January
BRESCIA – Palazzo Martinengo
24 January – 14 June 2015
FOOD IN ART. Masterpieces of the great masters from the seventeenth century to Warhol
From 24 January to 14 June 2015 Palazzo Martinengo in Brescia hosts the exhibition “Food in art. Masterpieces of the great masters from the seventeenth century to Warhol ", which will present over 100 works by masters of ancient art such as Campi, Baschenis, Ceruti, Figino, Recco, Ruoppolo, Stanchi, who will dialogue with modern and contemporary authors, from Magritte to de Chirico, from Manzoni to Fontana, Lichtenstein, up to Andy Warhol.
Food in art thus offers a further insight into the topics covered by Expo 2015, whose theme is "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life".
Promoted by the Friends of Palazzo Martinengo Association, with the patronage of the Province of Brescia, the Lombardy Region and EXPO 2015, and curated by Davide Dotti assisted by an international scientific committee, the review will lead the public on a long and exciting journey through the different pictorial currents that have followed one another over time - from Baroque to Rococo, from nineteenth-century Romanticism to the avant-garde of the twentieth century - to appreciate the various iconography related to the representation of food that the artists have faced with flair and originality.
FEBRUARY 2015
MERANO – Merano art
February 6 - April 12, 2015
FROM & TO
From 6 February to 12 April 2015, the From & To exhibition will be held in Merano Arte, marking the collaboration between the two prestigious contemporary art museums of Merano Arte and Villa Arson in Nice.
The exhibition, curated by Eric Mangion, director of Villa Arson and Valerio Dehò, artistic director of Merano Arte, presents the works of five Italian artists and five French artists: Tony Fiorentino, Leander Schwazer, Sonia Leimer, Julia Frank, Roberto Pugliese, Diana Blondeau, Lorraine Chateaux, Quentin Derouet, Vivien Roubaud, Thomas Tourlai.
MODENA - Civic Gallery - Palazzo Santa Margherita
February 7 - June 7, 2015
THE CINEMA SHOW
From February 7 to June 7, lat the Civic Gallery of Modena, at Palazzo Santa Margherita, presents The Cinema Show, an installation of works from the Photography Collection of the Modena museum curated by Daniele De Luigi and Marco Pierini. The selection of images is dedicated to the seventh art and its protagonists: a substantial nucleus draws from the Franco Fontana fund, while numerous photographs come from new acquisitions that will enrich the Gallery's heritage.
The exhibition itinerary embraces a century of cinema: from the experimental short film "Thaïs" by Anton Giulio Bragaglia, from 1917, throughout the twentieth century to the Italian and international films of recent years and its protagonists, from Woody Allen to Bill Murray, from Nanni Moretti to Paolo Sorrentino.
Scene photographs, studio portraits, shots taken during breaks on the set or on the street by surprise, return a colorful fresco of the world of cinema and its dimension suspended between reality and the imaginary.
MILAN – Officine Saffi (via Aurelio Saffi 7)
February 12 - April 9, 2015
ARCHANGEL
From 12 February to 9 April 2015, the Saffi Workshops in Milan (via Aurelio Saffi 7), an exhibition space whose mission is to promote ceramic art in all its forms and expressions of both emerging and established artists, inaugurate its exhibition season, hosting the personal exhibition of Arcangelo (Avellino, 1956) , one of the most accredited contemporary Italian authors.
The exhibition, entitled Making a body, making a place, curated by Flaminio Gualdoni, will present a series of recent ceramic works by the artist from Campania.
As the curator states, “In the series of recent pieces, Arcangelo's is really a making of body, and at the same time a making of place. His mythopoetic faculty, the shady and mobile mood of his finding, weaves plastic situations of retracted, concentrated narrativity, sometimes only intuited in a nutshell and left there, to grow in our gaze and in the emotional flow that is triggered by it”.
