Rossetti Gallery tips: art exhibitions in October and a book on the art world.
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the Art Exhibitions In October recommended by the rossetti gallery
Genoa – Palazzo Ducale
Impression, Morisot
Tired of submitting to the Academy’s strict rules, a group of young artists held an exhibition in Nadar’s photographic workshop in Paris on April 15, 1874. Paintings by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir,Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and Paul Cézanne-along with the works of 24 other artists rejected by the official Salon- caused a stir among Parisian critics, who were unable to read the innovative style of what would become known internationally as Impressionism.
Among these dissidents was Berthe Morisot (Bourges, 1841 – Paris, 1895), the only woman painter among the movement’s founders.
Until february 25, 2025
Arezzo – Galleria comunale d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea
Giorgio Vasari. Il teatro delle virtù
The exhibition offers an original journey on Vasari the painter, architect and historiographer, who from 1554 to 1574 was the favorite court artist of Duke Cosimo de’ Medici in Tuscany in the second half of the 16th century. Eight sections with works that offer the visitor multiple aspects of Vasari’s work, with many previously unseen facts and surprises.
On display – following the theme of profane and sacred allegory – will be painted plates and drawings by Giorgio Vasari and contemporary artists and collaborators practicing the same line of expression, along with letters, manuscripts and printed volumes from the Vasari Archive. There will be no shortage of highly symbolic artifacts to represent the evocative potential of allegory, most notably the Chimera, an extraordinary Etruscan bronze found in Arezzo in 1535.
Until february 2, 2025
Milan – Mudec
Niki De Saint Phalle
The exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective organized in an Italian museum and celebrates the French-American artist known for her large and colorful Nanas, but also revealing her engaged side through a different reading of her work.
Niki de Saint Phalle, ‘woman and artist’ (as she liked to call herself), painter, sculptor, experimental filmmaker, performer, eludes unambiguous definition. Her monumental works, including parks and public sculptures, are intertwined with more personal and sometimes poignant reflection. On the one hand, she is seen as an independent celebrity who is proud of her art; on the other, her physical frailty and the many social inequalities and discriminations she has witnessed throughout her life bring out her humanity and sensitivity to the fragile.
Until february 16, 2025
Milan – Pirelli HangarBicocca
Jean Tinguely
A few steps away from Niki De Saint Phalle’s exhibition we find the exhibition dedicated to her husband, the celebrated Swiss sculptor Jean Tinguely, considered one of the great pioneering artists of the 20th century who revolutionized the very concept of the work of art, and one of the major exponents of kinetic art.
Tinguely is among the first artists to use discarded objects, gears, and other materials that he then welds together, creating noisy, cacophonous working machines equipped with real motors.
Until february 2, 2025
The recommended book
The woman in the green dress
Stephanie Cowell – Neri Pozza
In the spring of 1864, Oscar Claude Monet, a good-looking young artist with a dark beard, darting black eyes, and the swaggering manner of one who conceals a certain provincial shyness, entered the Libraire Doncieux on rue Dante, attracted by the beautiful hand-painted sign hanging at the entrance. Behind the desk sits a young woman…
