"Luce dietro tracce incompiute" it is the textile installation by Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball (b. 1975), which will welcome visitors to the Museum in its monumental dimensions.

As part of the museum’s vision aimed at contemporary themes and practices, the Museum of Cultures presents for fall 2023 its second site-specific project, this time to be hosted in the heart of the Agora, which is a teaser for the upcoming exhibition Exposure, planned for March 2024.

 
Working with the collections of MUDEC and Fondazione Ratti, Mariana Castillo Deball selected twelve textile fragments from different geographies and periods of time, based on which she subsequently created her own watercolors.

These interpreted images were printed on fabric in an enlarged format, and assembled with additional textile elements at the NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti laboratories together with a group of students guided by Salvatore Averzano. In this way, three-dimensional “palimpsests" were formed, shimmering with different meanings and stories.  
 

Curated by Katya Inozemtseva and Sara Rizzo

In collaboration with NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, with the support of 24 Ore Cultura and Fondazione Deloitte

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

With a focus on the world of reportage and documentary photography, the collaboration with Magnum Photos continues through the exhibition Short & Sweetby Martin Parr, which shows more than 200 shots including 60medium and small formats chosen and selected by the author, and presented together with an interview made specifically for the show by the photography historian and critic Roberta Valtorta, to trace the career of one of the most famous contemporary photographers.

Through an itinerary that runs through his best-known projects, the unprecedented documentary style of the British photographer becomes a litmus test for observing contemporary society and its most contradictory aspects, without filters and outside of rhetoric. Starting with his early works in black and white, the exhibition is focused on themes that are dear to Parr -from 'sea life' to tourism. Also on display is a selection from the Common Sense installation, with over 200 A3 photographs chosen among the 350 that were shown at the homonymous 1999 exhibition, which sardonically explore the plasticised and tawdry reality of the Western world.

Curated by Martin Parr

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

Straordinarie and Appunti G are the two exhibitions that respectively inaugurate and conclude "Milano Città delle donne", which is the cultural programme that the Municipality of Milan presents to its citizens offering a rich agenda entirely centered on gender issues.

Appunti G

Dates to be determined

Laila Pozzo (art photographer) and Rita Pelusio (actress, author and director) create a collective game, which involved more than 180 women, from the most diverse professional and civil society backgrounds. Each protagonist drew, on her body or in space, a G as a symbol of identity, beauty and affirmation of her personality. Thanks to the collaboration with journalist Assunta Sarlo, the result is a kind of almanac, in pictures and words, vivid and varied, telling to women and men about the time in which we live.

PRESS OFFICE: Studio ESSECI di Sergio Campagnolo tel. 049.66.34.99 - Referente Simone Raddi: simone@studioesseci.net

ans Terre des Hommes  Anna Bianchi 3341691927 - a.bianchi@tdhitaly.org 

The countless images that have come down to us from Ancient Egypt-sculptures, reliefs, paintings-are vivid records of the society that produced them. They are immediately recognizable images because they reflect a precise artistic canon, deeply linked to the Egyptian civilization's vision of the world, both human and divine.

The aim of the exhibition held at the Civic Archaeological Museum is to present Egyptian art and some of its specific features through a selection of artifacts from its collection.

Curated by Sabrina Ceruti

The exhibition reflects on the traditional concept of the vitrine and its centrality in exhibition projects, where it both separates and displays the object.

Opening in the Permanent Collection with a special intervention by contemporary artist Theo Eshetu, the exhibition in the Focus rooms is divided into two sections: the first is devoted to the history of the display case, and the second places the vitrine at the centre of contemporary practice, with works by Mark Dion, Sam Durant and Monia Ben Hamouda with her site-specific installation.

Curated by Katya Inozemtseva and Sara Rizzo

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

The exhibition aims to recount, from its earliest origins and with an anthropological slant that starts from Italy and the Mediterranean area, the history of tattooing, which according to many scholars constitutes the first gesture by which humans consciously differentiates themself from the animal world.

The exhibition project is articulated and starting from evidence that goes far back in time to the Paleolithic and over the millennia it has gradually taken on different meanings and functions.

