Rossetti Gallery tips: art exhibitions in September and a book on the art world.
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the Art Exhibitions In September recommended by the rossetti gallery
Bologna – Palazzo Fava
Ai Weiwei. Who am I?
Ai Weiwei, an internationally renowned Chinese artist who has always been committed to the defense of human rights, presents his first solo exhibition in Bologna. Ai Weiwei’s commitment and constant search for truth, which has led him to be a political persecutor, combined with his ability to use a wide range of media to express complex and provocative ideas, makes this exhibition a seminal event in the contemporary art scene.
As the title, inspired by an artist’s conversation with artificial intelligence, indicates, the exhibition at Palazzo Fava presents the artist and his creative universe in an ongoing tension between tradition and experimentation, preservation and destruction.
Until May 4, 2025
Florence – Palazzo Strozzi
Helen Frankenthaler. Dipingere senza regole
A major exhibition dedicated to one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century, co-organized by Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, and Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York. Over a career spanning more than sixty years, Frankenthaler established herself on the American art scene through a “no rules” approach, challenging the limitations of painting techniques but also the gender expectations of the time, establishing herself as one of the leading artists of her generation. Through her eclectic imagination and improvisational skills, she explored a new relationship between color and form, expanding the possibilities of abstract painting in a way that still inspires generations of artists today.
Color and space, abstraction and poetry: Frankenthaler’s art is distinguished by a unique ability to combine technique and imagination, research and improvisation, going beyond canons, rules and conventions in search of a new freedom in painting.
Until January 26, 2025
Parma – Fondazione Magnani Rocca
Il Surrealismo e l’Italia
One hundred years ago Surrealism was born; from then on, the perception of the world would never be the same. “Imagination is nothing but the revelation of what we are, of our own substance, which is dream, purity, energy, freedom.” wrote André Breton in the Manifeste du Surréalisme, published on Oct. 15, 1924, officially marking the start of the movement.
The major exhibition “Surrealism and Italy,” curated by Alice Ensabella, Alessandro Nigro, Stefano Roffi, through more than 150 works by Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Max Ernst, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Yves Tanguy, Giorgio de Chirico and his brother Alberto Savinio, Enrico Baj, Fabrizio Clerici, Leonor Fini and other protagonists of this imaginative current, testifies to the vastness of Surrealism’s media and languages and explores its impact and evolution in our country.
Until December 15, 2024
Paris – Centre Pompidou
Surréalisme
The Centre Pompidou in Paris celebrates 100 years of the Surrealist movement with a major exhibition: designed as a labyrinth, the “Surrealism” exhibition is an unprecedented immersion in the exceptional creative effervescence of the Surrealist movement, which began in 1924 with the publication of André Breton’s Founding Manifesto.
Combining paintings, drawings, films, photographs and literary documents, the exhibition features works by the movement’s iconic artists (Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Giorgio de Chirico, Max Ernst, Joan Miró), as well as those of Surrealist women (including Leonora Carrington, Ithell Colquhoun, Dora Maar).
Until January 13, 2025
The recommended book
Le artiste e il movimento surrealista
This pioneering book represents the most comprehensive treatment of the lives, ideas and artworks of the extraordinary group of women who were an essential part of the Surrealist movement. Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo and Dorothea Tanning, among many others, embodied their era by striving for artistic maturity and their own “liberation of spirit” in the context of the Surrealist revolution. Their stories and achievements are presented here against the backdrop of the turbulent decades of the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s and the war that forced Surrealism into exile in New York and Mexico. Whitney Chadwick in the course of her research interviewed and corresponded with most of the women artists themselves.
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