Autumn art shows include Picasso, Warhol

(ANSA) - Rome, August 26 - 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