ST.MORITZ – Protestant Church
13 February – 1 March 2015
I TRAVEL TO ITALY. The sixties
From 13 February to 1 March 2015, the Protestant Church of St. Moritz hosts an event that analyzes one of the most fruitful and lively artistic periods of the Italian twentieth century.
The Sixties will in fact be at the center of the investigation conducted by the exhibition Viaggio in Italia, curated by Francesca Pola. It will be an ideal journey within this decade of great creativity that developed in the three major cultural poles of Milan, Rome and Turin, thanks to personalities such as Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani, Agostino Bonalumi, Marco Schifano, Mimmo Rotella, Franco Angeli , Alighiero Boetti, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Giuseppe Penone and many others.
The review is the winter prelude to the eighth edition of St.Moritz Art Masters, scheduled from 21 to 30 August 2015 which will see Italy as a guest country. After China, Brazil and India, the attention of the Engadin festival will turn to the art and artists of the Belpaese.
MARCH 2015
MODENA - Civic Gallery - Palazzina dei Giardini
March 21 - June 7, 2015
THE MEMORY FINALLY. ART IN POLAND: 1989-2015
Memory finally. Art in Poland: 1989-2015 is the title of the exhibition scheduled from 21 March to 7 June 2015 at the Civic Gallery of Modenaat the Palazzina dei Giardini. The exhibition is curated by Marinella Paderni, produced with the Cassa di Risparmio di Modena Foundation, created in collaboration with the Polish Cultural Institute in Rome.
Fourteen selected authors – on the basis of three generations of Polish artists born between the end of the XNUMXs and the first half of the XNUMXs – present photographs, paintings, collages, performances, sculptures, drawings, installations and videos.
The exhibition itinerary recounts the delicate passage between the past and the future experienced by the country, shows the gap between deep-rooted cultural heritages and the invention of a new art, and reveals a decisive and autonomous trait, the full expression of today's post-socialist Poland.
The search for an identity in the present, which also represents the promise of the future, is the leitmotiv of the exhibition: "Memory at last", the title of a poem written by Wislawa Szymborska, Polish writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996.
Milan – Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation
March 24 – July 17, 2015
BREAD AND ROSES
From 24 March to 17 July 2015, with the group exhibition "Il pane e le rose", curated by Marco Meneguzzo, the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, reflecting on the theme of EXPO 2015, highlights the need to "feed the planet" also through the nourishment of the spirit. Massimo Bartolini, Loris Cecchini, Pino Deodato, Chiara Dynys and Giuseppina Giordano, five Italian sculptors of different generations, characterized by the most varied expressive tools, are called to interpret these themes.
APRIL 2015
MILAN – The Mall – Milan Porta Nuova
11-13 April 2015 (Opening 10 April 2015)
MY FAIR 2015
Big news ahead for MIA Fair, the first and most important photography fair in Italy, now in its fifth edition.
Fabio Castelli, creator and director of the event, has studied a series of novelties for MIA Fair 2015 in line with the expectations of an audience, such as photography enthusiasts, who are increasingly attentive and demanding.
The location will change. MIA Fair 2015 will in fact be hosted by The Mall, a recently built complex, a multifunctional space located in Porta Nuova, in the heart of downtown Milan.
And the dates will also be new, from 11 to 13 April 2015, in the week in which Milan will offer a calendar of art events of absolute importance, with exhibitions at Hangar Bicocca, the Trussardi Foundation, the Triennale and with MiArt.
It's not all. The imminent opening of EXPO 2015 has led the organizers to expand the MIA Fair format. In addition to its characteristic proposal, unique in the Italian trade fair panorama, a stand for each artist - to each artist his catalogue, MIA Fair 2015 will inaugurate a section in which exhibitors will be able to present more artists, with projects designed around the theme of EXPO 2015, “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”.
GALLARATE (VA) MA*GA
April 17 - November 8, 2015
MISSONI, THE ART, THE COLORE
The continuous dialogue with European art of the twentieth century. The creativity and entrepreneurship of a great Italian Maison. The extraordinary culture and genius of its two founders.
