For the sixth edition of the Furla Series program, Fondazione Furla and GAM Galleria d'Arte Moderna present Converging Figures, a solo exhibition by Kelly Akashi, curated by Bruna Roccasalva.

Kelly Akashi is a Japanese-American artist, whose practice explores universal concepts such as time and space, the transience of the human body, and entropy. The project revolves around the phenomenon of “reflection,” through a path that winds its way right through the permanent collection, creating a dialogue with the museum’s architecture and masterpieces.

Curated by Bruna Roccasalva

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On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of his death, Palazzo Reale and Arthemisia in collaboration with the MUNCH Museum in Oslo, present a prestigious cultural event, a large monographic exhibition dedicated to one of the most beloved and popular artists of the last century: Edvard Munch.

During his artistic career, Edvard Munch explored questions of perennial existential significance and challenged the expressions of art.

In this large exhibition, Munch’s art will be explored from 1880 until his death in 1944.

The exhibition brings together 100 works including paintings, drawings and prints all from the MUNCH Museum in Oslo.

Curated by Patricia Berman

Press Office: Arthemisia - Salvatore Macaluso | sam@arthemisia.it - press@arthemisia.it

Everything has already been said about Picasso, it seems. No other artist has aroused so many debates, controversies and passions. But how many people know what obstacles the young genius had to face when he first arrived in Paris, in 1900, without speaking a word of French?

The exhibition Picasso the foreigner presents more than 90 works of the artist, as well as documents, photographs, letters and videos, and offers a new and bold interpretation of the artist, which addresses urgent issues of our present. Thanks to a multidisciplinary approach and the extraordinary research in the archives of the French police, and the Picasso Museum in Paris, Annie Cohen-Solal reveals this fascinating story from numerous unpublished documents. The original idea for the project was born by Annie Cohen-Solal, scientific curator of the exhibition with special curatorship of Cécile Debray, president of MNPP.

Curated by Annie Cohen-Solal, Cécile Debray.

Press Office: Giulia Zanichelli giulia@giuliazanichelli.it

Photo:

Pablo Picasso, La Baie de Cannes - Cannes, 1958 Musée national Picasso-Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979. MP212 Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée national Picasso-Paris) / Mathieu Rabeau

On the occasion of the celebrations of the artist Alberto Martini, organized in 2024 to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of his death, in collaboration with the Oderzo Cultura Foundation which will kick off the celebratory events in the artist's hometown, the Castello Sforzesco exhibits an important nucleus of Martini's works preserved in the civic collections.

The exhibition investigates the theme of the allegory of death and the danse macabre, addressed by Martini in some important works, such as L'Albo della morte (1894-1896), an exceptional cycle of drawings, of clear Nordic inspiration, to go as far as the famous postcards of the European Danse Macabre, published by the publisher Longo of Treviso on the occasion of the First World War.

Martini's works are accompanied by precious examples of European graphics, also kept in the Castle's collections, dedicated precisely to the theme of the Totentanz.

Curated by Paola Bonifacio e Alessandro Botta

Press Office: Villaggio Globale International

The exhibition is the first comprehensive retrospective anthology in an Italian museum celebrates the Franco-American artist known for her big, colourful Nanas, but also reveals her busy side through a different interpretation of her work.

Throughout eight sections, the exhibition project narrates Niki’s artistic life from the beginnings to her latest works. This diachronic yet strongly anthological rhythm retraces her personal life through the colorful, polymorphic, round, and maternal world of her Nanas (and more), revealing a much less colorful and maternal personal life. During her own life, this artist has often had to destroy in order to process grief, then she had to rebuild, breaking the mould through her unconventional artworks, sending messages through her intense provocations, and thus leaving a lasting mark on the art world.

Thanks to the collaboration with the Niki Charitable Art Foundation, this exhibition brings 110 works to Milan, among which a dozen large-scale works, and also one set up in the outdoor courtyard of the Museum, along with a selection dresses from Maison Dior, recalling her modeling past in the beautiful photos portraying her, while simultaneously telling the public, about a very “pop” personal vision of art, perceived as a path toward eclectic research, transformation and affirmation of beauty and femininity.

Curated by Lucia Pesapane

In collaboration with Niki Charitable Art Foundation

Ufficio Stampa: 24 ORE CULTURA - GRUPPO 24 ORE | Elettra Occhini | elettra.occhini@ilsole24ore.com

One hundred years after his birth, an exhibition pays homage to Enrico Baj (Milan 1924 - Vergiate 2003), the master of Dames and Generals, of Meccanoes and Body Snatchers, an irreverent genius, a light-hearted anarchist, a pataphysical artist, told for the first time through the words of the great writers of the 20th century who intertwined their words with his lyrical and caustic images.

