THE EXHIBITIONS:
VENICE
François Pinault Foundation presents a personal exhibition of Rudolf Stingel.
Curated by the artist himself, with the coordination of Elena Geuna, the exhibition will develop over the entire exhibition area of the building, involving the atrium, first and second floors. It will be the first time that the entire space of the museum has been dedicated to a single artist. Rudolf Stingel, born in 1956, lives and works between New York and Merano, his hometown. His work has been the focus of solo exhibitions in many international institutions, including the Secession in Vienna (2012), the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin (2010), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2007), the Museum für moderni Kunst in Frankfurt (2004) and the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Trento (2001). He also participated in the Venice Biennale in 1993 and 2003. The artist has also been present in the exhibitions “Where Are We Going?” (2006), “Sequence 1” (2007), “Mapping the Studio” (2009-10) and “The world belongs to you” (2011) at Palazzo Grassi. The project is part of the program of monographs on great contemporary artists, inaugurated in April 2012 with Urs Fischer (“Madame Fisscher”), and presented alternating and complementary to the thematic exhibitions of the François Pinault Foundation collection. The "Rudolf Stingel" exhibition will remain open at Palazzo Grassi until 31 December 2013, during the entire 55th Biennale of contemporary art, on the occasion of which a new exhibition will also be inaugurated from 30 May 2013 at Punta della Dogana .
From the 7 April
Grassi Palace
CASERTA
MeMus/Terrae Motus
The exhibition intends to enhance the collection Terrae Motus, linked to the Reggia since 1992 by the will of the collector Lucio Amelio, making it dialogue for the first time with "Arte all'Opera, Opera ad Arte", the exhibition with which MeMus, Museum and Historical Archive was inaugurated on 2011 October XNUMX of the Teatro di San Carlo.
Together with the works of Kiefer, Ontani, Paladino, Paolini and Rauschenberg, there are the precious artefacts created by the same artists for the staging of performances at the Teatro di San Carlo, subsequently exhibited as part of the "Arte all'Opera" exhibition in the spaces of MeMus, the museum space of the Lirico di Napoli located in the Royal Palace, within which are collected stage photos, sketches, costumes and other suggestive elements of scenography.
March 28 - June 3, 2013
Caserta, Royal Palace – Historic Apartments
Phone: 0823.448084
Email: caserta@civitamusea.it
Hours: 8.30 – 19.30. Closed on Tuesday
NAM JUNE PAIK IN ITALY
The exhibition itinerary presents a significant selection of works – over a hundred jobs – from important Italian collections and aims to reconstruct the artist's relationship with our country of which he was a frequent guest, from the seventies to all the nineties, alone or with other artists of the Fluxus galaxy, engaged in performances, exhibitions, exchanges and dialogues with critics, collectors, institutions. The main nucleus of the exhibition is made up of the numerous works that belonged to Antonina Zaru, who maintained a long-lasting and fruitful relationship with the Korean artist. Documents and photographic and filmed testimonies resulting from an extensive survey conducted in the Emilia area are also on display, where Paik has found much attention from passionate gallery owners such as Rosanna Chiessi and Carlo Cattelani and from shrewd collectors. A leading exponent of the Fluxus movement, considered the main precursor of video art, he has been described as "an artist aware of his own time", capable of using the television object and the video camera both as elements with which to produce video sculptures and video installations and as actual components performance properties. Among the protagonists of the New York happening season, during his artistic life Paik acted between art, music, theater and photography, often together with the cellist Charlotte Moorman with whom he had an intense collaboration for about thirty years, in particular, in the decade between 1964 and 1974. Since the 1995s his research has focused on satellite technology and the computer world. During his career he has collaborated, among others, with John Cage, Peter Moore, Laurie Anderson, Joseph Beuys and Merce Cunningham. “The bel canto was the first relationship I had with Italy” he said “The thing that most intrigues me about Italian culture is certainly the quality and complexity of the Italian Grande Opera. The Opera represents what I look for in electronic art, in an Opera there is everything: the music, the movement, the space. Thus, if an operation of electronic art succeeds, I believe that it should be considered an Electronic Work”. The robots dedicated to Luciano Pavarotti and Maria Callas and the XNUMX work entitled "Oriental Painting, Conductor of the Orchestra" testify to this particular link between the artist and our culture.
