Van Gogh, Botero and other events not to be missed

AND a portrait less known and far from the best known image of the Dutch artist the one proposed by Vincent van Gogh. Cultured painter.

In fact, the exhibition outlines the figure of a lively intellectual, a lover of reading, collector of prints, especially Japanese oneswhich reveal his passion for the culture of the Land of the Rising Sun.

About forty works by Van Gogh are on display – including The potato eaters, Moulin de la Galette, Landscape with sheaves and rising moon, Pine trees in the hospital garden – together with drawings, original editions of books and magazines, prints.

INFO: Milan, Mudec, until January 28th.
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Botero’s pietas

Created in collaboration with the Antioquia Museum in Medellín, which preserves an important body of work by the Colombian artist, Botero. Way of the cross (a cycle of 60 works including oils and drawings) investigates the relationship between the sculptor-painter and religion.

With a figurative language which, although not lacking in the artist’s characteristic language, is permeated by a poetic sense of pain.

INFO: Milan, Museo della Permanente, from 23 November to 4 February.
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Full rock

Music in all its scope and volume, without geographical and genre boundaries, at Barezzi Festival. Exclusively for Italy the “alternative” concerts The Jesus and Mary Chain. There is also desert rock dei Giant San.

INFO: Parma, Fidenza, Busseto and Reggio Emilia, from 19 to 26 November.
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Alone and accompanied

Four days full of events dedicated to chamber music for Archipelago 2023. On the bill are six concerts by five ensembles from the Dimore del Quartetto with as many soloists from the Stauffer Academy.

Don’t miss the Goldberg Quartet at Palazzo Guazzoni Zaccaria. Final double concert at the Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium with music by Brahms, Dvořák, Schumann and Schubert.

INFO: Cremona, various locations, from 21st to 24th November.
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Living matter

Three locations to tell and celebrate their particular relationship with the Emilian city and the work of two brilliant artists, Giampaolo Bertozzi and Stefano Dal Monte Casonifriends who have always been capable of revolutionizing the concept of contemporary ceramics with a skilful, at times incredible, manipulation of the material.

The exhibition project Bertozzi & Casoni. Tranche de vie proposes around thirty works that date back to the last twenty years of activity and which “dialogue” in a suggestive way with the environments and the collection of the historic eighteenth-century palace.

In essence. 1980-1997however, collects around 60 works – some monumental – which testify to the evolution of the expressive language which passes through complex processes and the study of new materials.

The death of erosfinally, is the title of the installation in the south-east tower of the Rocca, an idea born more than 20 years ago with a strong emotional and visual impact.

INFO: Imola, Palazzo Tozzoni, San Domenico Museum, Rocca Sforzesca, until 18 February.
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Fragments of a woman

Fabio Imperiale he is an eclectic artist, convinced «that art must read the surrounding reality and return a vision capable of stimulating emotions and reflections».

She was born like this Marginaliafresco gallery dedicated to 20 women – one for each Italian region – who after telling their story became the subject of an unprecedented portrait, painted together with the artist with coffee, ink, bitumen on a collage of ancient postcards.

INFO: Milan, Luciana Matalon Foundation, until 1 December.
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Endless to explore

To celebrate the year of BergamoBrescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023, The Blank Contemporary Art and the Municipality of Bergamo promote the exhibition event in the prestigious Palazzo della Ragione as part of the ArtDate festival Yayoi Kusama. Present Infinitecurated by Stefano Raimondi.

The exhibition will take you to the heart of the Orobic city Fireflies on the Water (2002), one of his most iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms, from the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

INFO: Bergamo, Palazzo della Ragione, Piazza Vecchia, until 24 March.
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Timeless myth

The Teatro alla Scala celebrates the myth of Maria Callas one hundred years after his birth by presenting the exhibition Phantasmagoria Callasa new exhibition project curated by Francesco Stocchi, featuring five voices from the contemporary artistic panorama.

On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of her birth, the Teatro alla Scala pays homage to Maria Callas with an exhibition conceived to celebrate his myth, evoking the indelible mark he left on the collective imagination.

The exhibition builds an itinerary divided into five stages where each chapter is entrusted to a different artistic expression.

