C‘It is only spoiled for choice this week in the Lombard capital: the Milan Art WeekAnd Miart 2025In fact, they animate the city with many proposals. To see, always in Milan, Breathtakingthe new installation of Fabrizio Ferri to report The devastating effect of the dispersion of plastics and microplastics in the oceans.
Back Bologna Children’s Book Fairthe fair dedicated to childhood publishing. Many festive opportunities: From 50 years of the Pimpa to the 80s by Pippi Calzelungheto the homage to Katsumi KomatataJapanese illustrator and designer. From March 31 to April 3.
The Treviso yellow festival “Invade” the city until March 30th. “The word and the journey” is the theme of Poietika 2025demonstration in Campobasso, until April 6.
Here is a short list of appointments to be marked on the agenda.
Calendar full of appointments for Milan Art Week (in conjunction with Myartinternational fair of modern and contemporary art) with more than 350 performances, events, exhibitions. Visiting the BG Art Gallery (Piazza Sant’Alessandro, entrance by reservation [email protected]) Two new acquisitions of the BG Art Talent project are discovered: The Reign of Comus by Giangiacomo Rossetti e False window V by Giuseppe Gabellone. The American artist of Iranian origin Ramakfazel signs the installation All the Feels Within An Evoluving Landscape (Piazza Alvar Aalto, 4-15 April) while at Volvo Studio an exhibition tells about his work. In the photo, The Reign of Comus (2024) by Giangiacomo Rossetti. Info: Milan, several locations, from 1 to 6 April (MilanArtweek.it).
“MIART” in Milan
Organized by Fiera Milano and directed by Nicola Ricciardi, myart – International Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art of Milan – It is the exhibition event that presents the largest chronological offer in Italy, proposing masterpieces of the beginning of the twentieth century – from Balla to De Chirico, from Schiele to Picabia – together with new productions of the most influential contemporary artistsfrom David Hockney to Francis Alys, from Rosa Barba to Monica Bonvicini. Info: Fiera Milano, Allianz Mico Central, from 4 to 6 April (Miart.it).
“Breathtaking” by Fabrizio Ferri in Milan
Helena Christensen, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willem Dafoe, Julianne Moore, Isabella Rossellini, Susan Sarandon are among the 12 testimonials who lent their face for Breathtakingthe installation of Fabrizio Ferri which proposes in large format their faces transfigured by plastic waste, To denounce the devastating effect of the dispersion of plastics and microplastics in the oceans. On April 2 (at Palazzo Reale, in the conference room, at 6 pm) in the presence of Susan Sarandon is also presented So far. Photographs of a lifetime (Mondadori Electa), the volume with shots of the personal archive of Fabrizio Ferri who traces his career with a gallery of portraits to show characters, meetings, memories and places of the heart. In the photo, Breathtaking Susan Sarandon by Fabrizio Ferri. Info: Milan, Museum of Natural History, from 2 to 27 April, from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 to 17.30 (MuseoDistorianaturalemilano.it).
“The Crack Group” in Milan
The Gracis Gallery in Milan hosts, until June 20, a totally unpublished exhibition project dedicated to The Crack group. The exhibition, created with the scientific support of the archives of the artists involved, has a historical-critical approach without commercial purposes, despite being in a gallery, and tells for the first time of this only artistic experience. Eight Italian artists with different stylistic guidelines joined for a short period in 1960 and exhibited together only once At the Gallery the Venice Channel in August of the same year. They were the great protagonists of the Roman art scene: Pietro Cascella, Piero Dorazio, Gino Marotta, Fabio Mauri, Gastone Novelli, Achille Perilli, Mimmo Rotella, Giulio Turcato and the poet and critic Cesare Vivaldthe. The group had set up around the common will to overcome the constraints of the formal and alternative abstraction/realism, of previous years, claiming an extreme freedom of styles, mediums and themes and a desire for intellectual independence in the relationship between art, visual communication and reality. In the photo, Apollo by Gino Marotta, 1960. Info: Milan, Gracis Gallery, until June 20 (gallerygracis.com).
“Herbs to drink in the Marquisal Garden”
Herbs to drink in the Marquis Garden It is a path to discover a fascinating green oasis of Salento Greece with the guidance of the archaeologist Eda Kulja. The event develops between history, art and botany In a space enriched by ancient varieties of fruit trees. The garden under the nose guides, however, visitors in the world of wild herbs and their use in mixology. Info: Melpignano (Lecce), Palazzo Marchesale, on March 29, from 16 to 18.30 (Citizeridiane.it; Info and reservations to the email [email protected]).