Revolves around these themes, the event that the MA*GA of Gallarate (VA) will dedicate, from 17 April to 8 November 2015, to Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, precisely in the city that since 1953 they had chosen as the location for their home and their first artisan workshop.
In the year of EXPO, the successes and international recognitions of Missoni in textile and fashion production are among the most accredited spokesmen of Made in Italy, of the value of a territory in generating languages and comparisons with the major masters of modern art and Contemporary.
The MISSONI, ART, COLORE exhibition, curated by Luciano Caramel and Emma Zanella, is a project by the Municipality of Gallarate, the Department of Culture, the Ottavio and Rosita Missoni Archive, the “Silvio Zanella.
The exhibition itinerary, made unique by the installations that will themselves become environmental works, will be articulated according to different narrative registers that will outline the main characteristics of the genius of the Missonis made of color, material and shape and will demonstrate, almost unique case in the panorama of international fashion, how much their creativity is hand in glove with XNUMXth-century art, from the avant-gardes of the beginning of the century to the abstract and informal research of the post-war period.
The exhibition will present 70 works by artists such as Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Fortunato Depero, Joseph Albers, Lucio Fontana, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian, Enrico Prampolini, Gino Severini, Bruno Munari and many others.
MERANO – Merano art
April 24 - June 14, 2015
GREEN & WILD. Food and nature in contemporary art
From 24 April to 14 June 2015, with the exhibition "Green & Wild - food and nature in contemporary art", Merano Art will make the cultural values of cooking and eating protagonists, all from the point of view of art. Starting from the work of Daniel Spoerri, inventor of "Eat Art", around ten positions by international contemporary artists will be proposed who will propose a reflection on the theme through photographs, videos and installations. The exhibition explores how the artistic approach involving the food sector is expressed in strongly current themes and at the same time reflects on the new way of relating to food and choosing products for cooking. The so-called "foraging", a term that indicates the activity of collecting wild food suitable for human nourishment in various natural environments, is a new trend that brings people back to nature, inviting us to rethink the value of wild crops and wild herbs.
ASCONA (Switzerland) – Municipal Museum of Modern Art
April 26 - July 19, 2015
PAULA MODERSOHN-BECKER
Information:
tel. +41 (0)91 759 81 40; museo@ascona.ch
http://www.museoascona.ch
JUNE 2015
MODENA - Civic Gallery - Palazzina dei Giardini
25 June – 20 September 2015
ART KANE
From 25 June to 20 September 2015, Art Kane will be the protagonist of the exhibition, at the Palazzina dei Giardini of the Civic Gallery of Modena. Curated by Guido Harari and Marco Pierini, created in collaboration with the Solares Fondazione delle Arti of Parma, the exhibition – the first in an Italian museum dedicated to the great New York photographer (1925-1995) – brings together around a hundred color and black and white that helped shape the visual imagery of the second half of the twentieth century. A large part will be dedicated to portraits and "stage photos" of rock stars (from Frank Zappa to Jim Morrison, from the Rolling Stones to the Who, immortalized wrapped up in the Union Jack), a section no less consistent with fashion and news, fixed with look so original as to conquer the covers of the most prestigious international magazines.
MERANO – Merano art
26 June – 20 September 2015
FRANCESCA WOODMAN & BIRGIT JUERGENSSEN
The appointment scheduled from 26 June to 20 September 2015 a Merano Art, curated by Gabriele Schor, is dedicated to two great artists who died at a young age: Francesca Woodman and Birgit Jürgenssen. The works from the Verbund Collection in Vienna will be able to shed light on the personalities of two authors who strongly marked the history of art in the XNUMXs.
The exhibition will offer 80 photographs, exhibited for the first time in the original version, which will delve into the poetry and the metaphorical sphere that characterizes Woodman's singular use of posing objects (mirrors, gloves, wallpapers, etc.), but also its staging in a space where the laws of geometry no longer seem to apply.
