, for example, to the number of seconds in a day. Time is also one of the subjects of this show. All of these works have been hand-painted, in some cases wet-into-wet, having to be completed in a single session, and although they exist primarily in two dimensions, the paintings-as well as the drawings-must also be considered as time-based. Because many of them reveal their contents only gradually rather than immediately, an element of time exists between the image and its reception, between the viewer and the work. For some of these artists, their primary means is painting. For others, painting is one aspect of their practice. October 16, 2016-April 2, 2017. Hours: Thursday-Friday 2:30-6:30pm, Saturday-Sunday 10:30am-6:30pm. Collezione Maramotti  > 02 APR. 2017  Via Fratelli Cervi 66 - 42124 Reggio Emilia tel. +39 0522 382484 info@collezionemaramotti.org www.collezionemaramotti.org 11 years after Aldo Mondino's death (Turin, 1938-2005), Villa Croce Museum, in collaboration with the Aldo Mondino Archive and Palazzo della Meridiana, presents Aldo Mondino. Modern, Post-Modern, Contemporary. This comprehensive exhibition, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa, develops in two Genovese museums presenting more then 40 years of sculptures, painting and installations which are so diverse, that they seemed produced by many different artists. The Museum Villa Croce presents his first production and a series of environmental installations. Focusing on his Pop production and on the numerous works created with sweets and chocolate as a personal response to Arte Povera that was developing in Turin. Palazzo della Meridiana instead unites series of important paintings that recount his passionate journeys in the Mediterranean basin. The show leads the viewer in a surprising walk through six different Genoese museums where six site-specific installations transform our perception of the city and its history. The exhibition thus becomes a sort of treasure-hunt that, from the neoclassical rooms of Villa Croce, pushes us to discover the medieval home of Christopher Columbus, surprises us with the monumental grandeur of Palazzo Ducale, leads us inside the ball rooms of the famous Palazzi di Strada Nuova; after having guided us on the terraces of the Royal Palace overlooking the sea, it plunges us underwater in Renzo Piano's Aquarium, finally leading us to the Art Nouveau glass-dome of Palazzo della Meridiana. September 24-November 27, 2016. Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 11am-7:30pm. Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce  > 27 NOV. 2016  Via J. Ruffini, 3 - 16126 T +39 010 580069 F +39 010 532482 www.villacroce.org This autumn, Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will present Italy's first major retrospective dedicated to Ai Weiwei, one of the world's most celebrated and influential contemporary artists, curated by Arturo Galansino, Director General of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. Visitors to the Palazzo will be greeted by Reframe, an architectural intervention covering the two main façades of the building with 22 bright orange lifeboats. A project that draws the attention to the lives of the refugees who daily risk their lives to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea. The installation ensures a direct introduction to the practice of this dissident Chinese artist. Ai Weiwei is known world-wide as much for his challenging contemporary art practice as for his political activism. The full exhibition Ai Weiwei. Libero will chart the artist's practice from the '80s to date, and will include key video works, assemblage and installation pieces from the past three decades, as well as present multiple new commissions including a new Lego portrait series. September 23, 2016-January 22, 2017. Daily 10-20, Thu 10-23. Palazzo Strozzi  > 22 JAN. 2017  Piazza degli Strozzi - 50123 Firenze T +39 055 2645155 www.palazzostrozzi.org The Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea is delighted to announce the inauguration of the solo exhibition of British artist Ed Atkins, which runs from September 27, 2016 to January 29, 2017, and which is organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo. The works Even Pricks (2013), Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths (2013), Ribbons (2014), Hisser (2015) and Happy Birthday!!! (2014), in addition to several new interventions by the artist, will be presented at the Castello di Rivoli, while the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo will host the work Safe Conduct (2016), which features new sculptural wall elements. Ed Atkins (Oxford, UK, 1982) makes videos, draws, and writes, reflexively performing the ways in which contemporary modes of representation - from bathetic poetry to computer-generated animation - attempt to do justice to powerfully emotional and embodied experience. September 27, 2016-January 29, 2017. Castello di Rivoli Hours: Tuesday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-7pm, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Hours: Thursday 8-11pm (free admission); Friday-Sunday 12-7pm. Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea  > 29 JAN. 2017  Piazza Mafalda di Savoia - 10098 Rivoli - Torino Tel +39 011 9565222 | fax +39 011 956 5230 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo  > 29 JAN. 2017  Via Modane 16 - 10141 Torino www.castellodirivoli.org www.fsrr.org<br> Cardi Gallery, Milan is glad to present Mimmo Rotella. Blanks, an exhibition dedicated to a selection of works produced by Mimmo Rotella from the beginning of 1980s. If with the décollages, realized by tearing posters taken directly from the street, the artist had discovered the infinite possibilities of the popular image, with the blanks (also called "coperture") he set out to explore the temporal and linguistic limits of this mode of communication. September 20-December 22, 2016. Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-7pm. Cardi Gallery  > 20 DEC. 2016  Corso di Porta Nuova 38 - 20121 Milano T +39 02 45478189 T +39 02 45478120 mail@cardigallery.com www.cardigallery.com MAXXI, together with Deutsche Bank, presents The Stars Were Aligned For a Century of New Beginnings the first exhibition in Italy devoted to Basim Magdy: over 30 works, produced between 2006 and 2016, by the Egyptian artist, winner of Deutsche Bank's "Artist of the Year" prize in 2016. The works of Basim Magdy emanate a strange tragicomic glee: what makes them so otherworldly is the use of hypnotic music, acid colours and the antiquated flavour of the texts with which the artist creates narrations that leave endings open. A view of reality that invites reflection, accepting contradictions and refuting dogmas. Until October 30,2016. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 30 OCT. 2016  Tel. +39 06.320.19.54 www.fondazionemaxxi.it The autumn exhibition at Le Stanze del Vetro will be dedicated to Paolo Venini, enlightened and creative entrepreneur. Exhibiting 300 works that recount his creative vision as well as of those artists who collaborated with him over the years such as Tyra Lundgren, Gio Ponti, Riccardo Licata, Ken Scott, Massimo Vignelli and Tobia Scarpa. Milanese by birth and Muranese by choice, Paolo Venini (1895-1959) was a great protagonist of 20th century glass, and made a decisive contribution to keeping it alive with his enthusiastic works over the course of 40 years. In his important role as cultured, enlightened and creative entrepreneur, Paolo Venini will be the focus of the autumn exhibition at Le Stanze del Vetro: Paolo Venini and his Furnace, curated by Marino Barovier, will run on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore from September 11, 2016 to January 8, 2017. Through 300 works the exhibition will feature the creations of Paolo Venini and some of the artists who collaborated with him in the period following World War II. Hours: Thursday-Tuesday 10am-7pm. Le Stanze del Vetro Fondazione Giorgio Cini  > 08 JAN. 2017  Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore - 30124 Venezia www.lestanzedelvetro.org info@lestanzedelvetro.org Fondazione Prada presents the exhibition Betye Saar. Uneasy Dancer, a comprehensive survey of work by Betye Saar (Los Angeles, 1926). This exhibition, hosted at the Nord Gallery, opens to the public from September 15, 2016 through January 8, 2017. Curated by Elvira Dyangani this is the first exhibition of the American artist in Italy, and brings together over 80 works including installations, assemblages, collages and sculpture produced between 1966 and 2016. Fondazione Prada  > 08 JAN. 2017  Largo Isarco 2 - 20139 Milano www.fondazioneprada.org Shahzia Sikander (Lahore, Pakistan, 1969, lives in New York) observes the present through the lens of the imagination, symbols, literature and history of diverse cultural traditions. In the exhibition the artist creates a layout specifically for the museum with over 30 works in various media and idioms, from drawing to miniatures referring to the Indo-Persian tradition and from video to digital animation. By disrupting entrenched ideas and formats and by considering different epistemologies, perceptual schemes and systems of representation, Shahzia Sikander creates worlds composed of evocative and disorienting images that remain open to diverse reflections and interpretations. Shahzia Sikander. Ecstasy As Sublime, Heart As Vector will be on view until October 23, 2016. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-7pm, Saturday 11am-10pm. MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo  > 23 OCT. 2016  Via Guido Reni 4A - 00196 Roma www.fondazionemaxxi.it The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea inaugurates its new exhibitions program under the direction of Cristiana Collu with the opening, from June 22, 2016 to January 29, 2017, of the group show The Lasting. L'intervallo e la durata curated by Saretto Cincinelli. The exhibition, dedicated to the relevance of temporal dimension both in artistic practice and poetics, features more than 30 works by 15 Italian and international artists from different generations: Francis Alÿs, Barbara Probst, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Tatiana Trouvé, Franco Vimercati, alongside younger but already successful protagonists, such as: Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Emanuele Becheri, Antonio Catelani, Giulia Cenci, Daniela De Lorenzo, Antonio Fiorentino, Marie Lund, Elizabeth McAlpine, Alessandro Piangiamore, Andrea Santarlasci, and with the inclusion of works by Alexander Calder, Lucio Fontana, Medardo Rosso from the museum's permanent collection. Tuesday-Sunday 8:30am-7:30pm. Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea  29 JAN. 2017  Viale delle Belle Arti, 131 - 00197 Roma T +39 06 322981 lagallerianazionale.com The Mart presents the first retrospective exhibition in Italy dedicated to the films and videos of Robert Morris (Kansas City, 1931). One of the key figures of the 20th century, both for his artistic work and for the fundamental nature of his theoretical texts. An engineer by training, Morris focuses his research on the elementary expressive properties of matter: the weight, volume, and shape determined by gravity. Robert Morris. Films and Videos July 23-November 6, 2016. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-9pm. MART Rovereto  23 NOV. 2016  Corso Bettini 43, 38068 - Rovereto (TN) T 0464 438887 Numero verde: 800 397760 info@mart.trento.it Fondazione Prada will present the exhibitions True Value and T.T.T.-Template Temples of Tenacity from July 7 to September 25, 2016 by Theaster Gates and Nástio Mosquito, respectively. Conceived by Elvira Dyangani Ose as independent projects, the two exhibitions will include installations, site-specific works and projections, as well as collective experiences and musical events that will actively involve the public. Fondazione Prada  25 SEP. 2016  Largo Isarco, 2 - 20139 Milano T. +39 02 5666 2611 info@fondazioneprada.org www.fondazioneprada.org From La Biennale di Venezia to MACRO. International Perspectives reaches its second stage with Yahon Chang: The Question of Beings, curated by J. J. Shih and Francise Chang. First organised by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei for the Venice Beinnale. This exhibition at MACRO Testaccio - La Pelanda presents him with new levels of challenges, both physically and mentally. He will create works on site for a period of 5 days, producing a body of ink on canvas painting. Each canvas will measure between 10 to 20 meters long and they will drape down from the ceiling in varying length, allowing the viewers to meander through a labyrinth of ink paintings that confront them with a multitude of countenances. June 24-August 28, 2016. MACRO Testaccio - La Pelanda  28 AUG. 2016  Piazza Orazio Giustiniani, 4 - 00153 Roma en.museomacro.org www.mocataipei.org.tw www.contemporaryartfoundation.org.tw The Madre museum in Naples is pleased to announce Attesa. 1960-2016, the most comprehensive retrospective exhibition ever dedicated to the artistic research of Mimmo Jodice (Naples, 1934), one of the undisputed masters of contemporary photography. The exhibition, curated by Andrea Viliani, presents more than 100 works, from the seminal experiments with photographic language conducted in the '60s and '70s down to a final series "Attesa" (Waiting, 2015), produced specially for this retrospective project. June 24-October 24, 2016. The moon has always affected our planet, our moods, our imagination and our history. Ever since ancient times the moon has been a symbol of fertility and favorable auspices, but also of mystery and melancholy. Camille Henrot's (Paris, 1978) exhibition Luna di latte at the Madre museum, curated by Cloé Perrone, explores the cultural and symbolic significance attached to Monday, or "moon day." The exhibited works - 100 drawings and collages, seven sculptural sketches in various media and mural paintings - are a selection of preparatory material for Monday, Henrot's exhibition at the Fondazione Memmo in Rome, a project that will develop to comprise all the days of the week at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, in autumn 2017. July 2-October 3, 2016. Museo MADRE  03 OCT. 2016 (Camille Henrot)   24 OCT. 2016 (Mimmo Jodice)  Via Settembrini, 79 - Napoli T +39 081 1931 3016 info@madrenapoli.it www.madrenapoli.it Fondazione Prada is presenting Edward Kienholz: Five Car Stud, open to the public in Milan from May 19 through December 31, 2016 and curated by Germano Celant. The exhibition brings together 26 artworks realized between 1959 to 1994 by Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz, including the well-known installation that gives the show its title. A life-sized reproduction of a scene of racial violence, Five Car Stud is considered one of the American artist's most significant works. Despite the controversy and attention that it earned from critics right from its debut, the piece remained hidden from view in the storage of a Japanese collector for almost 40 years. Five Car Stud catapults the viewer into a nightmarish situation, immersing him and her in a dimension-either removed or forgotten-of extreme violence. More than 40 years after it was first created, the artwork's expressive force, its powerful symbolic charge and the lucidity of the accusation against racial persecution retain their original strength. Fondazione Prada  > 31 DEC. 2016  largo Isarco 2 - 20139 Milano www.fondazioneprada.org 40 masters of photography and 150 images recounting the Belpaese: beauty, contradictions and a look to the future. To mark the 70th anniversary of the Italian Republic, MAXXI is presenting the group exhibition Extraordinary Visions. L'Italia ci guarda featuring shots by great Italian and international photographers who have focused on Italy: a poetic and yet documentary, socialand institutional "atlas" of the Italy of recent decades. On show are sublime and blighted landscapes, ideal cities and neglected suburbs, great architecture and marginal urban spaces. The exhibition layout presents four sections, enriched by videos and photo projections and by the special project Inside Out by JR, installed in the museum square. Through October 23, 2016 BENVENUTO! Sislej Xhafa is a visual journey through the complexity of the modern world in which each work encourages the observer to reflect, both in personal and collective terms, on the social, economic and political phenomena of our world. The exhibition's title is taken from the major installation created by the artist in 2000 within the ambit of the Arte all'Arte project in the Casole d'Elsa hills near Siena. A gigantic script Benvenuto (Welcome), an invitation to openness, to the embracing of others understood as necessary, inevitable progress that over time leads to social and cultural change. The exhibition comprises 30 works, spanning his career from the 1990s through to the present, including a new work the artist has created especially for this show. MAXXI is presenting the full range of his artistic output that draws inspiration from the contradictions of contemporary reality. June 2-October 2, 2016 Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-7pm, Saturday 11am-10pm. MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 02 OCT. 2016 | Sislej Xhafa   > 23 OCT. 2016 | Extraordinary Visions  via Guido Reni 4A - 00196 Roma www.fondazionemaxxi.it During the opening of the Fondation Louis Vuitton in October 2014, Frank Gehry said "I dream of designing a magnificent vessel for Paris that symbolises France's profound cultural vocation". Frank Gehry . Building in Paris with the participation of Daniel Buren is on view at Espace Louis Vuitton Venice, in the heart of Venice. This collaboration will retrace the story of Frank Gehry's dream, offering an immersion into the creative world of the Canadian-American architect. The exhibition presents a selection of scale models created during the project by the Gehry Partners Studio. The models are organised by groups to retrace studies for various aspects of the Fondation Louis Vuitton including the integration in the site, architectural programme, project design, interior spaces, the "icebergs" and the glass sails. The models are grouped together to evoke schools of fish, which is a favourite symbol of Frank Gehry. The exhibition design creates the impression that the works float in a liquid atmosphere. This dynamic movement is further enhanced through a video which offers a non-anthropometric vision of the building. May 27-November 26, 2016. Hours: Monday-Saturday 10 am-7:30 pm. Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia  > 26 NOV. 2016  calle del Ridotto 1353 - 30124 Venezia www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr Museion presents the first solo show in Italy of the artist, Korakrit Arunanondchai (Bangkok, 1986). Under the aegis of Buddha, but also that of Steve Jobs, the artist's multidisciplinary practice encompasses film, photography, installation and performance, freely intermingling past and present, fantasy and reality, science and spirituality. His works explore the reception of Western art history, but above all memory - both individual and collective - in the age of digital communications. His perspective is that of a digital native and cultural emigré, having moved from Thailand to the US in 2009. The exhibition Korakrit Arunanondchai. Painting with history 3 or two thousand five hundred and fifty nine years to figure stuff out will be on view until September 11, 2016. MUSEION museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano  > 11 SEP. 2016  piazza Piero Siena, 1 - 39100 Bolzano www.museion.it The Forte Belvedere in Florence is getting set to host this year's edition of its annual fixture with great art. Following the two international exhibitions showcasing the art of Giuseppe Penone and Antony Gormley, the former Medici fortress' bastions this year will be hosting the works of Jan Fabre, one of the most innovative and important figures on the contemporary art scene. A "total" artist, Fabre, who born in Antwerp in 1958, lets his imagination run riot in the very different spheres of sculpture, drawing and installation, performance art, film and the theatre. The exhibition, entitled Jan Fabre. Spiritual Guards, promoted by the Comune di Firenze, will pan out between the Forte Belvedere, Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria. In fact, it will be one of the most complex and multifaceted exhibitions that this Flemish artist and author has ever produced in any public space in Italy. For the very first time, a living artist will be expounding his art in three venues of outstanding historical and artistic importance at once. Roughly one hundred of Fabre's works dating from 1978 to 2016 will be on display, including bronze and wax sculptures, performance films and works made of wing cases of the jewel scarab. Fabre will also be presenting two new works specifically devised and produced for this occasion. Until 2 October. Forte di Belvedere | Palazzo Vecchio | Piazza della Signoria  > 02 OCT. 2016  Firenze info@muse.comune.fi.it Passo Dopo Passo (Step by Step) seeks to examine diverse-both historical and contemporary-artworks and artistic practices that reflect on the status of movement, openness and enclosure, fear and expectations. The exhibition is linked to an Italian perspective-that of a country with an intrinsic relationship to questions of migration. Considering historical precedents, the exhibition draws on several books by Fortunato Depero (b. 1892), an artist and designer affiliated with the Futurist movement. Personal notebooks, manuscripts, and published books reveal the artist's optimism associated with modernism, his personal transatlantic ambitions, as well as the potential of new social order despite crippling violence within the systemic socio-political ruptures of the 1930s and '40s. May 14-October 16, 2016. Hours: Thursday 11-8am, Friday-Saturday 12-7pm. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo  > 16 OCT. 2016  Via Modane, 16 - 10141 Torino T +39 011 379 7600 www.fsrr.org Marcello Morandini is an artist from Varese, Italy, who studied at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Interlinking art, architecture and design, his protean career led him to create public and private works in Italy, Europe, Asia and Australia. The exhibition "Archittetture d'arte", open from 21 May to 10 September 2016 at Galleria Marignana Arte, is a tangible demonstration of this interplay, visible in works based on the exercise of elegant and balanced mathematic ratios and reflecting on concepts of space, geometry and volume. Marignana Arte  > 10 SEP. 2016  Dorsoduro, 141 (Rio Terà dei Catecumeni, angolo Calle Lanza vicino alla Chiesa della Salute) - 30123 Venezia Tel +39 041 5227360 +39 348 6504160 www.marignanaarte.it info@marignanaarte.it Thursday, May 12 at 7pm, Quartz Studio is pleased to present the exhibition The Water They Dwell In, the first solo exhibition in Turin of Salvatore Arancio (Catania, Italy, 1974), organized at the end of his residency at the factory La Castellamonte. Arancio took inspiration from the form of shells he had noticed several years ago when visiting Casa Mollino in Turin. A natural element that had enchanted and inspired the famous architect. Until July 16, 2016. Quartz Studio  > 16 JUL. 2016  Via Giulia di Barolo, 18/D - 10124 Torino T +39 338 4290085 F +39 011 8264640 info@quartzstudio.net www.quartzstudio.net From 23 April to 19 September 2016 the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Imagine. New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero. This fresh perspective on European post war art looks at figuration in the Italian avant-garde in the 1960s. In Italy during the 1960s, at the height of the economic boom, artistic experimentation flourished at an unprecedented pace and intensity. The goal was to create a new vocabulary of signs and images capable of interpreting the vitality of contemporary culture and society. This exhibition draws on the richness of Italian art production in those years. The theme, the leitmotif, of the exhibition is how the figured image, transient and transformed, departing from the monochrome, served to construct a new language of representation in a little known phase of Italian art history. The exhibition, in a tightly curated sequence of galleries, lays out the multiple lines of research of several of Italian artists who, emerging from the zeroing of the neo-avant-garde, reconstituted a new world of images, figures, and narrative. On view are works by artists such as Franco Angeli, Mario Ceroli, Domenico Gnoli, Giosetta Fioroni, Tano Festa, Fabio Mauri, Francesco lo Savio, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Schifano, Giulio Paolini, Jannis Kounellis, Pino Pascali. Collezione Peggy Guggenheim  > 19 SEP. 2016  Palazzo Venier dei Leoni Dorsoduro 701 - 30123 Venezia Transverse, metaphysical, indefinable, ever-new, ever outré, Superstudio is one of the most influential groups in Italian "radical architecture," founded in 1966 by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, who were later joined by Gian Piero Frassinelli, the brothers Roberto and Alessandro Magris and Alessandro Poli. 50 years on from its foundation, MAXXI is devoting a major retrospective to the group: Superstudio 50 (from April 21 through September 4, 2016), an exhibition conceived by Natalini, Toraldo di Francia and Frassinelli themselves, together with the curator Gabriele Mastrigli. This exhibition brings together and presents over 200 pieces, ranging from installations to objects, from graphic works to photographs and through to publications covering the entire career and development of the group; materials largely drawn from its own archives, some never previously displayed and many of which will progressively enter MAXXI's architecture collection. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-7pm, Saturday 11am-10pm. MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo  > 04 SEP. 2016  via Guido Reni 4A - 00196 Roma www.fondazionemaxxi.it The MAN Museum is pleased to present the exhibition Roman Signer. Films and Installations, curated by Lorenzo Giusti and Li Zhenhua. With a treasure of more than 200 films and a series of new installations created for this occasion, the project at MAN Museum will be the first solo exhibition of Roman Signer in an Italian museum. Signer began his career as an artist in the second half of the 1960s, after working as an architect's draftsman, an apprentice radio engineer and, for a short time, as a technician in a pressure cooker factory. Known for having defined a new concept of sculpture linked to process, transformation and movement, Signer created installations as actions, experiments, almost always solitary, for which he employed objects of everyday use (umbrellas, tables, boots, containers, hats, bicycles) activated by gunpowder or natural forces such as wind and water. These were processes mostly of explosions and collisions, visually and emotionally intriguing, which interpreted the empirical approach as an artistic challenge. April 22-July 3, 2016. Opening hours: 10 am - 1 pm | 3 pm -7 pm closed Monday. MAN Museum  > 03 JUL. 2016  via S. Satta 27- 08100 Nuoro tel. +39 0784 25 21 10 www.museoman.it With over 300 works, mostly from the collection of the MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art in Vienna and from private collections, the exhibition The Glass of the Architects. Vienna 1900-1937, curated by Rainald Franz, will run from April 18 to July 31, 2016 on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice. The exhibition will focus on the birth of the art of modern glassmaking in Austria between 1900 and 1937, a very lively period spanning the years between the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the First Republic. It will be the second exhibition organized by LE STANZE DEL VETRO-after the Glass from Finland in the Bischofberger Collection show - focussing on the international developments of glass in the 20th century. LE STANZE DEL VETRO is a long-term joint initiative of Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung devoted to studying the art of glassmaking in the 20th and 21st centuries. Hours: Thursday-Tuesday 10am-7pm. LE STANZE DEL VETRO  > 31 JUL. 2016  Fondazione Giorgio Cini Island of San Giorgio Maggiore - Venezia T +39 041 5230869 press@lestanzedelvetro.org www.lestanzedelvetro.org www.cini.it FM Centre for Contemporary Art opens on April 7, 2016 with the exhibition L'Inarchiviabile/The Unarchivable (April 8-June 15, 2016), curated by Marco Scotini in collaboration with Lorenzo Paini. The opening coincides with the 2016 edition of the modern and contemporary art fair Miart. The exhibition presents a survey on the Italian artistic scene in the 1970s, a decade of great productivity in which culture "went beyond" the field of aesthetics, overflowing into languages that resisted cataloguing and into ephemeral practices linked to social performability and based on temporality. different fields of art are represented in the exhibition, from musical scores to architecture, from books to cinema and photography. The exhibition includes 200 artworks by 60 artists coming from the most important Italian collections. April 8-June 15, 2016 Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 10am-6pm. FM Centre for Contemporary Art Frigoriferi Milanesi  > 15 JUN. 2016  Via Piranesi 10 - 20137 Milano T +39 02 73981 F +39 02 739 8289 info@fmcca.it www.fmcca.it P420 is pleased to present Del disegno disposto alla pittura, the solo show by Riccardo Baruzzi (Lugo, 1976), who comes to terms with the new gallery space with works never previously shown from 2014 to 2016. Drawing, the sign and the line are the pivotal elements of the work of Riccardo Baruzzi. His research explores the notion of the unfinished and the provisional, giving the work a tension towards a solution to which it only alludes, but never arrives. April 2-June 4, 2016 Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10:30am-1:30pm and 3-7:30pm. P420  > 02 JUN. 2016  Via Azzo Gardino, 9 - 40122 Bologna www.p420.it When Giovanni Anselmo enters a room, he looks around quickly and sharply; he ascertains the important elements having to do with weight and position-where he is standing in relation to the places where walls and floor join together, or where and how doors and windows and ceiling create a space through their mutual relation. He calibrates this fundamental awareness of the here and now with what he knows about the world outside that room-where the sun is at that moment, or where north is-thus grounding himself within the universe at large, a universe of which he knows he is just one particular. The word "particolare" signifies in Italian both detail and something distinctive or special; it derives its root from the Latin "partire," to separate, to divide, also at the root of the term "particle" in physics, the building blocks of the universe. Thus the continuity of matter and immateriality, of a heavy rock and a very light thought, is evoked-both made up, ultimately, of elementary attractions. The title of this exhibition is While the hand indicates, the light focuses, in universal gravitation one interferes, the earth finds its bearings, the stars come one hand span closer... April 6-September 25, 2016. Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea  > 25 SEP. 2016  Piazza Mafalda di Savoia - 10098 Rivoli Torino Tel +39 011 9565222 fax +39 011 956 5230 www.castellodirivoli.org The Santa Giulia Museum in Brescia presents the exhibition Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Water Projects opening on April 7, 2016, curated by Germano Celant in collaboration with the artist and his studio. The show will offer an unprecedented display of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's water-related projects, that is those based on rural and urban landscapes characterized by the presence of water in the form of an ocean, a sea, a lake, or a river. With over 150 exhibits comprising the artists' original preparatory studies, drawings and collages, complemented by scale-models, photos of the finished projects, videos, and films, inside the museum's 2,000 square meter exhibition space, Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Water Projects presents a chronological display of the artists' monumental works since the early '60s and illustrates their seven Water Projects. Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Water Projects will be on view from April 7 to September 18, 2016. Museo di Santa Giulia  > 18 SEP. 2016  Via dei Musei 81/b - 25121 Brescia www.mostrachristo.bresciamusei.com www.bresciamusei.com L'image volée (The stolen image) is a group show curated by artist Thomas Demand, within an exhibition architecture designed by sculptor Manfred Pernice. L'image volée includes more than 90 works produced by over 60 artists from 1820 through the present day. Demand's idea for the exhibition is to explore the way we all rely on pre-existing models, and how artists have always referred to existing imagery to make their own. Questioning the boundaries between originality, conceptual inventiveness and the culture of the copy, the project focuses on theft, authorship, annexation and the creative potential of such pursuits. The exhibition presents three possible investigations: the physical appropriation of the object or its absence; theft as related to the image per se rather than the concrete object itself; and the act of stealing through the making of an image. The exhibition has been conceived as an eccentric, unconventional exploration of such topics through empirical inquiry. Rather than an encyclopedic analysis, it offers visitors an unorthodox insight into a voyage of artistic discovery and research. Until August 28, 2016. Fondazione Prada  > 28 AUG. 2016  Largo Isarco 2 - 20139 Milano www.fondazioneprada.org Starting 19 March and running till 24 July 2016, Palazzo Strozzi is to host a major exhibition Da Kandinsky a Pollock. La grande arte dei Guggenheim bringing to Florence over one hundred masterpieces of European and American art from the 1920s to the 1960s, in a narrative that reconstructs the relationship and the ties between the two sides of the Atlantic through the lives of two leading American collectors, Peggy and Solomon Guggenheim. Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, the exhibition - the result of a cooperative venture involving the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York - will be offering visitors a unique opportunity to compare and contrast the crucial work of European masters of modern art such as Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray and Pablo Picasso and European masters of so-called Art Informel, or "Unformed Art," such as Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, with large paintings and sculptures by some of the most important personalities on the American art scene in the 1950s and 1960s such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein and Cy Twombly. Palazzo Strozzi  > 24 JUL. 2016  Piazza Strozzi - 50123 Firenze Tel +39 055 2645155 info@palazzostrozzi.org On April 7, 2016, Pirelli HangarBicocca presents Doubt, a solo exhibition by Carsten Höller. The German artist (born in Brussels in 1961, lives in Stockholm and Biriwa, Ghana) has risen to the fore of the international scene for his inquiry into the nature of human experience. Directly engaging the viewer in his art, Höller's practice revolves around the search for new ways of inhabiting our world. His work summons different states of mind, among them "doubt," which opens the door to new ways of perceiving reality. The show, curated by Vicente Todolí, presents a rich selection of works both existent and new, including large-scale installations, videos and photographs, and plays with the spatial and temporal coordinates of the exhibition venue, charting a course between symmetry, duplication and reversal. April 7-July 31, 2016. Thursday - Sunday 11-23. Pirelli HangarBicocca  > 31 JUL. 2016  Via Chiese, 2 - 20126 Milano T +39 02 6611 1573 info@hangarbicocca.org www.hangarbicocca.org The Mart is dedicating a major exhibition to Giuseppe Penone (Garessio - CN, Italy, 1947), one of the leading protagonists of Italian art. Since the beginning of his career, Penone has constructed a discourse on sculpture based on a relationship with the plant world. On the occasion of the personal exhibition at Mart, a number of new and significant works will be presented, and reinterpretations of historical works will be shown in close relation with the museum spaces. Right from the entrance, architecture and sculpture intertwine, highlighting the characteristics of both: the expressiveness of the space and that of the matter, the experience of light and that of volume. The exhibition Giuseppe Penone. Sculpture will be on view until June 26, 2016. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am-9pm. Mart Rovereto  > 26 JUN. 2016  Corso Bettini 43 - 38068 Rovereto TN T +39 0464 438887 info@mart.tn.it www.mart.tn.it Closely linked to the Earthrise exhibition dedicated to the Italian artistic scene in the 1970s, the PAV is continuing its investigations into the pioneers of the relationship between artistic practices and the natural environment, this time moving towards the East and tracing a constellation of complementary experiences generated under Socialism. EcologEAST Art and Nature Beyond the Wall is the first exhibition in Italy presenting non-official, avant-garde artistic research working with the environment and spread throughout Central Europe: from Poland to the former Czechoslovakia, from Romania to Hungary and the former Yugoslavia. The differences in context, primarily from an ideological point of view, make it difficult to make their approach comparable with that developed by western Earth workers and Land artists, over and well beyond the appearance of the strategies used. March 18-June 26, 2016. Parco Arte Vivente (PAV)  > 26 JUN. 2016  Via Giordano Bruno 31 - 10134 Torino T +39 011 318 2235 parcoartevivente.it Fondazione Merz exhibitions programme 2016 March 9, 2016-February 5, 2017. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-7pm . Botto&Bruno. Society, you're a crazy breed, curated by Beatrice Merz and Maria Centonze, is a new project by Turin-based artists Botto&Bruno. Conceived as one large installation that responds to the exhibition space, it focuses on the Foundation's symbolic value as an abandoned industrial building converted into a cultural venue. March 9-June 19, 2016. Wael Shawky Winner of the first edition of the Mario Merz Prize. World premiere of Al Araba Al Madfuna III at the Kunsthaus Zürich June 11, 2016. Fondazione Merz announces the world premiere of Wael Shawky's new film, produced by Qatar Museums as part of his solo exhibition at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha in 2015. Mario Merz. Nature and balance July 4-September 25, 2016. The Foundation is dedicating an entire exhibition to a selection of Mario Merz's works carefully chosen due to their profound association with the natural world. This theme was not unusual for the artist and it was certainly never far from his thoughts, both in his private life and in his art. Wael Shawky Exhibition at the Merz Foundation curated by Abdellah Karroum. November 3, 2016-February 5, 2017. This site-specific exhibition by Wael Shawky is based on Al Araba Al Madfuna, a film trilogy inspired by Mohammed Mostajab's novels Dayrout Al Sharif. The trilogy was shot in the Egyptian village of the same name with Shawky filming the third part in the ancient Abydos temple, which is connected to Al Araba Al Madfuna village via an underground passage. The exhibition at the Merz Foundation, which features the installations of the Al Araba Al Madfuna series, drawings, and large installations, fills the entire space of the foundation, including its exterior areas. Together with the screenings, architectural models and set designs specially created for the exhibition generate an original atmosphere inspired by the historical, literary and cinematographic references from which the artist constructed his stories. An artist's book accompanies the exhibition. Fondazione Merz  > 19 JUN. 2016 | Botto&Bruno   04 JUL. - 25 SEP. 2016 | Mario Merz   03 NOV. 2016 - 05 FEB. 2017 | Wael Shawky  Via Limone 24 - 10141 Torino T +39 011 1971 9437 info@fondazionemerz.org www.fondazionemerz.org Conceived and organized by the Culture of the Municipality of Pordenone, No Borders is a special exhibition dedicated to Steve McCurry, it differs from many other exhibitions of the famous photographer, an especially wide and articulated, a symbolic journey through its 40 years in photography, a chance to tell it, in his great photographic experience, rich in color and contrasts. In the exhibition, which will take place from February 27 to June 12, 2016 in Harry Bertoia Gallery will present about 120 photographs, memories of life of his professional and personal career, but also a rich existence of prestigious international awards. The selection of images extracted from the immense archive of McCurry, and this proposal has the intention to offer, in its exhibition installation, a worldview without ethnic and temporal boundaries, merging situations and places, lets the visitor to move and create a personal approach, and to find the 50 most popular icons and commented personally by McCurry in the catalog, but also the more recent projects devoted to Africa, to Japan to Burma. Wed-Sat 15-19. Galleria Harry Bertoia - Pordenone  > 12 JUN. 2016  info: Comune di Pordenone (+39) 0434 329916 attivitaculturali@comune.pordenone.it www.comune.pordenone.it/galleriabertoia Museion's 2016 programme opens with an exceptional double exhibition. Francesco Vezzoli is curating an exhibition of the Museion collection as guest curator, and presenting, as an artist, the first retrospective of his sculptural work. Entitled Museo Museion, the double show is set to take over the whole of the Bolzano venue. It opens with an imposing wallpaper based on a painting by Giovanni Paolo Pannini, which immerses the ground floor of Museion in the atmosphere of an eighteenth-century picture gallery. Francesco Vezzoli's exhibition reinterprets part of the Museion collection by making it interface with masterpieces from Western art history kept in major European and American museums. Frames from famous paintings by Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Ingres and many more, appear in trompe l'œil style, around works from the Museion collection. When selecting the pieces, Vezzoli paid special attention to minor works from the museum's collection that are not frequently exhibited. The show, which presents 30 works, including paintings, photography and installations, is presented as a journey through different genres - portrait, self-portrait, still life, landscape, etc. In each section there are also pieces by Vezzoli himself, while the Study Collection venue hosts a special section devoted to graphic works. Sculpture exhibition curated by Letizia Ragaglia January 30-May 16, 2016. Exhibition of the Museion collection curated by Francesco Vezzoli January 30-November 6, 2016. MUSEION of modern and contemporary art Bolzano  > 30 MAY. 2016 | Exhibition curated by Letizia Ragaglia   > 27 NOV. 2016 | Exhibition curated by Francesco Vezzoli  Piazza Piero Siena 1 - 39100 Bolzano www.museion.it The exhibition Goshka Macuga: To the Son of Man Who Ate the Scroll will be presented from February 4 to June 19, 2016 in the exhibition spaces of the Podium and the Cisterna at Fondazione Prada in Milan. The project was conceived and designed by Goshka Macuga (Warsaw, Poland) whose artistic practice is often referred to as taking on the roles of an artist, curator, collector, researcher and exhibition designer. Macuga works across a variety of media including sculpture, installation, photography, architecture and design. This exhibition, developed by the artist for Fondazione Prada's spaces, is the culmination of a lengthy period of in-depth research attempting to formulate a methodological categorization of material and information around seminal issues such as time, beginnings and endings, collapse and renewal. Fondazione Prada  > 19 JUN. 2016  Largo Isarco 2 - 20139 Milano www.fondazioneprada.org From November 11, 2015 until March 28, 2016 the Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo (MAXXI) in Rome, reveals a group exhibition curated by Hou Hanru and Anne Palopoli bringing together the works of the the Franco-Portuguese Didier Faustino, the Korean Choi Jeong-hwa, the Italian Martino Gamper and the Mexican Pedro Reyes. Entitled TRANSFORMERS the project takes the shape of a critical operation, according to Hou Hanru: "in the work of Choi Jeong-hwa, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Martino Gamper and Pedro Reyes emerges the most contemporary creativity in its social and political commitment in a world in rapid transformation, a globalized world marked by economic, geopolitical and cultural conflicts". At the occasion, Didier Faustino proposes three works that provide a reading of the current state of the geopolitical and cultural activity. In 2000, Body in Transit marked the beginning of the artist positioned as "man, citizen and political actor" with the desire of producing new tools for awareness and resistance. Following this first iconic work, Lampedusa, a proposal consisting of a territory waiting to be inhabited, will be presented. With this prototype of architecture, Didier Faustino offers a nod to "Le Radeau de la Méduse" painted by Théodore Géricault, in 1819. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-7pm, Saturday 11am-10pm. MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XX secolo / National Museum of XXI Century Arts  > 28 MAR. 2016  Via Guido Reni 4° - 00196 Roma T +06 399 67 350 info@fondazionemaxxi.it www.fondazionemaxxi.it Pirelli HangarBicocca presents the first solo exhibition in Italy by Petrit Halilaj (b. 1986, Kostërrc, Kosovo). The show brings together and connects, for the first time, a selection of works from recent years as well as new ones conceived specifically for the occasion. Throughout his wide-ranging practice, developed between Kosovo, Italy and Berlin, Halilaj has constantly probed notions of memory, community, cultural heritage and home as shared and private spaces, resulting in works that are highly personal, yet address universal themes in idiosyncratic and often wondrous ways. Space Shuttle in the Garden is a journey into the artist's universe and mythology that springs from his own story. Through sculptures, drawings, performances, videos and installations, Halilaj explores the tides of history and the changes in the world around him, recounting the "revolutions" of his native country and his generation. The conflict between Kosovo and Serbia (1998-'99), displacement, life as a refugee, but above all, the witnessing of the self-making of an independent country are all crucial cornerstones of his life, often resurfacing in his work. Each piece, while drawing on events, objects and stories equally from the past and present, decidedly looks to the future, always harboring the artist's hopes and desires, hinting at romantic, humorous and also often peculiar visions and dreams that have yet to come true. December 3, 2015 - March 13, 2016. Opening: December 2, 7pm, Free admission. HangarBicocca  > 13 MAR. 2016  Via Chiese, 2 - 20126 Milano T +39 02 6611 1573 info@hangarbicocca.org www.hangarbicocca.org Trough the language of contemporary art and the work of some of the greatest artists of our time, the Galleria Civica offers a survey of ecology that is as timely as it is urgent. On show will be approximately 50 works by international artists like Matthew Barney, Joseph Beuys, Christo, Tony Cragg, Olafur Eliasson, Petrit Halilaj, Ibrahim Mahama, Antoni Tàpies and leading Italian artists such as Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Schifano, Willy Verginer and the younger Stefano Cagol, Davide Coltro, Francesco Mattuzzi, Arcangelo Sassolino and Elisa Sighicelli. Confirming the Galleria Civica's vocation and its ties to its surroundings, the works of David Aaron Angeli, Juri Neil, Marco Nones, Michele Parisi and Federico Seppi will also be on display. The exhibition delves into the relationship between man and nature, which has always been the object of analysis and inspiration for scholars, researchers and artists. Showcasing works from the collections of the Mart and from private loans which together constitute a free, varied and undogmatic investigation into one of the leitmotifs of the contemporary debate. Until 31 January 2016. Galleria Civica Trento - MART ROVERETO  > 31 JAN. 2016  Corso Bettini 43, 38068 Rovereto (TN) T 0464 438887 Numero verde 800 397760 info@mart.trento.it Three exhibition at Madre museum. Two projects have been specially commissioned by the Madre museum in 2015 from the French artist Daniel Buren (Boulogne-Villancourt, 1938) to celebrate the relationship between the museum and its community, on the occasion of the first ten years of the Madre's activity: Come un gioco da bambini. Lavoro in situ, 2014-2015, Madre, Napoli - #1 and Axer / Désaxer. Lavoro in situ, 2015, Madre, Napoli - #2. Axer / Désaxer. Lavoro in situ, 2015, Madre, Napoli - #2 consists of an intervention of architectural dimensions, conceived by the artist especially for the Madre's atrium. Set obliquely facing the street in front, the museum building is made to "rotate" by the artist's intervention so as to replace it on the axis towards Via Settembrini before it. 10 October 2015 - 4 July 2016. Since the early 1970s the artistic practice of Marco Bagnoli (Empoli) has been divided between drawing, painting, sculpture, environmental and sound installation, combining them with each other in a pervasive synthesis, aesthetic datum and scientific statement, theories of vision and color and iconological research, ancient knowledge and a moving experience of space and time, in which the work explores the ramifications of thought, becoming a matrix of knowledge, both rational and intuitive. The intervention of Marco Bagnoli at the Madre museum in Naples, titled La voce. Nel giallo faremo una scala o due al bianco invisibile ("The Voice. In yellow we will make a ladder or two in invisible white"), is part of the project L'ALBERO DELLA CUCCAGNA. Nutrimenti dell'arte ("TREE OF COCKAYNE. Nutrients of art"), curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, presented simultaneously on October 10, at the XI Giornata del Contemporaneo AMACI- Associazione dei Musei d'Arte Contemporanea Italiani, articulated in various art operations throughout the country, in public museums and private foundations. 