From André Breton to Raymond Queneau, from Marcel Proust to Italo Calvino, from Edoardo Sanguineti to Umberto Eco.

Curated by Chiara Gatti and Roberta Cerini Baj

Press Office: ilaria.maggi@electa.it - monica.brognoli@electa.it

From October 10th, 2024, to February 2nd, 2025, Palazzo Reale in Milan presents "Ugo Mulas. The Photographic Operation," one of the most extensive and detailed retrospectives dedicated to one of its most important authors. Curated by Denis Curti and Alberto Salvadori, it offers an innovative perspective with its main narrative focus on the city of Milan, captured in its many facets.

Over 250 images, many of which have never been exhibited before, including precious vintage shots, documents, books, and films, trace the entire production of Ugo Mulas: from theater to fashion, from portraits of international artists and key figures of American Pop Art to intellectuals, architects, and personalities from the world of culture and entertainment – such as Dino Buzzati, Giorgio De Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Arthur Miller, Eugenio Montale, Louise Nevelson, Gio Ponti, Salvatore Quasimodo, Giorgio Strehler, Andy Warhol, and many others – spanning cities to nudes and jewelry.

Curated by Denis Curti and Alberto Salvadori

Press Office: Marsilio Arte ufficio.stampa@marsilioarte.it; Giovanna Ambrosano – g.ambrosano@marsilioarte.it

The exhibition explains the extraordinary expressive power of Art Brut, of this artistic and revolutionary vision from which many contemporary artists have drawn inspiration and which continues to be vital today, in the belief that art is for anyone a voice to be resonated through the expression of unexpected beauty. Born in the heart of a post-war Paris, far from the halls of art museums and the refined salons, the Art Brut, defined and theorized by the French artist and theorist Jean Dubuffet, is a ‘raw,’ ‘pure,’ ‘unfiltered’ art.

Through a four-part itinerary, in a preliminary space, the exhibition presents a body of works and documents that place the invention of the concept of Art Brut in a historical perspective, relative to Jean Dubuffet’s work as an artist, writer and collector.Next is a selection of works from his explorations, demonstrating the breadth and quality of his research in this field before the 1971 donation. A third set of works from the five continents is related to the themes of body and beliefs (both recurring in Art Brut). Because of their subjects and origins, these works and authors particularly resonate with the collections of the Museum.

The exhibition project, specially conceived for MUDEC – Museo delle Culture, is made possible thanks to the cooperation with the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne, owner of an extraordinary collection of over 70,000 works, originated from the core of the exceptional donation made by Dubuffet to the City of Lausanne in 1971. There are drawings, paintings, sculptures and textile works, the number of which is still growing today.

Curated by Sarah Lombardi and Anic Zanzi, with the assistance of Baptiste Brun for Jean Dubuffet section

In collaboration with the Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne

Ufficio Stampa: 24 ORE CULTURA - GRUPPO 24 ORE | Elettra Occhini | elettra.occhini@ilsole24ore.com

The aim of the exhibition dedicated to the painter Piero Leddi (1930-2016), promoted and curated by the Cultural Association Archivio Piero Leddi, is to relate and create a dialogue between some anatomical plates, contained in volumes published since the sixteenth century and belonging to the artist, with a selection of drawings in which Leddi demonstrated his ability to explore the assonances between the figurative heritage of tradition and contemporary forms and languages.

A cultured artist, bibliophile and collector, Leddi produced a vast series of works in which, through multiple expressive possibilities, the human figure is represented with continuously varied formal solutions. On the theme, he maintained an uninterrupted dialogue with the iconographic sources present in his studio, in particular the ancient books - anatomical studies or volumes in any case dedicated to the theme of the body - collected by him over several decades.

The location of the exhibition at the Sforza Castle, in the historic Sala del Tesoro, adjacent to the headquarters of the Trivulziana Library, constitutes the appropriate context for an installation that presents to the public the relationship between artistic practice and book collecting.

Curated by Chiara Fugazza

The exhibition '¡Libertad! The Independence of Peru in the MUDEC Collections' celebrates three important anniversaries: the bicentenary of the birth of Peru, the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and Peru, and the bicentenary of the birth of Antonio Raimondi, Milanese explorer, father of the MUDEC collections and pioneer of science in the Andes.

