The Duomo of Milan, the Castello Sforzesco, the Prada Foundation. In Milan you come across small precious jewels capable of making the economic and financial heart of Italy a must for tourists from all over the world and for Italians themselves. Above all, Milan is increasingly multifaceted, offering its visitors a fervent cultural scene.
Some of the exhibitions that will keep the Milanese company throughout 2019 have already been presented: Margherita Sarfatti at the Museo del Novecento, Roy Lichtenstein at the Mudec, the Thannhauser collection at the Guggenheim and Giorgio De Chirico at Palazzo Reale. But let's proceed in order
The first exhibitions to hurry to visit are those expiring at the beginning of this year and which have continued since last autumn: Inside Magritte will be at the Fabbrica del Vapore until 10 February e Margherita Sarfatti at the Museo del Novecento until 24 February, protagonist of an exhibition – organized in collaboration with the Rovereto Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art – which tells the facets of a woman with a complex and fascinating personality who, with her passion for journalism and art, has been able be the interpreter of one of the most important historical and cultural moments in Italy. Again, a Palazzo Reale the exhibition dedicated to Carlo Carrà is a tribute to one of the most important exponents of Italian art of the twentieth century, through a wide selection of his most significant works. Also Pablo Picasso into Metamorphosis Picasso will be at the Royal Palace until February 17th.
Until March 17 at Galleries of Italy in Piazza della Scala there will be an exhibition Romanticism which aims to present the multiple characteristics of the literary and artistic movement that transformed the collective imagination throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. It was precisely in Milan at that time that exponents of the artistic, literary and musical worlds such as Alessandro Manzoni, Ugo Foscolo, Francesco Hayez and Giuseppe Verdi met. The works on display come from prestigious national and international institutions and from private collections and have been set up in 12 thematic sections which help explain the affirmation of pictorial genres hitherto considered "minor", such as landscape, portrait, genre painting.
For cinema lovers, at Palazzo Morando review is held Milan and the cinema which describes the relationship of the Milanese city with the seventh art during the twentieth century. Before Cinecittà in Rome, Milan was the center of Italian film productions: Miracle in Milan by Vittorio de Sica, Totò, Peppino and the… malafemmina by Camillo Mastrocinque. Rocco and his brothers by Luchino Visconti. Until 10 February, enthusiasts will be able to dive into the dreamy atmosphere of the Italian cinema, which intertwine with the economic, social and cultural evolution of the city.
It continues until April 14th Museum of Cultures the exhibition on the most famous exponent of street art Banksy, whose identity is still unknown.
The new exhibitions 2019
From 22 February to 16 June at Palazzo Reale the exhibition will be set up on Antonello da Messina which, organized in collaboration with the Sicily Region, brings together a selection of masterpieces by the Sicilian painter who was able to combine the atmospheres of Flemish art and the Mediterranean cultural context that he lived. The exhibition exhibits works from national and international museums and represents a unique opportunity to admire the masterpieces of one of the main artists of the European Renaissance.
The summer of Milan from May 1st to September 8th is colored with the works of Roy Lichtenstein on display at Mudec. The exhibition, through important loans from US and European private museum collections, traces the art of one of the most important exponents of American Pop Art together with Andy Warhol, Pop subjects from the Sixties to the Nineties.
Still at Mudec, from 1 October 2019 to 3 February 2020, the exhibition Dreams of the East. Monet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, the Italians and Japan presents the great influence that Japanese art has had on European artists since the second half of the XNUMXth century, when Japan ended its isolationism.
From next autumn and until February 2020, The Thannhauser Collection of the Guggenheim Museum arrives at Royal Palace. After the stop at the Guggenheim in Bilbao, the exhibition arrives in Italy for the first time. Paintings, sculptures and graphic workse of impressionist and post-impressionist artists and exponents of the historic avant-gardes, including Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh, describe the sensitivity and far-sightedness of the collector Justin Thannhauser by offering the visitor an exhilarating journey through the European art between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries.
An exhibit on Giorgio De Chirico at Palazzo Reale will be set up from 25 September to 19 February. The review retraces the main stages of the artist's pictorial production and proceeds by thematic sections, giving visitors the opportunity to admire the most significant works that cover the time span that goes from the first stay in Paris in 1912 to the meeting with the avant-gardes such as Picasso and Apollinaire until his overseas trip to New York City in 1938 and the Biennale two years later.
