(by Nicoletta Castagni)
Two major exhibitions open in Italy
this weekend, one celebrating the genius of Giotto in Venice and
the other the Tuscan master Marino Marini in Pistoia.
The lagoon city marks the 750th anniversary of the birth of
Giotto with an exhibition opening Thursday and running until
November 5 in the monumental spaces of the Scuola Grande della
Misericordia.
It is the first of three shows comprising the Magister
trilogy dedicated to the most important masters of Italian art
and will be followed by exhibitions on Casanova and
Neoclassicism in summer 2018 and Raffaello Sanzio in 2019.
The Magister Giotto exhibition in Venice uses art, music,
narration and technology to take visitors on a journey through
Giotto's life and work.
This included his Franciscan stories in Assisi, the Scrovegni
chapel in Padua and his crucifixes and other works in Florence,
before ending with the modern European Space Agency's 1986
Giotto mission designed to study Comet P/Halley, which appears
in his world-famous fresco 'Adoration of the Magi' in the
Scrovegni chapel.
'Marino nell'immagine di Aurelio Amendola (1968-1975)' opens
in Pistoia's Palazzo Tau on July 16 with a show of photographs
of the Tuscan sculptor taken by the 'artists' photographer'
Aurelio Amendola.
The exhibition sheds light on the work and daily life of
Marino Marini, and also on Amendola's special skill at narrating
art through photography.
It anticipates a large retrospective dedicated to Marini
opening at Palazzo Fabroni on September 16.
Lastly, photographs by Franco Fontana go on show in
'Paesaggi' (Landscapes) from Thursday until October 23 in the
mediaeval courtyard of Palazzo Madama in Turin.
The exhibition pays homage to the Modenese photographer with
25 pictures from the UniCredit Art Collection focusing on his
use of colour.
photo: the frescoed ceiling of the Scrovegni Chapel
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