The Galleries of Italy - Piazza Scala, museum and cultural headquarters of Intesa Sanpaolo in Milan, remain exceptionally open on Wednesday 15th August, proposing to those who choose to stay in the city a mid-August in the name of art. It continues until August 19, the closing day of the exhibition Art as revelation. From the Luigi and Peppino Agrati collection, free admission to visit the permanent collections "Cantiere del '900" and "From Canova to Boccioni".
The current exhibition, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, presents to the public for the first time a selection of 74 works from one of the most important collections in the world of contemporary art, that of Luigi and Peppino Agrati, donated with generosity and foresight by Luigi Agrati to Intesa Sanpaolo. These are masterpieces by American artists such as Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Rauschenberg and Christo and by some of the major protagonists of Italian artistic research, including Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Mario Schifano, Alberto Burri, Fausto Melotti. With many of them, the Agrati have had a relationship of dialogue and friendship. From Informal to Pop Art, from Arte Povera to Conceptual Art up to the developments of the XNUMXs, the collection crosses and intertwines the movements that marked the path of not only Italian but international art in the second half of the XNUMXth century.
NAPLES
The Galleries of Italy – Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, museum and cultural headquarters of Intesa Sanpaolo in Naples, remain exceptionally open on Wednesday 15th August with free admission, proposing to those who choose to stay in the city a mid-August in the name of art.
The exhibition can be visited until 2 September Leonardo da Vinci. The Scapiliata, edited by Marco Carminati, eighth edition of the exhibitionThe Illustrious Guest. The exhibition of the work, which comes from the Monumental Complex of the Pilotta in Parma, anticipates the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of Leonardo's death scheduled for 2019. Leonardo's famous painting, the Head of a woman that The Scapiliata, is a wooden tablet measuring 27 by 21 centimeters, made with umber, green amber and highlighted with white lead , known since 1627 for the mention, in Federico Gonzaga's inventories, of "a picture painted on the head of a woman disheveled draft…, a work by Leonardo da Vinci”.
On show, The Scapiliata of Leonardo da Vinci is compared with the digital reproduction of Salome with the head of the Baptist by Bernardino Luini. The original work, dated around 1525 and kept in the Uffizi since 1793, is of extraordinary historical importance: the surprising resemblance between the Head of a woman of Leonardo and the female protagonist of the oil on panel painting by the Lombard painter contributes to placing Leonardo's prototype in Milan at least until 1530, underlining the very strong influence that the Tuscan master continued to exercise on the younger artists who had trained or perfected at his shop.
In addition to Scapiliata, at the Galleries it is possible to admire the permanent collection of 123 works which illustrate the development of the figurative arts in Naples and in southern Italy from the early seventeenth century to the early twentieth century. The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula by Caravaggio, a masterpiece of the Bank's art collections, Judith beheads Holofernes, attributed to the Flemish Louis Finson from a lost original by Merisi, Samson and Delilah by Artemisia Gentileschi, three biblical scenes by Bernardo Cavallino, the St. George by Francesco Guarini, the Rape of Helena by Luca Giordano Agar in the desert by Francesco Solimena and two famous paintings by Gaspare Traversi, The secret letter e The concert.
VICENZA
The Galleries of Italy in Palazzo Leoni Montanari, museum and cultural headquarters of Intesa Sanpaolo in Vicenza, remain exceptionally open on Wednesday 15th August with free admission, proposing to those who choose to stay in the city a mid-August in the name of art.
In addition to the permanent collection of eighteenth-century Venetian art, it is possible to admire the exhibition The seduction. Myth and art in ancient Greece, fifth Vicenza appointment of the exhibition The Time of the Ancient, the exhibition project dedicated to enhancing the Intesa Sanpaolo collection of Attic and Magna Graecia ceramics. The exhibition, curated by Federica Giacobello and open to the public until 13 January 2019, explores the original theme of seduction in Greek and Magna Graecia culture. Forty extraordinary archaeological works - statues, Apulian and Lucan vases, bronze mirrors, containers for oils, make-up and jewels - document the love, religious and social aspects of seduction and narrate exciting stories that have divinities and mythical heroes as protagonists. Alongside a large nucleus of figurative ceramics from the Intesa Sanpaolo collection, the exhibition is enriched by precious artefacts from the National Archaeological Museums of Naples and Reggio Calabria.
Still a few weeks instead to visit the exhibition Summertime Galleries, which will be open until the 26 August. An illustration exhibition that tells the story of summer: the World Cup in Russia, the season of open-air concerts, the cinema that comes out of theaters to fill squares and courtyards, travel and holidays. Illustration is the common denominator of a collective exhibition with over 150 works by 70 artists from all over the world, including Orlando Arocena (USA/Mexico, winner of a Clio Award), Stanley Chow (United Kingdom), Lisk Feng (China, winner of a gold at the Society of Illustrators) and the Italians Riccardo Guasco, Mauro Gatti, Marina Marcolin, Gloria Pizzilli, Ale Giorgini, Francesco Poroli, Gianluca Folì. Present the contributions of the Georgian Bartosz Kosowski, with some posters dedicated to cult films, by the Colombian Andrés Moncayo, with a series of tributes to the cartoon Captain Tsubasa, by the Czech Dušan Cežek, which showcases his pixel creations; the tables by Davide De Cubellis used for the visualizing and the realization of the Aquatic Adventures by Steve Zissou by Wes Anderson, and the table by Alessandro Pautasso which became the cover of Mika's record. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Illustri cultural association of Vicenza.
