The 2024 Now before us is the year of “60th International Art Exhibition“, edited by Adriano Pedrosawhich will take place from Saturday, April 20th to Sunday, November 24th Venice. However, it will also be the year of a number of greats Art exhibitions already planned in various Italian cities. Some of them promise to be really interesting. Let's look at the most important ones.
Milan – From September 20, 2024 to early February 2025, Royal Palace From Milan will host the first of three major exhibitions dedicated to this topic Pablo PicassoTo Ugo Mulas it is at Felice Casorati. Up to 80 works by Picasso are expected in Milan, offering the opportunity to explore various themes, including the importance that his role as a “foreigner” had in the representation of his identity after he moved from Spain to Parini in 1904.
Brescia – 2024 will also go down in the annals as the year Macchiaioli. This time the current exhibition is planned from January 20th to June 9th Martinengo Palace From Brescia where more than 100 works by contemporary masters arrive, such as Giovanni Fattori, Silvestro Lega, Telemaco Signorini and others that represented a new “style” of art production in the second half of the 19th century. In this sense, some of the most representative masterpieces of this period are expected.
Trieste – Among the most anticipated exhibitions of 2024 is the monograph “Van Gogh. Masterpieces from the Kröller-Müller Museum”, which will be on display in the central building from February 22nd Revoltella Museum From Trieste. The Dutch master's works come from the original museum in Otterlo, Holland, which houses the largest collection of van Gogh's paintings outside of the museum of the same name in Amsterdam. In Trieste you can have a truly unique experience and admire a selection of masterpieces, including the portraits of Monsieur and Madame Ginoux, the owners of the café in Arles frequented by van Gogh, painted at the end of the 19th century.
Rovigo – From February 23rd to June 30th, a Palazzo Roverella From RovigoThere will be a major exhibition dedicated to one of the most representative painters of the end of the century: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Through a careful selection of works, the exhibition focuses on his activity as a painter, placing paintings and pastels from important American and European as well as French museums in relation to the Parisian environment in which he worked, placing the artist in comparison with realists, Impressionists, symbolists with whom he shared experiences and moments of daily life. The careful reconstruction of Toulouse-Lautrec's entire activity through his works (60 works by the artist out of more than 200 works exhibited in total) will tend to evoke the vibrancy of the Parisian art scene and overcome the reductive concept of Belle Époque.
Florence – TO Strozzi Palace From Florencefrom March 22nd to July 21st is planned.”Anselm Kiefer. Fallen Angels”, the exhibition of the German painter and sculptor, which presents to the public a series of works from the past as well as new productions. Curated by the General Director of Palazzo Strozzi, Arturo GalansinoThe exhibition will explore questions of human existence and provide an insight into the complexity of Kiefer's artistic expression, who was the protagonist of a globally acclaimed installation at the Palazzo Ducale in 2022 during the 59th Venice Biennale.
Urbino – TO Duke's Palace From UrbinoHome to the National Gallery of the Marche, anticipation is great Federico Barocci. Urbino, 1535-1612, published by Luigi Gallo And Anna Maria Ambrosini Massari, the large monographic exhibition that, from June 21st, focuses on the figure of Federico Barocci, the great painter from Urbino who lived between the 16th and 17th centuries. The painter, extraordinary designer and innovative engraver Federico Barocci shaped the Italian and European art scene for almost a century. As heir to Raphaelian classicism, inspirer of the naturalism of the Carracci and attentive interlocutor of the colorism of Titian and Correggio, the artist felt the later developments of Caravaggism in the last phase of his career and created altarpieces in chiaroscuro, whose monumental figures anticipate the Baroque language. The major exhibition on the painter from Urbino, which will bring together 80 works from the most important Italian and foreign museums thanks to a careful policy of cultural relations, will close on October 8, 2024 to make room for new projects.
Catania – Particularly expected, al Palace of Culture From Cataniathe large monographic exhibition dedicated to one of the most famous representatives of surrealism from January 20th to July 7th, Joan Miro. The exhibition – curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and entitled “Mirò. “The Joy of Color” – offers around eighty works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, tempera, sculptures and ceramics, as well as a selection of graphic works, books and documents. The exhibition is rounded off by a series of photographs and films dedicated to the most intimate area of the master of color and the joy of art.
anniversaries – Finally, it should be borne in mind that 2024 will be a particularly “crowded” year when it comes to art anniversaries which is of course also celebrated through exhibition initiatives. For example, it will be the 80th anniversary of his death Edward Munch and not surprisingly a OsloIn Norway, a major exhibition depicting nature is planned at the museum that bears his name between April and August. It will also be the 80th anniversary of his death Piet Mondrian, the Dutch painter known for black lines and red, yellow and blue rectangles; and again, at the end of June, the 450th anniversary of his death Giorgio Vasari (he designed, among other things, the Uffizi Gallery and the Vasari Corridor) as well as his main client, Duke (and later Grand Duke) Cosimo I de' Medici. Lover of Frida Kahlo, another icon of our time, get ready: July 13 marks the 70th anniversary of his death; For everyone who cares about black and white photography: At the beginning of August we will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the great man's death Henri Cartier Bressonwhile November will mark 70 years since the death of another Henri – in this case Matisse –; Finally, in December, everyone remembers the 80th anniversary of the Muscovite's death Wassily Kandinskyone of the creators of abstraction in art.