Through the stylist’s interpretation Giorgio Armaniof the musician and composer Alvin Curran, of contemporary artists Latifa Echakhch and Francesco Vezzoli and the recorder Mario Martonethe figure of Maria Callas emerges from a choral and multidisciplinary narrative, designed specifically for the occasion.

The title of the exhibition refers to the theatrical form of “phantasmagoria”, which traditionally deploys scenic illusions to recreate ghostly effects and supernatural visions, to convey the impression of the multiple traces, influences and testimonies that Maria Callas has been able to inspire over time.

INFO: Milan, La Scala Theater Museum, from 17 November to 30 April 2024.
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Mothers of the country

Tobacco Manufacturing will host the Festival again this year Women’s Legacy. The event, curated by Serena Dandini will highlight the role of women in peace processes and in the fight against gender violencewith thematic meetings, theatrical evenings and literary dialogues, both live in Florence and online on the #EDD2023 website and social media.

Scheduled more than 50 guests from the world and dozens of events, where we will also talk about the body, circular economy, climate change and migration. With focus on Afghanistan and Libya.

Among the events of the event, there is also an exclusive tour: on November 25th, from 5.00pm to 8.00pm, visitors will have the unique opportunity to explore the ateliers and shops of the entrepreneurs who operate within the Florence Tabacchi Factory, immersing themselves in the stories, products and their journeys entrepreneurial.

INFO: Florence, from 24 to 26 November Manifattura Tabacchi and online. All appointments are at free and free entry until all available places are filled. They are exceptions THE EVENINGS to be booked on the Eventbrite platform.

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Cultural exchanges

The exhibition opens in Bologna Mountains and flowing watersan unprecedented exhibition project that involves and puts into dialogue six female artists, three Chinese, Lin Lan, He Fujun, Zhan Sisi, and three Italians, Marilena Sutera, Primarosa Cesarini Sforza, Jessica Ferro.

The exhibition is conceived as a precious opportunity for cultural exchange and sees the creative energies of six contemporary artists dialogue within a common space.

INFO: Bologna, Dueunodue Exhibition Spaces, from 18 to 20 November 2023.
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Vintage Sunday

East Marketthe Milanese vintage event dedicated to private individuals and professionals, where everyone can buy, sell and exchange, turns 9 years old.

The appointment on Sunday 19 November to celebrate the birthday includes the usual 300 selected exhibitors from all over Italyamong thousands of unusual and bizarre objects.

An opportunity to buy vintage and second-hand items, designer accessories, military items, with particular attention to custom and upcycling. For all tastes and all budgets.

There is no shortage of a wide selection of objects and decorations for the homeproposed by creatives, artists and illustrators, mixes with industrial style, modernism, antiques, ceramics, lamps and iconic design pieces of the 20th century. And then the collector’s items: vinyls, cassettes, books, typewriters, trading cards, video games, toys, etc…

INFO: Milan, via Mecenate, 88/A, 19 November.
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Let’s change our point of view

For the first time in Italy it will be possible to admire the latest project of the great French photographer Francis Giacobetti, Visioncurated by Thomas Sorrentino.

Over 100 images composed of black and white portraits and colored irises of the “visionaries” of the 20th century: artists, scientists, rulers, peacemakers or, as the master himself defines them, i Contemporary Universal Treasures.

Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Luciano Pavarotti, Stephen Hawking, Mikhail Gorbachev, Buzz Aldrin, Barack Obama, Rita Levi Montalcini, just to name some of the men and women who have most inspired our era with their ideas , discoveries, ideals and values.

The exhibition is divided into 15 sections on the second floor of the Procuratie Vecchiefor almost 1000 square meters of exhibition: giant images accompanied by captions and quotes, accompanying the photos themselves, which explain the life and impact that each character has had in the daily lives of each of us.

The goal is to see through the eyes of those who realized their visionallowing the visitor to immerse themselves in the profound world of the “visionary”, entering the flow of reflections and meditations that can emerge from the exhibition itinerary.

INFO: Venice, Procuratie Vecchie in Piazza San Marco, until 15 January 2024.
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