The exhibition, organised in collaboration with the Consulate General of Peru in Milan, presents a number of exhibits to the public for the first time: a velvet tunic celebrating the victories of Marshal José Sucre (hero of the War of Independence), a series of objects sent by Raimondi to the Museum of Natural History in Milan and now at the MUDEC, some terracotta works from the Peruvian pre-Hispanic cultures, ethnographic textiles and some precious volumes from the 'El Peru' series signed by Antonio Raimondi - on loan from the Museum of Natural History in Milan.

Some paintings by Candy Carmona and Andrea Balossi complete the exhibition.

Press Office: 24 ORE CULTURA - GRUPPO 24 ORE | Elettra Occhini | elettra.occhini@ilsole24ore.com 

The exhibition pays homage to Carlo Orsi (1941-2021), reporter and fashion photograph, and to his eccentric and visionary work.

140 black and white works most of which “vintage” because coming from the personal archive of the author and printed under his supervision before his death. Pictures concerning the most affected themes for Orsi, from the beginning as a reporter for the Corriere della Sera, Panorama, Il Mondo and Oggi, just before becoming Ugo Mulas’ assistant till the definition of a dissident and ironic style relevant into many aspects of his photography.

Curated by Giangiacomo Schiavi e Giorgio Terruzzi

The largest official exhibition in the West celebrates 50 years of the visionary Master from Shizuoka.

Featuring over 130 works from his Tokyo studios, it tells the story of global animation and entertainment.

From Tatsunoko to Final Fantasy and Vogue, this journey of pure visual and narrative art brings together different generations. A four-part scenographic display, enriched with objects and films, reveals techniques, visions, and iconic works that have become part of the collective imagination.

Curated by Luca Viola

Press office Silvia Bellucci

The exhibition promoted by Istituto Nazionale Parri and Fondazione Anna Kuliscioff, with the financial contribution of Fondazione Comunità Milano and realized with the collaboration of the Civiche Raccolte Storiche di Milano at Palazzo Moriggia | Museo del Risorgimento, intends to retrace the relationship that Giacomo Matteotti had with the city of Milan: a path that winds its way through some of the city's key places, narrated through the exhibition of vast documentation produced and related to Milan.

From Matteotti's involvement in political and Milanese life as early as 1915, to the reaction of the city of Milan to his murder and the first anti-fascism that arose in the city, to the Matteotti Brigades in the Milanese Resistance, and on to the main commemorations paid to him from 1946 to the present day.

The exhibition will be completed by Chiara Corio's art works realised for a travelling exhibition for schools, associations and town halls in the city of Milan and by the graphic projects dedicated to Matteotti and realized by the students of the Scuola d'Arte Muraria in Milan.

Two hundred years after their birth, the Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano celebrates Emilio Cornalia (1824-1882) and Antonio Stoppani (1824-1891), masters of the natural sciences who played a fundamental role in its history, in the formation of its huge collections, and in its establishment as a prestigious center for scientific research and dissemination.

Cornalia and Stoppani's original words, publications, and illustrations — selected from the historical archival legacy of the Museum— as well as specimens from its collections, tell the story of these two extraordinary and renowned scientists, inextricably linked to Milano, the Museum, and Italian culture. It is a story about innovative and applied research, early scientific dissemination, and about the ad hoc construction of the building that currently hosts the Museum and welcomes visitors by highlitghing knowledge of the natural world in all its complexity.

Curated by Anna Alessandrello, Giorgio Bardelli, Giorgio Chiozzi, Cristiano Dal Sasso, Enrico Muzio, Michela Podestà, Stefano Scali, Giorgio Teruzzi, Michele Zilioli

PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea presents METAL PANIC, the most extensive and complete exhibition ever dedicated to the oeuvre of Marcello Maloberti: a declaration of love to Milan, which has been the artist’s faithful companion in the creation of his art practice since the beginning of his career.

Over the years, Maloberti has explored the art/life binomial using a wide range of visual and sound languages – photography, video, performance, installation, objects and collage – enhanced by a high level of performativity and interaction with the public. His research goes beyond the immediacy of everyday life through a dreamlike Neorealist gaze, combined with an archaeological approach to art history.

Curated by Diego Sileo, METAL PANIC is conceived as an artist's book that collects and intertwines all the founding themes of Maloberti's oeuvre, such as: the elevation of the written word into the form of poetry, the sacredness of everyday life and attention to the transformations of the urban landscape. All that through a core of artworks from the 1990s, more recent and unpublished works.

