Lee Miller, Helmut Newton, Dorothea Lange: exhibitions, theater and other events

Lat exhibition Lee Miller. Photographer & Surrealist it is the portrait, through her work, of a very talented photographer. And from her adventurous life: model, friend of the most important exponents of surrealism, war correspondent.

The exhibition offers around a hundred shots – to underline the surrealist gaze of his photography divided by themes: fashion, advertising, research and technical experimentation, war (from London, Paris, Buchenwald).

Of course there are also the[/firma_articolo] portraits of famous artists like Chaplin, Dora Maar, Miró, Cocteau and of course Man Ray whose muse, lover and inspiration she was.

INFO: Nichelino (Turin), Palazzina di Caccia di Stupinigi Antiche Cucine, until 7 January.
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Stars and Stripes

It is a “fresco” of the States that he painted American Beauty. From Robert Capa to Banksy.

The common thread that links the works – from Cartier-Bresson to Andy Warhol, Lauren Elie Badessi, Keith Haring, Obey – is the presence of the stars and stripes flag.

INFO: Padua, Altinate San Gaetano Cultural Center, until January 21st.
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Artists compared

The title, Dance ’12 Dorazio ’60. Where the lightrefers to a poem by Ungaretti, because the idea of ​​this exhibition is investigate how light has always been the basis for measuring the expressive capacity of an author in the art world.

Here is the comparison between two greats of the 20th century comes to life through two series of works, The iridescent interpenetrations by Giacomo Balla of 1912 and the Plots by Piero Dorazio from 1960.

Works, the first, on small notepad sheets in which Balla “studies” the anatomy of light with pencils, watercolors, tempera and shapes between the abstract and the geometric. Large panels, colored in oil, the latterwith dense intertwining of lines, empty and full, where Dorazio “weaves” a web of matter and light.

It makes the visit even more engaging the layout designed by architect Mario Botta who chose a double register to combine such different works. Dorazio’s large, colorful canvases are hung on black panels while Balla’s works “float” at the bottom of white niches, which invite you to get closer to the work to discover all its details.

INFO: Lugano (Switzerland), Gian Carlo and Danna Olgiati Collection, until 14 January. Free entry.
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A mosaic of ideas

Renata Boero, Valentina D’Accardi and Alessandro Romathree artists different in age, sensitivity and creative choices (ceramic, canvas and infusions of natural pigments) who reflect on the “relationship between nature, decoration and fragment”.

Anemones – the reference is to the vegetation that often appears in the mosaics of Ravenna – it is the exhibition that brings together the fruit of these sophisticated reflections.

INFO: Ravenna, Sabe Foundation for Art, until 16 November.
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100% Italian art

Maison Valentino renews its commitment to art in partnership with Triennale Milansponsoring one of the exhibitions that are part of the celebrations of the centenary of the cultural institution.

The exhibition Italian painting today brings together the work of 120 of the most interesting Italian artists, born between 1960 and 2000.

The exhibition itinerary highlights the richness and complexity of Italian painting in all its declinations and facetsfrom disciplinary contaminations and shifts to the rereading and distortion of traditional techniques and iconographies up to an “expanded painting” that goes beyond the support to “invade” spaces and surfaces.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, published by Electawith institutional introductions by Stefano BoeriPresident of Triennale Milano, e Pierpaolo Piccioli, Creative Director of Valentino; the critical contributions of Damiano Gullìcurator of the exhibition.

In addition to the catalogue, the exhibition will be accompanied by a podcast, produced by Triennale Milano and written and created by Tiziano Scarpawhich will delve into the themes of the exhibition itinerary.

INFO: Milan, Triennale, from 25 October 2023 to 11 February 2024.
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City shots

The exhibition Gabriele Basilico. My cities it is the first major homage that Milan, his hometown, dedicates to the photographer who passed away 10 years ago.

The exhibition is divided into two exhibition venues and proposes overall over 500 worksstarting from crossing Milan, in Triennialto look and reach the World, a Royal Palace.

INFO: Milan, Triennale until 7 January 2024; Royal Palace, until 11 February 2024.
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Photographic journey

Elegant, provocative, revolutionary. One hundred years after his birth, the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome hosts the extensive retrospective Helmut Newton. Legacycreated to celebrate the German photographer and postponed due to the pandemic.

A real journey into his adventurous life, through over 200 shots, some unpublished, magazines and documentsto tell with a new look the uniqueness and style of a protagonist of the twentieth century who described himself with these words: «My work as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain».

INFO: Rome, Ara Pacis Museum, from 18 October 2023 to 10 March 2024.
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The people’s photographer

The Civic Museums of Bassano del Grappa, in collaboration with CAMERA – Italian Center for Photography of Turin, present the exhibition Dorothea Lange. The other Americadedicated to the famous American photographer, co-founder in 1952 of Openingsthe most authoritative photographic magazine in the world e first woman photographer to whom MoMa dedicated a retrospective in 1965just a few months before his passing.

Photographer of the peoplethe people’s photographer. This is how Dorothea Lange introduced herself in her business card. Because she, bourgeois from New Jersey, had chosen not to photograph the stars or the great protagonists of her time, to focus instead on the “last” of an America that was sinking into the Great Depression.

Through a’wide selection of works from different collections which preserve the work of Dorothea Lange, the exhibition allows us to retrace the golden period of the photographer’s career from the 1930s to the Second World War.

The series never before exhibited in Italy dedicated to detention camps for Japanese-American citizens segregated following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 demonstrates the variety and depth of her research, always aimed at providing a sincere and participatory portrait of the world around her.

INFO: Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza), Civic Museums, from 27 October to 4 February 2024.
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The circularity of existence

“Liveremoire” is the theme of Encounter – The Vidas cultural festival, an association that assists the incurably ill. Two days of free performances, lessons, dialogues and workshops.

Many guests including Chiara Gamberale, Marco Aime, Stefano Mancuso, Umberto Guidoni. Saturday at Bagni Misteriosi The Festival of the Living (who reflect on death)by the Lu Cafausu collective with Cesare Pietroiusti.

INFO: Milan, Teatro Franco Parenti, 21 and 22 October.
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Lear’s parable

«A steep, rocky and corrugated mountain: from its top shrouded in dark clouds come flashes that illuminate the depths of us poor human beings». As Ferdinando Bruni and Francesco Frongia they talk about their new production of King Learof which they signed the direction, sets and costumes.

Elio De Capitani gives the old king a face and voice who decides to renounce power, the central figure of Shakespeare’s masterpiece. Mauro Berardi is Edgar, Giancarlo Previati Gloucester, Mauro Lamantia the madman, Viola Marietti Cordelia.

INFO: Milan, Teatro Elfo Puccini, from 25 October to 19 November.
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Concert event

The tribute band Pink Floyd Legend is on stage in the concert event Atom Heart Motherto the original score by English composer Ron Geesin.

INFO: Bologna, EuropAditorium Theatre, 23 October.
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