Rossetti Gallery tips: art exhibitions in February and a book on the art world.
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the Art Exhibitions In February recommended by the Rossetti gallery
Genoa – Palazzo Bianco
Gorgeous weaving on the Silk Routes. Textile art from Central Asia and China.
A fascinating journey through robes, headdresses, and accessories dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries from China, the Himalayan area, the Indian subcontinent, and the historic Turkestan regions of Central Asia with the legendary Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva.
A journey among porcelain, bronzes, lacquers and sumptuous Chinese dresses, among historical photographs and travel reports on distant lands, among refined ikat silk robes with multicolored and shaded threads, precious velvets and brocades often embellished with elaborate embroidery, and headdresses of a thousand colors and the most diverse shapes. Works that come from the areas traversed by the Silk Routes, a network of routes that over the centuries have connected East and West.
Until June 29, 2025
Milan – Palazzo Reale
I am Leonor Fini
Her work addresses fundamental issues of contemporary society, such as the questioning of gender, identity, belonging, established models of family, masculinity and femininity. The title of the exhibition is inspired by the reflections her work provoked in important writers and artists of her time, including Jean Genet, Max Ernst or Jean Cocteau.
The exhibition includes painting, drawing, photography, decorative art, fashion design, costumes, artist’s books and documents to emphasize the artist’s multifaceted nature.
Until June 22, 2025
Milan – Pirelli Hangar Bicocca
Tarek Atoui: Improvisation in 10 days
Known for his distinctive approach to music, Tarek Atoui (Beirut, Lebanon, 1980; lives and works in Paris) investigates the acoustic properties and the ways in which elements such as water, air, stone and bronze, absorb sound and return it with unexpected nuances.
This is the first time that Atoui conceives of an exhibition as a real device capable of evolving and materializing over time in a certain situation, triggering a dynamic relationship between space, tools and people. The true potential of the project lies precisely in its “dynamic” state, in its openness to change.
Until July 20, 2025
Rome – Palazzo Braschi
Roma pittrice. Women artists at work between the 16th and 19th centuries
The exhibition project features about 130 works, executed by fifty-six different women artists who are active in the city permanently or for longer or shorter periods of time.
Professional and biographical events of these women artists, often unknown due to lack of documentation or because their works were attributed to the works of male masters and family members, are to be reconstructed. Maria Felice Tibaldi Subleyras, Angelika Kaufmann, Laura Piranesi, Marianna Candidi Dionigi, Louise Seidler and Emma Gaggiotti, whose works were mostly kept in the repositories, and other artists active in the city, from the well-known Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi and Giovanna Garzoni, to lesser-known ones such as Giustiniana Guidotti, Ida Botti or Amalia De Angelis and many others, whose catalog is being reconstructed in these last decades of research.
Until May 4, 2025
The recommended book
The mystery of Arnolfini
Jean-Philippe Postel – Skira
The Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Arnolfini painted by Jan van Eyck in 1434 is the celebrated subject of this investigation, a work that anyone who has seen can no longer forget. Beloved and admired over the centuries, the protagonist of countless studies, it nevertheless conceals a mystery, a hidden meaning, which continues to elude even the most attentive gaze…
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