New year, new exhibitions. In Rome, painting, sculpture and photography will dominate throughout 2019. The Eternal City remains a constant source of inspiration, not only because it continues to be the open-air museum that everyone in the world has come to know, but also for the enormous offer of its most historic and contemporary museums.
All Stables of the Quirinale from 11 March to 30 June on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of the death of the most famous Italian humanist Leonardo da Vinci, the exhibition will be set up Leonardo. Beyond the myth in collaboration with the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan and together with the Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, investigating his work according to the most up-to-date guidelines in the declinations of the history of engineering, thought, scientific-technological culture, from Tuscan training to his stay in Milan up to the late Roman period.
From 24 January to 13 October 2019 the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GNAM) of Viale delle Belle Arti will host a profound reflection on the female figure through artists who have represented and celebrated women in the various artistic currents from the late nineteenth century to the present day entitled Women. Body and image between symbol and revolution. The exhibition will cover over two centuries and consists of about 100 works, including paintings, sculptures, graphics and photography, some of which have never been exhibited before or have not been exhibited for a long time, from the Capitoline contemporary art collections - Galleria d'Arte Moderna and MACRO – documenting how the female universe has always been the favorite object of artistic attention, from an object to be admired, in the guise of an angel or a temptress, to a mysterious subject who wonders about her own identity up to the new image born from protest of the sixties.
Still at yum, the exhibition was inaugurated on 22 January 2019 Joint is out of time and will take place until next June 7nd, curated by Saretto Cincinelli and Bettina Della Casa, a new graft that redefines the current layout of the permanent collection, renewing it with the works of 2016 contemporary artists of international origin and starting a new phase of the project. The National Gallery houses the works of Elena Damiani, Fernanda Fragateiro, Francesco Gennari, Roni Horn, Giulio Paolini, Davide Rivalta and Jan Vercruysse and relates the exhibition that has just opened with the one set up in XNUMX Time is Out of Joint, which we read about still the title on the external steps leading to the gallery. The aim is to establish a disjunctive relationship between two projects which, given due proportions, take the form of autonomous but inseparable moments of a single process: two simultaneous moments of an operation aimed at bringing out, simultaneously, on the one hand the reserve of the future guarded by the prestigious collection of the Gallery and, on the other, the profound impact of the memory of the history of art that animates the new works on display.
From March 3th to June XNUMXrd, at National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art there will also be a large exhibition on the last twenty years of Pablo Picasso's career, entitled Picasso 1953-1973. iAndy Warhol is already in Rome: from 3 October to 24 February, 170 works by the greatest exponent of Pop Art will enliven the Ala Brasini of the Complesso del Vittoriano. From February XNUMX, however, the spotlights will also turn on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh and Vatican museums, unusual location for the genius of Pop Art, will collaborate on an international exhibition featuring the religious works of the American artist, including the paintings from the series inspired by Leonardo's Last Supper. The titled exhibition Andy Warhol will be held in the thousand square meters of the Arm of Charlemagne and simultaneously in Pittsburgh through March 31.
Al Slaughterhouse, headquarters of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Roma Tre, the exhibition is arriving from 30 January to 15 March Good hopes. Italian cinema and young people (1948-2018), created by the Ente dello Spettacolo Foundation with the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart which returns through the cinematographic imagery, the experience of Italian children along 70 years of history. From The sun still rises by Aldo Vergano, among the first and brightest testimonies of the Italian Resistance a The lying down by Francesca Archibugi, chiaroscuro portrait of young people whose future has been stolen by their fathers, the installation is a multimedia journey into the different identity strategies implemented "by and on" young people in the various eras examined - the post-war period , the Sixties, '68 and the years of lead, the great ebb, the millennials.
The interactive exhibition continues until May 5th Dream al Cloister of Bramante, the one of Pollock and the New York School al Victorian complex until February 24, extended until March 3 show on French Impressionists al Exam building, and until March 10 the photographic exhibition Paul Pellegrin. An anthology al Museum of XNUMXst Century Arts on Via Guido Reni.
