miseria&Nobility. Giacomo Ceruti in eighteenth-century Europe offers a new look at the figure of the Milanese artist (better known as Pithocket), famous for having portrayed the humblest classes, highlighting the contradictions of the society of the time.
The exhibition is divided into a hundred works, of which 60 by Ceruti and the others by previous and contemporary authors (Bellotti, Ribera, Fra’ Galgario…) with which he establishes comparisons. There are portraits of portaroli (boys who did hard work), youthful ones, those from the Venetian period. A particular set-up is dedicated to the Padernello Cycle (14 magnificent canvases with a pauperistic subject).
Of the homage to the artist are also part Imaginary Ceruti. The prints of the painter’s workshop And David Lachapelle for Giacomo Ceruti. Nomad in a beautiful Land (at the Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo), an intervention by the American photographer on the work of the Lombard painter.
INFO: Brescia, Santa Giulia Museum, until 28 May.
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Homage to Pasolini
Pasolini’s lesson Massimiliano Finazzer Flory as director creates in Pasolini’s places – Casarsa, Rome, Milan, the Grado Lagoon – Other rallies of lovea documentary film in 70 minutes where they follow one another many interviews whose common thread is lovepermeated by the thought and words of the great intellectual.
A frame of “Other rallies of love” by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory.
“Ordinary people” and well-known faces such as Blasco Giurato, Ornella Vanoni, Fulvio Abbate speak.
INFO: Milan, Arlecchino cinema, 5 March.
Rome, Farnese cinema, 7 March.
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Dance in Rome
An evening to discover Arabesque, one of the most important Bulgarian contemporary dance companies. which in Arabesque Highlights offers moments of famous ballet performances.
The Arabesque contemporary dance company (photo by Kostadin Chernev).
From the Bolero with choreography by Margarita Arnaudova to the new Mare Crisium (top) signed by Arshak Ghalumyan.
INFO: Rome, Teatro Italia, 2 March. Free entry.
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Photography in Milan
For Carla Cerati, photography was an “instrument of social denunciation and transformation of reality”. The 30 shots of Form and Movement: there are the bodies of the actors of the Living Theater and the female nudes, opposed to the denunciations of Dying class.
“Forma di donna” by Carla Cerati (© Carla Cerati).
INFO: Milan, Leica Galerie at the Leica Store, until April 8th.
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Marche, land of set designers
Four cities in the Marche region host as many weekends in March First scene, the scenography festival of Scenaria, with the artistic direction of Dante Ferretti. Training moments alternate with monographic exhibitions, screenings, shows and installations.
Sketch by Dante Ferretti for “The Age of Innocence” (photo by Antonio Idini).
Ferretti enlivens the first appointment in Ancona with a conference and show dedicated to its historical sketches and the concert by the Orchestra Notturna Clandestina conducted by Enrico Melozzi.
INFO: Ancona, 4 and 5 March, Auditorium della Mole, Museo Omero, Magazzino Tabacchi della Mole.
The next steps:
- Macerata: from 9 to 11 March.
- Ascoli Piceno: on 18 and 19 March.
- Picene power: from 23 to 26 March
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