Through the display of original artifacts or reproductions and projections of photographs and films, the exhibition will cover more than seven thousand years of human history: starting with Ötzi, the oldest tattooed man whose body has been found so far, and touching on current geopolitical events, with the tattoos, in Egypt, of Coptic crosses, or those of Coptic Kurdish women in Syrian refugee camps. But equally vast will be the geographical panorama, starting with the oldest artifacts found in the Mediterranean Basin.

Curated by Luisa Gnecchi Ruscone, with the collaboration of Francesca Jurate Piacenti

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

‘From the Heart to the Hands: Dolce&Gabbana’ will bring together the fashion house’s one-of-a-kind creations for the very first time. The exhibition will be an open love letter to Italian culture as the enduring inspiration for Dolce&Gabbana’s fashion designs, tracing the extraordinary translation of Domenico Dolce’s and Stefano Gabbana’s ideas, from the heart through to their realization, by hand.

The exhibition, which will launch in Milan and then tour worldwide, will celebrate the brand as a symbol of Italian style, following the dreams of Alta Moda, and explore its unconventional approach to the world of luxury: elegant, sensual and unique, yet humorous, irreverent, and subversive.

Curated by Florence Müller, and produced by IMG, the exhibition will also feature work by visual artists in dialogue with Dolce&Gabbana’s celebrated designs.

The archive and new collections will be displayed in a series of themes highlighting the many layers of Italian cultural influences at work in their approach to fashion design – these include art, architecture, artisanal craft, cities and their regional topography, music, Opera and Ballet, folk traditions, theatre and of course – “la dolce vita”.

Curated by Florence Müller

Press Office: PCM Studio di Paola C. Manfredi | press@paolamanfredi.com  

Federica Farci | federica@paolamanfredi.com 

Francesca Ceriani | francesca@paolamanfredi.com 

In the heart of Milan, from 7 April to 31 July 2024, Palazzo Reale presents an exhibition and a focus that together synthesize the taste and history of Italian savoir faire.  

On the occasion of the exhibition Dal Cuore alle mani dedicated to the creativity of Dolce&Gabbana, Palazzo Reale intends to enhance its historical and artistic heritage and return to the public’s vision some historical pieces, once part of its collections, putting them in dialogue with the creations of fine jewelry and design of the two designers.

The display Tesori Riflessi was created with the aim of highlighting five artists of extraordinary ability – active between '700 and '800 – who were the protagonists of the creation of the decorative apparatus and of the furnishings of Palazzo Reale in Milan with works that influenced the fashion, taste and design of the following centuries: the mosaicist Giacomo Raffaelli, the Manfredini Workshop, the decorator Giocondo Albertolli, the tapestry master Michel Audran and the excellent sculptor Antonio Canova. 

Within the exhibition path unfold the most significant pages of the history of the Palace also telling the representation of power and prestige through the decorative arts, to this day, in which the craftsmanship of the past guides the great Italian brands, among the most important in the world.
 

Press Office: Francesca Ceriani francesca@paolamanfredi.com

The collaboration between the Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Art History in Florence, directed by Michael W. Kwakkelstein, and the Collection of Drawings of the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, gave life to the project Drawings in red chalk at the Castello Sforzesco.

This medium, recently studied and explored at a conference held in 2019 at the Florentine Institute, represents one of the most interesting and widespread graphic means that artists have adopted for the most diverse purposes.

The exhibition aims to highlight the most important drawings in terms of quality and collection history, for the different uses, for the disparate stylistic uses that have made this medium fundamental in artistic practice and aesthetic research.

Small is Beautiful is the largest international exhibition entirely dedicated to miniature art, an art form that plays with scale and perspective.

Within the event, works by 40 leading representatives of miniature art will be on display, including such notables as Vincent Bal or Danny Cortes. Miniature art is an immersive experience for all audiences.

The exhibition offers privileged access to the works, a unique, behind-the-scenes view that allows the viewer to immerse themselves in small-scale worlds full of finesse and poetry.

Small is beautiful is an inclusive exhibition that will attract a wide audience, because miniature art has no boundaries, intrigues and awakens everyone's childhood soul. 

OBEY: The Art of Shepard Fairey brings to Italy for the first time a museum exhibition entirely dedicated to Shepard Fairey (OBEY), one of the most influential and internationally recognized street artists, whose art has shown the evolution of Street Art and its languages.

The exhibition, on view from May 16 to 27 October 2024, in the Cattedrale spaces at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, offers the public an unprecedented opportunity to explore Obey's artistic universe.

