Rossetti Gallery tips: art exhibitions in January and a book on the art world.
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the Art Exhibitions In January recommended by the rossetti gallery
Genoa – Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino
Ottomans, Barbarians, Moors and Other Peoples in Art in Genoa Fascinations, Clashes, Exchanges in the 16th-18th Centuries
For the first time, the exhibition brings together works of art illustrating the most diverse sides of the image of the Ottomans in Genoese art: fighters, slaves, dignitaries and sultans populate the scenes depicted in the paintings and other artifacts on display, in scenarios ranging from the court of Constantinople to the port of Genoa, where the daily life of slaves when not on the galleys, at sea, took place.
With this in mind, the exhibition, with its educational apparatus and supporting side events, also serves as an important tool for raising awareness of these issues, with a view to increasing knowledge and understanding of the past in a now multicultural society.
Until January 26, 2025
Venice – Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Marina Apollonio. Beyond the circle
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents the largest-ever museum retrospective in Italy dedicated to Marina Apollonio (b. 1940), among the leading exponents of international Optical and Kinetic Art, supported and collected by Peggy Guggenheim.
Highlighting the rigor of her visual research, between painting, sculpture and drawing, static, moving and environmental works, black and white and color research, technical and material experimentation, Marina Apollonio. Beyond the Circle traces the artist’s career from 1963 to the present.
Until March 3, 2025
Rome – Goethe House
Max Liebermann. A Berlin Impressionist
The first extensive retrospective of German painter and graphic artist Max Liebermann (1847-1935) in Italy. Born in Berlin to a wealthy Jewish family, Liebermann undertook his art studies at the Weimar Academy of Art and is considered one of the most important innovators of late 19th-century German painting.
Initially devoted to realism and naturalism, Liebermann was derisively called a “painter of the poor” because of his anti-academic themes with which he depicted hard work in the countryside. Around 1890, however, understanding the innovative power of French Impressionism, Liebermann moved closer to the style of Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, and even began to collect their paintings.
Until February 9, 2025
Parma – Palazzo Tarasconi
Street Art Revolution
How did the street art movement begin? How did it go from illegal graffiti on subways to Banksy’s well-known works and works sold for millions?
Through Street Art Revolution the viewer will explore the vibrant world of Street Art, from its humble beginnings on the streets of New York to its consecration as a global art movement that influences public opinion, stimulates debate and inspires collective action.
Until March 2, 2025
Pescara – Imago Museum
In dream form. The last surrealists. Mensa & Matta
The exhibition offers a fascinating journey into the world of Surrealist art through a selection of works by the two painters, an expression of the spirit theorized by André Breton in the 1924 Manifesto of Surrealism. Breton describes man as an “ultimate dreamer,” whose thinking escapes the limits of logic and reason to open up to the power of dream and psychic automatism, cornerstones of the Surrealist movement itself.
Sebastian Matta (Santiago de Chile 1911 – Civitavecchia 2002) and Carlos Mensa (Barcelona 1936 – 1982) carried out this vision in different but complementary ways: if for Matta reality dissolves into transfigured, dreamlike, and phantasmagorical forms, for Mensa the world is a surreal theater, populated by fairy-tale characters, poised between the real and the absurd
Until February 23, 2025
Palermo – Palazzo Abatellis
Crossings. Triumph of Death, Guernica and Guttuso’s Crucifixion.
This exhibition juxtaposes the “Triumph of Death” with another work symbolizing the violence of death as Pablo Picasso’s Guernica through the textile copy kept at the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, a work authorized by the master himself and exhibited for the first time in Palermo.
Extremely significant in this exhibition are the loans of some preparatory sketches by Picasso himself for the “head” of the horse in Guernica, which show close compositional affinities with the ‘fresco. And by Guttuso comes to the exhibition from the GNAM in Rome, Crucifixion, a work with a very strong dramatic charge, in angular and cubist forms, directly inspired by Guernica – Guttuso himself notes it – and at the same time, homage to the Triumph for the symbolic presence of the horse.
Until January 12, 2025
The recommended book
The third hour of art
Tomaso Montanari – Einaudi
Art hour as air hour in a prison, because the time we live imprisons us behind the bars of the present, of the ephemeral, and so we risk forgetting what deep down makes us human. And there is no better space, and no better time, than art to catch our breath, to breathe deeply and rediscover what in the depths of our hearts makes us who we are.
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