Ri open with the spring blooms and the botanical itineraries of the Mortella Gardens. 40 years after the death of the English musician Sir William Walton – creator of the site with his wife Susanna – the season of musical tributes opens on 1 and 2 April with a concert by the cellist Leonid Gorokhov: interprets “Passacaglia for cello solo” which Walton composed in 1980.
INFO: Gardens of Mortella, in Forio d’Ischia (Naples). Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, from 9 to 19 until the end of summer (here the calendar of events).
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fatal steps
The MAN Museum of Nuoro hosts, from next March 3, the new and important exhibition Odessa Steps. The Potemkin Staircase between cinema and architecture, dedicated to the history and myth of the Odessa staircase, renamed the “Potemkin Staircase” by popular culture. It is in fact the staircase from which the pram rolls with a newborn inside in the famous film by Sergej Michajlovič Ėjzenštejn, Battleship Potemkin of 1925.
The original project of the staircase, a monumental link between the sea and the city, was signed in the 1830s by the architect Francesco Carlo Boffo (1796-1867) whose biography has remained shrouded in mystery for decades, poised between an oral tradition that linked him to Sardinia and new documentary pieces that the exhibition today reveals along the way, thanks to recent archival discoveries.
The MAN will delve into the work of the architect for the first time, underlining the contribution offered in the construction of the architectural and urban identity of Odessatogether with the fascinating human and artistic story suspended between the legend of his birth on the island and the real Swiss Ticino origins, fertile ground for many architects who later grew up in Italy and in its centers of academic culture, strongly linked to the discipline of design.
On display are drawings, plans, and a scale model that reconstructs the development of the city. Starting from his symbolic work.
INFO: Nuoro, MAN Museum, until 23 June.
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The music of art
Luigi Magnani – owner of the beautiful residence that houses this exhibition – was an art historian but also a composer and musicologist. This is also where the idea of Happy Casorati. The painting concert.
Felice Casorati, “The young ladies”, 1912 (2022 © Photographic Archive – Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Ca’ Pesaro International Gallery of Modern Art © Felice Casorati, by SIAE 2023).
Over 60 works that bear witness to the artist’s creative evolution and musical sensibility which has «marked his biography, culture and painting» which emerges in works such as Beethoven, Concert, Portrait of Maestro Alfredo Casella.
Others testify to the role of the female figure in the portraits (Sister Elvira, The heiresses), the nudes, and in a key painting such as The young ladies. Also present are the still lifes and sketches of the sets for La Scala.
INFO: Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma), Magnani Rocca Foundation, until 2 July.
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