10 October 2015 - 29 February 2016. Organized by the Madre in collaboration with WIELS, Brussels, and Haus der Kunst, Munich, Mark Leckey. DESIDERATA (in media res) is the first retrospective, as well as the first solo exhibition in an Italian public institution, devoted to Mark Leckey (Birkenhead, 1964), one of the most influential contemporary artists, winner in 2008 of the prestigious Turner Prize of the Tate Britain in London, and the Central Art Award of the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne. Revealing the profound and seminal influence that the British artist has had on subsequent generations of artists, the exhibition presents, along with new productions, a wide selection of historical works realized in each of the media used by Leckey - sculpture, installation, sound works and environments, performances and videos - installed in a unitary course conceived for the spaces of the museum as a progressive series of interiors. 10 October 2015 - 18 January 2016. Museo d'Arte contemporanea DonnaRegina  > 18 JAN. 2016 | Daniel Buren   > 29 FEB. 2016 | Marco Bagnoli   > 04 JUL. 2016 | Mark Leckey  Via Luigi Settembrini, 79 - 80139 Napoli Tel +39 081 1931 3016 www.madrenapoli.it The exhibition The Great Mother analyzes the iconography of motherhood in the 20th century through over 400 works by 139 artists, writers, and film directors alongside historical documents and artifacts from 1900 to the present. From the Venuses of the Stone Age to the bad girls of the post-feminist era, through centuries of religious depictions of maternity scenes, the histories of art and culture have often centered on the figure of the mother, adopting it at times as a symbol of creativity and a metaphor for art itself. Throughout the 20th century, and in the history of modern and contemporary art in particular, motherhood appears to be constantly under attack: women's bodies are often turned into battlegrounds onto which violent struggles are fought to establish new boundaries between genders and sexual roles. Until November 15, 2015. Palazzo Reale  > 05 NOV. 2015  Piazza Duomo 12 - Milano www.fondazionenicolatrussardi.com www.comune.milano.it A universe of light, colour, form and writing. Where to Start From is dedicated to Maurizio Nannucci, one of the most important names in Italian contemporary art from the 1960s to the present time. A major exhibition curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi from June 26 to October 18, 2015. The exhibition explores, with over thirty works both early and recent, the importance and central position of Nannucci's artistic research. Three new installations were made for this occasion, including More Than Meets the Eye, a large-scale work for MAXXI's facade which, thanks to Amici del MAXXI, will join the museum collection. On display are historic and seminal works: light and sound installations and photographic series. An integral part of the exhibition is the presentation of the multiples: artist's books, records, photos, magazines, and ephemera, which express another fundamental practice of the artist's work. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11-19h, Saturday 11-22h. MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo  > 18 OCT. 2015  Via Guido Reni 4A - 00196 Roma T+ 06 399 67 350 info@fondazionemaxxi.it www.fondazionemaxxi.it From 26 April through 27 September 2015, Florence will host the work of Antony Gormley, one of the most acclaimed sculptors working today. The exhibition Human follows on from the success of exhibitions by Zhang Huan, which marked the reopening of the Forte di Belvedere in 2013 and Giuseppe Penone in 2014. Curated by Sergio Risaliti and Arabella Natalini, Human brings together over 100 works by Gormley in the inner rooms of the villa, the bastions, the staircases and the terraces, to occupy every side of the 16th-century fortress with its extraordinary views over the city and the surrounding hills. The exhibition includes the artist's seminal installation Critical Mass, an "anti-monument evoking all the victims of the 20th century." The work was originally conceived for a disused tram depot in Vienna in 1995, to "activate the whole building and make it a site of reflection on the dark side of German history." On view on the lower terrace of the Forte, Critical Mass acquires a new potency in relation to a Renaissance city, the history of humanism and the continuing and ever-present relationship between money, militarism and power. Hours daily 10-20. Monday closed. Forte di Belvedere  > 27 SEP. 2015  via San Leonardo, 1 - Firenze www.musefirenze.it Light Time Tales, curated by Andrea Lissoni, will offer an insight into the constantly evolving artistic career of Joan Jonas. It includes ten installations and nine single-channel videos, bringing together Joan Jonas's most important works for the first time in Italy. These range from the most historic, through to the more recent and others that have never been seen before in Europe.The works are shown together with films and videos dating from the 1960s to the present day, including Beautiful Dog (2014) a new video specially created for the exhibition. Joan Jonas (b. 1936, New York), one of the first female artists to combine video and performance, has since the 1960s explored the theme of identity and the relationship between the body and its representation, always avoiding any stereotyped image of herself. Joan Jonas. Light Time Tales will be on view from 2 October 2014 to 1 February 2015. Thursday-Sunday 11am-11pm. Pirelli HangarBicocca  > 01 FEB. 2015  via Chiese 2 - Milano info@hangarbicocca.org www.hangarbicocca.org Tobias Rehberger is one of the most eminent German artists of the contemporary international art scene. The exhibition Tobias Rehberger. Wrap it up Deutsche Bank Collection and recent works on paper reveals a hitherto unknown aspect of his oeuvre. The exhibition offers a general overview of the artist's works on paper. The drawings, collages, and prints are part of the Deutsche Bank Collection and date back to the period between 1991 and 2003. In addition, Rehberger has selected various works on paper, from the period from 2003 up to today. The exhibition is curated by Friedhelm Hütte, Global Head of Art at Deutsche Bank. Wrap it up is illuminated by Rehberger's "Infections"-33 unique lampshades made from Velcro ribbon, part of an ongoing project which began in 2002. The lampshades were originally produced by various assistants as prototypes and only altered by the artist if they did not meet his standards. However, the artist could not add any material to the original Velcro when making alterations. Until 11 January 2015. MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma  > 11 JAN. 2015  via Nizza 138 - Roma www.museomacro.org The exhibition Soleil politique. The museum between light and shadow invites the visitor to follow an itinerary that begins, immediately upon entering the Museion, at the very heart of the works on exhibit, before extending out into the city. The first curatorial decision consists of overturning the hierarchy that traditionally separates the reception area from the lofty content beyond, the former at the ground floor of the building, the latter above. This spatial undertaking seeks to expand the use of the museum's interior to include its architecture as an integral part of the exhibition experience. Employing space in this way contrasts with the rules upheld by the traditional art museum or places of worship that prepare access to their contents in successive stages. The fourth and last floor of the museum, transformed into a belvedere, offers a panoramic view of the city that can be contemplated with reference points from the exhibition in mind. From here, the visit continues in the city itself, throughout its streets, avenues and bridges, and in a number of the city's buildings that form an integral part of the exhibition. Until 11 January 2015. MUSEION museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Bolzano  > 11 JAN. 2015  via Dante 6 - 39100 Bolzano www.museion.it Between 1932 and 1933 the Milanese architect Tomaso Buzzi (1900-1981) began a fruitful collaboration with the Venini glassware company, which would continue, albeit episodically, in later years. The architect's creative contribution was evident both in the glass forms and in their innovative manufacturing technique. The exhibition Tomaso Buzzi at Venini, curated by Marino Barovier, retraces this brief but fruitful collaboration, documented through the selected works (approximately 200), the original drawings preserved in the Venini's archive, and a previously undisplayed collection of drawings. On the occasion of the exhibition Skira will publish the first complete "catalogue raisonné" of Tomaso Buzzi's work in glass, edited by Marino Barovier with Carla Sonego. Furthermore, for this third exhibition dedicated to the Venini glassware company, film director Gian Luigi Calderone has made a documentary film entitled "Tomaso Buzzi. Memories of my Guardian Angel" . Tomaso Buzzi alla Venini runs from September 13, 2014 to January 11, 2015. Wednesday closed. Le Stanze del Vetro  > 11 JAN. 2015  Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, 1 - Venezia, VE 30124 T +39 041 5230869 www.lestanzedelvetro.it Fondazione Giorgio Cini  > 11 JAN. 2015  T +39 041 2710280 www.cini.it Villa Manin presents the large scale exhibition Man Ray (1890-1976) curated by Guido Comis and Antonio Giusa in collaboration with Fondazione Marconi, Milan. U.S. photographer, painter, and filmmaker. He grew up in New York City, where he studied architecture, engineering, and art. With Marcel Duchamp he formed the New York Dada group in 1917 and produced ready-mades. In 1921 he moved to Paris and became associated with the Surrealists. He rediscovered the technique for making cameraless pictures (photograms), which he called rayographs, by placing objects on light-sensitive paper; he also experimented with the technique of solarization, which renders part of the image negative and part positive by exposing a print or negative to a flash of light during development. He turned to portrait and fashion photography and made a virtually complete record of the celebrities of Parisian cultural life of the 1920s and '30s. He also made important contributions as an avant-garde filmmaker in the 1920s. Until January 11, 2015. Monday closed. Azienda speciale Villa Manin  > 11 JAN. 2015  piazza Manin 10, 33033 Passariano, Codroipo (Udine) T +39 0432 821211 www.villamanin.it info@villamanin.it Copper, interpreted in all its multiple forms and applications in contemporary art, design, architecture and technology, is the theme of Copper Crossings: Copper Shapes in Contemporary Art, Design, Technology and Architecture, an exhibition presented at Milan's Triennale from September 16 to November 9, 2014. A selection of works of historical artists shall be presented like Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Carl Andre, Marco Bagnoli, Joseph Beuys, Luciano Fabro, Anselm Kiefer, Eliseo Mattiacci, Marisa Merz, Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Remo Salvadori, Gilberto Zorio, Meg Webster. Also works of the "most contemporary" including Roni Horn, Cristina Iglesias, Damián Ortega as well as works of artists of last generations like Andrea Sala, Alicja Kwade and Danh Vo. In the design section more than 100 objects made by some of the top names in the sector have been chosen: Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Antonio Citterio, Dimore Studio, Tom Dixon, Odo Fioravanti, Martí Guixé, Gujan Gupta, Poul Henningsen, Thomas Heatherwick, Ross Lovegrove, Nucleo, Gio Ponti/Paolo De Poli, Tobia Scarpa, Ettore Sottsass, Oskar Zieta and Giorgio Vigna, with some examples from renowned brands as Romeo Gigli and Prada, who have experimented with the qualities of copper in the most creative way. Architecture is explored through ten scale models representing the work of some of the greatest architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Renzo Piano, Aldo Rossi, Steven Holl Architects and James Stirling. Triennale di Milano  > 09 NOV. 2014  viale Alemagna, 6 - 20121 Milano T +39.02.724341 www.triennale.it Ricucire il mondo (Sewing the World) pays homage to Maria Lai (1919-2013), one of the most gifted and significant Italian women artists of the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition follows a chronological and thematic itinerary across three different venues: Cagliari's Palazzo di Città, Nuoro's Museum of Art (MAN) and the Stazione dell'Arte in Ulassai, the artist's birthplace. Maria Lai. Sewing the World July 11-October 12, 2014. Paolo Chiasera's project, which involves Nuoro's MAN and the De Vleeshal Centre of Visual Arts of Middelburg (Netherlands), is a continuation of the itinerary undertaken by the artist in 2011 with the elaboration of the concept of "exhibition painting", a genre he invented which is characterized by the creation of exhibitions on canvas, conceived as a place for meetings and exchanges of ideas among artists, curators and institutions. Paolo Chiasera. The Gardens of Sardinia, Cyprus and Jerusalem July 11-October 12, 2014. MAN Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro  > 12 OCT. 2014  Via Sebastiano Satta 27, 08100 Nuoro tel: 0784/252110 - fax: 0784/1821251 www.museoman.it Palazzo di città (Lunedì chiuso)  > 12 OCT. 2014  Piazza Palazzo, 6, 09124 Cagliari www.museicivicicagliari.it Stazione dell'arte  > 12 OCT. 2014  Strada Provinciale 11, 08040 Ulassai (Og) www.stazionedellarte.it The Marino Marini Museum is honoured to present URUBOROS: James Lee Byars encounters Leon Battista Alberti. Curated by the museum's artistic director Alberto Salvadori, this unique project involves Leon Battista Alberti's Rucellai Chapel and Sepulchre, reopened to the public in 2013, which it places in an unprecedented dialogue with a work of contemporary art by the US-born artist James Lee Byars. The Uroboros (from the Greek ονροβορος, tail-devouring snake) denotes the figure of a snake biting its own tail, endlessly catching up with itself and recreating itself to form a perfect circle. The symbol of the Uroboros is associated with Gnosticism, hermeticism, and alchemy. Representing the dualistic nature of all things, it illustrates the idea that opposites are not in conflict with each other, but contribute together to the development of spiritual harmony. Until November 8, 2014 | Hours: Monday, Wednesday-Saturday 10am-5pm. Marino Marini Museum  > 8 NOV. 2014  Piazza San Pancrazio - Florence info@museomarinomarini.it www.museomarinomarini.it Remembering Walter Lazzaro means shedding further light on one of the most important and lively artists of Italian painting between the first and the second post-war periods. An interesting figure both from a pictorial and human point of view for the strong characterisation of his choices concerning art, life and teaching. Walter Lazzaro, born in Rome in 1914, had his first one-man show in the capital's Palazzo Torlonia in 1932 and ended his artistic activity, after hundreds of exhibitions, in 1989 shortly before his death that occurred on March 3 of the same year. His work has been analysed and dealt with by some of the most illustrious critics, from De Chirico to Carluccio, from Cortenova to De Grada, from Franza to Sgarbi. Walter Lazzaro's painting is inspired by the most cultivated history of Italian art, brings together past and present, grafts innovations on tradition, gives peculiarity to the most engaging themes, from landscapes to figures, through a craft that in him was always imbued with a poetry and a sensitivity that few artists ever managed to show. Lazzaro lived in a sea landscape as a young Ulysses searching for his lost homeland. The city of Forte dei Marmi dedicates a retrospective for the Centenary of the artist's birth with the exhibition Walter Lazzaro. Approdi silenti (Silent Landing Places) until September 28, 2014. Hours July-August always open 9 -13 / 17 - 22, September always open 9-13 / 16-19. Il Fortino - Forte dei Marmi  > 28 SEP. 2014 | July-August 9.00-13.00 / 17.00 | September 9-13.00 / 16.00-19.00  Tel. 0584 280292 www.myfortedeimarmi.it www.villabertelli.it www.gallerialazzaro.it By the third showcase Otto luogo dell'arte, the project, its cadence, is taking pace. It is still a showcase of passage that will take us to a ' set-up of the space where they will be presented sequences of small works or a single work. A really punctual presence in its two meanings. How is the mission, Otto will continue to investigate with more flexibility and mobility that happens in the world of creativity in relation to the traditional handicrafts or the new crafts declined by digital format. Each appointment will be accompanied by a small catalog. For this showcase n.1 of 2014 and the 14th event produced in three years, in a whirlwind trip to the disciplinary contamination, within the limits and in the overlapping fields of experience, Otto makes a small point fundamental aspects of the relationship between art design and craftsmanship. The three authors Claudia Leporatti, Fabrizio Pieruccini and myself (Mauro Lovi), reflect with their works plastically what we have described above.  