The Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea and the Fondazione Mario Schifano are presenting the exhibit Mario Schifano Tutto, a homage to the artist who died in 1998 (through March 31, 2002).
The exhibit shows works and films from the private archives of Schifano.
In one of the sections of the exhibit, the studio of Schifano, rich of colors, sounds and light has also been recreated.
The show includes different sections among which "Open Sesame" on the banning of images, "Fibre ottiche" on the victory of technologies through painting.
Noteworthy one of the last works by Schifano, dedicated to technology which is considered as an inspiration muse.
Further information:tel.06-67107900.(Italian Network)

IL NEOCLASSICISMO IN ITALIA. DA TIEPOLO A CANOVA AT PALAZZO REALE IN MILAN

Palazzo Reale in Milan is hosting from Feb.27 through July 28 the exhibit Il Neoclassicismo in Italia. da Tiepolo a Canova. Famous museums among which Louvre, Uffizi, the Vatican museums, Ermitage, Palazzo Pitti have collaborated in the setting up of this show.
On display 400 works among which masterpieces by Tiepolo, Bellotto, David, Angelica Kauffmann, Goya, Appiani, Canova, and also the rare pieces of furniture by Maggiolini, the sculptures in bronze by Valadier.
Artists selected in this exhibit created through their works a precise style, the Neo classicism, whose scope was to revive ancient art.
Further information: tel. 055 272071.(Italian Network)

REGGIO EMILIA: THE EXHIBIT MEMORIA DEI CAMPI

An exhibit not to forget: on display the pictures of the Nazi concentration camps. The exhibit, "Memoria dei campi" has been set up at Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia (through 10 March).
The scopes of this exhibit are to show documents, to analyze the relation between photography and the camps and to reflect on this terrible event which cannot be forgotten.
The exhibit includes three sections: "The period of camps (1933-1945)", 125 dramatic images on the history of camps: from their opening to their closing. "Getting free" (1945): 87 pictures by professional photographers (Lee Miller, Margaret Bourke-White, George Rodger, Eric Schwab, Germaine Krull, ecc.) and amateurs. "Memories" (1945-2000): 99 pictures from the end of the war to nowadays. Those who survived, objects still in the camps, and 35 images by Michael Kenna taken in the Nazi camps from 1988 to nowadays.
The exhibit which has been already set up in Paris and Winterthur, has been co produced by the Patrimoine Photographique of Paris, Palazzo Magnani of Reggio Emilia, the Fotomuseum of Winterthur and the National Museum of Art of Catalogne in Barcelona.
Further information: tel. +39 0522.454437, fax +39 0552452349. (Italian Network)

40 WORKS BY ANTONIO NUNZIANTE IN ROME

The Gallery Telemarket in Rome is hosting, through Feb. 23, 40 works by Antonio Nunziante.
Works have been made in the last ten years and they reveal the technical talent of the artist, the high quality of his figurative style, influenced by De Chirico and Magritte.
Nunziante's still lives are "portrayed" in a very precise ad detailed way, the realist world he creates however has also a dreamy like perspective.
This oniric dimension is often created through supernatural light or a disproportion among the objects in the painting.
Nunziante was born in Naples in 1956, he attended in Turin the Academy of Fine Arts, and restoration courses. He traveled in France, Spain, UK. He started showing his works in 1975 in some galleries in Turin. In the Eighties he took part in some collective exhibits in the United States. He is appreciated not only in Italy but also abroad.(Italian Network)

SULLE TRACCE DELL'INFINITO AT PALAZZO MAGNANI IN REGGIO EMILIA

Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia is hosting (through Dec.16) the exhibit Sulle tracce dell'infinito dedicated to Walter Valentini, one of the main artists of the Abstract Movement.
The show promoted by the Province of Reggio Emilia and the Chamber of Labor (on occasion of its centennial) with the contribution of the Fondazione Pietro Manodori, gathers 70 works among which 20 big achievements and drawings which highlight the evolution of Valentini.
Valentini has always investigated the mysteries of space and time and his works such as "Le stanze del tempo" - "Il muro del tempo" - "La città del sole" - "La città ideale" - "Costellazioni" - "Le misure, il cielo" are the result of his researches.
On display also some works of the Seventies which had never been shown such as "Solari".
On occasion of this exhibit, Valentini has created an installation "Il passo del tempo" characterized by a 10 meter glass (it has been placed in the entrance hall of Palazzo Magnani).
Walter Valentini was born in Pesaro in 1928 and he studied with Veronesi and Max Huber in Rome, Milan. In Urbino he attended the Scuola del Libro dell'istituto delle Belle Arti. There he learned the secrets of etching, an artistic expression he is internationally appreciated for.
His works have been influenced by the Renaissance culture, architecture, the Russian Constructivism, and by the Italian and foreign masters of the Abstract and Space Art Movements.
Further information: tel. +39 0522459406 - fax 0522452349.(Italian Network)

SCULPTURES BY ALIGI SASSU AT VILLA FILIPPINI DELLA BESANA

Aligi Sassu (1912) is one of the main Italian sculptors of the Twentieth century. The Associazione Aligi Sassu has set up a big exhibit at Villa Filippini di Besana in Brianza (near Milan), a region he lived extensively in.
His works, at first influenced by Futurism, have always been consistent, revolutionary and socially committed.
His first works in ceramics date to the end of the Thirties. His masterpieces, however, were created in the late Forties together with Lucio Fontana and Agenore Fabbri.
In the Sixties, he dropped ceramics and he started producing sculptures.
The show presents 140 sculptures (12 of them are extremely big) which have been placed in the park of Villa Filippini at Besana.
Sassu is a self taught artist who was fascinated in 1927 by the works by Boccioni. In his long career he created famous sculptures such as "Il grande cavallo impennato" (1960) in Via Brera in Milan, "Il Dio Pan", "Nuredduna".
Further information: "Aligi Sassu" through Dec.9, tel. +39 02 72023999, fax.+39 02 72098046, e-mail: info @aligisassu.it.(Italian Network)

BRESCIA IMPRESSIONISMI IN EUROPA. NON SOLO FRANCIA

Impressionismi in Europa. Non solo Francia set up at Palazzo Martinengo in Brescia is doing extremely well and the organizers have extended it through Jan.6.
On display 80 works from all over Europe by 25 artists among whom Lovis Corinth, Wilhelm Leibl, Franz von Lenbach, Max Liebermann, Adolph von Menzel, Hans Thoma, Wilhelm Trübner, Fritz von Uhde (Germany); George Clausen, Henry Herbert La Thangue, John Lavery, Walter Sickert, Philip Steer (UK); Georg Breitner, Isaac Israëls, Anton Mauve (Holland); Christian Krohg, Anders Zorn (Scandinavian countries); Konstantin Korovin, Ilia Repin,Valentin Serov (Russia); Aureliano de Beruete, Mariano Fortuny, Ignazio Pinazo, Joaquin Sorolla (Spain).
Recent studies on the Nineteenth century have downsized the role of French Impressionism and have highlighted also the artistic production of this period in other European countries.
Many European artists, in fact, were influenced by Impressionism but worked out their own personal style.
The show then presents the most important original, indipendent Impressionist artists.
Most of the artists were born in 1840-60 and their main character was to react against "still life". Their works are, in fact, more lively, more socially committed. No French works are on display.
Further information: phone 0039 030 297551 - fax 0039 030 2975517. E-mail: informazioni@bresciamostre.it.(Italian Network)

THE MASTERPIECES OF THE GENOA SCHOOL FROM THE HERMITAGE TO PALAZZO DUCALE IN GENOA

Cultural relations between the City of Genoa and the Russian city of St. Petersburg have been close through centuries. An evidence of these contacts is the exhibit Capolavori di scuola genevose dall'Ermitage-Genova-San Pietroburgo set up at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa (through Feb.17).
The show presents not only paintings but also literary, historical researches and poetic and musical events.
The project "Genova - San Pietroburgo" includes altogether three exhibits, two of them are at Palazzo Ducale (winter 2001 and spring 2002) and one at the Hermitage Museum in 2002.
On display wonderful art works dating from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth century made by Russian artists during their stays in Liguria. This Italian region, in fact, was part of the "Gran Tour" and it was visited by famous Russian artists such as Marina Cvetaeva, Gorky, Achmatova, Ciajkovsky, Skrjabin ,Kiprensky, Scedrin, Nikolaj Ge, Repin, Ajvazovskij, Bogoljubov, Levitan, Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva, Aleksandra Ekster, Mashkov, Kalmakov, Michail Vrubel', Vassily Kandinsky and Alexey von Jawlensky.
Works are from the Hermitage, the Russian State Musuem, the National Library, the State Museum of Theater.
Further information: Fondazione Regionale Cristoforo Colombo - tel +39 010562046 - fax +39 591088.(Italian Network)