Curated by Shepard Fairey and Wunderkammern Gallery

Press Office: Viviana Pepe +39 3466600299 viviana.pepe@mncomm.it - Marilena D’Asdia + 39 3423186664 marilena.dasdia@mncomm.it

The Castello Sforzesco has an important permanent collection of contemporary glass art from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Every two years it organises the MilanoVetro-35 International Glass Art and Design Competition, now in its 4th edition.                                                         

The exhibition features the work of 25 finalists, from which an international jury has selected three winners. Madeline Cardone (Australia, 1996) received the "Aldo Bellini" acquisition prize for her work Shroud, which will now be added to the collections of Castello Sforzesco.

Other prizes were awarded in the form of artist residencies and material for future projects.

From May 30th to July 28th, 2024, Palazzo Reale will host the exhibition "Piermarini in Milan: The Drawings of Foligno," highlighting the evolution of the architect Giuseppe Piermarini, one of the leading Italian architects of the 18th century, whose neoclassical imprint can still be admired in the most significant buildings of Milan and Lombardy today.

The exhibition immerses the viewer in preparatory drawings - sourced from the Piermarini Fund established at the Library of his hometown, Foligno - a selection ranging from his early studies in Rome to his major works in Lombardy, with particular attention to Milan and Palazzo Reale, the venue of the exhibition.

In addition to drawings from the Foligno Fund, some architectural models will be displayed on loan from Palazzo Trinci in Foligno and the Museo Teatrale della Scala. 

This exhibition falls within the initiatives of enhancement aimed by Palazzo Reale as a member of the ARRE network - Association des Résidences Royales Européennes, which brings together approximately thirty royal residences in Europe.

Curated by Alessia Alberti, Emanuele De Donno, Marcello Fagiolo, Simone Percacciolo, Marisa Tabarrini, Italo Tomassoni and Paolo Verducci 

Press Office: Sara Stangoni Comunicazione press@sarastangoni.it cell. 339 1012800

Placed in a suspended dimension between reality and fantasy, Louise Manzon's monumental creation, crafted from humble and recycled materials such as terracotta and recycled plastic (PET), invites visitors to contemplate the beauty of primordial seas and the urgency of protecting them.

In Greek mythology, Tethys was a Titan, sister and wife of Oceanus, and mother of thousands of marine, river, and spring deities. Tethys is the ancient mother originating from water, caring for the world; she is the guardian of the wounded and sorrowful, capable of regenerating and helping them rediscover lost harmony, beauty, and peace.

In the artist's poetic vision, Tethys becomes a female figure with great purifying strength, able to attract to oneself polluting plastic—that is suffocating and destroying her aquatic world—to transform it into algae, sea foam, and pure water.

Curated by Marina Mojana

Press Office: Artemide PR di Stefania Bertelli stefania.bertelli@artemidepr.it

The Studio Ballo & Ballo’s photographic archive was given to the Civic Photographic Archive in 2022.

The exhibiton is part of a larger project of promotion, winner of the grant “Strategia Fotografia 2023” of General Contemporary Creativity Direction of Ministry of Culture. Various original materials will be showed in the exhibition, such as photographies, inventories, cameras, working tools, objects, to tell a unique story about the activity of an extraordinary studio and laboratory, showing how it created a new photographic language for Italian design, in straight connection with the most innovative environments of their time, in the fields of Design, Art, Architecture.

With a Grant by Italian Ministry of Culture: Strategia Fotografia 2023

From June 15 to September 1, 2024 Palazzo Reale presents “Philippe Halsman. Lampo di genio.”

Philippe Halsman is among the greatest portrait photographers in the history of photography, having signed 101 LIFE covers, more than any other photographer and creating extraordinary portraits for their strength and psychological depth.

Halsman was always able to work between gaze and introspection, immediate insight, a flashes of genius and a refined technique. For his iconic “Jumpology” series he managed to make crowned heads, scientists, heads of state and movie stars jump in front of his lens, and with Salvador Dalí he invented images as true performance art.

This first Italian retrospective, produced in collaboration with the Philippe Halsman Archive in New York, celebrates his work by presenting more than 100 photographic prints, enhanced by videos and various materials.

A series of extraordinary images, the result of great professionalism, subtle irony and profound lightness.