Birgit Jürgenssen (1949-2003), one of the most important exponents of the feminist avant-garde, left behind a truly heterogeneous and complex corpus. The approximately 3.000 works she created during her lifetime include prints, drawings, watercolours, collages, paintings, photographs and sculptures. At Merano Arte it will be possible to admire 40 works by the Austrian artist, dedicated to the exploration of a female body that appears masked, fragmented, anthropomorphic.
September 2015
Milan – Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation
22 September - 18 December 2015
TRIBUTE TO GIOVANNI CARANDENTE. Return to Spoleto 1962
At the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation, from 22 September to 18 December 2015, “Tribute to Giovanni Carandente. Return to Spoleto 1962”, curated by Luciano Caprile, in collaboration with Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive Spoleto – Museo Carandente, retraces the stages of the adventure that began in 1962 when, as part of the Festival dei due Mondi in Spoleto, Giovanni Carandente had in the city 106 sculptures by important Italian and international authors, thus giving life – for the first time in Italy – to a real open-air museum of contemporary art.
OCTOBER 2015
MERANO – Merano art
2 October 2014 - 10 January 2016
ALOIS KUPERION
ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING IN MERANO IN THE XNUMXS
From 2 October 2015 to 10 January 2016, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, an exhibition dedicated to Luis Kuperion will be held in Merano Arte which will explore his figure as a painter-beggar and the paintings inspired by the landscape of his homeland: the Val Venosta.
At the same time, the exhibition Architecture and urban planning in Merano in the XNUMXs, curated by Walter Gadner and Magdalene Schmidt, in collaboration with the Museum of the City of Merano, will explore themes such as 'The planning and construction of residential complexes', 'Sport and leisure', 'Public buildings, Town Hall, Casa del Fascio', 'Industry and technological systems, bridges'. The exhibition will provide an in-depth historical overview of the city of Merano and highlight the importance of architecture and urban planning for sustainable urban development.
Padua – Zabarella Palace
3 October 2015 - 28 February 2016
TECHNOLOGY
From 3 October 2015 to 28 February 2016, FrZabarella palace of Padua, will host a major retrospective dedicated to Giovanni Fattori. The exhibition, promoted by the Bano Foundation as a further step in the ten-year project on 100th century Italian painting, will offer over XNUMX works by the Tuscan artist.
The famous tablets, the monumental paintings of the Risorgimento, the magnificent portraits, the scenes of popular life will be brought together in a large exhibition that brings back to the public the absolute protagonist, not only of Macchiaioli painting, but also of naturalism of the late nineteenth century. Giovanni Fattori (Livorno, 1825 - Florence, 1908) was certainly also for the long life, the quality, the number of paintings created, a protagonist of European level. The experimentation with the maquis to which he gave a decisive contribution was only one of the phases of an experience of greater and more varied scope. If in the tablets, such as the famous "Rotonda di Palmieri", he was able to dialogue with the Italian fifteenth century, while managing to conceive an absolutely modern vision, in the subsequent large-format paintings he was able to achieve an epic dimension that brings him closer to the realism of Courbet.
MODENA - Civic Gallery - Palazzo Santa Margherita and Palazzina dei Giardini
10 October 2015 - 10 January 2016
DANIEL SPOERRI. Eat art in Transformation
With the exhibition “Daniel Spoerri. Eat Art in Transformation” (Palazzina dei Giardini and Palazzo Santa Margherita, 10 October-10 January 2016) concludes the 2015 exhibition program. Curated by Susanne Bieri, Antonio d'Avossa, Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, created and co-produced with the max museo di Chiasso, the extensive retrospective dedicated to Daniel Spoerri, the artist who coined Eat Art in 1967, is closely linked to the theme of Expo 2015.
The exhibited works range from the first period of experimentation linked to the magazine “Matérial” (1955–1961), then to kinetic multiples, and then to the famous tableaux-pièges, assemblages of everyday objects glued to supports and reversed in orientation, up to to sculpture and research in the graphic field, all enriched by important archival documents.
