PROJECT – “THE WALL
PROJECT: “THE WALL” The Dark – At the edge of vision From 21.04.2018 to 21.06.2018 – Museo del Novecento
A truly exciting exhibition that was signed by MARCO BAZZINI inside the Museo del Novecento in Piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence. IL BUIO is the first graphic exhibition of the project “THE WALL”, the original exhibition format conceived by the new director of the Museum, Sergio Risaliti. An easily understandable graphic model, information concepts and data on the works collected by the curator so as to suggest to the visitor new stimuli and new traces of reading. Bazzini has chosen the theme of darkness and that of art. The darkness not to be understood as absence, but rather as a common line to tell the story of art under a new point of view, to understand how artists have used or lived or depicted the darkness from the contemporaries to go back in the centuries.
Defining darkness is difficult. Is it a character, a dimension, a metaphor? A condition or rather an environment? The darkness is, however, it is declining, something certainly ambivalent. It presents itself and retracts at the same time. There is no darkness without light, darkness without clarity. Precisely because it is unattainable in its entirety, in this exhibition the darkness has been sought in works of art. A visual journey in the history of art that shows how the darkness in its constant presence – it is too often believed that only art is light – muted according to culture and time.
If the more recent artists invite to stay in the darkness, other protagonists of the twentieth century are referring to the darkness as a material for the pictorial expression or for the introspective investigation. A journey of more than 60 WORKS which, proceeding to the contrary, arrives at the nocturnal representation, a pictorial genre whose first episode is present in FLORENCE in the BARONCELLI CHAPEL of SANTA CROCE with the “ANNOUNCEMENT OF PADS OF TADDEO GADDI.
MUSEUM OF THE NOVECENTO
Saturday 21.04.2018 – Starting from this date the historic site of the Museo del 900, dedicated to Italian Modern and Contemporary Art, is reborn with a new image strongly desired by the new artistic director Sergio Risaliti. The interventions will be multiple and on several levels:
- enhancement of exhibition planning, with alternating exhibitions and temporary projects
- recovery of new spaces
- better use of the museum heritage
- future multitasking institution
Immediately admire the colorful installation of the writing M U S E O in front of the external gate, designed by the artist Paolo Parisi in collaboration with the students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. A choice, that of the word “Museum” to indicate the desire to modernize the term to give back to the House of the Muses a contemporary vitality reminding that art is the daughter of memory (Mnemosyne).
To be reported for the next months:
- The video installation “The body is a sacred garment” by Beatrice Bulgari for In Between Art Film
From 21.04.18 to 20.09.18 - The “The Wall” Project, the original exhibition format conceived by the new director Risaliti who, for his debut, has the signature of Marco Bazzini entitled Il Buio. At the edge of vision
From 21.04.18 to 21.06.18 - the Exhibition “The sculptor’s drawings” with graphic works signed by A.Wildt, J.Lipchitz, D.Smith, Louise Bourgeois, L.Fabro, Rebecca Horn and R. Whiteread.
From 21.04.18 to 12.07.18 - the first Italian exhibition of the German artist Ulla Von Brandenburg “Of a golden sun”
From 21.04.18 to 21.06.18
BILL VIOLA
BILL VIOLA – Electronic Renaissance
Show from 10 March 2017 to 23 July 2017
Florence – Palazzo Strozzi
www.palazzostrozzi.org
Another big and important shows will involve all spring and part of summer, the Florentine public, as well as Italian and international, in the Renaissance spaces of Palazzo Strozzi will host the works of the greatest exponent of contemporary art video: BILL VIOLA.
The exhibition will start from the first works produced by the artist in the seventies to reach up to the current ones and deliberately will dialogue with the architecture of the Palazzo Strozzi and the great masterpieces of the Renaissance. As with the previous exhibition of Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei protagonist will be the extraordinary dialogue between Ancient and Contemporary. Born in New York in 1951, Bill Viola is internationally recognized as one of the most important contemporary artists, author of video installations, sound environments and performance to the public offering extraordinary experiences immersion between space, image and sound. The artist says: “I’m really happy to recover my Italian roots and to have the opportunity to repay my debt with the city of Florence through my works. Having lived and worked in Florence in the seventies, I would never imagined to have the honor to realize such a large exhibition in an institution as important as the Palazzo Strozzi.”
