Starting today, the exhibition La Grande Madre opens to the public, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, promoted by the Municipality of Milan | Culture, conceived and produced by the Nicola Trussardi Foundation together with Palazzo Reale for ExpoinCittà 2015, created with the support of BNL Gruppo BNP Paribas.
The exhibition project – the flagship event of the ExpoinCittà autumn – stems from a collaboration between public and private institutions with the aim of bringing contemporary art, in its most current and innovative dimensions, to the most important and central exhibition space in Milan, Royal Palace.
Through over 400 works, by 139 international artists, writers and directors together with documents and other figurative testimonies - from around twenty museums around the world, as well as from foundations, archives, private collections and galleries - and an exhibition of 2.000 square meters divided into 29 rooms on the first floor of Palazzo Reale, La Grande Madre analyzes the iconography and representation of motherhood in XNUMXth-century art, from the avant-gardes to the present day.
