This weekend's art exhibition
openings feature a show at Milan's Palazzo Reale highlighting
the work of 1970s conceptual artist Vincenzo Agnetti, as well as
a retrospective in Fano spanning the early 20th-century career
of graphic artist Federico Seneca, who created iconic
advertising posters for Italian brands including Perugina.
Meanwhile in Bologna, a photography exhibition by Federica
Troisi opens at the International Museum and Library of Music,
with poignant portrayals of human suffering in Velika Hoca, a
Serbian enclave in Kosovo and Metohija.
MILAN - Palazzo Reale is hosting the show "Agnetti: One hundred
years to now", which puts on display more than a hundred works
illustrating the creative journey of Vincenzo Agnetti, one of
the leaders in Italian conceptual art of the 1970s. The works,
which were completed between 1967 and 1981, show how Agnetti,
who began his career as a poet, brought linguistic
inquisitiveness to his art. Agnetti made use of semiotics and
imagery to investigate and create narratives that leave the
viewer room for interpretation. The show runs through September
24.
BOLOGNA - At the International Museum and Library of Music,
photographs by Federica Troisi reveal the inalienable right to
identity among those living in Velika Hoca, a Serbian enclave in
Kosovo and Metohija. The exhibition, titled "I.L.T. Light the
darkness: Complex desires of a silenced Europe", portrays the
ordinary and extraordinary difficulties of daily life amid
poverty and the pitfalls of modernity. Twelve large-format
portraits selected from Troisi's book are on display,
accompanied by music from a custom soundtrack composed by
Giovanni Lindo Ferretti. The show runs through August 27.
FANO - Vintage Italian graphic art from the early 1900s goes on
display in the rooms of the Carifano Gallery at Palazzo Corbelli
with the exhibition "Federico Seneca (1891-1976): Signs and
forms of advertising". Seneca was one of Italy's leading
advertising designers at the dawn of the 20th century, and
created iconic posters for brands including Perugina, Buitoni,
Agip, and Fiat, as well as tourism posters for locales including
Fano. In this show, 90 works are on display, including sketches,
posters, studies, and preparatory chalk and pencil drafts. The
show runs through September 24.
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