Curated by Alessandra Mauro

Press Office: Ombretta Roverselli | ombretta.roverselli@civita.art 

Giusy Patera | gpatera@contrastobooks.com Veronica Grego | vgrego@contrastobooks.com

In 1924 the Civic Historical Collections, under the direction of Antonio Monti, started the creation of the War Archive, to collect evidence of the First World War. From this project -from 1935 to 1943 - was born in the rooms of the Sforzesco Castle the War Museum (later the Museum of the Italian Wars in an increasingly propagandistic perspective of the fascist regime).

100 years after - and 110 years after the outbreak of the First World War - the Civic Historical Collections are questioning on the communication strategies, on the choices that the idea of "Exposing the war" has meant for its own history.

The PAC Project Room presents Alice Guareschi's photographic series Je m'appelle Olympia, in a new site-specific installation especially conceived for its space. Je m'appelle Olympia is an action for house lights performed by

Alice Guareschi on just one occasion for a select audience of guests at the Olympia Music Hall, the legendary and iconic Parisian venue, on April 12th, 2012. The 16 photographs that make up this series were shot on the same day, they rappresent a synthesis of the image-idea and intention behind the performance: to activate a theatre when no show is happening on stage, to play it live, to reawaken its latent memory and the secret life that eludes the spectator’s gaze.

For the exhibition, but in a different location, the artist will also realize an unreleased performative action, a new piéce unique, this time based on sound.

A project co-produced with Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, in collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art in New York. The exhibition, which in Milan features Liliana Moro in the city where she was born, includes works created over a period of time starting from the end of the Eighties up to the present day with the creation of new works and aims at delving deeper into a fundamental aspect of her work: sound.

Liliana Moro's practice of continuous listening encourages us to be attentive and invites us to participate physically, as well as intellectually and emotionally. Her artistic production has seen different phases and explored different expressive means such as sounds, words, sculpture, performance, drawing, collage, and video.

Her works are often based on everyday objects and situations and invite the viewer to look beyond what is only seemingly obvious.

Curated by Letizia Ragaglia and Diego Sileo

Press Office: PCM Studio di Paola C. Manfredi press@paolamanfredi.com

Nearly 100 languages are lost around the world every year.

Lynn Johnson recounts through her extraordinary photos the Tuvans of the steppes in Russia, the Seri on the shores of the Sea of Mexico of Cortez, the Aka of north-eastern India and the survivors of the Native American tribes struggling to maintain their identity. The exhibition is completed with a focus on the Calabrian linguistic minorities - Arbereshe, Grecanica and Occitana.

Curated by Francesco Scarpino. Bluocean Production

Waiting for the large retrospective dedicated to Enrico Baj at Palazzo Reale in October, on the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his death, Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano presents a preview entitled “Enrico Baj. Fantastic zoology and other natures", a tribute dedicated to engravings and artists' books where Baj classified the natural world, with irony and imagination.

In dialogue with the naturalistic collection of the oldest Milanese municipal museum and its itineraries through paleontology, mineralogy, zoology and botany, a selection of 22 prints will be displayed, artworks from the Manuale di zoologia fantastica, Paradiso perduto, the folder Fiori (with its visionary botany), as well as the etchings of the famous De Rerum Natura of 1958, a (reinvented) homage to the Latin poem of Lucretius. The protagonist of the in-depth analysis is Baj's fantastical imagery, brought to life by bizarre, alien or monstrous creatures.

The Milanese artist, in his theoretical essay Ecologia dell'arte, hoped, with great foresight compared to current times, "the recovery of harmonious relationships between man and nature"; but utopia has always been mixed with creativity and the innate vocation for the construction of new worlds, possible or impossible.

Curated by Chiara Gatti e Roberta Cerini Baj

Palazzo Reale presents an anthology that celebrates sixty years of research by Valerio Adami, a well-known european painter - he lived between France and Italy - recognized as a valid interlocutor by all contemporary philosophers.

His paintings, almost always large format, give a great visual impact, therefore the artist has sometimes been defined as "pop".

Behind straightforward images is hidden a more complex narrative: the Adami’s artworks are rich in sophisticated visual metaphors, representing the evolution of ideas through the European and Western thought.
The exhibition is realized in collaboration with Valerio Adami Archive.

