This weekend's art show
openings feature paintings from the 18th century as well as
contemporary, spanning artists from Gianni Boldini in Bologna,
Tiepolo and Canaletto in Vicenza, to M.C. Escher in Catanzaro
and Ennio Calabria in Rome.
BOLOGNA - A selection of 50 works from prestigious private
collections, some of which have never gone on public display,
make up the exhibition dedicated to Giovanni Boldini at the
Bottegantica Gallery from November 24 to January 19. The show
documents the artist's talent in both drawing and engraving.
Boldini was an obsessive drawer made sketches of everything that
he happened to observe, revealing an inventive inspiration that
was both elegant and penetrating.
VICENZA - The exhibition "The Triumph of Colour: From Tiepolo to
Canaletto and Guardi, Vicenza and the Masterpieces of the
Pushkin Museum of Moscow" features canvases from the Russian
museum alongside 30 other works from the same period selected
from the collections of the Vicenza Civic Museums and that of
Intesa San Paolo. It explores Venetian art from the 1700s and
its influence on the rest of Europe. The show opens on November
23 and runs through March 10 at the Civic Museum of Palazzo
Chiericati and the Galleries of Italy - Palazzo Leoni Montanari.
ROME - About 80 works, including pictures and posters, trace the
visionary talent of Italian painter Ennio Calabria at an
exhibition that opened on November 20 and runs through January
27 at Palazzo Cipolla. The show highlights Calabria's work from
1958 to 2018, which demonstrate the changes in Italian society
over time.
GORIZIA - The Museum of Fashion hosts the exhibition
"Occidentalism: Modernity and Western Art in the Kimono,
1900-1950" from November 21 through March 17, with 40 kimonos on
display. The show reveals an explosion of Western influence on
Japanese kimono design in the first half of the 20th century.
CATANZARO - An exhibition titled "Escher: Calabria, the Myth"
runs from November 20 through January 20 at the Monumental
Complex of San Giovanni. The show includes 86 works by the Dutch
artist, some of which have never been on display in Italy, such
as Fireworks (1933), Dream (1935), and Senglea (1935). It
highlights the influence that the architecture and landscapes of
the region of Calabria had on the artist's work.
photo: detail from Zephyr and Flora by Tiepolo
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