Rossetti Gallery tips: exhibitions you can visit during July and a book about the art world.
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Recommended exhibitions
Genoa – Castello D’Albertis
Traces of the Middle Ages at Castello D’Albertis
During Summer 2024, Castello D’Albertis – Museum of World Cultures offers a guided tour to discover the many traces of the Middle Ages present in the residence. The visit will lead to the discovery of the late medieval tower incorporated into the neo-Gothic building and the many details scattered throughout the complex, such as inscriptions, portals, and decorations.
Until september 15, 2024
Florence – Museo del Novecento
Louise Bourgeois in Florence. Do Not Abandon Me
The exhibition will present a survey of red gouaches by Louise Bourgeois with a thematic focus on the motif of mother and child. The title of the exhibition refers to Bourgeois’ lifelong fear of abandonment, which in this case refers to the mother-child dyad, which is the model for all future relationships.
Motherhood and its related anxieties were central to Bourgeois’s conception of herself. At the same time, as old age made her more fragile and more dependent on others, an unconscious shift toward the mother characterized her work.
Until october 20, 2024
Turin – GAM Museum
Italo Cremona. Tutto il resto è profonda notte
The Turin exhibition is an anthology dedicated to the work of Italo Cremona, an independent surrealist who was born in the province of Pavia in 1905 and died in Turin in 1979.
The nocturne is one of the themes of Italo Cremona’s painting, an expressive, existential and philosophical condition that produces dreams, nightmares, apparitions, fantastic images. “Everything else is deep night” is the phrase with which Cremona had concluded one of the texts in “Acetylene,” a column he signed in the 1950s for “Paragone,” Roberto Longhi’s magazine. All the rest is deep night is thus a title-sign, the key chosen to trace an exhibition path dedicated to the entire span of the artist’s painting.
Until september 8, 2024
Rome – Mira Brtka
Il futuro è dietro di noi. The future is behind us
If all roads lead to Rome, the one that the still very young Mira Brtka took to the Eternal City in the 1960s from her Novi Banovci (at the time in Yugoslavia)-where she was born on October 5, 1930-was almost obligatory. Because Brtka, a multifaceted and restless artist, was definitely combining her two passions in those Roman years: art and cinema.
Until september 8, 2024
Oslo – Edvard Munch
Trembling Earth
Eighty years ago, on January 23, 1944, the icon of Norwegian painting, Edvard Munch, died in Oslo. A major exhibition celebrating the anniversary is scheduled for April 27 at the Munch Museum, opening in fall 2021 in spectacular new building overlooking the water.
Custodian of the world’s largest collection of Munch’s works, the Scandinavian museum pays tribute to its host by narrating his art from a theme dear to him-the connection with the natural universe-through more than 100 works, including many excellent loans.
Until august 25, 2024
Berlin – Caspar David Friedrich
Infinite landscapes
On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the Alte Nationalgalerie, in collaboration with the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, presents the first major exhibition on the work of the most important painter of German Romanticism.
The Nationalgalerie houses one of the largest collections of Friedrich’s paintings in the world, and numerous acquisitions and public presentations in the Prussian capital during the artist’s lifetime contributed to his early fame.
Until august 4, 2024
The recommended book
In Mexico with Frida Kahlo. Self-portrait as geography
Where can we find Frida Kahlo today? Paola Zoppi imagines with this book an essential cartography in which to converge houses, cities and streets located in the Americas and Europe, in which the Mexican artist’s life took shape; and an astral map outlining Frida’s profile at the time of her coming into the world and before the world itself entered her.
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