Curated by Marco Meneguzzo
 

MUDEC in Milan presents, together with Deutsche Bank and in collaboration with 24 ORE Cultura, the exhibition Guaymallén by the artist La Chola Poblete, winner in 2023 of the prestigious international “Artist of the Year” award dedicated by the Bank to contemporary art, and who was recently celebrated with a special mention for her contribution to the Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

Artist, performer and LGBTQ+ rights activist, in her work La Chola Poblete critically analyses the consequences of colonialism and white supremacy in her country, Argentina. For Guaymallén, the artist designed a space that recalls the Andean Baroque architectural style, redefining Mudec Photo's spaces as an extraordinary contemporary “church of design”, a place populated by religious, political, erotic, pop-cultural and indigenous motifs and symbols overlapping each other, thus creating an immersive environment. In addition to a series of large-scale watercolours and three new photographic works, the exhibition presents a series of life-size anthropomorphic sculptures made with baked bread dough, hand made in Milan with Panificio Davide Longoni.

Curated by Britta Färber, Global Head of Art & Culture di Deutsche Bank

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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

Mike Bongiorno contributed to the development of Italian television, leaving an indelible mark that has piqued the interest of sociologists, communication experts, and television critics due to his extraordinary ability to reach everyone with a unique and engaging language.

Through his personal and professional journey, the exhibition aims to delve into the significant role of television in Italian society from the post-World War II period onwards and demonstrate how television broadcasts have contributed to shaping the customs, habits, consumption patterns, and political opinions of the population far more than other media.

By entering the homes of Italians, television became an instrument for the nationalization of the masses, triggering the process of spreading language, information, entertainment, and cultural content. This process generated, among the citizens of our country, the development of common tastes and interests.

Press Office: Antonio Naselli - antonionaselli.press@gmail.com

From an original project by Annie Cohen-Solal, scientific curator of the exhibition with the special curatorship of Cécile Debray, president of the MNPP, and the collaboration of Sébastien Delot, director of collections at the MNPP.

Based on years of new researches, the exhibition changes our view of Picasso by highlighting his status as an eternal foreigner and reflects on how France, in the early twentieth century, was not a heaven for foreigner artists. The topic is relevant: problems of immigration and nationalism are at the forefront of the international debate. An artist ahead of his time both in terms of aesthetics and politics emerges from these studies.

The six sections will be illustrated by around 80 art works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs and archive documents from the Musée national Picasso-Paris. The exhibition will therefore follow the aesthetics and political trajectory of the artist, to understand how he shaped his own identity by living in an uneasy position as an eternal stranger.

Curated by Annie Cohen-Solal, Cécile Debray and Sébastien Delot

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

The exhibition deals with the theme of the tree as a living being but also as the home of biodiversity, showing what and how many organisms can live in it and interact with the tree and the city, trying to discover together how it is possible to protect and conserve this variety of life.

The exhibition is meant to be a teaching to travel, an invitation to take a journey that is new and yet ancient and, at times, never ceased.

Begun together with the appearance of man himself and his tireless explorations of the world, this journey continues to this day at the foot and top of a single tree, in a large city, to discover and contemplate once again the nature we do not know

Curated by Claudia Canedoli and Emilio Padoa Schioppa

The exhibition traces the artist's journey since 1987 with a section entitled Au commencement était le signe, the beginning of his pictorial journey during international tours with the theatre, up to the series of Tout se tient en équilibre précaire, in December 2020 , a month before his death.

In his works, the formal composition, the materials and the color constitute philosophical conceptual scenes, where each element refers, as in a game of mirrors, to the literary references on which the artist incessantly nourished himself.

The exhibition itinerary takes into consideration temporality, the place that determines cultural influence and literary sources of inspiration, the themes that trace intellectual and spiritual research, formal research, matter and technique.

Curated by Chiara Gatti e Marco Bazzini

Press Office: Studio Esseci Simone Raddi simone@studioesseci.net

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 tenth edition of Ri-scatti for 2024 proposes to rekindle the discussion on the subject of HIV/AIDS, giving the floor to experts and people living with HIV, updating the information that sometimes negatively orients public opinion and poison human relations .

The exhibition intends to build a new representation around the topic in order to improve the lives of those who, even today, suffer unjust discrimination.