WORKS BYBURRI AT SAN DOMENICO IN REGGIO EMILIA

Over 100 works illustrate the artistic evolution of Burri in the exhibit "Burri" promoted by the Municipality of Reggio Emilia - Musei Civici and by the Fondazione Burri set up at the Chiostri di San Domenico in Reggio Emilia ( through Jan. 7 2002).
The works on display cover his whole creative range: from the first achievements of the Fifties through his last works of the Nineties (he died in 1994).
The show presents some big works made with different techniques and materials (wood, iron, plastic), a selection of etchings and books including some of his works.
Works are from Città di Castello (Burri's home town) where there is the Foundation the very artist established before dying.
The catalogue includes essays by Maurizio Calvesi, Chiara Sarteanesi, Giuliano Serafini, Italo Tomassoni and pictures by Aurelio Amendola.
Further information: Chiostri di San Domenico, via Dante Alighieri 11 - Reggio Emilia Tel. +39 0522.456477.(Italian Network)

200 MASTERPIECES BY PICASSO AT PALAZZO REALE IN MILAN

200 masterpieces dating from 1898 to 1972 by Picasso are on display through Jan. 27, 2002 at Palazzo Reale, in Milano. A big exhibit which includes paintings, sculptures, drawings highlighting Picasso's artistic evolution: from his blue and pink periods to Cubism, Neoclassicism and his political works.
Some of the works had never been shown before as they are part of Picasso's collection. They thus illustrate his intimate, private life and introduce visitors in his family world offering the possibility to discover an unusual Picasso: the father and the husband.
The show is a touching journey which enables to find out his revolutionary formal innovations.
The section dedicated to sculpture presents some of his masterpieces which underline Picasso's influence on the artistic production by famous sculptors such as Henri Moore, Alexander Calder and David Smith.
Some of the works had already been presented in Milan in 1953 in the same location.
Further information: Comune di Milano - Maria Grazia Vernuccio - tel. +39 02.88454838 - 88450154 - fax 02.88454840, e-mail: hvernu@tin.it.(Italian Network)

VICENZA HOSTING GENERAZIONALE: THE PATHS OF CONTEMPORARY ART

A survey on the present artistic generations: this is what the exhibit Generazionale is about. The show set up in Vicenza at the Basilica Palladiana (LAMeC and Salone degli Zavatteri) is open through Feb. 24.
After the exhibits dedicated to Futurism, René Paresce, Paul Jenkins, attention is now paid to the artistic production by the new generations.
The curator, Beatrice Buscaroli, focuses her attention on the relation between the visibility of the works by new artists in museums, galleries, markets and the age of artists.
The conclusion is that new artists have the possiblity to show their works when they are still extremely young.
The show presents also works by foreign artists and it compares them with works by Italian artists: Giulia Caira/Janieta Eyre; Giovanni Manfredini /Robert Gligorov; Pierluigi Calignano/Julia Bornefeld; Roberto Floreani/ Stephen Ellis; Dany Vescovi/Kocheisen + Hullmann; Antonella Mazzoni/ Victor Rodriguez; Antonio Riello/Carolyn Chambliss.
A second section presents works by Italian artists who express their emotions and ideas in a free way: Matteo Basilé, Stefano Calligaro, Mario Consiglio, Alicia Erba, Greta Frau,Jonathan Guaitamacchi, Beatrice Pasquali, Alex Pinna, Leonardo Pivi, Luisa Raffaelli, Silvano Tessarollo, Veronica Veronese Palmieri.
Further information: Assessorato ai Servizi Culturali a Vicenza alla Basilica Palladiana (LAMeC and Salone degli Zavatteri), tel. 0444/222122 Fax 0444/222155.(Italian Network)

THE ART NOUVEAU AT PALAZZO ZABARELLA IN PADUA

Palazzo Zabarella in Padua is hosting through March 3 2002, an interesting exhibit on Art Nouveau which has already been presented in Rome at the Chiostro del Bramante.
The exhibit in Padua includes a greater number of works and it gives a clear idea of the influence of Art Nouveau on painting, sculpure, architecture and applied art.
On display 350 fascinating Art Nouveau works made in the Nineteenth and Twentieth century in Italy among which jewels, glasses, fabric, posters, pieces of furniture…
Il Liberty in Italia, this is the title of the exhibit, presents paintings by Segantini, Previati, De Nittis, Pellizza da Volpedo, Sartorio, Cavaglieri, Libero Andreotti, Lorenzo Viani, Cambellotti, Chini, Nomellini, De Carolis, Carena, Casorati, Boccioni, Balla, Bistolfi, Wildt, Zecchin and design works by Carlo Bugatti, Eugenio Quarti, Ernesto Basile.
The exhibit also fixes the closing year of this artistic movement: 1920.
Further information: tel. +39 049.8756063.(Italian Network)

SAN PETRONIO E BOLOGNA: IL VOLTO DI UNA STORIA AT PALAZZO DEL PODESTA'

Art, history and the cult of the Patron Saint: an exhibit on San Petronio at Palazzo del Podesta' in Bologna (through Feb.24 2002).
In the sculpture by Michelangelo, San Petronio holds Bologna characterized by the two towers. An image which has been reproduced many times and which decorates many churches and lay places in Bologna.
The show, which includes seven sections, has been set up in the Basilica of San Petronio, in the National Gallery and all over the city and it presents documents and extraordinary art works.
Petronio was appointed Bishop of the city of Bologna in 432.
He had not only a religious role in Bologna but also a key cultural and political role. He established the University and he defended the city and its freedom.
The exhibit has the merit to gather many images of San Petronio which were scattered all over the world.
The highlight of the exhibit is the curious "Petroniana Quadreria" 24 paintings on the life of San Petronio.
On display also illuminated codes and ancient books on the life of the Saint.
Further information: Tel. +39 051.2960812.(Italian Network)

LE DONNE DI TOULOUSE LAUTREC ALLO SPAZIO OBERDAN IN MILAN

Toulouse-Lautrec (Albi 1864 Malromè - Bordeaux 1901) has fully explored and portrayed the woman world.
The exhibit Le donne di Toulouse Lautrecset up at the Oberdan Centre in Milan (through Jan.27) is an evidence of his interest. Women are the perfect characters who underline the modernity and the social life of his time. As a matter of fact he preferred portraying women rather than men
Differently from Degas who focuses his attention only on some kinds of women, Lautrec highlights the personality of his models and portrays a gallery of women, belonging to all social classes.
On display the famous portraits of Adèle and family friends, M.me Pascal, Carmen la Rouge, the dancers Goulue and Jane Avril, the actresses and singers Yvette Guilbert, Mary Belfort, Marcelle Lender, the intellectural Misia Natanson, the prostitutes Marcelle and Olande.
Further information: tel.+39 02 878197, fax.+39 02 8693046. e mail: mazzotta@iol.it.(Italian Network)

I MANIFESTI DELLA SECESSIONE VIENNESE AT PALAZZO GIACOMELLI IN TREVISO

Palazzo Giacomelli is hosting through Dec. 9 a show dedicated to the posters from the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.
The exhibit I manifesti della secessione viennese has been organized in cooperation with the Collezione Salce (which gathers over 30,000 and is one of the main collections of art nouveau posters in the world). The show, set up at Unindustria Treviso, presents in Italy for the first time the 21 posters of the golden period of the Art Nouveau in Vienna (1895-1905), the artistic movement which upset figurative arts (4 posters are from Vienna and 16 from the Salce Collection).
On display posters by G. Klimt, J. M. Olbrich, K. Moser, A. Böhm, A. Roller, catalogues and copies of the rare magazine "Ver Sacrum", the official publication of Art Nouveau artists from Vienna whose leader was Gustav Klimt.
All the posters have been printed in color by Albert Berger in Vienna. Only the poster by Josep M. Olbrich was printed with a special golden technique.
The exhibit will be also set up in Bolzano (from Dec. 15 through March 9, 2002).
Further information: tel. +39 0422.2941 fax +39 0422.412238.(Italian Network)