Claudia Leporatti , a florentine who lives and works in Carrara, is a sculptor who proposes in the modeling, the ancient art of modeling with the fingers, contemporary soul she gives life to moments of figures that can be found at the edge of the pool waiting the tram or walk to a medical examination. Here she proposes two young female male standing and made ??of terracotta h 90 cm.  Fabrizio Pieruccini , Lucca, he is a craftsman of great experience that manipulates wood in an extraordinary way. Here, as in the tradition of Otto, proposes five wooden models of four tables and a container furniture he designed and built. They are pieces of furniture with hot details and are made with an eye to the organic design and aspects of other movements that have characterized the history of furniture. The undersigned  Mauro Lovi , being a painter and architect, proposes a sequence meditative with otto small oil paintings where you lay down the small wonders chromatic houses half of likely physical . A poetic irony of the project, the only dimension that is given to us to attend and live. (text by M. Lovi) The showcase by Otto luogo dell'arte - III  from 09 JUN. 2014  Palazzo Rucellai, via de' Palchetti 2 - 50123 Firenze www.ottoluogodellarte.it The Matteucci Foundation for Modern Art hosts the rich exhibition by Ruggero Alfredo Michahelles, alias RAM. Descendent of a North American family that moved to Florence in the mid-19th century, RAM demonstrated a talent for art in all its forms from an early age. With his brother Thayaht, he staged the scenography of Aida, awarded in 1924. Painter, sculptor, poster designer, scenographer, illustrator - over the course of his career he absorbed a number of influences, taking inspiration from futurism, fashion and industry. Influenced by French movements, he explored the play of light and quest for beauty, reaching a pictorial turning point around the 1930s that led to a "neo-metaphysical" exhibition, where colour and plasticity become the most important features of the composition, and anecdotal and facial definition lose importance. The exhibition RAM. La realtà metafisica, curated by Susanna Ragionieri, is open until June 2, 2014. Thu-Fri 15.30-19.30, Sat-Sun 10.00-13.00 / 15.30-19.30. Fondazione Centro Matteucci per l'Arte Moderna  > 2 JUN 2014  via G. D'Annunzio, 28 - Viareggio Tel. 0584 430614; fax 0584 54977 info@centromatteucciartemoderna.it www.centromatteucciartemoderna.it The exhibition Napoleone Martinuzzi. Venini 1925-1931, curated by Marino Barovier, will open to the public on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice on September 8th, 2013. It is the second exhibition dedicated to the history of the Venini glassware company promoted by Le Stanze del Vetro, a long-term cultural initiative launched by Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Pentagram Stiftung, devoted to the study and the promotion of the art of glassmaking in the twentieth century. Through the analysis and cross-checking of various documentary sources (photos, catalogues, furnace drawings) and their comparison with the real objects provided by museums, public and private institutions, Italian and foreign collectors, a comprehensive review was made of the glass objects designed by Napoleone Martinuzzi between 1925 and 1931, when he was the Art Director of Venini. There are about 200 works on display, covering the most significant glass production of the ingenious sculptor from Murano. Until January 6, 2014. Le Stanze del Vetro  > 6 JAN. 2014 [new deadline]  Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore - Venezia Until February 2, 2014 Fondazione Merz presents Alfredo Jaar. Abbiamo amato tanto la rivoluzione (We loved it so much, the revolution), a major exhibition curated by Claudia Gioia and dedicated to the work of one of the most uncompromising, compelling, and innovative artists working today. Specifically created for this exhibition, Alfredo Jaar's new project plays on the idea of reflection and the relations between culture and democratic life. He does so not as an act of commemoration, but rather as a constant engagement in the promotion of culture as a decisive factor for change. Consisting of 65 artworks, the exhibition starts with a major installation that consists of millions of pieces of broken glass and mirror that cover most of the main exhibition space. As viewers walk on this reflecting surface of debris, they also move along the space of memory, and while engaged in self-reflection, they are invited to think over some difficult moments of our collective history. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-7pm. Fondazione Merz  > 2 FEB. 2014  Via Limone 24 - 10141 Torino T +011 19719437 info@fondazionemerz.org www.fondazionemerz.org From September 26, 2013 to January 6, 2014, the Fondazione Stelline, in collaboration with the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, will host Milan's first ever monographic exhibition of the work of the great modernist and Bauhaus artist Josef Albers. Josef Albers: Sublime Optics explores the spiritual elements in Albers's art. Maintaining his religious practice lifelong, Albers incorporated traditional imagery in a lot of his work, and, even when he did not, regarded transformation of color and line as spiritual, even mystical, events. It is the less religious sense of Albers's spirituality that this exhibition addresses. Sublime Optics considers Albers's experiments with line, form, and color, in turn, and evaluates how he was able to create further mysteries in the world-ones that can act as spiritual exercises for our eyes. He is like a mystic optician, fitting us with lenses to better see the sublime around us. Until January 6, 2014. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-8pm. Fondazione Stelline  > 6 JAN. 2014  Corso Magenta 61 - Milano www.stelline.it MUSEION is to host the first solo show of Klara Lidén's works in Italy. The vast area on the fourth floor will present various new works, along with recent pieces by the artist from public and private collections. Installations, photographs and videos capture actions and performances that reveal the core concerns of her work: an exploration of the physical, psychological and social limits and conventions of both public and private space; an obsession with recycling and transforming urban materials; physical gesture and use of the body. For the occasion, Lidén has created a number of new Poster Paintings, the signature works that have earned her international renown. Klara Lidén. Invalidenstraße will be on view until January 12, 2014. MUSEION of modern and contemporary art Bolzano  > 12 JAN. 2014  Via Dante 6 - 39100 Bolzano www.museion.it The Russian Avant-garde, Siberia and the East. Kandinsky, Malevic, Filonov, Goncarova is the first international exhibition to examine the fundamental importance of the Oriental and Eurasian connection to Russian Modernism. The exhibition follows the destinies of Russia's self-proclaimed "Barbarians" in their search for new sources of artistic inspiration and demonstrates how modern Russian culture experienced a deep attraction to - and an apprehension of - the exotic, the unknown and the "Other", which artists and writers identified with the spirit of the taiga, the virgin territories of desert and steppe and the "otherness" of Oriental culture. Daily until January 9, 2014. Always at Palazzo Strozzi the contemporary art gallery La Strozzina presents Territori instabili. Confini e identità nell'arte contemporanea (Unstable Territory. Borders and identity in contemporary art), curated by Walter Guadagnini and Franziska Nori. The exhibition showcases work by international artists which will encourage visitors to reconsider the notion of territory in a contemporary world. Whilst the latter is increasingly characterised by the obsolescence of such concepts as the nation state and borders, there is, at the same time, a return to new forms of nationalism and renewed interest in the individual in relation to a specific area or community. Until January 19, 2014. Monday closed. Palazzo Strozzi  > 19 JAN. 2014  Piazza Strozzi, Firenze Tel. +39 055 2645155 www.palazzostrozzi.org For the first time in Italy, Islands brings together over 50 works by Dieter Roth (1930, Hannover-1998, Basel), a key figure on the international art scene of the past fifty years. The exhibition is being put on with the collaboration of his son Björn Roth. The imposing installations are given the unique opportunity to interact with the former industrial space of HangarBicocca, the contemporary art space in Milan promoted by Pirelli. The public will be taken on a journey through thematic "islands" in the multidisciplinary creative universe of the artist, whose work has revolutionized the way art is made and seen. Until February 9, 2014. Thursday-Sunday 11am-11pm. HangarBicocca  > 9 FEB. 2014  Via Chiese 2 - Milano Tel 02.6611.1573 info@hangarbicocca.org www.hangarbicocca.org Fault Lines is the first major solo exhibition in Italy by Allora & Calzadilla. The Fondazione Nicola Trussardi has invited this American artistic duo to conceive an ambitious new project for Palazzo Cusani, an extraordinary gem of architecture on Via Brera, in the heart of Milan, which for over four centuries has been the scene of political and social events that are deeply intertwined with the history of Italy. Palazzo Cusani now houses the headquarters of the Army Command for Lombardy and the Army Officers' Club, and an official seat of the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps. In the magnificent spaces of Palazzo Cusani-open for the first time to the world of contemporary art-Allora & Calzadilla are presenting an impressive selection of recent work, most of it never before shown in Italy, as well as new pieces created specifically for the exhibition. Allora & Calzadilla. Fault Lines will be on view through November 24, 2013 Daily 10am-8pm. Palazzo Cusani  > 24 NOV. 2013  Via Brera 15, Milano press@fondazionenicolatrussardi.com www.fondazionenicolatrussardi.com Soft Pictures is a group exhibition that explores the use of textile in contemporary art. The show addresses the multiplicity of meanings that the adoption of this medium entails in artistic practice. Historically, the use of textile as a material to create art images can be placed halfway between the liberal and applied arts, and its position is still considered a contested issue. Today, artists are going back to textile and its multiple historical, political, social and symbolic meanings-a rich semantic texture, which unfolds through the exhibition. Function and decoration, design and art, tradition and modernity: Artists move between these poles, reflecting on the artefact as a cluster of different tensions and symbols. On view from October 24, 2013 to March 23, 2014. Hours: Thursday 7-11pm; Friday-Sunday 12-7pm. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo  > 23 MAR. 2014  Via Modane 16 - 10141 Torino T +39 (0)113797600 info@fsrr.org www.fsrr.org The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents The Avant-gardes of Fin-de-Siècle Paris: Signac, Bonnard, Redon, and their Contemporaries curated by Vivien Greene, Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. About 100 paintings, drawings and a significant number of prints, drawn from notable private collections, focus on the avant-gardes of late nineteenth century Paris, with special attention paid to the Neo-Impressionist, Nabi, and Symbolist movements. Until January 6, 2014. Hours: Wednesday-Monday 10am-6pm. Peggy Guggenheim Collection  > 6 JAN. 2014  701 Dorsoduro - 30123 Venezia T +39 041 2405404/415 press@guggenheim-venice.it www.guggenheim-venice.it Galleria Giuseppe Pero is pleased to announce the solo show by SERSE: Drawing by orders and numbers i.e. the sense of measure and measuring and their relationship with the concept of drawing itself. Concentrating exclusively graphite drawing, working in his adoptive city of Trieste, Serse has produced a remarkable series of images over the years, which has led to his inclusion in the volume Drawing published by Phaidon Press, and participation in important international events. Until November 23, 2013. Mon - Fri 14.00-19.00. Galleria Giuseppe Pero  > 15 NOV. 2013  Via Porro Lambertenghi 3 - 20159 Milano info@giuseppepero.it GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo presents the Fall exhibitions. Invernomuto: The Celestial Path is the winning project of the first Meru Art*Science Award, promoted by GAMeC in collaboration with the Fondazione Meru and the Associazione BergamoScienza to reward and support the work of an artist invited to present a project that probes the relationship between art and science. Until 24 November 2013. The exhibition Luciano Fabro: Disegno In-Opera curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, in collaboration with Silvia Fabro brings together - for the first time in Italy - an extensive series of drawings by Luciano Fabro, an integral and essential part of his oeuvre with more than 100 drawings reflecting different types and functions. Until January 6, 2014. David Maljkovic: Sources in the Air curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Andrea Viliani is presenting the first solo exhibition at an Italian public institution of the work of Croatian artist David Maljkovic. Until January 6, 2014. GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo  > 24 NOV. 2013 | > 6 JAN. 2014  Via San Tomaso, 53 - 24121 Bergamo www.gamec.it In association with the 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia, the Querini Stampalia Foundation presents Imago Mundi, an exhibition of works from the Luciano Benetton Collection. The exhibition and Collection is comprised of over 1,000 works of art commissioned and collected by Luciano Benetton on his travels around the world since 2008: Established and emerging artists from various countries over five continents have been engaged to create artwork for the Collection, whose only limitation is the 10 x 12 cm format on which all of the works appear. A traveling exhibition, Imago Mundi's first presentation will be as an official collateral event of the Venice Biennale. From 28 August to 27 October 2013, collections from Australia (Aboriginal art), India, Japan, South Korea and the United States will be presented to the public. More than 200 artworks from each country, grouped according to nationality, regions and continents, will be included in the exhibition. Fondazione Querini Stampalia  > 27 OCT. 2013  Santa Maria Formosa | Castello 5252, Venice (Vaporetto stop: Rialto o San Zaccaria) T +39 041 2711411 www.querinistampalia.org Museion presents Little Movements II: Self-practice in Contemporary Art, an exhibition co-curated by Liu Ding & Carol Yinghua Lu, both guest curators of Museion for 2013. Liu Ding is an artist and Carol Yinghua Lu an art critic and curator, both based in Beijing. Together they have co-curated Little Movements I and the 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale 2012. This exhibition is a research, discussion, publishing