Curated by Diego Sileo

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

Giancarlo Leone is an architect and urban planner - "in the sense of a scholar of the city" as he himself claims, but in reality his way of designing underlies the idea that designing a new built reality - a building, a neighbourhood, a park, perhaps even a domestic interior - still means dealing with the idea of the city.

The particularity of his images, their indisputable charm in narrating a liquid universe of which Leone seems to have discovered the secret access door, perhaps lies precisely in their origin from a variation on this design thought.

This new interpretation of Ugo Mulas' oeuvre collects more than 300 pictures and underlines the artist's interest in the "totality" of photographic language.

The project highlights the stages of the photographer's career: his debut in Milan at the Bar Jamaica and Brera, the Venice Art Biennale, his experiences with design, fashion and stylist Mila Schön. Mulas' relationship with the theater and with G. Strehler, his friendship with M. Duchamp and L. Fontana, the reportage dedicated to New York and its artists, Mulas' connection with culture and literature, in particular the affinity for E. Montale.

Not least, the story of the industry, with the work on Olivetti, Pirelli, Bormioli and the Italian economic boom. The shots of major trips abroad and to the main Italian cities are notable.

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 DcomeDesign association presents the second edition of the exhibition Sono Tazza Di Te!

The exhibition was born from an open call addressed to women designers - designers, artisans, artists, architects, in a word "artists", masters in the use of the most varied materials, who have unleashed their imagination to give life to the most disparate types of cups, making them into real objects of desire.

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, the Anna Kuliscioff Foundation organizes, in collaboration with the Civic Historical Collections, an exhibition that aims to investigate his relationship with the city of Milan.

The first section of the exhibition explores his role as editor of "Avanti!" - based in Milan - and will remember his journalistic activity, starting from 1922, for "La giustizia", organ of the socialist party of which Matteotti was Secretary.

The second part of the exhibition illustrates through the letters of Anna Kuliscioff and Filippo Turati the reaction of the city to the kidnapping and murder of Matteotti.

The exhibition ends by illustrating the traces of Matteotti’s memory that have remained impressed in the city through the naming of streets, circles and party sections.

Curated by the Kuliscioff Foundation

A photographic survey of the landscape and community of a truly remote island.

An open and participatory exhibition project listening to the territory and the community that inhabits the small island of Linosa, a fascinating and magnetic place with unique landscape, geographical and naturalistic peculiarities, a triumph of environmental, biological and vital complexity.

The exhibition presents a gaze elsewhere revealing the inhabitants of a remote and isolated island and the sense of living south of the border.

An existential dimension that unites those strips of land surrounded only by the deep blue, scattered in an ocean of water, where even the way of thinking takes on unique characteristics, that blue mind that permeates the sense of living and binds forever in the soul those who are born there or live there for long periods, but also becomes a contemporary metaphor for our living, where change is the only constant and where the coexistence of opposites takes place in a fluid way, without barriers.

Curated by Alessandra Klimciuk

A project specifically designed for PAC and outlining Marcello Maloberti’s entire oeuvre.

The exhibition is a dedication to Milan, which becomes the real protagonist of the show. A love declaration that Maloberti makes to the city and its inhabitants, a place full of history that accompanied him in building his career.

Through his works, the artist intertwines the key themes of his research, creating continuous connections that help the works to coexist and live with each other. Sacredness and the spiritual element emerge among these themes, a continuous reference to everyday life and the elevation of the written word in the form of poetry.

Maloberti relates to PAC using both its external and internal spaces, and creating an installation contrasting with Ignazio Gardella’s modernist aesthetics.

Curated by Diego Sileo

Press Office: PCM Studio di Paola C. Manfredi press@paolamanfredi.com

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. 

The exhibition dedicated to Felice Casorati is the first anthology hosted in Milan after the 1990 exhibition at Palazzo Reale.

The project recalls the artist's creative parable, through masterpieces coming from prestigious Italian public institutions and private collections, with some selected loans from European museums as well. Essential is the collaboration with the Felice Casorati Archive, which will lend five paintings, as well as graphics, drawings and documents.

With an innovative approach, we want to highlight the multifaceted activity of the artist. In fact, Casorati has always obtained original results thanks to continuous experimentation in drawing, but also in illustration and music, passions that led him to a highly appreciated activity as a set designer and costume designer.

