Arts guide: exhibits in Italy
Adolfo Wildt in Forli'
27 January, 18:20
(ANSA) - Rome, January 27 - The following is a city-by-city
guide to some of Italy's art exhibitions:
FLORENCE - Palazzo Strozzi: Money and Beauty - Bankers,
Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities; until January 22.FORLI' - Musei di San Domenico: Adolfo Wildt, Soul and Forms Between Michelangelo and Klimt; until June 17. GENOA - Palazzo Ducale: Van Gogh and Gauguin's Journey; American and European masterpieces spanning two centuries, with works by Van Gogh (over 40), Gauguin and various American artists such as Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn and Caspar David Friedrich; until April 15.
LUCCA - Chiesa di San Cristoforo: Chagall's Spiritual Universe; 20 works, 1959-82; until March 12.
MILAN - Triennale: Arte Povera 1967-2011, 50 works by Kounellis, Pistoletto, Fabro, Paolini, Pascali, Boetti, Merz; until January 29.
- Palazzo Reale: Transavanguardia: 15 works including Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria and Mimmo Paladino; until January 29.
- Brera Gallery: 'Brera meets the Pushkin, Russian collecting from Renoir to Matisse'; 20 works including Monet, Gauguin, Cezanne and Picasso; until February 5.
- Permanente gallery: From Bacon to the Beatles, New Images in Europe in the Years of Rock; 70 works from the 1950s and '60s including Giacometti, Art Brut, Gruppo Cobra, Enrico Bay, Mario Ceroli, Bepi Romagnoni, Mimmo Rotella, Mario Schifani and Emilio Tadini; until February 12.
PADUA - Palazza Zabarella: Symbolism in Italy, 100 works including Pellizza da Volpedo, Morbelli, Casorati, Sartorio, Adolfo De Carolis, Galileo Chini and Gaetano Previati; until February 12.
PALERMO - Reale Albergo dei Poveri: Russian avant-garde movements; until March 20.
PISA - Palazzo Blu: I Wanted To Be A Painter And I Became Picasso, 200 works; until January 29.
RIMINI - Castel Sismondo: From Vermeer to Kandinsky, until June 3.
ROME - MAXXI: Marisa Merz, new permanent show. - Palazzo Incontro: Henri Cartier-Bresson, 44 photographs; until May 6.
- Gagosian Gallery: Damien Hirst, The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011; until March 10.
- Sala di Santa Rita: Les Folies Bergeres: Parisian Music-Hall and its Gods; until February 2.
- Palazzo Barberini: 'Guercino 1591-1666, Masterpieces from Cento (his home town) and Rome', 36 works; until April 29.
- Borghese Gallery: 65 mostly Roman marble works looted by Napoleon back from Louvre, including Borghese Vase, the Sleeping Hermaphrodite (as restored by a young Bernini), Cranach's Three Graces and the Centaur Ridden by Love; until April 9.
- Quirinale Palace: The History of the Quirinale Palace from Italian Unity to the Present Day; until March 17.
- Palazzo Venezia: Rome In The Time of Caravaggio, 140 works by Caravaggio and his followers from major Italian and international collections, some never shown in Italy; until February 5.
Vittoriano - Piet Mondrian, 70 works, until January 29.
ROVERETO - MART: Alice In Wonderland; exploration of fantasy author Lewis Carroll's influence on visual arts; until June 3. TURIN - Venaria Reale: Leonardo, the Genius, the Myth; for the first time his famous Self-portrait will be on display along with works by artists inspired by the genius of Leonardo over the centuries; until January 29.
- Castello di Rivoli: Arte Povera International; until February 19.
VENICE - Accademia: Homage to Lorenzo Lotto, two exceptional loans from Hermitage: Double Portrait of a Married Couple and Madonna with Child and Angels, respectively from the artist's first and last period; until February 26.
- Punto della Dogana, Francois Pinault Foundation: 'Praise of Doubt', 60 works by 20 contemporary giants including Maurizio Cattelan, Jeff Koons, Jeff Bauman, Adel Abdessemed, Marcel Broodthaers, Dan Flavin, Thomas Schutte and Charles Ray; until December 31, 2012.
VERONA - Palazzo della Gran Guardia: Great Veronese 18th-century painting; 150 works including Tiepolo, Bellotto, Rotari, Cignaroli; until April 9.
photo: Adolfo Wildt, Golden Thread (1927)










