The most anticipated exhibitions in Italy in autumn 2023

Reconnaissance for the autumn 2023 exhibitions in Italy continues. In fact, starting in September, there will be a series of major exhibitions across the country, including art, photography, comics and illustration. Here’s a selection of exhibition highlights that deserve to be noted in the upcoming season’s diary, combined with six offerings dedicated to the masters of photography. Following the birth of Benito Iacovitti, the MACTE Museum of Contemporary Art in Termoli and the MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome will host two exhibitions dedicated to the great Italian cartoonist. Both exhibitions are entitled Jacovittissimamente: Tutti le folli di Jac! will glorify the great inventor Cocco Bill, immersing the viewer in the lively and dynamic universe of the artist; they will highlight its playful and irreverent inventiveness, as well as its predecessor. look. Two parallel projects that will involve, unsurprisingly, the two cities to which Iacovitti, who died in 1997, was most attached. MACTE will delve into the technical and linguistic inventions that characterize the cartoonists’ language; instead, one hundred characters created by Giacovitti’s creativity will be on the MAXXI stage. SHOTS OF LEE MILLER IN TURIN Unforgettable photographer, war photojournalist and model Lee Miller is at the center of a new exhibition created in the MAXXI spaces. Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi, in the province of Turin. Entitled “Lee Miller: Photographer and Surrealist” and running until January 7, 2024, the exhibition reflects the American photographer’s surrealist vision, focusing on an unusual collection: the exhibition features nearly a hundred of her masterpieces, from still lifes to landscapes. from shots in shocked places, from war to portraits of the most famous artists of his era THE ART OF TITIAN CONQUERS VENICE Called “TITIAN 1508”. At the beginning of a brilliant career, the exhibition will take place in the spaces of the Gallery. dell’Accademia until December 3 from Venice. A series of 17 autographs by the artist from Pieve di Cadore reconstructs the early years of the artist’s career. Let’s start with a pivotal year: 1508, when the young Titian began to attract collective interest, later establishing himself as one of the greatest masters of the sixteenth century. Also on display is a selection of paintings, prints and drawings by his contemporaries, including Giorgione, Sebastiano del Piombo, Albrecht Dürer and Francesco Vecellio. A PAINTING BY CHAGALL ON EXHIBITION IN MESTRE In the spaces of the Candiani Cultural Center in Mestre, autumn 2023 will be dedicated to the name of one of the most fascinating artists of the 20th century: Marc Chagall. It can be visited from 30 to 13 September. February 2024, Chagall. “The Color of Dreams” will bring together some of the most famous masterpieces of naturalized Russian and French artists, from works housed at Ca Pesaro to works by prestigious institutions such as the Albertina in Vienna and the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. . The common thread of Mestre’s itinerary will be the revolutionary contribution of Chagall’s dream art, conceived as a dream painting and a triumph of the creative imagination. PHOTOGRAPHY OF TINA MODOTTI IN ROVIGO More than three hundred photographs taken by Tina Modotti will be published soon. exhibited at Palazzo Roverella, in the center of Rovigo. From September 22 to January 28, 2024, exhibition by Tina Modotti. The work traces the work of the legendary Italian photographer and also includes many unpublished works. The itinerary of the visit will include images related to society and work in 1920s Mexico, as well as a reconstruction of the only exhibition dedicated to her, dating from 1929, and works documenting her various travels around the world. The exhibition will highlight the artist’s varied approaches to the subjects and themes he addressed throughout his career: from still life to social documentation and political communication. Sculpture by Anish Kapoor IN FLORENCE From October 7 to February 4, 2024, the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will host a major a monographic exhibition dedicated to Anish Kapoor, the British artist of Indian origin who revolutionized sculpture in contemporary art. The exhibition entitled “Anish Kapoor. Untrue Unreal collects masterpieces and newest works by an artist who has achieved international success through sculptural interventions made from everyday materials (such as steel, stone, wax and silicone). The exhibition route, curated by Arturo Galansino, will unfold between monumental installations, intimate settings and disturbing forms. United States: This is the goal of American Beauty, an exhibition designed to offer an original portrait of the United States through a collection of masterpieces created by 120 artists from around the world. The undisputed protagonist of the exhibition, which can be visited from September 13 to January 21, 2024, is photography, from black-and-white images by Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson to color images by Steve McCurry and Annie Leibovitz. (Introductory image: Tiziano Vecellio, Archangel Raphael and Tobius, detail. Venice, Galleria dell’Accademia)