With summer winding down, the
autumn art exhibition season is ready to open its doors, and
shows across Italy in September and October will feature
masterpieces from Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Alberto Burri, as
well as a collection of names from the world of Italian pop art.
The season kicks off September 10 at Palazzo del Quirinale
in Rome, with an exhibition on Italian painter Renato Guttuso
that runs through October 9 and brings together religiously
inspired works by the Sicilian artist.
On the same day at the Magnani Rocca Foundation in Mamiano
near Parma, an exhibition exploring Italian pop art opens its
doors, offering up works by De Chirico, Burri, Baj, Schifano,
Mambor, Baruchello, Fioroni, and Ceroli, through December 11.
At Turin's Palazzo Chaiblese on September 20 an exhibition
of works by American painter Edward Hopper will open, after its
successful run in Bologna, through January 29.
Città del Castello, near Perugia, is closing out the 100th
anniversary celebrations for its native son Alberto Burri with
the highly anticipated show 'Alberto Burri: The Space of
Material - between Europe and the USA', which opens September 24
and will run through January 6 at the Ex-Seccatoi del Tabacco.
The show will examine the various phases of Burri's
creative progression (tars, sacks, combustions, irons, plastics,
cracked, cellotex, black and gold) and places his work alongside
that of artists who inspired or influenced him, to include
Pollock, Twombly, Fontana, Manzoni, Klein, Christo, Arman,
Cesar, Kounellis, Afro, and Miró.
Also opening September 24 is a show titled 'Orlando Furioso
500 years: What Ariosto Saw When He Closed His Eyes', displaying
masterpieces that influenced the writer as he was composing his
famous poem, which was first published 500 years ago.
That show runs at Ferrara's Palazzo dei Diamanti through
January 8 and includes works by Mantegna, Paolo Uccello, and
Titian.
In Verona's Palazzo Forti, works by Picasso spanning his
entire creative progression, from Cubism to Surrealism to post
WWII, will be shown from October 15 through March 12, using the
metamorphosis of the body as the basis.
Twentieth century American art also makes an appearance
this autumn, with Andy Warhol featured in Genoa at the Palazzo
Ducale from October 21 through February 26 and Jean-Michel
Basquiat at Milan's Mudec from October 28-February 26.
photo: a work by Burri
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