Until June 2 2013
Civic Gallery, Palazzo Santa Margherita, Palazzina dei Giardini
COMO
THE NEW CITY. BEYOND SANT'ELIA. One hundred years of urban visions
The exhibition presents 100 works, some of which are unpublished, including paintings, drawings, models, films, installations by artists, architects, directors, such as Antonio Sant'Elia, Umberto Boccioni, Fernand Léger, Mario Sironi, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Fritz Lang, Yona Friedman, Archizoom, Superstudio, Chris Burden, Carsten Höller and others. Since its appearance, during the XNUMXth century, the metropolis had appeared as one of the most dramatic and contradictory manifestations of the modern age, characterized by unprecedented problems, hygienic, moral, political, cultural, functional, which required radical reforms both in the field of viability and transport, and in that of housing and the organization of domestic life. Great architects such as Le Corbusier or Frank Lloyd Wright have tried to give radical answers to these issues, with the extraordinary visions of Contemporary city for three million inhabitants by Le Corbusier and by Broadacre City, the ideal American city founded on the single-family house and the automobile as an individual means of transport, designed by Wright, of which the large model is on display. The future of the city had remained a crucial protagonist of the discussions and questions that had agitated the European, but also American and Japanese, neo-avant-gardes until the beginning of the XNUMXs: the Dutch Constant, the Franco-Hungarian Yona Friedman and the English Archigram had imagined cities suspended above the ground in which the inhabitants could freely organize their lives, not unlike what the German Walter Jonas or the Japanese "metabolist" Arata Isozaki were proposing. In the stormy context of XNUMX, Italian radical groups, such as Archizoom or Superstudio, articulated an uncompromising critique of the capitalist city, questioning its structure and meaning.
From 24 March 2013 al July 14 2013
Como, Villa Olmo and the Civic Art Gallery
WERE
CINDY SHERMAN. That's me – That's not me - The early works 1975-1977 – from the Verbund Collection in Vienna
Curated by Gabriele Schor, in collaboration with the Verbund Collection in Vienna, the exhibition – for the first time in Italy, after stops at the Vertikale Galerie in Vienna and at the Center de la photographie in Geneva – presents 50 works that the American photographer and director made between 1975 and 1977 in Buffalo, at the dawn of her career, when she was in her early twenties.
The works proposed in Merano, in fact, belong to Cindy Sherman's training period at the State University of New York in Buffalo, when she decided to abandon her studies in painting to devote herself completely to photography. Here she produced a large body of work which is the foundation on which she built her creative path, and which anticipate the famous series Untitled Film stills which he created in New York between 1977 and 1980.
Until 26 May 2013
Merano Art
April 5 - 7, 2013
From time to 12.00 20.00
MiArt2013
CONFERENCES
MILAN
The Gallerie di Piazza Scala open to a series of conversations on topics that cross themes and centuries starting from the Italian and in particular Lombard 800th century works presented in the exhibition itinerary, belonging to the collections of the Cariplo Foundation and Intesa Sanpaolo. Three strands of in-depth analysis that will accompany the public from spring to autumn. The first will be "The XNUMXth century and the representation of modernity", followed by "Milan of yesterday and today" while in the autumn the theme of "art, dance and music in the XNUMXth century" will be proposed. Curated by Fernando Mazzocca, the meetings will start from the representation of social and cultural themes of the nineteenth century, to bring them back to the most pressing topicality: journalism in places of conflict, the theme of urban mobility and the organization of work, town planning and the welfare are some of the ever-current issues that will see an original approach in a confrontation between art historians, administrators, entrepreneurs, artists.
April 4th at 18:30 pm Manzoni and modern landscape painting • Carlo Sisi – art historian: the landscape as a reflection of the state of mind • Anna Nogara – actress: readings from Manzoni's The Betrothed.