CASA DEI CARRARESI IN TREVISO HOSTING 90 WORKS BY MONET FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD

The biggest exhibit ever organized in Italy on Monet. We are talking of the show, Monet. I Luoghi della pitturaset up in Treviso at the Casa dei Carraresi (through Feb.10) which gathers 90 works by the famous French Impressionist painter (works have been insured for 1,200 billion lire).
The show highlights Monet's artistic evolution and, mainly, his passion for nature, his desire to be part of it.
Many museums in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Canada, UK, Russia, Norway, Japan and of course in France participated in this exhibit by lending their works by Monet. Worth mentioning the loans of the Lyceum of Claude Monet in Paris and that of the Museum of Cairo.
Further information: Call center tel. 0438.21306 fax 0438.418108 info@lineadombra.it, www.lineadombra.it/Monet.(Italian Network)

LA GLORIA DI NEW YORK THE LUDWIG COLLECTION AT THE MUSEO DEL CORSO IN ROME

La gloria di New York. Artisti americani dalle Collezioni Ludwig is the title of the exhibit set up at the Museo del Corso in Rome, promoted by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Roma (through Jan.6).
On display 30 American contemporary art works by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Jeff Koons, Cy Twombly, George Segal, James Rosenquist collected by the Ludwigs. The works are from the Foundation Peter and Irene Ludwig in Aachen, from the Museum Ludwig in Koln, the Ludwig Museum in Koblenz and the Ludwig Museum in St. Petersburg.
The activity of this couple also included the creation of museums of contemporary art in different countries and the promotion of unknown artists not only from the Usa and Europe but also from other continents.
At present, there are 12 museums all over the world bearing the name of "Ludwig".
Noteworthy in the pop art exhibit in Rome, the photorealist painting by Ralph Going "Unadilla Diner", depicting a scene from everyday urban life, the collage by Robert Rauschenberg, "The steel drawing with fruit, flowers and Monica" by Tom Wesselmann, the "Bread" by Jasper Johns and "Untitled" by Andy Warhol and Michael Basquiat.
Further information: tel. +39 06 6786209 .(Italian Network)

MASACCIO E L'INVENZIONE DELLA PROSPETTIVA AT THE GALLERIA DEGLI UFFIZI IN FLORENCE

A journey in the history of perspective starting with Masaccio's works. This is what the exhibit set up at the Galleria degli Uffizzi, Masaccio e l'invenzione della prospettiva is about (through Jan. 20).
The first artist to introduce perspective in art was in fact Masaccio. A novelty which significantly influenced the development of Renaissance and art in the following centuries.
The show, part of the celebrations organized on occasion of Masaccio's sixth birth centennial, presents original drawings, handwritten documents, paintings by the main Renaissance artists and samples of the main instruments invented by artists and scientists to realistically reproduce man and nature.
The highlight of the exhibit is the famous "Trinità di Santa Maria Novella", a work which is considered a sort of "manifesto" of the Renaissance prospective painting.
The show is a journey in the artistic and scientific world of that time. On display in fact art works by Masaccio, Donatello, Ghiberti, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Bramante, Scamozzi, Paolo Uccello but also the scientific researches carried out by Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo, Dürer and Galilei.
Further information: Tel. +39 055 2654321.(Italian Network)

CARLO LEVI. PAESAGGI 1926-1974. LIRISMO E METAMORFOSI DELLA NATURA IN ROME

Carlo Levi. Paesaggi 1926-1974. Lirismo e metamorfosi della natura is the title of the exhibit promoted by the Fondazione Carlo Levi in Rome (through April 27 2002).
The show is part of a project which will present at regular intervals the 800 works of the Foundation.
City views and landscapes are the main topics of Carlo Levi's paintings. He dedicated in fact many works to the city of Turin, to Alassio, Paris, London and Rome and to the region of Lucania.
Big cities and small villages are presented in this exhibit which gathers 33 works dating from 1926 to 1974.In his first works, influenced by the French Post Impressionism and the Italian Metaphysical Movement, city views are represented in a sort of lyric way. On the contrary in the following decades, works are characterized by violent colors and quick, thick brushstrokes.
Many works had never been shown before. The catalogue also includes literary texts by Carlo Levi on landscapes as well as essays by some art reviewers.
Further information: Fondazione Carlo Levi - tel e fax : 06.44230740 - E.mail: fondazionecarlolevi@libero.it, Roma, Via Ancona 21.(Italian Network)

PAPA ALBANI E LE ARTI A URBINO E A ROMA CLEMENTE XI 1700-1721 IN SAN MICHELE A RIPA IN ROME

He was one of the main popes in the Eighteenth century. We are talking of Clemente XI who was pope from 1700 to 1721. He loved and promoted art and the most appreciated artists of his time worked for him such as Leone Ghezzi, Vanvitelli, Francesco Trevisani.
He also promoted the construction of important churches and convents: the Church of Santa Maria In Cosmedin, the complex of San Michele and he restored other basilicas and squares. His initiatives are explained in the exhibit Papa Albani e le arti a Urbino e a Roma. Clemente XI 1700-1721, set up in the Complesso del San Michele ( through Jan.12 2002).
The exhibit includes five sections: Images of the pope, the Albani Family, Arts in Urbino during his papacy, Works in Rome, and Architecture.
Further information: Tel.+39 06 8412312.(Italian Network)

ARDENGO SOFFICI AND THE ITALIAN ART IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY AT THE GALLERIA PANANTI IN FLORENCE

After the exhibits dedicated to Fattori ('94), Rosai ('95), De Pisis ('96) and " I Macchiaioli" ('97), the Galleria Pananti in Florence continues its promotional activity in favor of the Italian art of the Nineteenth - Twentieth century. At present it has set up a show on Ardengo Soffici (Rignano sull'Arno, 1879 - Vittoria Apuana, 1964). On display over 100 works (drawings, watercolors, and oils) from private and public collections, several handwritten documents and many letters which highlight Soffici's artistic and human life.
The exhibit, the first big one organized in Florence on Soffici, is also dedicated to the publisher Enrico Vallecchi, a close friend of Soffici who published all his works.
The show highlights Soffici's artistic evolution: the first Symbolist, Cubist and Futurist works dating form 1901 to 1915, the figurative achievements (mainly landscapes) of the Twenties and the Thirties) and his religious works and still lives (through the Sixties).
Further information: Galleria Pananti, Firenze - Palazzo Ridolfi, via Maggio 16, Tel. +39 055.244931 Fax +39 055.245849 E.mail: galleriapananti@tin.it.(Italian Network)

WORKS BY ARTEMISIA AND ORAZIO GENTILESCHI AT PALAZZO VENEZIA IN ROME
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For the first time, in one single museum, it is possible to admire the artistic achievements by Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, the famous father and daughter. Two appreciated artists of the Seventeenth century who were influenced by Caravaggio's technique but managed to work out their own personal style.
The show, open through Jan. 20, is the result of a three year work carried out by the Sovrintendenza in Rome, run by Mr. Claudio Strinati, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Art Museum in Saint Louis.
The show will be presented also at the Metropolitan in New York (from Feb. 14 to May 12 2002) and in Saint Louis (from June 15 to Sept. 20, 2002).
The exhibit gathers the most significant works by Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi and it highlights differences and similarities.
On display by Orazio, some masterpieces such as "Santa Cecilia che suona la spinetta" from the National Gallery in Washington, "Lot e le figlie" from Los Angeles, "Il Davide e Golia" from Dublin and the "Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto".
Artemisia, who has been dedicated many books and films, was a talented artist but first of all a woman who revolted against the rules of her time. On display her dramatic, proud, intense, often erotic portraits. Works which help visitors to understand the strong personality of this woman who imposed herself in an artistic world ruled only by men.
Worth mentioning "Giuditta che decapita Oloferne", "Cleopatra" and "Maddalena Penitente".
The catalogue also carries documents which had never been published on the famous trial to Artemisia (she had been raped by her master).
Further information: tel. 06 32810. (Italian Network)

ROME : THE IRONIC AND COMMITTED WORKS BY ENRICO BAJ

The exhibit "Enrico Baj. Opere 1951-2001" is the biggest retrospective ever organized on this artist. A show, prepared by the very Baj, which celebrates his fifty years of activity. The rich show, set up by the stage designer Roberto Lucifero at Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, ranges from his first "nuclear" paintings marked by his fear of the Atomic Bomb, to his collages, his achievements in metal, and the little sculptures in wood. A wide number of works which highlight Baj's creativity and his capacity to reinterpret Surrealist, Dada, Futurist, Nuclear, Naif ideas.
Baj was born in Milan in 1924, and he was involved in the European vanguard movements of the Fifties together with Fontana, Manzoni and Yves Klein.
Since the very beginning, however, his artistic production has always been marked by humor, irony and committment.
Regardless of the materials he resorts to (plastic flowers, pieces of wood, sections of ropes, medals), Baj ironically and colorfully talks of the problems of our century. An attitude which highlights his faith in art and in its capacity to solve contradictions.
The show , promoted by the Gioco del Lotto and the Municipality of Rome, is open through Jan.16.
Further information: Palazzo delle Esposizioni, tel. 064745903. (Italian Network)

