Tips from the Rossetti Gallery: art exhibitions in April and a book on the art world.
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APRIL Art Exhibitions recommended by the rossetti gallery
Rome – Villa Medici
Chromotherapia. Colour photography that makes you happy
Lemon yellow, deep blue, bright red and bright orange: colours as therapy!
Often denigrated and seldom taken seriously, colour photography has actually allowed photographers to indulge, to put their hand to their palette to repaint the world. Many have freed themselves from the documentary constraints of the photographic medium to explore the common roots of the image and the imaginary, flirting with pop, surrealism, bling, kitsch and baroque.
Curated by Maurizio Cattelan and Sam Stourdzé
Until 9 June 2025
Pistoia – Palazzo Buontalente
Daniel Buren. Do, Undo, Redo
The exhibition explores how Buren transforms architectural spaces through the use of shapes, colours and materials, creating a continuous and indissoluble dialogue between art and environment.
The exhibition focuses, in particular, on Daniel Buren’s connection with Italy and Tuscany, presenting works realised in our country that the artist has revisited and recreated in a continuous process of Fare, Disfare, Rifare. With this idea, Buren questions and reworks his own work, investing projects realised in Italy from 1968 to today with new meanings and inviting the viewer to reflect on the transformation of art over time and in different contexts.
Until 27 July 2025
Udine – Villa Manin
Obiettivo 13
An issue, that of climate change, which – besides being extremely topical and the subject of political debate – closely touches the Villa Manin itself, which in recent years has suffered the effects of this change.
With a title inspired by the goal set out in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the exhibition – organised by Erpac Fvg and curated by Giacomo Bassmaji and Linda Carello – draws attention not only to climate change (melting glaciers, pollution, deforestation, the effect of mass tourism, the suffering of ecosystems), but also to the actions needed to combat it.
Until 27 April 2025
Milan – Palazzo Reale
Nico Vascellari. Pastorale
The project is inspired by the history of the Sala delle Cariatidi, in particular the events of the 20th century that caused its almost total destruction during the bombing of Milan in 1943 and the subsequent monumental exhibition in 1953 of Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. Pastorale will also extend to other locations in the city and will include performances, sculptures, installations and sound works.
Until 2 June 2025
The recommended book
The secret life of shadows
Lauretta Colonnelli
Literature and art of all times are peopled with shadows in the guise of spectres, spirits, souls, simulacra, illusions, deceptions. On the other hand, shadows accompany us constantly, sometimes they are even inside us. They can be images of man’s precariousness, but also of his hostile double, of melancholy, of death…
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