The idea of “work in progress” permeates the entire exhibition that becomes a contemporary construction site in continuous transformation, where everything seems suspended and potentially possible.

Curated by Diego Sileo

Press Office:

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Silvana Editoriale press@silvanaeditoriale.it;

"Il vostro cielo fu mare, il vostro mare fu cielo" [Your sky was sea, your sea was sky] is Adrian Paci’s site-specific installation planned for MUDEC’s Agora in 2024 and a teaser for the exhibition "Travelogue. Stories of Travel, Migration and Diaspora" (March 2025).

The installation transforms the space of the Agora with a mosaic of blue-green hues that refer to the colours of the sea. Each fragment of this seemingly abstract composition is actually a detail taken from photographs published in newspaper articles about migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, showing out of scale the rough rendering of the printed paper.

Curated by Katya Inozemtseva and Sara Rizzo

Press Office: 24 ORE CULTURA - GRUPPO 24 ORE | Elettra Occhini | elettra.occhini@ilsole24ore.com

Insulae Aqua is a eulogy of the island, as a founding dimension of our state being in the world. A photographic survay listening to the territory and the community inhabiting the small and uncontaminated island of Linosa, a fascinating and magnetic place with unique naturalistic peculiarities, a triumph of environmental, biological and vital complexity.

The exhibition, curated by Alessandra Klimciuk and realized with support of Aedificante foundation, presents a invaluable core of over twenty black and white images, never published and exhibited before, shot in 1991 on the vulcanic island by Gianni Berengo Gardin, an absolute master of photography, together with the colour reportage, taken between 2021 and 2024, with almost forty shots by Filippo Romano. A remote island is linked both to the physical experience of insulation and to the lyrical experience of a gaze always towards the infinite.

On the small island of Linosa, a fascinating and magnetic place with unique landscape, geographical and natural features, Berengo Gardin documents the extraordinary humanity of a participatory and active community that lives the dimension of isolation with great warmth. A testimony of living elsewhere, where suspended time creates a subtle link with the photographic investigation that Filippo Romano carried out over thirty years later. The exhibition is a unique opportunity to explore the existential dimension shared by those strips of land surrounded only by deep blue, where even the way of thinking takes on the unique characteristics of the blue mind, because there is a primordial and profound, almost magical and meditative connection between water and us.

Curated by Alessandra Klimciuk

The exhibition “Visions in Motion – Graffiti and Echoes of Futurism” explores the dialogue between Italian Futurism and American Graffiti, two movements that interpret art as a continuous flow and a testimony of their time.

Both envision the future as perpetual energy, with graffiti artists expressing belonging and rebellion through spray cans. The industrial space of Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan provides the ideal backdrop to evoke the urban atmosphere from which these movements emerged.

Curated by Carlo Mc Cormik

Press office Fabrizio Kühne comunicazione@fabriziokuhne.com

From December 3, 2024, to January 26, 2025, Palazzo Reale in Milan will host the exhibition “SalvArti. From Confiscations to Public Collections”, showcasing a series of contemporary artworks, including paintings, graphic art, and sculptures by artists such as Giorgio de Chirico, Mario Sironi, Lucio Fontana, Massimo Campigli, Salvador Dalí, Andy Warhol, Mario Schifano, Robert Rauschenberg, Christo, and others. These works come from confiscations carried out by public authorities against organized crime.

The more than 80 artworks, displayed in a chronological and thematic layout, allow visitors to trace the evolution of art from the first half of the twentieth century to the early 2000s, highlighting the development of expressive languages and artistic movements of the period.

The exhibition marks the second stage of the project “Art for the Culture of Legality”, curated by the General Management Museums of the Ministry of Culture, the National Agency for Seized and Confiscated Assets from Organized Crime (ANBSC), the Municipality of Milan, and the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior. The project began with a preview at the Hendrik Christian Andersen Museum in Rome (October 16 – November 21, 2024) and will conclude at the Palazzo della Cultura in Reggio Calabria (February 8 – April 27, 2025).

Press Office: Marta Pedroli - marta.pedroli@clp1968.it Carlo Ghielmetti - carlo.ghielmetti@clp1968.it

This immersive experience exhibition consists of an exciting labyrinth that showcases different themes from the filmmaker, via a variety of rooms containing original artworks and utilizing technology, lights, sound, and scenography from his movies.

Visitors will chart their own course through the mind of the genius to explore his favorite characters and environments from his wide and celebrated filmography. In this way, the exhibition provides a unique experience; an exciting journey through the creative universe of the director, producer, writer, and artist that has amazed both children and adults with such films as Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.