and exhibition project in the field of contemporary art and theory, which examines conceptual and experimental artistic, curatorial, institutional, publishing, art history research and art educational practices and models that base their independence, autonomy, quality and intensity of thinking and practicing on a self-reflective awareness, as well as on the internal motivation of a creative practitioner and active producer. Until November 3, 2013. MUSEION of modern and contemporary art Bolzano  > 3 NOV. 2013  Via Dante 6 - 39100 Bolzano www.museion.it The Visitors by Ragnar Kjartansson (2012) is a large installation consisting of nine video projections on a scale of 1:1. It brings into play the relationships between live concerts, the tradition of performance, poetry, and immersive cinema, based on the repetition and circular nature of actions and settings. Ragnar Kjartansson's performance practice has embraced the entire spectrum of art ever since he began. Through theatre, music and sculpture, as well as visual art, Kjartansson creates performances and actions that take from a number of disciplines. In them he explores and tests the borderline between reality and fiction, always poised between melancholy and parody. From September 19 to November 17, 2013. Thu-Sun 11am-11pm. HangarBicocca  > 17 NOV. 2013  Via Chiese 2 Milano Tel 02.6611.1573 info@hangarbicocca.org | www.hangarbicocca.org Galleria Vezzoli, photo by Musacchio/Ianniello/Napolitano Internationally recognised as one of the most important Italian artists of his generation, in 2013 Francesco Vezzoli will feature in three solo shows in international museums. The series begins in Rome with MAXXI hosting the exhibition Galleria Vezzoli, the first Italian retrospective devoted to the artist. Ninety works presenting Francesco Vezzoli from the earliest works, the embroideries from 1995, through to the most recent videos, self-portraits and sculptures. The title of the exhibition is inspired with levity and irony, by the great galleries of Rome, and evokes the sumptuous atmosphere of the museums of the past. MAXXI will be completely transformed for the occasion with the futuristic architecture of Zaha Hadid being "draped" with velvets and damask wallpapers against which the artist's works will be set: the videos and the images which feature the stars of the big screen and TV), the self-portraits and the sculptures with classical-style features. Until November 24, 2013. Tuesday-Sunday 11-19h, Saturday 11-22h Next exhibitions: The Church of Vezzoli at MoMA PS1, New York - October 2013-March 2014 Cinema Vezzoli at MOCA, Los Angeles - Winter 2013/2014 MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo  > 24 NOV. 2013  Via Guido Reni 4A - Roma T +39 06.399.67.350 info@fondazionemaxxi.it www.fondazionemaxxi.it VENICE 2013 The 55th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia under the artistic direction of Massimiliano Gioni has the title: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace. With this choice Massimiliano Gioni is evoking the self-taught Italian-American artist Marino Auriti who on 16 November 1955 filed a design with the US Patent office depicting his Palazzo Enciclopedico. This imaginary museum was meant to house all worldly knowledge, bringing together the greatest discoveries... in a 136-story building that would stand 700 meters tall and take up over 16 blocks in Washington, D.C. «Auriti's plan was never carried out, of course, but the dream of universal, all-embracing knowledge crops up throughout history, as one that eccentrics like Auriti share with many other artists, writers, scientists, and prophets who have tried-often in vain-to fashion an image of the world that will capture its infinite variety and richness». «These personal cosmologies, with their delusions of omniscience, shed light on the constant challenge of reconciling the self with the universe, the subjective with the collective, the specific with the general, the individual with the culture of her time. Today, as we grapple with a flood of information, such attempts to structure knowledge into all-inclusive systems seem even more necessary and even more desperate. The 55th International Exhibition of Art will explore these flights of the imagination in a show that-like Auriti's Encyclopedic Palace-will combine works of contemporary art with historical artefacts and found objects…» The exhibition will place at its heart «a reflection on the ways in which images have been used to organize knowledge and shape our experience of the world». Inspired by what scholar Hans Belting has called «an anthropology of images», the Biennale Arte 2013 will attempt «an inquiry in the realms of the imaginary and the functions of imagination». Maria Lassnig and Marisa Merz will be the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement. The 55th Venice Biennale will be on view from June 1 to November 24, 2013 at Arsenale, Giardini and across the city. (Preview May 29, 30, 31, 2013). La Biennale di Venezia | 55. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte / 55th International Art Exhibition  1 JUN. - 24 NOV 2013  Venezia - Giardini, Arsenale, varie sedi www.labiennale.org The birth of Seguso Vetri D'Arte marks the beginning of an important chapter in the history of 20th-century Murano glassworks, but also in the history of a family that has been committed to this noble art since the year 1397. Though already operative in 1932 as "Artistica Soffiera e Vetreria-Barovier Seguso Ferro", it wasn't until 1937 that the company was officially established as "Seguso Vetri D'Arte". All of which results in the creation of glass artworks that are graceful, attractive and pure, milestones in the development of this decorative art and, therefore, accepted in prestigious collections, both private and public such as the MOMA in New York, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The exhibition Seguso. Vetri d'Arte: 1932/1973 will be on view through September 29, 2013. Museo del Vetro  > 29 SEP. 2013  Fondamenta Giustinian 8, 30121 Murano (Venezia) museovetro.visitmuve.it In an effort to raise awareness of the five big patches of plastic waste forming in the centers of the ocean's gyres, UNESCO has declared them to be a new nation at the "High Seas, Our Future! Conference," held in mid April in Paris. Floating bits of discarded plastic-bottle caps, fishing nets, bags and sundry tinier pieces-cluster together in the north and south Atlantic, the north and south Pacific and the Indian oceans. The pollution varies in concentration, which is why some people say it's bigger than Texas, why some people say it's bigger than two Texases, and why at least one person decided it should be a country: Madrid-based Italian artist/architect, Maria Cristina Finucci. Her work 'Wasteland' will be displayed on the courtyard of Venice University Ca' Foscari on the occasion of the 2013 Venice Art Biennale from May 29 to November 24, 2013. Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - Servizio Comunicazione  > 24 NOV. 2013  Tel: 041. 234 8368 www.thegarbagepatchstate.org comunica@unive.it Devoted exclusively to papier collés and related works on paper from the 1940s and early 1950s by Robert Motherwell, this exhibition features nearly sixty artworks and examines the American artist's origins and his engagement with collage. The exhibition also honors Peggy Guggenheim's early patronage of the artist. Robert Motherwell: Early Collages will be presented at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, May 26-September 8, 2013. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni  > 8 SEP. 2013  Dorsoduro 701, I-30123 Venezia Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Trauma of the Exposed Body, the first solo project of the acclaimed Romanian artist Ion Grigorescu, in the gallery's premises in the Church San Matteo, Lucca. Curated by Maria Rus Bojan, the exhibition revisits an important period from his creation, presenting works from the end of the 1970s, when the artist investigated body issues through self-performative practices and also newer works, in which the body plays a central role. May 19 - July 26, 2013. Tuesday-Friday 3:30-7pm, other days by appointment only. Ex Chiesa San Matteo  > 26 JUL. 2013  Piazza San Matteo 3 - 55100 Lucca T/F 39 02 26924450 info@prometeogallery.com www.prometeogallery.com HangarBicocca, the contemporary art space promoted and supported by Pirelli, presents Mike Kelley: Eternity is a Long Time. The exhibition, spectacular and intimate at the same time, offers an unprecedented opportunity to approach and examine the work of the late Mike Kelley (Detroit, 1954-Los Angeles, 2012), focusing on his installations, videos, and sculptures mainly from 2000 to 2006, a period of enormous creative maturity in his career. Curated by Emi Fontana and Andrea Lissoni this exhibition will be on view from May 24 through September 8, 2013. Thursday-Sunday 11am-11pm. HangarBicocca  > 8 SEP. 2013  Via Chiese 2 - Milano T 39 02 6611 1573 info@hangarbicocca.org www.hangarbicocca.org The Palazzo Ducale di Genova presents Stanley Kubrick fotografo an exhibition devoted to the short but extraordinary career of Stanley Kubrick as photographer in the postwar years when he was asked to work as fotoreporter for the American magazine Look. The exhibition shows the American way of life in New York seen through the personal point of view by one of the greatest director of the past century. Until August 25, 2013. Tue-Sun 10-19. Palazzo Ducale  > 25 AUG. 2013  Piazza Matteotti 9, Genova 16123 Tel +39 010 2474576 www.palazzoducale.genova.it The Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce presents If a body meet a body, an exhibition by Julieta Aranda, her first solo show to take place in an Italian museum. I tell you a story: There is a museum in Genoa. And on the top floor, there is a room that is usually locked. Inside this room, there is a small community of 23 heads. A potentially thinking collectivity-probably Italian aristocrats from the early 20th century-missing its body. An homage to decapitation, and a memorial to the separation between thought and the possibility to act. Until June 30, 2013. Museo Villa Croce  > 30 JUN. 2013  Via Ruffini 3 - Genova www.museidigenova.it After Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Nottingham Contemporary, Raven Row (London), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston) and Bildmuseet (Umeå), Disobedience Archive is presented at Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea within a format especially planned for the Museum. The curatorial project dates from 2005, when Marco Scotini planned a travelling exhibition of videos, graphic materials and ephemera whilst in Berlin. The exhibition-archive explores the links between contemporary art practices, cinema, tactile media and political activism. Planned as a heterogeneous, evolving archive of video images, the project aims to be a 'user's guide' to four decades of social disobedience seen through history and geography Disobedience Archive (The Republic) will be on view through June 30, 2013. Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art  > 30 JUN. 2013  Piazza Mafalda di Savoia - 10098 Rivoli (Torino) www.castellodirivoli.org www.castellodirivoli.tv Do we still need beauty in our society? Is it still a value, a goal, a tool for contemporary artists? Rediscovering an idea of beauty today means reconsidering our usual modes of identifying it, adopting a different approach to reality. Visitors to the exhibition Un'idea di bellezza / An Idea of Beauty at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will be presented with works of art by eight international contemporary artists (Vanessa Beecroft, Chiara Camoni, Andreas Gefeller, Alicja Kwade, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Isabel Rocamora, Anri Sala, Wilhelm Sasnal) soliciting their physical and emotional participation. These paintings, installations, sculptures, photographs and videos highlight the subjectivity with which art is viewed, triggering individual responses and reactions. Until July 28, 2013. Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina  > 28 JUL. 2013  Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze T. +39 055 2645155 news@strozzina.org www.strozzina.org On 8 April 2013, Fragile?, an exhibition curated by Mario Codognato, will open to the public on the San Giorgio Maggiore island in Venice. The exhibition will feature 28 artworks by some of the most interesting international artists. Fragile? displays the creations of some of the most interesting artists of our time, who used glass with diverse and contrasting intentions: from the provoking gesture of Marcel Duchamp of shutting the air of Paris in a transparent ampoule, to the tragic lyricism of Joseph Beuys's glass fragments as a witness to the ferociousness of earthquakes, from the transformation of industrial objects into poetical individualities by Luciano Fabro to the ironic explosion of car windscreens in a Pipilotti Rist video. Until July 28, 2013. Le Stanze del Vetro  > 28 JUL. 2013  Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, 1 - Venezia 30125 www.lestanzedelvetro.it www.cini.it The Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli presents A Passion for Jean Prouvé. From furniture to architecture The private collection of Laurence and Patrick Seguin, an exhibition devoted to the furniture and architecture by the French designer Jean Prouvé from the collection owned by Laurence and Patrick Seguin, who discovered the work of Jean Prouvé, in the late 1980s, through his furniture designs. They were immediately struck by the unique aesthetic of these pieces, where the artistic skill lies wholly in imperceptible technical mastery devoted to enhancing the strength of the materials. The couple then began to take an interest in Jean Prouvé's work as a whole, of which the furniture is only a part, going on to discover his architectural designs. Until September 8, 2013. Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli  > 8 SEP. 2013  Via Nizza, 230 10126 Torino Tel +39 011 006 2713 The Mart, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto presents the first major retrospective on Rudolf Steiner, a universal thinker and artist. Rudolf Steiner. Alchemy of the Everyday is an exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, curated by Mateo Kries. It will be on display at the Mart Rovereto from February 9 to June 2, 2013. Steiner inspired artists such as Piet Mondrian, Wassily Kandinsky and Joseph Beuys. He was one of the founders of "organic architecture" and also developed a unique stylistic idiom in the area of furniture design. Several hundred Waldorf schools, numerous anthroposophical clinics and therapeutic facilities, as well as banking institutions and hundreds of farms in many parts of the world bear witness to the wide dissemination and establishment of Steiner's ideas. MartRovereto  > 02 JUN. 2013   > 06 OCT. 2013  Corso Bettini, 43 - 38068 Rovereto (TN) T 800 397760 info@mart.trento.it www.mart.trento.it "In the wake of the general collapse of the space of myth, the knowledge of myth becomes the basis for creativity and the perception of reality." (E. A.) Evgeny Antufiev's first exhibition in Italy marks the completion of a project for Collezione Maramotti: a project which the Russian artist has realized during a period of residence in Reggio Emilia. Antufiev makes constant use of a variety of objects and materials-cloth, crystals, meteorites, bones, hair, teeth, glue, snake skins, insects, marble, wood-that show no immediate relationship to one another, but which fuse with one another within his installations and find themselves transformed: they come to be involved in a process that's reminiscent of alchemy. Evgeny Antufiev. Twelve, wood, dolphin, knife, bowl, mask, crystal, bones and marble - fusion. Exploring materials runs through July 31, 2013. Collezione Maramotti  > 31 JUL. 2013  Via Fratelli Cervi 66 - 42124 Reggio Emilia T +39 0522 382484 info@collezionemaramotti.org www.collezionemaramotti.org The MAXXI presents two exhibitions. The first is an exhibition describing the relationship between an artist allergic to definitions and a city that became for him a jumping off point for the unknown and inspiration for new creative paths: with Alighiero Boetti a Roma, MAXXI recounts the story of "Alì Ghiero, the passing Bedouin, camped out beside the Pantheon". Thirty works, many previously unseen or rarely exhibited, that recount an extraordinary creative season in search of an identity and exploring distant, enthralling worlds. On view through October 6, 