Rossetti Gallery tips: art exhibitions in December and a book on the art world.
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the Art Exhibitions In December recommended by the Rossetti gallery
Genoa – Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone
Light and Darkness
The exhibition showcases the photographic works of two artists, Katsuhito Nakazato, from Japan, and Andrea Lippi, from Italy, in two sections, at the Edoardo Chiossone Museum of Oriental Art and the Genoa Nervi Gallery of Modern Art (GAM).
The project, curated by Chiossone Museum director Aurora Canepari and Japanese art historian Miki Shimokawa, compares the views of the two artists on the relationship between light and darkness in Japan’s natural and urban environments, in order to raise awareness and promote the country’s places and contexts, between contemporaneity and tradition, through photography and its expressive power.
Until January 12, 2025
Milan – PAC
Metal Panic
Over the years Maloberti has deepened the art/life pair using a chorality of both visual and sound languages-photography, video, performance, installation, objects, and collage-always traversed and enhanced by strong performativity and interaction with the public.
His research goes beyond the immediacy of the everyday dimension, with an alienating and dreamlike neorealist gaze, combined with an archaeological approach to art history.
Until February 9, 2025
Rovereto – Mart
Etruschi del Novecento
Echoes of sensational discoveries such as that of the Apollo of Veio, a large painted terracotta sculpture found in 1916 and now housed in the Villa Giulia Museum in Rome, led to the spread of numerous studies and publications and the revival of styles, forms, themes, and materials. The archaic smile, fantastic animals, life and death, and the cult of the mysterious people captivated moderns, first and foremost the intellectual Gabriele d’Annunzio, who was fascinated by the synthetic and “primitive” style.
In the second half of the twentieth century, two famous exhibitions would help amplify the scope of the phenomenon abroad as well, reaching the likes of Alberto Giacometti, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol or filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock.
Until March 16, 2025
Siena – Palazzo delle Papesse
Julio Le Parc. La scoperta della percezione
Works from 1958 to the Present will be the first major event the historic exhibition space will host upon its reopening. The works, all created between 1958 and 2024, are the result of Julio Le Parc’s ongoing research into movement, color, and light and emblematically illustrate his particular approach to creation and the art world.
Le Parc prefers to use existing geometric forms in a way that visually activates the surface of the work and engages viewers. The Argentine artist, who has always been socially engaged, does not want to submit himself to chronology either; in fact, the exhibition itinerary places works made in different years in close dialogue. Endless variations in color, form and movement invade the rooms of the 15th-century palace.
Until March 16, 2025
Turin – Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Mark Manders. Silent Studio
The exhibition project brings together previously unpublished works and a wide selection of works created over more than three decades, within an immersive environment designed especially for the occasion.
The subject of Silent Studio is Manders’ studio, a real and, at the same time, mental place, overlapping with the minimalist architecture of the Foundation. The exhibition is articulated through more than twenty works, including sculpture, installation, artworks in bronze, steel, iron, as well as paper and painting.
Until March 16, 2025
Milan – Fondazione La Triennale di Milano
Gae Aulenti
An extensive retrospective devoted to Gae Aulenti (1927-2012), one of the most representative figures in contemporary architecture and design.
In a career spanning more than sixty years, the multifaceted designer has touched many areas: from urban-scale design to exhibition design, from landscape architecture to interior design, from furniture design to graphic design, and even theater set design.
Until January 12, 2025
The recommended book
La ragazza del Bauhaus
Theresia Enzensberger – Guanda
Weimar, 1921. Young Luise arrives at the Bauhaus school determined to make her way in the world of architecture. Here, among such masters as Gropius, Klee, and Kandinsky, students are immersed in an atmosphere of experimentalism and artistic fervor…
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