The exhibition will also involve other important Florentine institutions. Thanks to a special joint ticket you can visit both the Show, the Baptistery of San Giovanni and the Great Cathedral Museum. In the latter be visible video Observance (2002) and ACCEPTANCE (2008) by Bill Viola – two of his famous works dedicated to the themes of pain and suffering, enhancing the reflection on humanity and on the religious sense in today’s world – which will be made in dialogue with the two symbols of the Florentine museum as the “penitent Mag- dalene” by Donatello and “Bandini Pieta” by Michelangelo.
Exhibition catalogue available for guests of B.&B.
AI WEIWEI
AI WEIWEI – Libero
From 23 September 2016 to 22 January 2017
Florence – Palazzo Strozzi
www.palazzostrozzi.org
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FREEDOM ‘IN ACTION.
“Creativity is the power to refuse the past, change the status quo and seek new potential. In other words, besides the use of their imagination, creativity is perhaps above all the power to act”
Ai Weiwei
From the end of this summer and until next winter, Florence becomes a destination for all those who love the Contemporary Art and Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist, icon of the struggle for freedom of expression, and lately at the forefront for humanitarian causes and policies.
But Ai Weiwei is much more. Architect and artist, able to produce works by the great social impact, attracts and repels at the same time, because his installations always have a strong charge empathetic, whatever the theme represented. And in his case, his country is often the protagonist.
Strozzi Palace for the first time held an exhibition in the noble seat dedicating it entirely to contemporary art, and chose the most famous among its representatives. And also the most controversial and criticized. The Chinese artist AI WEIWEI, whose work has been the object of exhibition in many of the world’s leading museums.
60 works and new productions inspired specifically to the Renaissance, and the city of Florence (see 4 portraits made with Lego depicting Dante, Filippo Strozzi, Savonarola and Galileo).
His art and life philosophy are a symbol of the struggle against any kind of censorship.
For this reason, this extraordinary exhibition will charming for those who usually do not like contemporary art. The works by Ai Weiwei are beautiful to see even artistically. They have an innate elegance and are always the result of high craftsmanship work. It could not be that Florence, a city famous for the refined and precious Artisans and the Great Artists of the past, to give the great Chinese Master his first Italian Exhibition.
The exhibited works range from his years living in New York 1980s and ’90s, when he discovered his Masters: Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp, to the large iconic assemblages works from the early 2000s consisting of objects such as bicycles and stools, of political dissidents built with LEGO bricks, and his projects on migration in the Mediterranean region.
Ai Weiwei has also become a symbol of resistance against censorship. The show offers the opportunity to explore Ai Weiwei’s creative genius but also to understand his personal narrative, offering critical insight to Ai Weiwei’s ambiguous relations with his native China. Ai Weiwei denounces the inconsistencies and gaps between the individual and the community in today’s world and has a profound sense of belonging, as illustrated by his use of traditional material and techniques. Equally, a strong sense of rebellion informs his interpretations of traditional Chinese images and metaphors.
Catalogue of the Exhibition available for our guests of B. & B.
FROM KANDINSKY TO POLLOCK
July 14, 2016 – Exibition still open for a few days – Do not miss!
FROM KANDINSKY TO POLLOCK.
Art from the Guggenheim Collections.
From 03/19/2016 to 24/07/2016
www.palazzostrozzi.org
A charming and original exhibition developed in collaboration between the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, will be one of the most spectacular events in the country in 2016.
Florence became for a few months, the “ideal place” for some 100 masterpieces of European and American between the twenties and sixties of the twentieth century belonging to the couple more advanced collectors for the unrivaled glamor and artistic intuition that were Peggy and Solomon R. Guggenheim.
The large paintings, sculptures, prints and photographs of some of the most important personalities such as Pollock, Rothko, Man Ray, Fountain, Burry, Dubuffet, Calder, Lichtenstein and many others, united in a dense and constant dialogue between European and American art o attend the birth of neoavanguardia after World War II.
Just inside the Palazzo Strozzi, in the spaces dedicated to Strozzina, in February 1949, Peggy Guggenheim decided to show the collection, waiting to find a permanent home for it. Later you will find it in Venice, in the historical site of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, which will become forever even his house.
Catalogue of the Exhibition available for customers of B. & B.
Max Ernst
The Kiss (1927)
Peggy Guggenheim Collection – Venice
Hans Hofman (1880-1966) – German Painter
The Gate – detail
Museo Solomon R.Guggenheim – New York
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) – American Painter
The Moon Woman – 1942
Peggy Guggenheim Collection – Venice
Jeff Koons in Florence.
Cover picture: Barberini Faun – Jeff Koons (2013), Sala dei Gigli, Palazzo Vecchio – Firenze
The Contemporary Art comes to Florence.
Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio in Florence will host between 26/09/15 and 12/28/15 two picturesque works of the great American artist Jeff Koons that defies comparison with the great timeless masterpieces of Donatello and Michelangelo.
Koons will see installed sull’arengario Palazzo Vecchio his “Pluto and Proserpina”, monumental review of the Bernini masterpiece, while the Sala dei Gigli in the Palazzo Vecchio will find space the “Barberini Faun”, chalk cheeky and seductive realized in 2013.
Piazza della Signoria, free admission;
Palazzo Vecchio daily at 9-23 Thursday 9-14, admission 10 euro.
David di Michelangelo (1504) – Pluto e Proserpina di Jeff Koons (2013)
Ingresso Palazzo Vecchio – Firenze
Settembre 2015 – Dicembre 2015
Promotion for Exhibition “Divine Beauty”
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FULL REFUND of the ticket of the exhibition Divine Beauty of Van Gogh, Chagall and Fontana - Palazzo Strozzi.
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DIVIN BEAUTY from Van Gogh to Chagall and Fontana
Cover picture: The Pietà, Vincent Van Gogh.
“BEAUTY DIVINE between Van Gogh, Chagall and Fountain” is the title of a fascinating show that Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will host from 09/24/2015 up to 01/24/2016.
www.palazzostrozzi.com
The Angelus by Jean-François Millet
The Modern Art and the Sacred Art in the mid nineteenth century and mid-twentieth century, are the stars with more than 100 works by artists, Italian and foreign, famous throughout the world.
By Pablo Picasso to Max Ernst, Felice Casorati and Domenico Morelli, Gino Severini and Edward Munch, Vincent Van Gogh and Renato Guttuso, Vedova and Lucio Fontana. All present to discuss among themselves and between artists lesser known but equally valid to bring us to reflect on the complex relationship between art and the sacred generator insights, energy and intense conflicts.
Among the exhibits: the Pietà of Van Gogh, the White Crucifixion of Chagall, the Angelus of Millet.
Born from a collaboration of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi with great art institutions (Orsay Museum in Paris, Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, Vatican Museums) is part of the events organized on the occasion of the V National Ecclesiastical Conference, present in Florence between 9 and 11/13/2015 which also speak Pope Francis.
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White Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
FORTE DI BELVEDERE. HUMAN. Sculptures by Antony Gormley
The “Forte di Belvedere” the spectacular open air museum of the city of Florence, home to all summer the extraordinary exhibition “Human” by British artist Antony Gormley, one of the most acclaimed sculptors if not the first, at the international level.
“Human” see together over a hundred works by Gormley in the inner rooms of the building, on the ramparts, on the steps and terraces, taking up each side of the fortress dates back to the sixteenth century with its stunning views of the city and the surrounding Tuscan hills.
Among the works on display, note the installation “Critical Mass” was originally conceived in 1995 by a former tram depot in Vienna and called an “anti-monument that evokes all the victims of the twentieth century.”
On display there are two adaptations. On the one hand, in the area east of the lower terrace, the 12 “poses” of “Critical Mass” are arranged in a linear progression, that ranges from fetal pose to that of the man who split the stars.
On the opposite side, the same bodies are placed on each other in a confused heap to represent the dark side behind every idea of human progress.
An exhibition that does not go unnoticed.
Forte di Belvedere.
HUMAN. Antony Gormley
From April 25 to September 27, 2015
Free entry
www.museicivicifiorentini.comune.fi.it
POWER AND PATHOS. Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World
From March 14 to June 21, 2015
www.palazzostrozzi.com
For fans of the Sculpture, but also and especially for those who come to it for the first time, Palazzo Strozzi offers the opportunity to see, through the most beautiful cities of the Exhibition of 2015, true masterpieces of the ancient world from the most important archeological museums in the world.
The special, which will very much love this show, is that their contemplation will be combined with the history of their discoveries relating them to ancient contexts. For example: the shrines, where they were used as “votes”. – The Public Spaces with the function to commemorate people and events – In House as decorative elements – but also in the Cemeteries as funerary symbols.
Monumental statues of gods, heroes and athletes (well 50 masterpieces in bronze ones) will be flanked by portraits of historical figures and sculptures in marble and stone.
Example: the Viennese Apoxyomenos bronze and the marble version from the Uffizi, used for its restoration. Or the two Apollo-Kouroi one in the Louvre and the other in Pompeii.
In short, a fascinating journey in the ancient and exterminated Hellenistic empire in the time of Alexander the Great, awaits you in Florence. The exhibition will move to the J.Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and finish at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.
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