Curated by Giorgia Bertolino, Ferdinando Mazzocca and Francesco Poli

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

The year 2025 marks the centenary of the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes opened in Paris in the spring of 1925, which was the codification of a new international taste that spread through Europe in the early post-war period, defined from that moment on as 'Style 1925' or Art Deco.

The exhibition presents works of art, artifacts, images, and reinterpretations of a series of historical-cultural events and artistic phenomena that unfolded in Italy and Europe in just under ten years.

During this time, these influences gradually took on national characteristics, both in architecture and interiors, and in objects and furnishings, highlighting the relationship between form and function, as well as between high artistic craftsmanship and proto-Industrial Design.

At the same time, an account will be given of the political-economic and cultural events that marked and influenced the decisions of that decade, during which the foundations were laid for the success of "Italian Style" within a new international taste.

Curated by Valerio Terraroli

Press Office: 24OreCultura Elettra Occhini elettra.occhini@ilsole24ore.com

The first large solo exhibition in Italy by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat, who through her film and photographic works explores the identity representations of feminine and masculine in her culture.

In the tormented photographs of women, with their faces marked by Farsi calligraphy or wearing the hijab and holding guns, the woman’s gaze becomes a powerful and dangerous communication tool. Concepts such as martyrdom, the space of exile and matters of identity are examined through poetry and calligraphy.

In her practice, the artist uses poetic imagery to deal with the themes of gender and society, the individual and the community and the dialectical relationship between past and present, through the lens of her experiences of belonging and exile. 

Curated by Diego Sileo and Beatrice Benedetti  

Ufficio Stampa: PCM Studio di Paola C. Manfredi press@paolamanfredi.com

Dedicated to the transversal theme of travel, the exhibition highlights the genesis of the MUDEC collections, built up by exotic artefacts donated by enthusiasts, travellers and researchers.

Starting from the “materiality” of travel (means of transport, souvenirs, suitcases, etc.), the exhibition opens up a new perspective for a different understanding not only of tourism/travel, but also of the migrations and diasporas that have marked and continue to mark recent history, with contributions by contemporary artists.

Curated by Katya Inozemtseva and Sara Rizzo

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

The monograph dedicated to Leonor Fini is part of a series of exhibitions that Palazzo Reale has been dedicating to the movement of Surrealism for some time. 

Her work addresses fundamental issues of contemporary society, such as the questioning of gender, identity, belonging, established models of family, masculinity and femininity.

The title of the exhibition is inspired by the reflections that her art provoked in important writers and artists of her time, including Jean Genet, Max Ernst or Jean Cocteau. The identification with the Sphinx, a legendary creature, is also the curators' statement of principles about the multifaceted aspects of her work and about its ever-evolving nature.

The exhibition includes painting, drawing, photography, decorative art, fashion design, costumes, artist's books and documents to emphasize the artist's multifaceted nature.

Curated by Tere Arcq and Carlos Martín

In collaboration with New York-located Participant INC, this is the first anthological exhibition of artist Alessandro Codagnone and John Lovett.

Born in Milan in 1995, the Italian-American duo has ranged with their oeuvre from photography to sculpture, from video to installation up to performance, a medium which often sees the two artists as protagonists in an ironic role-play aimed at unmasking the power relations that are defined within interpersonal relationships.

Their art explores the dynamics of power and reflects on those processes of normalization in progress that castrate and suffocate sub-cultures, practices of dissent, the affirmation of the subjective.

Six years after Codagnone’s death, the exhibition will be a unique opportunity to understand his relevance in the artistic panorama and his influence on the next generations.

Curated by Diego Sileo

Press Office: PCM Studio di Paola C. Manfredi press@paolamanfredi.com

More than a century after the latest and only monographic exhibition devoted to Giuseppe Pellizza, held at Galleria Pesaro in Milan in 1920, the Galleria d’Arte Moderna will pay homage to the Piedmont-native artist with a novel, unprecedented solo show.

The GAM is proud of housing not only his absolute masterpiece, Il Quarto Stato [The Fourth Estate], but also other works that exemplify the painter’s artistic path perfectly.

Curators Aurora Scotti and Paola Zatti have devised a showcase of approximately sixty works, including paintings and drawings on loan from Italian and foreign public and private collections. The exhibition will be set up in the halls on the ground floor of Villa Reale, which are generally reserved to temporary exhibits, and in the hall specifically devoted to Il Quarto Stato on the first floor of the museum, where the masterpiece has been recently reinstated.