2013. Galleria 4. The second exhibition presents the worldwide debut of Fiona Tan's latest work, Inventory An exhibition on time, space, memory and identity. "Rome is a city rich in history, inhabited by archaeological remains and architectural ruins. The ideal place for investigating the relationship between objects and memory" Fiona Tan. Inventory was born out of the allure of the private home and museum of Sir John Soane, an enthusiastic collector who over two hundred years ago created, within the confines of his own residence, a private monument embodying the appeal of and the architect's passion for Rome and featuring classical sculptures, fragments and details. On view through September 8, 2013 Galleria 5, Sala Gian Ferrari, Museum Hall. MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts  > 08 SEP. 2013   > 06 OCT. 2013  Via Guido Reni 4° - 00196 Roma T +39 06 399 67 350 info@fondazionemaxxi.it www.fondazionemaxxi.it The Mart, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, is renewing its mission. After ten years' activity, the museum is being transformed to become a responsive, flexible institution, more democratic in assuring access to its holdings, more agile and independent. La magnifica ossessione The magnificent obsession will for a whole year offer the museum's public a series of new itineraries through its collections. Of the over 1200 works on show, hundreds are on display for the first time; it will be possible to meet international artists in residence, like Paco Cao, or special guests, such as Emilio Isgrò and Liliana Moro, Christian Fogarolli and Paolo Meoni. On view through October 6, 2013. Self-taught, water-diviner, auto-da-fé of works. Victim or protagonist, recomposed collection, disturbing and provocative, maniacal and fetishist. Obscure object of desire. Secret, sharing, intoxication, celebration. Giddiness of blending. The magnificent obsession has been designed to highlight the museum's assets: not just the works of art themselves, but also the documents, skills and participation of the public. The works are arranged in accordance with a criterion that is chronological, certainly, but which in fact moves forward by major thematic shifts. A sort of 'archaeology of the future', displayed without visual hierarchy, highlighting the differences between categories. In parallel, the Mart is inaugurating a second line of research with the first Italian one-man show dedicated to David Claerbout (b. 1969; Kortrijk, Belgium). Curated by Saretto Cincinelli and open from 26th October 2012 to 13th January 2013. MartRovereto  6 oct. 2013  Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto Corso Bettini, 43- 38068 Rovereto (TN) t. 800 397760 info@mart.trento.it | www.mart.trento.it www.mart.tn.it/magnificaossessione From 22nd November 2012 to 24th February 2013, almost ten years since Luigi Ontani's last solo show in a Roman public institution, the Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum is hosting the exhibition AnderSennoSogno featuring the works of this influential, major artist on the Italian and international scene. A satellite gallery of the Soprintendenza alla Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GNAM), the Andersen Museum is a house-museum situated in the centre of Rome, where the works of the sculptor and painter Hendrik Christian Andersen are kept. Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 20 - 00196 Rome  18 NOV. 2012 | 24 FEB. 2013  T 06 32 19 089 F 06 32 19 089 www.museoandersen.beniculturali.it Until April 1st, 2013, the MADRE museum in Naples will host the exhibition Sol LeWitt. The Artist and his Artists, curated by Adachiara Zevi. The event, produced by the Donnaregina Foundation and funded by the Campania Region, is the result of a partnership with the Centre Pompidou Metz and the LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut (USA). After Naples, where it is presented for the first time in Europe, the Sol LeWitt collection will travel to Metz where it will be shown from April 19th to July 29th, 2013. The exhibition is the first tribute by an Italian museum to this major international contemporary art figure since his death in New York in 2007, at the age of 78 (LeWitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1928). As the title suggests, the exhibition project seeks to bring out LeWitt's multiple and eclectic production. Closed Tuesday. Museo MADRE Via Settembrini 79 - 80139 Napoli  14 DEC. 2012 | 1 APR. 2013  Tel +39.081.193.13.016 www.museomadre The Museo MARCA presents through March 30, 2013 Angelo Savelli. Il Maestro del Bianco a complete retrospective devoted to Angelo Savelli. On display 70 works comprending paintings, ceramics, sculptures. Monday closed. MARCA Via Alessandro Turco 63 - Catanzaro  15 DEC. 2012 | 30 MAR. 2013  tel. +39 0961.746797 info@museomarca.com www.museomarca.info The Galleria Giovanni Bonelli presents: Vienna e dintorni with Raimund Abraham, Hans Hollein, Max Peintner, Gianni Pettena, Walter Pichler, Ettore Sottsass. Six influential architects and artists rivisiting the theme of project. On view through February 2, 2013. Galleria Giovanni Bonelli Via Luigi Porro Lambertenghi 6 - 20159 Milano  > 2 FEB. 2013  T. +39 331 840 74 44 galleriagiovannibonelli@gmail.com Officine Saffi, Ceramic Arts Gallery presents Contemporary Art Jewels - ceramica da indossare an exhibition with 15 international artists and a private collection of precious ceramic jewels. On view through January 18, 2013. Mon-Fri 10-19. Officine Saffi, Ceramic Arts Gallery Via A. Saffi 7, Milano  > 18 JAN. 2013  Tel +39 02 36 68 56 96 info@officinesaffi.com MACRO presents two large exhibitions: Streets of Rome and Other Stories by American artist Jimmie Durham and Secret Garden by Cameroonian artist Pascale Marthine Tayou. Both exhibitions were curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi. Streets of Rome and Other Stories is the first large solo exhibition in an Italian public museum dedicated to Jimmie Durham, celebrating the long career of one of the world's most recognized and established artists, characterized by a critical and political commitment. For his solo exhibition at MACRO, Pascale Marthine Tayou, who is among the most significant characters in the international contemporary art scene, will work in situ and in close connection with the exhibition spaces dedicated to the magic of space, suggestive light and architectural forms of the museum, taking advantage of the height and unique extension of the Sala Enel. November 29, 2012-February 10, 2013. Tuesday-Sunday 11-7pm. MACRO - The Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome Via Nizza 138  > 10 FEB. 2013  www.museomacro.org Fondazione Giorgio Cini amd Pentagram Stiftung announce that the exhibition Carlo Scarpa. Venini 1932-1947 presenting glass art work, has been extended through January 6, 2013. The exhibition Carlo Scarpa. Venini 1932 - 1947 curated by Marino Barovier reconstructs Carlo Scarpa's creative development as artistic director of the Venini Glassworks from 1932 to 1947. The exhibition is organized around a selection of over 300 works. Some works are shown for the first time and many are from major international public and private collections. Le Stanze del Vetro  6 JAN. 2013  Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore - Venezia www.lestanzedelvetro.it In the ancient frame of the Galleria dell'Accademia of Florence, the Michelangelo's David home, will be held through November 4, 2012, the exhibition Arte torna arte, a bridge between past and present. Works by Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Burri, Antonio Catelani, Martin Creed, Gino de Dominicis, Rineke Dijkstra, Marcel Duchamp, Luciano Fabro, Hans Peter Feldmann, Luigi Ghirri, Antony Gormley, Yves Klein, Jannis Kounellis, Ketty La Rocca, Leoncillo, Sol LeWitt, Eliseo Mattiacci, Olaf Nicolai, Luigi Ontani, Giulio Paolini, Claudio Parmiggiani, Giuseppe Penone, Pablo Picasso, Alfredo Pirri, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Renato Ranaldi, Alberto Savinio, Thomas Struth, Fiona Tan, Bill Viola, Andy Warhol. Galleria dell'Accademia Via Ricasoli 60 - Firenze  8 may - 9 december 2012  Firenze Musei tel. +39 055 294883 www.unannoadarte.it The Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato presents Massimo Barzagli "Grandezza Naturale" the first solo exhibition in a museum by Italian artist Massimo Barzagli. On view through December 2, 2012. At same time is open UFO STORY Dall'architettura radicale al design globale the history of fifty years of radical architecture in Florence. On view through February 3, 2013. Closed Tuesday. Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci Viale della Repubblica, 277 - Prato  29 sep. 2012 - 3 feb. 2013  Tel. +39 0574 531828 | Fax +39 0574 531901 www.centropecci.it At Peggy Guggenheim Collection more than seventy works trace the evolution of the career of Giuseppe Capogrossi, a major figure in the first generation of post war Italian painters. This exhaustive retrospective presents his unique contribution to 20th-century art through the revelation of his early works between the wars and through the analysis of his abstract style of grandiose orchestrations of sign and color, with its numerous variations in the 1950s and 1960s. Capogrossi. A retrospective will be on view through February 10, 2013. Open daily 10am-6pm Closed Tuesday, and Jan 9, Feb 20, Dec 25. Peggy Guggenheim Collection Dorsoduro 701, 30123 Venezia  through 10 feb. 2013  Tel. +39 041.2405411 info@guggenheim-venice.it GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo presents through January 20, 2013 6th Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi per l'Arte - EnterPrize: The Log-O-Rithmic and 4th Artists' Film International. The Log-O-Rithmic exhibition is the outcome of the winning project of the Swiss freelance curator Fredi Fischli, chosen at GAMeC in November 2011 by an international panel. It takes the ephemeral workThe Log-O-Rithmic Slide Rule by the architects Trix and Robert Haussmann as a starting point. As a playful device based on a bureaucratic principle, it offers a combinatory potential that creates infinite varieties of imaginative architecture, language and images. Seven contemporary artists have been invited to activate the experimental device and reprocess it for their own specific purpose. GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo Via San Tomaso, 53 - 24121 Bergamo  through 20 jan. 2013  www.gamec.it Effearte is proud to present the first solo exhibit in Italy by the Danish artist Marianne Grønnow. The artist renews our concept of ornamental painting. The exhibition shows a recent series of works in which abstract floral motifs emerge through geometries and lines, carves, and reliefs. Marianne Grønnow does not represent real flowers and their true colours, but she seeks a modern spiritual idealism, which is neither romantic nor systemic, but intensely present and poetic. Marianne Grønnow: Passage will be on view through November 10, 2012. Hours: Mon-Fri, 11-7pm. Sat by appointment. Effearte Via Ausonio, 1 A / via E. De Amicis 47, Milano  through 10 nov. 2012  www.effeartegallery.com MACRO in Rome offers a series of exhibitions: NEON. La materia luminosa dell'arte (The luminous matter of art) with 70 works, by 50 artists, created with neon light. Yto Barrada RIFFS. Deutsche Bank's Artist of the Year 2011 is the first exhibition in an Italian art istitution by the Moroccan artist Yto Barrada. On view through November 11, 2012. On the occasion of the 100° anniversary of the birth MACRO pays a tribute to Giulio Turcato (1912-1995) with a great exhibition. In the frame of the project Urban Arena that enhances the Street Art, Ozmo and Marco Brambilla are the protagonists of this second appointment. On view from October 6, 2012 to January 12, 2013. MACRO via Nizza 138 - 00198 Roma  6 oct. 2012 - 12 jan. 2013  The Fondazione Prada presents the exhibition The Small Utopia. Ars Multiplicata, curated by Germano Celant, at its Ca' Corner della Regina space in Venice. The title of the exhibition, The Small Utopia. Ars Multiplicata, is a reference to the dream, handed down from the historic avant-gardes to the artists of today, of achieving the democratic dissemination of art through a multiplication of the work of art as object, in order to favor a different perception and use of it from the aesthetic and social standpoint.Covering a period of 75 years, from 1901 to 1975, the exhibition documents with over six hundred editions, including multiples and prototypes, the transformation of the idea of uniqueness in art and in its perception, through the multiplication not just of the objects themselves but also of the different means used for its distribution in the 20th century, from artist's books to magazines and from experimental cinema to radio. On view until November 25, 2012. Hours: Daily except Tue, 10-6pm. Ca' Corner della Regina Calle de Ca' Corner, Santa Croce 2215, 30135 Venezia T +39 041 8109161 info@fondazioneprada.org www.fondazioneprada.org The New Public. From a new public dimension to new users is the exhibition set to open Museion's autumn season. The New Public has been curated by Rein Wolfs, director of the Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel. The main theme of the exhibition is the new "public dimension" of politics, daily life and art, explored in more than 30 works that include installations, sculptures, large drawings and video. The show features 14 artists: Nina Beier, Rossella Biscotti & Kevin van Braak, Valentin Carron, Matias Faldbakken, Petrit Halilaj, Christian Jankowski, Klara Lidén, Helen Marten, Danh Vo Juliette Blightman, Erik van Lieshout and Metahaven created new works and installations for the occasion, while San Keller stages a new performance piece. The exhibition, on view through January 13, 2013, is designed as a transparent public arena that brings together different artistic stances, set against the sublime Alpine landscape outside. MUSEION of modern and contemporary art Bolzano Via Dante 6 - 39100 Bolzano, Italy www.museion.it On 20 September HangarBicocca is inaugurating Unidisplay, an audiovisual installation over 40 metres long by Carsten Nicolai, the German artist, musician and leading player in contemporary research on the relantionship between electronic music and images, who on 29 November will also stage a spectacular live performance. On view through December 2, 2012, Thu-Sun 11-23. HangarBicocca via Chiese 2 - Milano Tel. +39 02.6611.1573 info@hangarbicocca.org www.hangarbicocca.org The retrospective exhibition dedicated to Josef Albers – the largest ever to be organized in Italy –, will open on 8th October 2011 in both of the Galleria Civica di Modena exhibition spaces: Palazzo Santa Margherita and the Palazzina dei Giardini. The exhibition sets out to trace all the key stages of Albers's life, from his years at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, through to his time at Black Mountain College, Yale University and includes a comprehensive grouping of Albers's seminal Homage to the Square paintings. The exhibition remains on view through  February 12, 2012 . Galleria Civica di Modena - Palazzo Santa Margherita e Palazzina dei Giardini Corso Canalgrande 103 - 41121 Modena T + 39 059 203 2911 / 2940 galcivmo@comune.modena.it www.galleriacivicadimodena.it The practice of recycling as «one of the greatest generators of creative innovation». This is RE-CYCLE. Strategies for Architecture, City and Planet, the major exhibition that MAXXI Architettura is devoting to the architecture of the third millennium and its most innovative practitioners. On show at MAXXI are over 80 works including drawings, models and architectural, planning and landscape design projects placed in continual dialogue with the works of artists, designers and videomakers, with broad contaminations with musical and TV productions. Additionally is on view the photographic exhibition: Pieter Hugo - Permanent Error 27 shots describing through disturbing portraits an immense, apocalyptical high-tech dump in Ghana. Until April 29, 2012 closed Mondays, 1 May and 25 December. MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts Via Guido Reni 4° - 00196 Rome Tel. +39 06 399.67.350 | info@fondazionemaxxi.it www.fondazionemaxxi.it The exhibit 2011 Arte Povera (i.e. Poor Art) is one of the most important cultural events of the season: it will involve 7 cities and 8 important museums in Italy, creating a connection which aims at representing the 150th anniversary of Italian unification. The original project is by Germano Celant, who has organized the show, he has strongly believed in this movement since its beginning; the exhibit is a sort of homage to the movement of Arte povera. One of the most important avant-gardes of 20th century. The exhibit is hosted by Milan and other important cities, like, Rome, Bologna, Naples, Bergamo, Turin, Bari in order to show works coming from different national and international museums and foundations. Among the artists present in the exhibit we can mention Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini and Gilberto Zorio. THE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS MAMbo - Museo d'Arte Moderna - Bologna until December 26, 2011; MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo - Rome until January 8, 2012; Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea - Turin until February 19, 2012; Triennale di Milano - Milan until January 29, 2012; GAMeC Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - Bergamo until April 2012; MADRE Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina - Neaples until April 2012; Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna - Rome December 7, 2011 - March 4, 2012; Teatro Margherita - Bari December 5, 2011 - March 11, 2012. 