April 11th at 18:30 pm The spinning mill and the new organization of work • Elena Lissoni – art historian: the image of the spinning mill in XNUMXth century painting and prints • Barbara Carbone – managing director of Trenta Editore and Vice President of the Publishing Merchandise Group of Assolombarda: the experience of an entrepreneur of today • Anna Nogara – singer accompanied on the accordion by Maurizio Dosi: the song of the spinning mills.
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VITTORIO DE SICA ACTOR with 6 films shot between 1932 and 1943
From famous films such as Mr. Max, The Department Stores e Men what rascals by Mario Camerini to films less known to the general public such as The adventuress upstairs by Raphael Matarazzo, Our dreams by Vittorio Cottafavi e Maximum time by Mario Mattoli. Two real rarities, however, are Milly and De Sica scene found in the archives of UCLA in Los Angeles, a showreel made on the occasion of Vittorio Mussolini's trip to Hollywood (October 1937) and Warning!, propaganda short made by Giuseppe Amato in 1940 but never distributed.
The review – which accompanies the exhibition ALL DE SICA curated by Gian Luca Farinelli hosted by the Ara Pacis Museum until 28 April 2013 – will continue from 24 April to 9 May with a second part dedicated to film made after the war, between the 1952 and the 1961.
All screenings are free to enter.
SCREENING PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY 3 APRIL
THE MEN THAT RASCALS Deluxe room at 16.30
by Mario Camerini - Italy, 1932, 66 '
Bruno (Vittorio De Sica), chauffeur and mechanic of a wealthy Milanese gentleman, falls in love with Mariuccia (Lia Franca), a saleswoman in a perfumery. To win her over, he shows up with her master's car and invites her to lunch outside Milan. Unfortunately, he meets the master's wife there and, after having had to accompany her to Milan, he tries to return to Mariuccia, but, due to her excessive speed, he gets involved in an accident. Fired for destroying the car, he wanders around looking for a new job. Meanwhile, a continuous series of spites and teasing begins between Bruno and Mariuccia… performers: Lia Franca (Mariuccia), Vittorio De Sica (Bruno), Cesare Zoppetti (Tadini, Mariuccia's father), Aldo Moschino (Count Piazzi), Pia Lotti (Gina).
MR. MAX Deluxe room at 20.30
by Mario Camerini – Italy, 1937, 84 '
A young man had to interrupt his high school studies to inherit his father's business, which consists in managing a newspaper kiosk. The newsstand is profitable and the young man can afford a nice little trip every year. In one of these, taken as he is by the charm of the aristocratic world, he takes advantage of the free first-class ticket on a steamer, which a schoolmate of his gets him, and spends a few days on board in the company of some representatives of the world. He too is mistaken for a nobleman and can establish relationships, including those of a sentimental nature with a noble lady. When the money runs out, he abandons that brief interlude of golden life and returns to the newsstand. He is recognized by the lady's maid and, to track her down, he begins a double life: on one side the newsagent who courts the maid and on the other the young worldly man who longs for the lady of the great world. So he can see how this great world is not suited to his tastes so that, finally, he realizes the sincere affection that the waitress has for the newsagent. He makes the young socialite disappear to return all and only the good working boy, who marries the pretty waitress. performers: Vittorio De Sica (Gianni), Assia Noris (Lauretta), Mario Casaleggio (Uncle Pietro), Caterina Collo (Aunt Lucia), Romolo Costa (Commander Baldi), Rubi Dalma (Donna Paola), Umberto Melnati (Il Gionalaio/Max Varaldo) .
VITTORIO DE SICA ACTOR
From 3 April, the Casa del Cinema will be the first slice of the review with 6 films shot between 1932 and 1943
Part of it Wednesday April 3In partnership with RIPLEY'S FILM, the new review of the Casa del Cinema dedicated to VITTORIO DE SICA ACTOR. In the first part of the review (April 3, 10 and 17 with repeats on the following Saturday and Sunday at 11 am) it will be possible to see or review 6 films made between 1932 and 1943.
From famous films such as Mr. Max, The Department Stores e Men what rascals by Mario Camerini to films less known to the general public such as The adventuress upstairs by Raphael Matarazzo, Our dreams by Vittorio Cottafavi e Maximum time by Mario Mattoli. Two real rarities, however, are Milly and De Sica scene found in the archives of UCLA in Los Angeles, a showreel made on the occasion of Vittorio Mussolini's trip to Hollywood (October 1937) and Warning!, propaganda short made by Giuseppe Amato in 1940 but never distributed.