The exhibition path will cover the entire artistic experience of Pellizza da Volpedo, from his early years to his approach to Divisionism, in a dialogue shared with other great interpreters (from Previati to Grubicy, Segantini, Morbelli) and experimenters of a technique that would leave an indelible legacy to the following generation, in particular the Futurist avant-garde.

Curated by Aurora Scotti and Paola Zatti

The very first exhibition in Italy dedicated to Chaim Soutine (Belarus 1893 - Paris 1943), one of the most emotional and intense artists of the 20th century.

Poor, Jewish in an adverse environment, psychologically disturbed: Soutine's story is touching as his works, steeped in pain and so powerful that they influenced so many artists including Bacon. His portraits are shocking, his still lifes are a universe of blood and heartbreak.

Palazzo Reale and Arthemisia present the first retrospective of this relatively recently discovered artist who is winning over audiences worldwide.

Curated by Simonetta Fraquelli with Francesca Villanti

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

Dalí's genius combines rapidly evolving expressions of his artistic sensibility and an experimental engagement with new art forms.

The exhibition has the collaboration and support of the ones of most prestigious international museum institutions and seeks to explore the most intimate and intense aspects of the artist's creative process, where fashion and art nurture an ever-evolving form of expression.

Fashion is perhaps one of the least familiar fields in which Dalí embodied his artistic universe. Yet, fashion is one of the artist's most prolific contributions at all stages of his career.

This is a unique opportunity to admire and gain insight into Salvador Dalí's astonishing complexity and in part his work as an eclectic genius.

Curated by Laura Bartolomé Roviras and Judith Clark

Press Office: CLP Anna De Francesco anna.defrancesco@clp1968.it

With the two epic Campaigns in the peninsula and the coronation as King of Italy, Napoleon’s story intertwines with the story of Milan and the Royal Palace.  

The exhibition focuses on the artistic testimonies, created by various artists, narrating the historical path of Bonaparte, through myth and allegory. 

From the work of these artists also emerges an interesting image of Milan: a bustling cultural center that can be rightfully considered the workshop of Italian Neoclassicism. 

The myth of Napoleon survives in the collective imagination of the twentieth century with the first cinematographic experiments. From the Lumiere brothers to Abel Gance, cinema continues to reflect on the legendary and enigmatic figure of Bonaparte and on the fascination he still exerts on contemporary audiences.   

The exhibition, in collaboration with Malmaison and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, will see a first stop in Paris and then be declined in Milan with particular attention to the works created for the Royal Palace.

Curated by Fernando Mazzocca, Domenico Piraina, Claudio Salsi, Mariangela Privitera, Stefano Zuffi and Anna Maria Massinelli

This exhibition, the first solo show dedicated to her work in Italy, aims to present her as a total artist and illuminate her artistic universe and intellectual persona through her visionary and diverse creations.

The exhibition will have a strong emphasis on Carrington´s lifetime relationship with Italy beginning with her discovery of Italian art in Florence as a teenager and exploring her post-Victorian and Celtic origins and her affiliation with Surrealism.

Together with these key moments in her life, the proposal is divided in various themes that touch upon Carrington as a woman artist, a migrant, an exile, a mother, an avant-garde feminist, ecologist, and an artist that spent her life as a perpetual traveller through other worlds and dimensions in a permanent pursuit of self-knowledge.

The exhibition includes not only the paintings but also photographs, books from his personal library and archival material.

Curated by Tere Arcq

Neither New Age atmosphere nor exotic divinities or seductive Bollywood stars for the new PAC collective project dedicated to world cultures through the gaze of contemporary artists.

The exhibition will present that wave of experimentation and research that has hit contemporary Indian art in all its expressive forms. The result of a long and articulated research work carried out by Raqs media collective, who are also the curators of the project, the exhibition aims at immortalizing, as if in a snapshot, different generations of artists who deal with painting, photography, sculpture, installation, web art and cinema.

An insight into art and life in current India, starting from the bottom, from the streets – both allegorical and otherwise –, along paths crossed by migratory flows and information highways; connection (and fracture) between rural reality and technological innovation.

Curated by Raqs Media Collective

Press Office: PCM Studio by Paola C. Manfredi press@paolamanfredi.com