RINASCIMENTO.CAPOLAVORI DEI MUSEI ITALIANI: THE BIG EXHIBIT AT THE SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE IN ROME

The exhibit had already been set up in Tokyo on occasion of the happening "Italia in Giappone 2001": this initiative had caused the protests of many art reviewers who had expressed their worries on such a long journey of so many masterpieces. At present the exhibit "Rinascimento. Capolavori dei Musei Italiani" has been set up in Rome at the Scuderie del Quirinale and we can maybe understand why art reviewers were so worried. The exhibit gathers in fact remarkable art works by the main Renaissance artists. On display masterpieces by Raffaello, Michelangelo, Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Donatello… just to quote a few of them.
The curators of the exhibit have selected one, two works by each artist: the result is an ideal, rare "art book" on Renaissance and of its different periods.
The exhibit includes four sections which highlight the artistic production of two centuries: from the early Fourteenth century to the end of the Fifteenth century.
The first section, "L'invenzione del Rinascimento" concentrates on the key culture role of Florence, the city where Renaissance was born thanks also to the Medici family who supported this movement of renewal. On display "Annunciazione" by Botticelli, "Matrimonio della vergine" by Beato Angelico, "La madonna del Solletico" by Masaccio and a section of the famous "Porta del Paradiso" by Ghiberti.
"L'Arte del Rinascimento nel Mezzogiorno d' Italia" is the title of the second section which shows how the renaissance style influenced the production of artists living in Naples, Ferrara, Venice, Milan, Mantua and Padua. Worth mentioning in this section "La città ideale" by Laurana, " San Giuliano" by Piera della Francesca, "La Sacra Famiglia" by Mantegna.
The third section " Il Rinascimento maturo" gathers remarkable works created in Florence and Rome such as "La velata" by Raffaello, "Testa Virile" by Leonardo, "La testa del Bruto" by Michelangelo (it has been insured for 50 billion lire).
The last section is " La magnificenza delle Corti del Cinquecento: il primato italiano nelle arti" on the "aftermath" of Renaissance which gave life to two different styles in Veneto and in Tuscany. Noteworthy "Il Ritratto di Pietro l'Aretino" by Titian, "Marte e Venere" by Veronese and "Perseo e Andromeda" by Benvenuto Cellini.
The show is open through Jan. 6, 2002.
Further information: phone +39 06 39967500.(Italian Network)

AN AMERICAN IN ROME: STEVEN HALL AT THE AMERICAN ACADEMY

The American Academy has organized in cooperation with the Ordine degli Architetti of Rome and Province an exhibit on Steven Hall, one of the main contemporary architects.
The show which gathers 200 watercolors, some projects and a dozen of models are an opportunity to appreciate Hall's work and mainly the subtle border which divides architecture and visual arts. His original watercolors and projects have their "autonomy" and we forget that they are sketches and drawings made for something else.
The catalogue, in English and in Italian, includes the introduction by Linda Blumerg and essays by Livio Sacchi and Francesco Garofalo.
The book "Parallax" written by Steven Hall will be presented on occasion of this event.
Steven Hall was born in Bremerton in 1947 and he graduated at the University of Washington. He studied in Rome in 1970 and he attended a course at the Architectural Association in London in 1976.
He worked with Lawrence Halprim in San Francisco and then he established his studio in New York.. He also teaches at the Columbia University.
In 1998, the Moma in New York showed some achievements by Hall and it also purchased some drawings for its permanent collection. In 1991, the Walker Art center in Minneapolis organized an exhibit on this artist.
Hall's main projects are: Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki (open in 1998), Bellevue Art Museum in Bellevue, Washington, the Chapel of Saint Ignatius in Seattle, Sarphatistraat Offices in Amsterdam, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, Fukuoka Housing in Fukuoka.
Further information: phone 39 06-58461.(Italian Network)

LA CAMPAGNA ROMANA DA HACKERT A BALLA AT THE MUSEO DEL CORSO IN ROME

Paintings can also be historical documents. This is the case of the exhibit "Campagna Romana da Hackert a Balla" which the Museo del Corso is hosting from November 22 through Feb.22, 2002.
It is a "journey" through the countryside of Rome from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth century, images of a peaceful nature enriched by Roman monuments.
On display 100 works from Italian and international museums which highlight the influence of the Roman countryside on the European and Italian culture. The Roman surroundings among which the port of Civitavecchia, the Mount Soratte and the river Tiber, the sea cost were cherished by the travelers of Grand Tour who loved its silence and solitude: swamps, meadows, ruins of castles and water ducts, mountains covered by forests. And no human presence around only goats, sheep, horses…
The first artist who started portraying the Roman countryside was Jacob Philipp Hackert. Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, however, reinvented it adding new romantic touches. Worth mentioning also the works by the English Charles Coleman, the Roman Nino Costa, Enrico Coleman, Onorato Carlandi, Giulio Aristide Sartorio, Giuseppe Raggio, Filiberto Petiti, Duilio Cambellotti. The last artist who reinterpreted the Roman countryside was Giacomo Balla and the show presents also some of his works.
Further information: Museo del Corso - phone 39 06/6786209.(Italian Network)

IL RESPIRO DELL'IMMENSO PERICLE FAZZINI'S SCULPTURES IN SAN MARINO

Sculptures in bronze and in wood by Pericle Fazzini placed outdoors in San Marino. The initiative, promoted by the Cassa di Risparmio della Repubblica di San Marino, presents some of the most interesting achievements by this master. Noteworthy La testa della Resurrezione (1970-73) from a private collection, the famous Il ragazzo con i gabbiani(1940-1946), Uscita dall'Arca (1932) and the portrait of his wife Ritratto di Anita (1933) from the Collezione Fazzini together with the portrait in bronze of Giuseppe Ungaretti(1936).
Pericle Fazzini, born in 1913 at Grottamare, moved to Rome where he met Ungaretti, Guttuso, Mafai, Mirko, Pirandello and Afro. His relation with the human body, nature and landscape is marked by a baroque, fanciful style.
Art reviewers started paying attention to his artistic production in the Thirties and mainly in 1946 when Fazzini got interested in the European artistic languages.
Some works by Fazzini have been also presented in Japan on occasion of the event "Italy-Japan 2001".
Further information: Galleria della Cassa di Risparmio della Repubblica di San Marino, Piazzetta dei Titani 2. Phone 378 0549 - 872314. (Italian Network)

AI CONFINI DELLA MENTE. MADNESS IN LORENZO VIANI'S WORKS IN VIAREGGIO

The exhibit set up in Viareggio at Palazzo Paolina (through October 28) on Lorenzo Viani explores a specific topic of his artistic production: madness of the human mind.
On display 90 works (10 of them had never been shown before) and a selection of significant drawings which deal with death, illness and the tragic sense of life.
Lorenzo Viani is an Expressionist artist, a follower of Edward Munch, and he too portrayed those negative feelings which hamper normal life. As a matter of fact, many of his works depict human insanity and unhappiness. His works, however, have a poetic touch which is extremely rare in this kind of painting.
Viani's creatures are then deformed, hideous, dramatic but they make us think over the loss of a simple attitude towards life which took place in the Twentieth century.(Italian Network)

LAVORO E LAVORATORI NELL'ARTE 2001 - YOUNG ARTISTS AT SUZZARA

"Lavoro e lavoratori nell'arte 2001" is the title of a collective show ( through December 16) which gathers the works by young artists taking part in the "Premio Suzzara 2001".
The scope of this exhibit is to highlight the contemporary artistic production and the topic of this year , work and workers in contemporary art, has spurred the creative side of the artists.
Martina Corgnati, Enrico Mascelloni and Maura Pozzati, the members of the scientific committee of the prize, have selected 27 artists whose works are on display in the Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea of Suzzara (near Mantua). The works which will be awarded will be permanently shown in the collection of this Gallery.
The 27 artists are from all over the world and they use different techniques and languages. Worth mentioning some artists such as the Argentines Levenson and Martinez, Peter M. Wanjau from Kenya, Brahim Khanous from Morocco (his works are also at the Biennale of Venice), Pepa Llausas from Spain, Sandra Sudor from Romania, Virginia Ryan from Australia, Reinata Sadimba from Madagascar and the German Thomas Lange.
Thanks to this initiative, the Gallery of Suzzara boasts at present over 1,000 works which highlight the contemporary art evolution.
The gallery has in fact achievements by modern artists such as Renato Guttuso, Franco Francese, Domenico Cantatore, Giuseppe Zigaina, Ernesto Treccani, Aligi Sassu, and by contemporary artists among whom Concetto Pozzati, Mauro Staccioli, Vasco Bendini and Gianluigi Toccafondo.
Further information: Associazione Galleria del Premio Suzzara, phone 39 0376.531109 - 535593 - 535576, fax 0376.535576, E-mail: galleriacivica.suzzara@polirone.mn.it (Italian Network)

