History of impressionism in Treviso

Wednesday April 27th, 2016 , Events and Exhibitions

Claude Monet, The cliffs at Etretat, 1885.

Storie dell’Impressionismo a Treviso (history of impressionism in Treviso)

Exhibition dedicated to Impressionism in Treviso. In a few months Treviso will host an exhibition dedicated to Impressionism which will bring to Italy 120 works with the aim of illustrating the history of Impressionism through its artists.
On view works by Manet, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Toulouse Lautrec, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat and many more. It’s an exhibition you can’t miss!

The exhibition will illustrate the period between the 19^th century and the early 20^th century and will put on display works by the greatest artists of Impressionism.
You will probably think that there are too many exhibitions devoted to Impressionism, but I can assure you that this one will be different, as I will explain in this post.

Imagine. New imagery in Italian art at the Guggenheim

Tuesday April 26th, 2016 , Events and Exhibitions

Giosetta Fioroni, Particolare della nascita di Venere (1965)

Imagine. New imagery in Italian art 1960-1969

Exhibition Imagine at the Guggenheim Collection. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is probably my favourite museum of contemporary art in Italy, and I visit it many times a year.

There’s always an interesting exhibition on view at the museum, and there are always new aspects to discover in the permanent collection. In addition, you can still sense Peggy’s presence, the founder of the museum, who lived in Venice for 30 years. The movie “Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict” has been recently dedicated to her adventurous life, as I told you in my post dedicated to this beautiful movie.

From April 23^rd to September 19^th 2016, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection will present the exhibition “Imagine. New Imagery in Italian Art 1960-1969”.
The rooms of Palazzo Venier, Peggy’s home earlier and museum later will exhibit in 11 rooms 45 works showing what happened in Italian art in the 1960s. Continue reading

Robert Capa in Italy 1943-1944

Thursday April 21st, 2016 , Events and Exhibitions

Robert Capa in Italy 1943-1944

Robert Capa in Italy. Some people consider Robert Capa the father of photojournalism, whilst other people consider him the man who renovated it. Certainly, he was a great photographer, who lived most of his life on the battlefield, not to fight but to document events and pain caused by war.

The exhibition dedicated to the great war photographer Robert Capa, showing 78 black and white pictures taken during the World War II in Italy, is on view in San Gimignano at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art “Raffaele De Grada”.

Robert Capa during more than 20 years of his career reported the five major world conflicts: the Spanish Civil War, the Chinese resistance to Japanese invasion, the World War II, the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, and the First Indochina War.
His photos on exhibition in San Gimignano were taken in Italy in 1943 and 1944, and after 70 years tell the story of the landing of the Allies in Italy, through a selection of pictures from the series Robert Capa Master Selection III held in Budapest, and bought by the Hungarian National Museum between the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009.

The series consisting of 937 photos taken by Capa in 23 Countries of 4 continents, is one of the three Master Selection created by Cornell, Robert Capa’s brother, who was himself a photographer, and by Richard Whelan, Capa’s biographer, in the early 1990s and held in New York, Tokio and Budapest.
The series, identical to themselves, and called Master Section I, II, and III, come from the collection of the International Center of photography of New York, where the inheritance of Robert Capa is held.

INFO
Robert Capa in Italy 1943-1944
5 March-10 July 2016
San Gimignano, Gallery Of Modern and Contemporary Art “Raffaele De Grada”

LINK
http://www.sangimignanomusei.it

The 15. International Architecture exhibition in Venice

Wednesday April 20th, 2016 , Events and Exhibitions

The Venice Biennale. The 15^TH International Architecture exhibition.

The 2016 Biennale Architettura in Venice. On May 28^th 2016 the 15^th International Exhibition of Architecture in Venice will be open to the public and for six months it will show to a wide public what improving the quality of life through the architecture means.

The title of this edition is REPORTING FROM THE FRONT and it will be directed by Alejandro Aravena, who, until November 27^th 2016, will have the aim of sharing the work of those people who look for new ways of considering the space, facing issues such as segregation, inequalities, peripheries, natural disasters, housing shortage, migration, crime, traffic, waste, pollution, and the participation of communities.

The Macchiaioli. The collections revealed

Saturday April 16th, 2016 , Events and Exhibitions

Federico Zandomeneghi, Il giubbetto rosso, 1895 circa, Antica collezione Camillo Giussani.

The Macchiaioli. The collections revealed

Macchiaioli in Rome. It is certainly interesting to know an artistic movement such as the movement of the Macchiaioli, but to discover the works within the context of the private collections that originally held them is fascinating.

The exhibition dedicated to the Macchiaioli arranged in Rome at the Chiostro del Bramante on view until September 4^th 2016, shows over 110 works of art that belonged to great collectors of the past, who were cultured and refined personalities, art patrons who shared a great passion for painting and love for beauty.

Imagine. New imagery in Italian art 1960-1969

Robert Capa in Italy 1943-1944

The Venice Biennale. The 15TH International Architecture exhibition.

The Macchiaioli. The collections revealed

The Venice Biennale. The 15^TH International Architecture exhibition.