The review – which accompanies the exhibition ALL DE SICA curated by Gian Luca Farinelli hosted by the Ara Pacis Museum until 28 April 2013 – will continue from 24 April to 9 May with a second part dedicated to film made after the war, between the 1952 and the 1961.
All screenings are free to enter.
The House of Cinema is one structure promoted by the Department of Cultural Policies and the Historic Center of Rome with the collaboration of the Department of Culture, Art and Sport of the Lazio Region, with the artistic direction of Caterina d'Amico and the management of Zètema Progetto Cultura.
SCREENING PROGRAM
WEDNESDAY 3 APRIL
Deluxe room at 16.30
THE MEN THAT RASCALS
by Mario Camerini - Italy, 1932, 66 '
Bruno (Vittorio De Sica), chauffeur and mechanic of a wealthy Milanese gentleman, falls in love with Mariuccia (Lia Franca), a saleswoman in a perfumery. To win her over, he shows up with her master's car and invites her to lunch outside Milan. Unfortunately, he meets the master's wife there and, after having had to accompany her to Milan, he tries to return to Mariuccia, but, due to her excessive speed, he gets involved in an accident. Fired for destroying the car, he wanders around looking for a new job. Meanwhile, a continuous series of spites and teasing begins between Bruno and Mariuccia… performers: Lia Franca (Mariuccia), Vittorio De Sica (Bruno), Cesare Zoppetti (Tadini, Mariuccia's father), Aldo Moschino (Count Piazzi), Pia Lotti (Gina).
Deluxe room at 20.30
MR. MAX
by Mario Camerini – Italy, 1937, 84 '
A young man had to interrupt his high school studies to inherit his father's business, which consists in managing a newspaper kiosk. The newsstand is profitable and the young man can afford a nice little trip every year. In one of these, taken as he is by the charm of the aristocratic world, he takes advantage of the free first-class ticket on a steamer, which a schoolmate of his gets him, and spends a few days on board in the company of some representatives of the world. He too is mistaken for a nobleman and can establish relationships, including those of a sentimental nature with a noble lady. When the money runs out, he abandons that brief interlude of golden life and returns to the newsstand. He is recognized by the lady's maid and, to track her down, he begins a double life: on one side the newsagent who courts the maid and on the other the young worldly man who longs for the lady of the great world. So he can see how this great world is not suited to his tastes so that, finally, he realizes the sincere affection that the waitress has for the newsagent. He makes the young socialite disappear to return all and only the good working boy, who marries the pretty waitress. performers: Vittorio De Sica (Gianni), Assia Noris (Lauretta), Mario Casaleggio (Uncle Pietro), Caterina Collo (Aunt Lucia), Romolo Costa (Commander Baldi), Rubi Dalma (Donna Paola), Umberto Melnati (Il Gionalaio/Max Varaldo) .
WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL
Deluxe room at 16.30
MILLY AND DE SICA – audition for "Maximum Time" (1935?, 5'37'')
Test specimen found in the archives of UCLA in Los Angeles where it was filed as Milly-De Sica test (screen test) English. It is a show reel made on the occasion of Vittorio Mussolini's trip to Hollywood. performers: Milly, Vittorio De Sica
MAXIMUM TIME
by Mario Mattoli – Italy, 1935, 78 '
Professor Banti (Vittorio De Sica), while fishing with his boat on the lake, sees the pretty Dora Sandri (Milly) rain from the sky, having jumped from an airplane with a parachute for a bet. The professor falls in love with her and to win her over he is willing to do anything with her despite her proverbial maternal attachment to an old aunt. Between a reckless ski descent, a bike ride and improbable disguises, he will arrive at the altar just in time… performers: Vittorio De Sica (Prof. Giacomo Benti), Milly (Dora Sandri), Camillo Pilotto (Antonio, the butler), Giulio Donadio (Rossi, the usurer), Enrico Viarisio (Alfredo Martinelli), Amelia Chellini (Aunt Agata) , Anna Magnani (Emilia, the maid), Ermanno Roveri (Jack), Nerio Bernardi (Prince Huerta), Toto Mignone (Popi), Giovanni Barella (the driver)
Deluxe room at 20.30
ATTENTION! (Propaganda documentary no. 2) short film made by Giuseppe Amato, 1940, 8'23''
Propaganda short prepared for the outbreak of war, but never released. Assia Noris complains of being neglected by her boyfriend who instead works in the Rancas factory engaged in the secret production of war material at night. Although uncredited, the direction is probably by Mario Camerini.performers: Assia Noris, Vittorio De Sica, Virgilio Riento, Gazzolo
DEPARTMENT STORES
by Mario Camerini – Italy, 1939, 85 '
Bruno Zecchi (Vittorio De Sica), invested by the general manager of a department store, receives from them as compensation a driver's position within the company. Here he meets Lauretta (Assia Norris), a saleswoman in the sportswear department, and falls in love with her. In the meantime, however, Anna (Milena Penovich), another sales assistant, intends to seduce Bruno to use him as a cover for clandestine trafficking carried out against the company together with his brother and the chief of staff. A series of misunderstandings will complicate the situation and will question the love of Bruno and Lauretta, the latter being courted by the inflexible chief of staff. performers: Vittorio De Sica (Bruno Zecchi), Assia Noris (Lauretta Corelli), Enrico Glori (Bertini, the head of personnel), Luisella Beghi (Emilia), Virgilio Riento (Gaetano), Milena Penovich (Anna), Andrea Checchi (Maurizio), Mattia Giancola (Anna's brother), Nino Crisman (warehouse inspector), Nietta Zocchi (the grubby saleswoman)
WEDNESDAY 17 APRIL
Deluxe room at 16.30
THE ADVENTURER OF THE UPSTAIRS
by Raphael Matarazzo – Italy, 1941, 80 '
After the departure of his wife Clara (Giuditta Rissone), the lawyer Fabrizio Marchini (Vittorio De Sica) finds himself in Biancamaria's house one evening (Clara Calamai), who after yet another argument is on the run from her jealous husband. Fabrizio, captivated by the woman's beauty, decides to host her for the night. The next morning, when the lawyer wakes up, he realizes that Biancamaria has already left and that a precious pearl necklace is missing from Clara's drawer. Fabrizio obviously comes to the conclusion that the adventuress upstairs is a thief and asks for the help of his friend Arturo (Carlo Campanini). performers: Vittorio De Sica (Fabrizio Marchini lawyer), Clara Calamai (Biancamaria Rossi), Giuditta Rissone (Clara Marchini), Olga Vittoria Gentilli (Biancamaria's mother), Camillo Pilotto (Bernardo Rossi), Carlo Campanini (Arturo, Fabrizio's friend), Ernesto Almirante (Biancamaria's father), Jucci Kellerman (Nella, Biancamaria's parents' maid), Giselda Gasperini (Arturo's maid), Dina Romano (Marchini's maid).
Deluxe room at 20.30
OUR DREAMS
by Vittorio Cottafavi – Italy, 1943, 66 '
Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is the usual scoundrel who lives off petty scams and, in the meantime, cultivates dreams of greatness and an uncommon "advertising" talent. Cornered by creditors, he tries to get hired as a consultant at Magazzini Tuns, but the only assignment he receives from the director is to accompany the daughter of the accountant Moscapelli to a representative concert. The young man introduces himself to the girl (Maria Mercader) as the son of the industrialist and on this lie he raises a small castle of dreams in the modest and simple girl, to then disappear at the end of the evening. performers: Vittorio De Sica (Leo), Maria Mercader (Matilde Moscapelli, known as Titì), Paolo Stoppa (Oreste, Leo's partner), Luigi Almirante (Ladislao Moscapelli), Guglielmo Barnabò (Posci, director of Magazzini Tuns), Vittorina Benvenuti ( Margherita Moscapelli), Nerio Bernardi (director of the "Golden Spider"), Dina Romano (Beatrice, the maid), Aldo De Franchi (Bernardo, Matilde's suitor), Leone Papa (Mr. Tuns)
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