GIOVANNI LANFRANCO AT THE REGGIA DI COLORNO

The Reggia di Colorno is hosting a big exhibit on Giovanni Lanfranco, a master of the Italian painting of the Sixteenth century who gave light, shadows and special colors to the historical, religious and mythological figures and who invented the baroque tromp l'oeil.
The show, the first monographic one dedicated to Lanfranco (1582-1647), gathers 120 works among which Pentecoste from Fermo, L'Annunciazione from Paris, Transito della Vergine from Perugia, Naumachia andAuspici a Roma from the Prado Museum in Madrid, Moltiplicazione dei pani from the National Gallery in Dublin.
Lanfranco, born in Parma, attended Correggio's laboratory. Then after a short apprenticeship with Agostino Carracci, he worked in Rome with Annibale Carracci at Palazzo Farnese. In 1634, he moved to Naples where he worked for 12 years in the domes of the Church of Jesus, of Santi Apostoli and San Martino. Then he moved back to Rome where he spent his time having fun.
The exhibit (through Dec. 2) has been organized by the Ministry of Culture, the Soprintendenze of Parma and Piacenza, Rome an Naples and the Comitato per le residenze Farnesiane.
The show will be also set up in Naples at Castel Sant'Angelo (from Dec. 21 to Feb. 24) and then in Rome at Palazzo Venezia ( March 16 to June 16). (Italian Network)

MANTUA -UN PAESE INCANTATO FROM JONES TO COROT

The Italian landscape and the European artists who painted it from 1780 to 1830: this is the topic of the exhibit set up in Mantua (through Dec. 9).
The show has already been presented in Paris at the Grand Palais but as compared to the French exhibit, this one presents 20 more works. Altogether visitors can appreciate 210 works which have been placed in 13 different sections. On display achievements by Corot and Granet, Thomas Jones and Francis Towne, Sablet and Ducros, Hansen and Eckersberg, Simon Denis, Reinhold, Ivanov and Massimo D'Azeglio and Giovan Battista Bassi.
The exhibit, organized by the Centro Internazionale d'arte e di cultura di Palazzo Te together with the Reunion des Musées Nationaux and Telecom Italia, gives visitors an idea of how Italy used to be: a sort of magic country.
Further information: phone 39 0376.323266. e mail segreteria@centropalazzote.it.(Italian Network)

THE ARCHITECTURE BY GUIDO TIRELLI AT PALAZZO MAGNANI IN REGGIO EMILIA

At Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia the exhibit Guido Tirelli architetto. Una scoperta nel Liberty emiliano. On display drawings, old pictures, books, images which highlight the role of Tirelli in Reggio Emilia where he worked as architect and city planner. Tirelli was in fact the first architect from Reggio Emilia to introduce the liberty style in this city.
Tirelli's projects were published in several magazines and in 1923 he was even dedicated a monograph.
He also worked in Milan, in Genoa and in Sanremo where he designed together with Galileo Chine and Alessandro Mazzucotelli the Cinema Teatro Centrale.

His most outstanding works are: La Loggetta delle Grida (1917), The Headquarters of Consorzi Agrari (1919), L'albergo Posta(1910-1926), the restoring of the Teatro Ariosto in 1927....

Further information : phone 39 0522 454437.(Italian Network)

TWENTIETH CENTURY ART. THE COLLECTION OF MARZONA AT VILLA MANIN DI PASSARIANO (UDINE)

Villa Manin di Passariano is hosting through August 26 2001 the collection of Marzona.

The exhibit presents about 200 modern and contemporary works which belong to Egidio Marzona's collection, the German collector from Friuli who promoted vanguarde movements and who created in this Italian region the park of contemporary art at Villa di Verzegnis.

This collection is one of the most outstanding ones in the world and it gathers works part of different movements (Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, Land Art, Poor Art, Bauhaus, Dada and De Stijl...). The result is a detailed panorama of what art has produced in the Twentieth century.

The collection boasts achievements by many masters of our century among whom Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Georges Vantongerloo, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni and Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt, Dan Graham, Richard Long, Joseph Kosuth, Richard Serra, Daniel Buren, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Robert Morris, Jenny Holzer, Laurie Anderson, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone and Gilberto Zorio.

A number of works part of this collection is at present at the Kunsthalle in Bielefeld, a famous German museum.

Further information: Neoassociazioneculturale - Riva Bartolini 18 - 33100 Udine - Phone / Fax +39 0432229582.(Italian Network)

UN RITRATTISTA NELL'EUROPA DELLE CORTI.GIOVAN BATTISTA LAMPI IN TRENTO

On occasion of the birth anniversary of the painter Giovan Battista Lampi (Romeno, Val Di Non 1751 - Vienna 1830), the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento is hosting (through September 30) an exhibit dedicated to this famous portrait painter.

Lampi worked in several European courts from Vienna to Warsaw to St. Petersburg and he witnessed the passage from the "Ancien Regime" to the Modern Age.

The show presents, for the first time in Italy, the wonderful portrait of the sculptor Antonio Canova, ordered by the Razumowskij, the Russian ambassador in Vienna in that time. On display also the portrait of Catherine II, the empress of Russia, from the Hermitage Museum.

The show highlights the major role Lampi had in the neo classic artistic environment of his time just as Davis, Kauffmann, Mengs, Canova.

The exhibit gathers about 60 works from Austrian, Russian, Polish and German museums and from different private collections.

The Italian artist started working in his father's lab then he attended the Academy of Verona (he was appointed a member of honor of this academy). Then he moved to Trento. He lived there for a dozen of years and he became the favorite painter of aristocracy. In 1783 he moved to Vienna, and from 1788 to 1789 he lived in Warsaw. From 1791 to 1797 he was in St. Petersburg where he was the official painter of the Empress. In 1798 he moved back to Vienna where he met the new generation of artists who were all influenced by his style.

The last work by Lampi was, however, for his home land: he sent to Romeno from Vienna the altarpiece for the Church of the Assunta (also his son worked in it). He died five years later in Vienna.

Further information: Castello del Buonconsiglio. Phone 39 0461233770, e- mail castellodelbuonconsiglio@provincia.tn.it.(Italian Network)

L'ARTE ELETTRONICA. METAMORFOSI E METAFORE AT PALAZZO DEI DIAMANTI IN FERRARA

Forty years of electronic art, from the pioneers of Fluxus to the digital photography. An exceptional opportunity to appreciate the evolution of the video art. This is what the exhibit L'arte elettronica. Metamorfosi e metafore at Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara (through September 2) is about.

The show, organized by Silvia Bordini and coordinated by Francesca Gallo, is part of a pluriennial project whose scope is to enhance the electronic art in its different aspects and relations with informatics, cinema and television.

Ferrara from the Seventies to the Nineties, carried out a pioneering activity in this specific field, mainly at the Centro del Palazzo dei Diamanti, the most outstanding initiative in Italy and abroad in this connection.

"L'arte elettronica. Metamorfosi e metafore" illustrates the experiments of the Sixties of the Fluxus movement.

Worth mentioning, in this group, the works by Nam June Paik, the founder of artistic video experiments. In his performances he uses electronics by giving life to abstract, intriguing images.

On display also the works by the new artists of this language among whom Bill Viola, who investigates on the profound link between the autobiographical experience and Nature, by creating video installations rich of ancestral symbols which invade the room and shroud the visitors.

Fabrizio Plessi, on the contrary, transforms the monitor into the wrapping of an "artificial" nature by inserting it, together with wood, marble and water, in huge sculptures.

Robert Cahen in his installation "Tombe" gives to video images an unusual substance thanks to special effects.

Starting from the Nineties, artists started to work with images created by computer and they created virtual, interactive setting. Worth mentioning in this connection, the work "Il soffio sull'angelo" by the famous group Studio Azzurro.

The show hosts also the works by some young yet appreciated artists such as Matteo Basilé.

