Art Exhibitions

Two artists for one project in the exhibition “ LOST CINEMA LOST” in Modena, at the Galleria Civica di Modena and in the rooms of Palazzo Santa Margherita. Runa Islam, born in Bangladesh and lives and works in London, and Tobias Putrih, born in Slovenia, display the failure of those living in a society that wants to change and reduce even the essence of the life through their artistic experience. They interpret cinema approaching it on two very different ways: one through moving images, the other through movie-theatre architecture, with a visual playoff which keeps the spectator switching between the screen and the scenery, and often calling on an interpretation of both together.

The exhibition, Rome and the Barbarians, taking place in Palazzo Grossi will witness and emphasize the artistic richness of the late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age of the West facing the classical Roman art. Two thousand archaeological treasures coming from the most famous museums in Europe, Africa and America – some of the pieces will be showed to the public for the first time.

This year on the 50th anniversary of the "refounding" of the Museum of Capodimonte, the Neapolitan Soprintendenza is promoting a series of initiatives recalling on one hand the historical, and institutional development of the Museum of Capodimonte, and on the other its constant vocation as a cultural and civil beacon of international renown. The objective is to show the public a Capodimenonte active and still present artistically and culturally.

Through June 1, the first floor of the Mart in Rovereto will host a wide selection of works on loan from private and public Italian collections of one of the main names in Italian conceptual art, Vincenzo Agnetti. Agnetti received his training in Milan in the ‘60s and rejected traditional art, continuing instead his theoretical reflections on art, its role and languages, while shifting his attention to the actual production of art. This is the beginning of his Assiomi (Axioms), enigmatic assertions etched on Bakelite circles, his writing on felts and collages born from instinctual associations.

Palazzo delle Papesse announces the opening of their 2008 exhibition programme with the group show .za – young art from South Africa. The exhibition was conceived by Lorenzo Fusi, who asked five established South African artists – Marlene Dumas, Kendell Geers, Bernie Searle, Minnette Vàri, Sue Williamson – to take part in the event in the role of co-curators.

The National Museum of Archaeology in Naples will be the setting of a new and interesting exhibition that explores painting of the Neopompeiian period for the first time in Italy showing extensive works, arranging the pieces in relation to art works by the Dutch artist, Lawrence Alma-Tadema. There will be fourteen of his “quadri-museo” on show that represent the rebirth of the Roman and Greek worlds with a notable attention to detail, from ancient furnishings to clothes from the period as well as rooms decorated with marble and flowers. There will also be sixty-one works by Italian and foreign artists located near the works of Alma- Tadema who like him have taken their inspiration from the monumental footprint that Rome has left as well as of the Roman ruins and those from Herculaneum.

The Quasi-Objects cycle, initiated in 2003, is composed of photographic and videographic materials generated with the assistance of 3d modeling, animation and rendering software. In earlier works consideration had been already directed at the process of complexification of contemporary universes of Sense, focusing attention on possibilities for chronicling semantic shifts intervened in the system of subjects/objects. This was done either by finding pre-figurations of this phenomenon in multiversal forms of existence which are output of the process of bio-mechanical contamination [Sample-Kit, 2002-2003] or by presenting a multi-layered vision of body geographies achieved by means of the plastic coexistence of object based and project based instances [Operative Systems, 2003].

Toys from long ago, hand-made with natural materials, are on display in the Livio Rossi Sella space. Nature is the ultimate protagonist of the spaces at Arte Sella, which, since 1996, has supported and developed a project in the woods of Val di Sella, aimed at creating artworks through ArteNatura. The exhibition starts at Spazio LivioRossi, which also serves as ArteSella information point, and continues with Malga Costa all the way to the main route, where art becomes one with the surrounding nature. What’s done by man is slowly modified by nature, which, in time, takes back ownership of its matter. The walk offered by ArteSella to its visitors is an invitation to discover art and to reclaim a mutual respect with the environment.

Linda Apriletti is a native of Miami, currently living in Miami Springs, Florida. She is a member of Plein Air Florida, Oil Painters of America and a resident artist at CAFE TU TU TANGO in Coconut Grove. She exhibits regularly and her paintings hang in numerous private collections in the US and abroad. Ms. Apriletti continues to develop her life-long passion for painting and is pursuing her dream of becoming a full-time fine artist. Primarily self-taught, she has continued her studies with a number of prominent plein air artists including Jay Moore, Larry Moore and William Scott Jennings. Painting throughout the country and especially the south Florida area, Linda gets her inspiration from her surroundings. Her love of nature and the outdoors comes through in the subject matter of her paintings, which show the tranquility and beauty that she finds in pristine places and everyday scenes. "Over the years I have found my best painting occurs outside. Whether it's the richly colored tropical plants in my backyard or the subtle hued vastness of the Everglades or perhaps New Mexico's grand vistas, I am inspired by the world around me."

Thirty years after his death, Pontedera celebrates Giorgio De Chirico, the main protagonist of 20th century painting with Pablo Picasso. Curated by Giovanni Faccenda, the exhibition details De Chirico’s artistic production as Master of Metaphysics. His life and work are centered on his desire to “make visible what’s invisible”, hence the ‘enigma in painting’ in the title of the exhibition. The masterpieces on display include Horse and Horseman, Rapallo Castle, The Disquieting Muses, Piazza d’Italia, as well as new works such as Horseman with Dog, Venice and important findings such as Pawing Horses by the Sea, a mini version of the well-known theme of Hector and Andromache, 1972. During the same period, the Il Germoglio Gallery in Pontedera is hosting the exhibition La lunga ombra del Metafisico. Maestri del Novecento in rapporto all’opera e alla figura di Giorgio de Chirico: The Metaphysic’s far reaching influence. 20th Century Masters compared to the work of Giorgio de Chirico.