“Poietika 2025” in Campobasso
“The word and the journey” is the theme of Poietika 2025a manifestation full of book presentations, concerts, meetings, reading and debates. Colm Toíbín dialogues with Paolo Di Paolo in I carry with me a flight route, a path; Monica Maggioni (pictured) reflects on The story does not admit shortcuts. Info: Campobasso, Molise Culture Foundation, Savoy Theater and other locations, until April 6 (Poietika.it).
“Bologna Children’s Book Fair”
Back Bologna Children’s Book Fairthe fair dedicated to childhood publishing. Many festive opportunities: From 50 years of the Pimpa to the 80s by Pippi Calzelungheto the homage to Katsumi KomatataJapanese illustrator and designer. Estonia is the host country at the center of the exhibition Hello!/Tere! There Show illustrators This year he also rewards the talent of Giulia Pastorino: in the photo, his work. Info: Bolognafiere, from March 31 to April 3 (BolognaChildrensbookfair.com).
“Treviso yellow festival”
The Treviso yellow festival “Invade” the city. Among the guests of this edition: Tullio Avoledo, Alessia Gazzola, Blasco Pisapia, Alessandro Robecchi. Info: Treviso, various locations, until March 30 (Trevisogiallo.it).
“Paint the invisible” in Genoa
Palazzo Ducale of Genoa presents, in the rooms of the doge apartment, the great monographic Giorgio Gruffa. Paint the invisible who pays homage to the work of a protagonist of contemporary art. The exhibition, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Sébastien Delot, is made in collaboration with the Giorgio Gruffa Foundation, and is open to the public until Sunday 13 July 2025. With over 50 years of painting, Giorgio Gruffa is An artist who wrote the history of Italian art through a poetic, abstract and performative paintingwhere the gesture and the sign transport the public to an experience suspended out of the time when the history of art meets Zen spirituality. The exhibition presents 50 works, between large canvases, work on paper and installationsincluding a tribute to Eugenio Montale in the year that celebrates 100 years of poetic collection Cuttlefish bones. The exhibition offers an open dialogue between the great abstract canvases of Giorgio Gruffa and the history and architecture of the palace. In the photo, Pink camp by Giorgio Gruffa, 1989. Info: Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, until Sunday 13 July (PalazzoDucale.Genova.it).
“Messer Tulipano” at the Pralormo Castle (Turin)
Messer Tulipanothe great event in the Pralormo Castle Park turns 25. The layout, of over 130,000 tulips, is always renewed in the varieties and in the project-color, and houses among the many curious varieties, a collection of botanical tulips but also A path in the undergrowth dedicated to the tulips already known since 1600like the botanical varieties that can consider themselves the ‘ancestors’ of the tulips. These are tulips that are born in the woods, especially in Asia and in general they are only from 15 to 20 cm high, with thin leaves. The event involves the whole parkdesigned in the 19th century by the court architect Xavier Kurten, the architect of the most important English parks of the Savoy residences and in Piedmont. In large meadows, flower beds have been created with soft and sinuous shapes, designed by paying particular attention not to alter the original historical system. The flower beds therefore “meat” among the centuries -old trees, while in the undergrowth they eyecitted tufts of Muscari, Narcisi and Giacinti. This year the 25 editions will be recalled with their particular themes. The history of the tulip will be developed, starting from 1600, when in Holland the ” Tulipan fever “broke out with very high costs for each bulb, which was worth like a house … In fact, the Dutch led to buy them at the auctions. Info: Castello di Pralormo (Turin), from 29 March to 1 May 2025 (Grandigiardini.it).
“Beautiful Ester” in Ferrara
At the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara arrives The exhibition dedicated to Purimone of the most joyful holidays of the Jewish calendar, and to its protagonist: Beautiful Ester. Purim a timeless story. Renaissance works of art and precious parchments tell the story of the biblical heroine Esther and how he managed to save the Jewish people by selling off the Plan of Aman, the director of the king of Persia. A timeless story that still has much to convey today and that has been celebrated with banquets, masked parties and theatrical performances for centuries. In the photo, Esther in front of Assuero by Jacopo del Sellaio (particular), Florence, 1475-1480 Info: Ferrara (meis.museum).