Further information: phone 39 0532.209988, fax 39 0532.203064. e-mail diamanti@comune.fe.it. Sito web: http://www.comune.fe.it.(Italian Network)

FASCINO E SEDUZIONE DECO': AN EXHIBIT ON ERTE' IN ROME

Ertè's influence on the European and international art production of the last century was noteworthy in Italy, too.

Ertè was an extraordinary artist: a sculptor, a painter, a stage and costume designer, a designer of jewels and household objects. He was one of the main interpreters of the Art Deco movement.

Stage design was one of his passions and the exhibit set up in Rome was conceived as a big, fancy theater projected by Frank Watson and Tony Walton.

Ertè was the assumed name of Romain de Tirtoff (1892-1990), the initials of his name. He was from Russia but he moved to Paris at the age of 19 where he started working as fashion and costume designer. Later he went to the States where he worked for Broadway musicals, Hollywood majors and the most famous fashion designers. His works are all extremely original and elegant.

He also worked for the Folies Bergéres in France, for George White, Irving Berlin and Florence Ziegfield in the United States. He created magazine covers for Cosmopolitan Harpers Bazaar and he created dresses and jewels for important actresses.

On display gouaches, sculptures, jewels, vases, candlesticks, cups...

The exhibit is enriched with hand painted backdrops and it re-creates a typical atmosphere of the Twenties which helps visitors to appreciate Ertè's style.

The exhibit set up at Museo del Corso in Rome is open through October 28. Many of his works are in different museums in the world.

Further information: phone 39 06 6786209.(Italian Network)

A HOMAGE TO THE COLISEUM IN THE EXHIBIT:SANGUE E AREA

The exhibit "Sangue e arena" organized by the Soprintendenza archeologica in Rome together with the Soprintendenza archeologica in Naples and Caserta wants to pay homage to the Coliseum. The exhibit set up in the very Coliseum, on the second storey, is the result of restoration works and researches financed by the Banca di Roma.

The Coliseum is the most visited monument in Italy and it was there that gladiators' fights took place. The exhibit, through January 7, 2002, is an interesting journey in the Roman times. On display ancient maps and drawings referring to the area where the Coliseum was built in the first century AD (in seven years) as well as coins, sculptures, mosaics, weapons, shields...

The exhibit also compares the Coliseum with another important amphitheater in Campania, the first ever built, and it highlights the games which took place in the Coliseum. Gladiators who were often slaves fought in front of the people also against wild animals and many mosaics depict these fights.

Further information: phone 0639967700(Italian Network)

CONTEMPORARY ART IN FLORENCE:BOOM

Boomis the title of a major exhibit set up in Florence dedicated to contemporary art in Italy and abroad.

The exhibit, set up at the Manifattura Tabacchi, the Municipality of Florence, the Chamber of Commerce in Florence (open through July 20) includes several sections. On display the achievements of young Italian and foreign artists, the proposals of the new galleries. In one section there are also the stands of the institutions, and those of the private and public associations operating in the contemporary art sector.

The section "Espresso" presents the works of appreciated artists such as Benassi, Benvenuto, Ciriacì, Botto & Bruno, Carocci... On the other hand, the section "Confluenza" gathers the most interesting achievements by regional artists usually in the regional collections with the scope of enhancing the artistic production of this region.

The exhibit also arranged a competition, "Plaimakers", reserved to new and young artists.

Further information: Manifattura Tabacchi, Viale delle Cascine 6, Firenze - phone 39 055 6582847.(Italian Network)

GLI ORI DI MAROS...UNA PORTA ATTRAVERSO IL TEMPO AT THE VITTORIANO IN ROME

Ancient techniques revive through the works of a modern artist in the exhibit "Gli ori di Maros". On display the jewels created by Maria Rosa Palmi set up at the Vittoriano Museum in Rome (through July 8).

The artist created little sculptures in gold which remind of ancient shapes and of a forgotten art. Her works are in fact a mix of Etruscan, Pompeian style but they have the lively colors of the Barbarian art works.

Further information: kimeras@libero.it.(Italian Network)

PAINTING AND POETRY BY FRANCO SANTAMARIA IN ROME

The achievements by Franco Santamaria are extremely unusual in the Italian panorama. They blend poetry and paintings: two different art forms which complete each other.

The allegoric images created by Santamaria are explained by his poems, they are sort of captions which visitors cannot ignore.

His works are on display at the Association "Il pane e le rose" in via Lorenzo Ghiberti 29, in Rome (through July 23 2001).

In order to better stress the link between these two art languages, on occasion of this exhibit the book "Il palco delle anime" by five poets who decided to publish together their poems without signing them has been presented. The book is by Guarnieri, Degli Angeli, Fava, Giordani, Marchesi.

Further information: phone 39 064504846 - e-mail soqquadro@interfree.it.(Italian Network)

MASTERPIECES FROM THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TEHRAN IN ROME

In 1956 Rome hosted the first exhibit on Persian art at the Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale which had just been opened. After 45 years, this museum is now hosting (through July 29) the masterpieces from the National Museum of Tehran.

The exhibit Antica Persia. I capolavori del Museo Nazionale di Tehran e la ricerca italiana in Iran gathers 178 objects in earthenware, bronze, silver, gold, glass and in stone which highlight the Persian culture and date back from 5500 BC to the Tenth century AD.

Noteworthy the colorful objects in ceramics and in alabaster from the archaeological site of Shhr -i Sokhta (Sitan) dating back to the Bronze Age.

Worth mentioning also the Ziwiych treasure including objects in ivory decorated with engravings dating to the Eighth century BC and a bracelet in gold decorated with the head of a lion.

On display also several objects in silver and in glass dating back from the Fifth to the Third century AD: some of sculptures are from Persepolis.

The exhibit also presents Islamic art objects dating to the Tenth century AD.

Further information: Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale, phone 39 06.4874415 - 39 06.4875077.(Italian Network)

THE ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: THE COLLECTION OF MARZONA AT VILLA MANIN IN PASSARIANO (UDINE)

Villa Manin in Passariano is showing through August 26 the collection of Egidio Marzona. On display over 200 works of modern and contemporary art.

Marzona is a German collector originating from Friuli who promoted for over thirty years vanguard movements and who created in Friuli the Parco d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa di Verzegnin.

The Marzona collection, one of the richest private art collections in the world, includes works belonging to different movements: Land Art, Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, Bauhaus, Dada, De Stijl. Works of this collection have been shown at the PS1 in New York and at the Ludwig Museum in Vienna.

The collection boasts works by Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Georges Vantongerloo, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Oskar Schlemmer, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Sol LeWitt, Dan Graham, Richard Long, Joseph Kosuth, Richard Serra, Daniel Buren, Bruce Nauman, Vito Acconci, Robert Morris, Jenny Holzer, Laurie Anderson, Mario Merz, Giuseppe Penone and Gilberto Zorio.

Some works belonging to this collection are also on display at the Kunsthalle in Bilefeld. The two exhibits are "Connected" by the publishing of two complementary catalogues.

Further information: Neoassociazioneculturale - Riva Bartolini 18 - 33100 Udine - phone 39 0432229582.(Italian Network)

UN RITRATTISTA NELL'EUROPA DELLE CORTI.GIOVAN BATTISTA LAMPI IN TRENTO

On occasion of the two hundred and fiftieth birth anniversary of the artist Giovan Battista Lampi (Romeno, Val Di Non 1751 - Vienna 1830), the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento, is hosting through September 30 an exhibit dedicated to this painter, specialized in portraits.

Lampi worked in the main European courts of his time, Vienna, Warsaw, St. Petersburg and during a very lively period: the passage from the Ancien Regime to the Modern Age.

On display over 60 works from Polish, Austrian, Russian and German museums. Worth mentioning the portrait of Canova, the portrait of Caterina II, the Empress of Russia, from the Hermitage Museum.

Lampi started working in his father's lab at Salzburg and later with Konig and Streicher. Then he moved to Verona where he attended the Academy (he was appointed a member of honor in 1773). He soon became the painter of aristocracy. In 1783 he moved back to Austria, and in Vienna he started portraying the members of the Imperial family and the most important figures of his time. From 1788 to 1799 he was in Warsaw and from 1791 to 1797 in St. Petersburg where he worked for the Empress Caterina.

Further information: Castello del Buonconsiglio, phone 39 0461233770, e- mail castellodelbuonconsiglio@provincia.tn.it.(Italian Network)

L'ARTE ELETTRONICA. METAMORFOSI E METAFORE AT PALAZZO DEI DIAMANTI IN FERRARA

Forty years of electronic art: from Fluxus artists to the digital photography. This is what the exhibit L'arte elettronica. Metamorfosi e metafore is about. The show, set up at Palazzo dei Diamanti (through September 2) has been organized by Silvia Bordini, Francesca Gallo and it is the result of a project whose scope is to enhance the electronic art in its different expressions.