2011 Arte Povera www.artepovera2011.org Indian Highway is an itinerant collective show that, through a vast selection of works, presents the multiform panorama of the Contemporary Indian artistic scene. This exhibition offers an exciting opportunity to learn about Indian artistic research and constitutes the first investigation by an Italian museum of the art of this fascinating country. With 30 artists, 60 works including 4 site-specific installations conceived for MAXXI Art and a series of works exhibited here for the first time in all their monumentality, the exhibition offers a vast representation of the creative panorama of one of Asia's largest regions. The exhibition will be on view through January 29, 2012. MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo - Roma www.fondazionemaxxi.it Subalterno1, together with the space Rua Confettora 17, presents the exhibition Déjà-Vu by Antonio Cos and curated by Stefano Maffei. A research on glass, transformed by the design cut up is developed in two stages: the first, which includes all the pieces from the reserach Déjà-Vu, at Subalterno1 in Milan from 10th May; the second that will follow immediately after, is enriched by some works, selected and autoproduced by the designer himself, at the exhibit space Rua Confettora 17, Brescia from the 25th of May. Déjà-Vu 10 - 22 may 2011 | SUBALTERNO1 Via Conte Rosso, 22 | 20134 - Milano | www.subalterno1.com 25 may - 30 july 2011 | RUA CONFETTORA 17 Rua Confettora, 17 | 25122 - Brescia | www.ruaconfettora.com ARTOUR-O the MUST’s next stop as usual has been set in Florence, from 11 to 12 March 2011. The works are exhibited both in public and private place and also hosted in the rooms of the Villa La Vedetta. (11 and 12 March from 15.00 to 21.00 - Preview 10 March from 18.30 to 22.00 - Sunday from 10.30 to 13.00). Villa La Vedetta Viale Michelangelo 78 - Firenze info@artour-o.com www.artour-o.com The Mart Rovereto presents Alessandro Mendini recognized architect, designer, artist, theorist, the undisputed star of the Italian culture of '900, paid tribute with his works to the futurist movement and Fortunato Depero. Until October 19, 2010. Reopens to the public the House of Art Futurist Depero. It's the first and only futurist museum in Italy, born from an original vision of Fortunato Depero during the Fifties of '900. Until December 31, 2010. The Mart dedicates through January 23, 2011 an exhibition to Mario Botta. Architetture 1960-2010. The Panza Collection. Conceptual Art is an exhibition in memory of Giuseppe Panza di Biumo on view through February 27, 2011. Amedeo Modigliani sculptor is finally the extraordinary exhibition, from 18 December 2010 to 27 March 2011, that the Mart Museum devotes to the tuscan artist. Mart di Rovereto The Panza Collection. Conceptual Art Through 27 February 2011 Mario Botta. Architetture 1960-2010 Through 23 Yanuary 2011 Casa d'Arte Futurista Depero Through 31 December 2010 Amedeo Modigliani sculptor From 18 December 2010 to 27 march 2011 Corso Bettini, 43 - 38068 Rovereto (TN) www.mart.tn.it Exhibition, Exhibition is a unique and ambitious exhibition that sets out to explore and reflect on the roles of perception and interpretation in the experience of viewing both works of art and exhibitions, revising the ways in which we commonly view them. It brings together artworks characterized by their use of doubling and symmetry. Taking place in the museum's Manica Lunga building, for the exhibition the gallery space has been divided into two to form two separate galleries. Manica Lunga Special project runs until January 9, 2011. At the same time Castello di Rivoli presents Tutto è connesso. Ricerche e approfondimenti nell'arte dell'ultimo decennio attraverso la collezione, curated by Beatrice Merz. Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art Piazza Mafalda di Savoia 2 - 10098 Rivoli, Turin Italy www.castellodirivoli.org The fourteenth International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, titled Postmonument, continues with a big success, and will be enriched at the end of summer by an important section dedicated to workshops and performances. To challenge the theme of the exhibition - that process of de-monumentalization which has freed sculpture from any celebratory, encomiastic functions - have been called four artists: Vanessa Beecroft, Nevin Aladag, Grzegorz Kowalski and Zorka Wollny. The aim: to show how, having abandoned its pedestal, the monument has become environment, experienced space and gesture, obtaining a more expanded and extemporary dimension of sculpture, in which the third dimension turns the place into experience and ephemeral time boldly modifies any presumptions of eternity. Until 31 October 2010 XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara Teatro degli Animosi - Piazza Cesare Battisti, 54033 Carrara - Italy T/F: +39 0585 641548 biennaledicarrara.info@gmail.com www.labiennaledicarrara.it With the newly organized space of Palazzo Donà, the Foundation presents objects and sculptures, as well as installations and films in which light and movement become essential elements of the composition. The exhibition Luce e Movimento (Light and Movement), prepared in collaboration with Galerie Denise René, includes works by masters of kinetic art, shows the Avant-garde origins of the movement and its influence on the art of today. Ten international artists from the collections of Galerie Denise René, Signum Foundation, Moholy-Nagy Foundation and Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau. Werner Graeff, László Moholy-Nagy, Martha Boto, Horacio Garcia Rossi, Julio Le Parc, Nicholas Schöffer, Gregorio Vardanega, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Józef Robakowski, Jesús Rafael Soto. Through October 16, 2010, Signum Foundation, Palazzo Donà Campo San Polo 2177 - 30125 Venice, Italy www.signum.art.pl Promoted and produced by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Soprintendenza PSAE e per il Polo Museale della città di Firenze, Opificio delle Pietre Dure di Firenze, the exhibition Inganni a Arte. Meraviglie del trompe-l'œil dall'antichità al contemporaneo will be oper at Palazzo Strozzi in Firenze until January 24, 2010. From ancient Greco-Roman mosaics and frescoes to European masterpieces of the 1300s to today, two hundred works from Italian and international museums and private collections tell the intriguing and spectacular history of trompe-l'oeil. The art of deceiving the eye. The theme of deception, illusion, and the eternal tension between fiction and reality is shown not only in painting, but in the richness it has always enjoyed: sculpture, intarsia, scagliola, pietre dure, porcelain, etc. Examples exhibited include faux armoirs, half-open, with books inside, wood intarsia of small Renaissance studios, scagliola tabletops and stones portraying seemingly prehensile objects, soup tureens and table furnishings in the shape of vegetables, anatomical and botanical wax models. The exhibit also dedicates a significant amount of space to wall decorations and interiors (detached frescoes from Ancient Rome, where the theme of deception gave life to a school) and to Flemish artists and their innovations in the trompe-l'oeil genre.Among the many curious pieces is the famous cabinet called Scarabattolo (from the Opificio delle Pietre Dure), a painting of the late 1600s, by the Flemish artist Domenico Remps, that shows a collection of natural and artistic objects from the Medici family. Masterpieces by Mantegna, Titian and Veronese will induce the visitor to reflect on the duplicity with which spatial interaction is depicted in painting, whilst the 17th century works of Jean-François de la Motte, and the still lifes of the 19th American realists will allow the visitor to explore subjects frequently encountered in optically deceptive painting, such as hanging letters or panels with papers alongside other objects on them, or the motif of hunting trophies and of various objects hanging on doors and panels. In addition, works by American artists specializing in trompe-l'œil such as Peto, Kaye, Harnett and Haberle will be on display in Europe for the very first time. Palazzo Strozzi Piazza Strozzi - 50123 Firenze October 16, 2009 - January 24, 2010 Daily 9,00 - 20,00 Thursday 9,00 - 23,00 23 and 31 december 9,00 - 23,00 Last admission one hour before closing phone +39 055 2645155 www.inganniadartefirenze.it On Monday June 22 Frankie Morello will present a site-specific project by the French artist Sophie Usunier, entitled Les Empaillés, in the spaces of the brand's first flagship store, recently opened in Milan. The exhibition, organized by Rossella Moratto and Marco Tagliafierro, is the first event in a more far-reaching program called Knot - Frankie Morello Meets Art, stemming from the great passion for contemporary art nursed by the designers Maurizio Modica and Pierfrancesco Gigliotti, the brand's moving spirits, who are already collectors and aspire to become patrons. Mixture, variety and interaction characterize the research and style of Frankie Morello and are at the root of Knot, whose aim is to create an open dialogue with art and its expressions. Flagship store Frankie Morello C.so Matteotti 3, Milano 22 june 2009 - 4 july 2009 opening: 22 july 2009 at 18.30 Info: +39 02 54 05391 GAMeC presents through February 8, 2009 three solo shows dedicated to: Giacomo Manzù, Pio Manzù, Sterling Ruby. Giacomo Manzu'. 1938 - 1965 The Years Of Research. GAMeC will focus on the central period of his activity to highlight the intensity of the sculptor's research. Pio Manzù. When The World Was Modern. The exhibition will follow the career of Pio Manzù, the internationally renowned designer. Sterling Ruby: Grid Ripper is the first solo exhibition dedicated to Sterling Ruby by a European museum. GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo Via S. Tomaso, 53 - 24121 Bergamo (Italy) Tel. +39 035 270272 fax +39 035 236962 www.gamec.it The Galleria Enrico Fornello, while continuing to offer an artistic programme with an international perspective and a vocation for contemporary experimental work, is also running a major, long-term cultural project entitled PROGETTOSETTANTA - Art and photography from the 70s in Italy. The project got underway in October 2007. Curated by Elena Re, the aim of the project is to piece together and present the complex spectrum of Italian artists who used photography in the cultural season of the 70s. The analysis focuses on core issues in the experimental work of these artists, in what was a very intense and important historical period. In some cases, however, emphasis is also placed on the artists' more recent work in order to highlight the pertinence and non-fossilized nature of their expressive approach. Between the second half of the 60s and the early 80s, in fact, many artists investigated the potential of the photographic medium, in the light of a line of thinking that did not just pervade the field of art. The result of these experiences was the flourishing of absolutely novel forms of expression, the multiplicity and the articulation of which proved such as to create a scenario as broad as it is fascinating. All the facets of this clearly need exploring. The results of the analysis conducted by Elena Re are being presented in a series of exhibitions held at regular intervals at the Galleria Enrico Fornello. Each show is accompanied by a book, thereby creating a series of works - edited by Elena Re and published by Edizioni Gli Ori - dealing with and exploring this theme. Three solo exhibitions were programmed for the initial phase of the project, devoted to Giorgio Ciam (October 2007), Luigi Ghirri (May 2008) and Paesaggio magico by Michele Zaza, which is due to open from 22 November 2008 to 31 January 2009. PROGETTOSETTANTA - Art and photography from the 70s in Italy is also accorded considerable space and an identity of its own in the context of art fairs. For Artefiera 2008 Elena Re curated a section of the gallery's stand, presenting photographic work by Giovanni Anselmo, Giorgio Ciam, Claudio Costa, Mario Cresci, Giuseppe Desiato, Luigi Ghirri, Plinio Martelli, Luigi Ontani, Giuseppe Penone, Mario Schifano, Aldo Tagliaferro, Franco Vaccari, Michele Zaza and Gilberto Zorio. The extensive programme of exhibitions, the systematic presence at art fairs and the series of publications clearly reflect the strong cultural commitment that an emerging gallery feels bound to make. This is especially in view of the current situation, which at an international level involves the rediscovery and valorization of artists who, with many different and multiple lines of enquiry, have marked a fundamental historic period for Italian contemporary art. Una prima programmazione ha previsto tre mostre personali: Giorgio Ciam realizzata ad ottobre 2007, Luigi Ghirri, realizzata a maggio 2008, e Paesaggio magico di Michele Zaza in programma dal 22 novembre 2008 al 31 gennaio 2009 sempre a cura di Elena Re. PROGETTOSETTANTA - Arte e fotografia dalla ricerca anni '70 in Italia ha trovato ampio spazio e identità propria anche in ambito fieristico. Per Artefiera 2008 Elena Re ha curato, infatti, una sezione dello stand della Galleria presentando lavori fotografici di Giovanni Anselmo, Giorgio Ciam, Claudio Costa, Mario Cresci, Giuseppe Desiato, Luigi Ghirri, Plinio Martelli, Luigi Ontani, Giuseppe Penone, Mario Schifano, Aldo Tagliaferro, Franco Vaccari, Michele Zaza, Gilberto Zorio. Un ampio ciclo di mostre, una presenza sistematica in fiera e una collana editoriale rappresentano in maniera evidente il forte impegno culturale che una galleria emergente si sente in dovere di abbracciare, soprattutto considerando l'attualità che, sul piano internazionale, riveste il recupero e la valorizzazione di artisti che, con molteplici e differenti ricerche, hanno segnato un periodo storico fondamentale per l'arte contemporanea italiana. Galleria Enrico Fornello via Paolini 27, 59100 Prato phone 0574 462719 dal 22 novembre 2008 al 31 gennaio 2009 info@enricofornello.it www.enricofornello.it The Fondazione Pietro Accorsi Museo di Arti Decorative in Turin, until January 11, presents the exhibition Gioiello Italiano Contemporaneo: tecniche e materiali tra arte e design on the Italian contemporary jewellery. Curated by Alba Cappellieri, the exhibition part of Torino 2008 World Design Capital describes the extraordinary Italian goldsmith tradition between art and industry. Luxury objects and decoration, the jewels combines the choice of materials with the design value. The exhibition aims to showcase the interpretation of different techniques and materials suggested by artists, designers, goldsmiths and companies, showing that the tradition can have a contemporary aesthetic, and therefore be accessed by a wider audience. Fondazione Pietro Accorsi Museo di Arti Decorative in Turin Via Po, 55 - 10124 Torino until January 11 2009 tel. 011.837.688 interno 3 info@fondazioneaccorsi.it www.fondazioneaccorsi.it Parco Sculture del Chianti at Pievasciata (Siena) in the heart of Chianti is the first Italian park situated in a natural wood totally devoted to international contemporary sculpture. From April to October always open from 10 a.m. to sunset except Monday. From November to March by appointment. Parco Sculture del Chianti La Fornace - S.P. 9, 53010 Pievasciata (Siena) Tel. +39.0577.357151 fax +39.0577.357149 info@chiantisculpturepark.it www.chiantisculpturepark.it

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