The city of Ferrara has already arranged in the past shows on video art and electronic art together with the Centro Video Arte of Palazzo dei Diamanti.

The electronic art started in the Sixties with the Fluxus movement which attacked mass communication and its symbols. The main artist of this movement is Nam June Pail who created electronic installations based on abstract, shocking images.

The show also presents achievements by Bill Viola, Fabrizio Plessi, Robert Cahen and other important electronic artists.

On display also the works by the Studio Azzurro, a group of the Nineties, which creates interactive images, which sometimes are sort of games.

Worth mentioning the achievements by young yet famous artists such as Matteo Basilè.

Further information: Palazzo dei Diamanti, phone39 0532.209988 fax 39 0532.203064. E- mail diamanti@comune.fe.it. Sito web: http://www.comune.fe.it.(Italian Network)

LA BUCCIA DEL REALE. ARCHITETTURE DI CARTA, SCENOGRAFIA E INVENZIONI DI GABRIELE FERRARI IN PARMA

La buccia del reale. Architettura di carta, scenografia e invenzioni di Gabriele Ferrari is the title of the show set up in Parma, at the Church of San Ludovico (through September 9) organized by the Municipality of Parma.

Gabriele Ferrari started working and continues to work in Parma. His work is characterized by the use of new technologies which allow him to create immaterial images: he replies reality by wrapping things with a skin. He covers in fact objects, rooms, buildings with layers of paper.

The result is something which reminds of idea, the essence of something which no longer exists (Italian Network)

ANTEPRIMA BOVISA. MILANO EUROPA 2000 A PREVIEW OF THE MUSEUM OF THE PRESENT

Milan is again the center of contemporary art. In 2002, in fact, the Museum of the Present, in a former gas depot, will be over. Meanwhile the big exhibit "Anteprima Bovisa.MIlano Europa 2000" at the Pac and at the Triennale offers a preview on the art situation in Europe at the end of the Twentieth century.

On display achievements by European artists from twenty different countries. Each country has a curator who selected works by 120 artists born after 1950: the most important ones in their countries who created works from the Eighties. The Italian curator is Sandra Pinto.

Many of these works will be part of the collection of the museum of the Present under work at the Bovisa former gas area.

The exhibits are at PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea (via Palestro 14) and Palazzo della Triennale (viale Alemagna 6) through September 16.

Further information: Ufficio Progetto Bovisa, phone 39 02/76398173, fax 02/76398165, e-mail: mostre@milano.artecontemporanea.org. Further detail: www.milano.artecontemporanea.(Italian Network)

AN EXHIBIT DEDICATED TO PHILIP TAAFFE AT THE GALLERIA CIVICA DI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA IN TRENTO

The show dedicated to Philip Taaffe, and organized by Vittoria Coen, gathers over 30 achievements by this American artist created from the Eighties to nowadays. Some of the works have been especially made for this exhibit and they have been dedicated to the famous general physician Pier Andrea Mattioli, who lived in Trento in the Sixteenth century. They are then a homage by Taaffe to the city of Trento.

Philip Taaffe's works are characterized by lively colors and they mix geometric shapes with animals and flowers.

The result is involving and of great impact in its overlapping.

Taaffe was born in New Jersey in 1955. He attended the Cooper Union in New York, the city where he first showed his works time in 1982.He traveled extensively in India, South America and Morocco. In the early Nineties he started working with the Italian artist Lucio Amelio.

Many of his works have been shown at the Whitney Museum in New York, at the Biennial in Sydney and in Valencia.

At present he lives and works in New York.

Further information: Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea ( through September 30), phone 39 0461.98 5511 - +39 0461.88 41 34. e-mail: galleria_civica@comune.trento.it.(Italian Network)

LA NATURA, L'ARTE, LA MERAVIGLIA ARTISTS AT THE MUSEO DI STORIA NATURALE IN VERONA

Achievements by twenty contemporary international artists are on display through August 25 together with dolphins, bears, foxes and thousands of "Inhabitants" of the Museo di Storia Naturale in Verona. An unusual mix which presents real and painted animals. Artists, in fact, drew inspiration from the animals which are in this museum.

The title of this unique exhibit is La natura, l'arte, la meraviglia and it presents achievements by Giovanni Anselmo, Michele Bazzana, Ricardo Brey, Alighiero Boetti, Luca Caccioni, Claudio Costa, Riccardo De Marchi, Jean Fabre, Joan Fontcuberta, Piero Gilardi, Innocente, Ben Jakober, Anish Kapoor, Nino Longobardi, Eliseo Mattiacci, Maurizio Nannucci, Claudio Parmiggiani, Beatrice Pasquali, Maurizio Pellegrin, Anne and Patrick Poirier.

Worth mentioning the work "Trecento milioni di anni" by Giovanni Anselmo, created in 1969; the fifty pictures "Fauna" by Joan Foncuberta; the installation "Coro" by Nino Longobardi, "Mare" by Piero Gilardi; two extraordinary achievements by Claudio Costa, the"Mappa" by Alighiero Botti and the "Montagna" by Anish Kapoor.

Further information: Museo di Storia Naturale (Lungadige di Porta Vittoria 9) Verona,(through August 25) phone 39 041.5207797; fax 39 041.5208879.(Italian Network)

GIOVANNI LANFRANCO IN COLORNO. AN EXHIBIT IN PARMA, ROME AND NAPLES

Parma, Rome and Naples are hosting the retrospective on Giovanni Lanfranco (Parma, 1582 - Roma, 1647), a painter specialized in "chiaroscuro" who was influenced by Caravaggio and the Baroque painting.

The exhibit will be set up first at Colorno in the Reggia and later in Rome and Naples. The show is promoted by the Comitato per la promozione della cultura e delle residenze Farnesiane.

The exhibit gathers over 100 works by Lanfranco from many international museums. On display virgins, saints, martyrs, priests, ladies and knights portrayed with passion and ability.

Further information: phone 39 02.21563250 fax 02.21563314 .(Italian Network)

ANCONA: THEADRIATICO SEA AT THE MOLE VANVITELLIANA

The Adriatic Sea and its history. A crossroads of different civilizations, economies and people, a border between Western and Eastern countries.

This is what the exhibit "Adriatico. Civiltà di mare tra frontiere e confini" is about. The show, organized by the Municipality of Ancona, the Chamber of Commerce, the Province of Ancona, the Marche region, the Fondazione Cariverona and the Fondo Mole Vanvitelliana, has been set up in Ancona at the Mole Vanvitelliana (through August 5).

On display archaeological relics, documents, artistic works, costumes which highlight the history of the Adriatic Sea which is the longest and narrowest sea of the Mediterranean. A sea which has always linked different, far yet close worlds.

The show, coordinated by Giuseppe Papagno, gathers significant relics from Aquileia, Concordia, Sagittaria, Oderzo, Sari Vincenzo al Volturno, Crecchio, Larino etc. Paintings on display are by Guardi, Carpaccio, Sustris, Ricci, Carlevarijs, Lotto, lo Schiavone, Bias Juriev, Paolo Alemanno.

Noteworthy maps and old documents which highlight relations between people and cultures.(Italian Network)

TRAME DI SETA E ORO THE RESTORATION OF THE TAPESTRIES OF CARDINAL ALBERONI IN PIACENZA

Trame di Seta e Oro. Un arazzo del cardinale Alberoni restaurato: this is the title of the exhibit (through June 17) dedicated to one of the eighteen tapestries belonging to the collection of Cardinal Giulio Alberoni (Piacenza 1664-1752) which has been just restored.

The restoration was been financed by the Istituto per i beni culturali of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Ministry of Culture- Soprintendenza di Piacenza.

The tapestry belongs to the so called "Priamo series" and it represents a Royal Bridal Procession. It is formed by 2 sections (originally they were eight) showing the wedding between Priamo and Ecuba.

The two extremely refined sections of the tapestry are the oldest, the biggest (cm 385 x680) and the most valuable ones of the collection and they date back to the Sixteenth century.

These masterpieces were made in Brussels by the Flemish artist Jan Van Roome (some scholars think they are by Durer).

The tapestries used to decorate one of the rooms of Alberoni's Roman Palace and they originally belonged to the king of Spain.

On display also some boards which highlight the restoration, carried out by the Lab RT from Albinea (Re).

Further information: phone 39 0523 326981; Fax 39 0523 328270: e-mail: info@farnese.net. (Italian Network)

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BARBARA DAL FUTURISMO AL 2001 AT THE TEMPLE OF HADRIAN IN ROME

Olga Biglieri Scurto, called Barbara, cannot simply be considered a futurist artist as she tested different techniques.

Achievements by this artist have been re-discovered by the Centro Antinoo per l'Arte which has set up an exhibit in Rome at the temple of Hadrian (through May 12).

Barbara, who has been also named for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2000, had drawn the attention of the art reviewers in the Eighties when her works were shown in the exhibit "L'altra metà dell'avanguardia", in Milan, Rome, and in Stockholm.

Nobody realized however that this artist was not only a living member of the Futurist movement but a lively, active artist who had experimented different styles.

In 1970, she had also worked out a manifesto on the "neotic" art together with a group of women.

Barbara created her works also abroad. And in Japan she made her most original and advanced work "The Peace tree". A huge work (10x2 meters) which is at the Museum of Hiroshima, in memory of the atomic holocaust.

She lives in Rome and in her lab there are hundreds of works and thousands of books and documents.(Italian Network)

ROME: A RICHER EDITION OF THE EXHIBIT PICENI POPOLO D'EUROPA

This exhibit has already been shown in Ascoli Piceno, Teramo and Frankfurt. At present, "Piceni, popolo d'Europa" is in Rome (through July 13) at Palazzo Barberini.

The show in Rome gathers more relics than the previous shows and it presents objects which have recently been found.

On display relics from several foreign museums which highlight the history, traditions and culture of the Piceni people, a population which is still obscure.

The novelty of this exhibit: the objects which have been discovered in the huge Tomb of the Queen at Numana, the richest tomb ever found. Over 2,000 objects have been found there among which two carts, plenty of jewels, Etruscan vases, a refined bed in ivory and a golden cup.

On display also findings from Matelica: a helmet, a bucket in bronze and exceptional objects in ceramics. Worth mentioning also findings from the Sanctuary in Omte Giove, the only sanctuary of the Piceni which has been discovered up to now.

On display also big statues among which the "Warrior of Capestrano" and several stelae.

Further information: phone39 071 8062103, Fax 39 071 8062105.(Italian Network)

RAPPRESENTAZIONI DEL DESTINO IN MILAN

130 images referring to life and death from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth century are on display in Milan at the Biblioteca Trivulziana of the Castello Sforzesco(through July 20). They belong to the famous Bertarelli which includes also portraits, prints, pictures.

The show has 11 different sections dedicated to: "Vanitas", "Danza macabra", "Agguati della Morte", "Lezione della Morte", "La meditazione", "Trionfi", "Ritratti", "La scelta", "La morte beffarda", "Scala della vita", "Ars Moriendi".

On display French, Italian, German and Flemish works among which achievements by Tiepolo, Castiglione, della Bella.

One of the scopes of this exhibit is to single out the iconographic subjects which through centuries retained their energy and communication power in describing life and death.

Further information: Direzione Civiche Raccolte d'Arte Applicata ed Incisioni - Phone39 02 86461404-tel/fax.+39 02 874025.(Italian Network)

TRENTO PAYING HOMAGE TO THE PAINTER RICCARDO SCHWEIZER

The Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea in Trento is hosting through the end of May an exhibit on Riccardo Schweizer.

The show, arranged by Vittoria Coen, presents a selection of works created from 1939 to 2000 and it is a sort of follow up of the exhibit set up last November in Rome at the Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo.

Schweizer (Mezzano di Primiero 1925) moved to Vallauris in the Fifties where he met Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Cocteau, Le Corbusier.

And Picasso's art definitely influenced his techniques and style

In 1954, he moved to Venice where he started teaching at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

In 1958, he showed some of his works at the Foundation of the Musée Picasso at Antibes. In the Sixties he moved to Cote Azur where he created his first huge murales.

He has also decorated some rooms of the Palace of Cinema in Cannes.

He also creates objects in glass and in ceramics.

His distinguishing mark is color. Bright colors which give life to original figures and landscapes.

Further information: phone39 0461 986138-985511, e mail galleria_civica@comune.trento.it.(Italian Network)

LUCCA- THE WORKS BY GIUSEPPE FLANGINI: UNA VITA PER L'ARTE

From Milan to Lucca and then to Luxembourg (from May 29 through June 10) and then to other European cities: this is the itinerary of the exhibit "Una vita per l'arte" dedicated to Giuseppe Flangini.

From May 2 through 27, the show is at the Centro Culturale Luigi Russo in Pietrasanta di Lucca.

The show has been organized on occasion of the birth centennial of this artist who extensively worked abroad.

Flangini (Verona 1898) who started painting very young, mostly loved portraying landscapes: the lights of the country side, of the sea and rivers, and the simple life of farmers and the surrounding nature.

Every year he used to spend summer in Northern countries whose landscapes were a source of inspiration. Nevertheless Flangini also reproduced city views and the industrial and mining world with its workers.

Most of Flangini's achievements are at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in Verona and in many other Italian and foreign galleries.

Flangini took part in many national exhibits and in several collective shows.

On display 80 works which illustrate the artistic evolution of Flangini.

Further information: phone 39 02.89404694.(Italian Network)

DOMENICO GENTILE - TATUAGGI 1990 - 2000 AT THE PALAZZO DEL SENATO IN MILANO

Palazzo del Senato in Milan is hosting from May 4 to 30, the exhibit "Domenico Gentile - Tatuaggi 1990 2000", promoted by the Ministry of Culture and INAC (Istituto Nazionale Arte Contemporanea).

On display 40 works which illustrate the evolution of the artist over these last ten years.

Visitors can appreciate also tiny little works (cm 7x8) with pencils and pens made in 1985-1995.

This is how the artist explains the title of this exhibit: I have the impression I painted these works on my skin: They are tatoos and you cannot cross them out. They prove I believe in painting.

According to some art reviewers, Gentile's works reflect reality but in a very alarming way. Uneasiness which paves the way to easy yet sometimes complex "compositions".

Gentile's first works are dedicated to city suburbs, industries, factories railways. These subjects are later substituted by softer visions and calmer landscapes.

Gentile was born in Salerno in 1933; in 1948 he created his first watercolors and oils. He soon switched from figurative patterns to abstract lines. Since 1960 he has been living in Mantua.

Further information: phone 39 0340.2550024, fax 39 0376.710619.(Italian Network)

DONATELLO E IL SUO TEMPO IN PADUA

And after having celebrated Giotto, Padua is now paying homage to Donatello by showing his masterpieces in bronze. As a matter of fact, the birth of these artistic objects is due to the presence in Padua of Donatello (from 1444 to 1453). The artist created in this city the Altar, the Cross for the Basilica of S. Antonio and the monument to Gattamelata. Donatello gave thus birth to a new school where students learned how to work bronze.

The exhibit "Donatello ed il suo tempo", set up in Padua at the Palazzo della Ragione (through July 15) gathers 100 objects in bronze from many local churches and museums and from other international galleries.

Noteworthy some moulds and angels by Donatello. On display also achievements by other artists who were influenced by Donatello among whom Girolama Campagna and Bartolomeo Bellano.

Further information: phone 39 049 8205006, or in internet: http://www.padovanet.it/padovacult/donatello.(Italian Network)

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ROME: "VELASQUEZ - IL SUO TERZO VIAGGIO IN ITALIA"

Palazzo Ruspoli in Rome is hosting through June 30 the exhibit " Velasquez- Il suo terzo viaggio in Italia".

The event has been organized within the framework of the cultural exchanges between Italy and Spain and it is considered the third "symbolic" journey of Velasquez to Italy.

The Spanish artist visited Rome twice during his life. The first time he went to Rome to study the famous Italian Renaissance and Baroque painters. The second time he already worked for the Spanish king and he was sent to Rome to purchase as many art works as possible to decorate the Royal Residence.

On display 30 achievements by Velasquez which give visitors a general idea of his artistic evolution.

705 of the works by Velasquez are at the Prado Museum and they cannot be moved. Despite this prohibition, the Museum has exceptionally lent five pictures. Other works are from all over the world.

The exhibit, the most important one ever organized in Italy and outside Spain, shows unique masterpieces such as "La cucitrice" from Washington, the "Conde Duque" "The meal" from Budapest and a "Self Portrait" from Florence.

Further information: Fondazione Memmo Fondazione Memmo, Via del Corso 418, Roma- phone 066874704.(Italian Network)