mMichelangelo Pistoletto. Infinity. Contemporary art without limits it is not a traditional exhibition but a story, a long and fascinating journey through the artistic experience of the artist born in Biella in 1933. About fifty of his works and four large installations are exhibited site-specificwhich accompany the visitor on an exciting journey into the poetics and the world, the many worlds, of one of the masters of contemporary art.
“Venus of rags” (1967) by Michelangelo Pistoletto (courtesy Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation, Biella).
More than 60 years of art, almost 90 years of life. An infinite number of ways of making art, an infinite number of ways of seeing, of changing perspective, of reading reality. «A collective exhibition of a single artist», in the words of the curator Danilo Eccher.
There are mirror paintings, examples of poor art, the series of Doors Sign Artthe famous Self-portrait. Four installations reproduce, updating them, famous works such as Big sphere of newspapers, Maze, Love Difference-neon And Third Paradise.
Michelangelo Pistoletto, “Great sphere of newspapers”, 1966 – 2023 (courtesy Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation, Biella).
«In diversity I have multiplied», declares the artist. That’s why, at the Bramante Cloister, Michelangelo Pistoletto is INFINITY: because art is limitless.
INFO: Rome, Chiostro del Bramante, until 15 October.
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Michelangelo Pistoletto, “Third Paradise”, 2003 – 2023 (Courtesy Cittadellarte – Pistoletto Foundation, Biella).
In Milan (Palazzo Reale, ) instead there is Michelangelo Pistoletto. preventive peacean installation that invites the public to enter a labyrinth of cartoons through which to reach the works on display.
INFO: Milan, Palazzo Reale, Sala delle Cariatidi, until 4 June.
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Interweaving of art
In the new spaces, freshly restored, of the Great Mile of the Brescian Castle “spreads out its carpets” The knots of the Gardens of Paradise. The exhibition joins 35 magnificent artifacts of the area of the Turkestan (part of the collection donated by Romain Zaleski to Fondazione Tassara), exhibited to the public for the first time, to works by various international artists including Alighiero Boetti and Herta Ottolenghi Wedekind.
Herta Ottolenghi Wedekind, “Embroidery”, 1920s (photo by Carlo Crozzolin / courtesy Galleria Gomiero, Padua and Berardi Arte, Rome).
INFO: Castle of Brescia, until 5 November. Free admission.
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The women of Attasit
The Presence is the staff dedicated to the work of Attasit Pokpong, one of the most important and original exponents of Thai contemporary art. On display are 29 large oil paintings and 22 watercolors with women’s faces – with vivid colors and marked, essential features – an element on which the artist has concentrated in recent years. Among these, 14 new works designed for the event.
Attasit Pokpong, “My Lady with Yellow Glasses”, 2023 (© Attasit Pokpong).
INFO: Lugano (Switzerland), Musec | Museo delle Culture, until 11 June.
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Weekend among rare plants
Flowers in the Rocca await the “green thumbs” and gardening lovers with rare plants, flowers, the latest in outdoor décor and a space dedicated to children. The gardening market exhibition is hosted from 14 to 16 April in the historic setting of the fifteenth-century Rocca di Lonato del Garda (Brescia).
In addition to the many industry experts offering the new products, there will be the opportunity to participate in meetings, watercolor lessons, admire plant art installations and forms created by flower designer Fabio Racheli. And so much more.
INFO: Lonato del Garda (BS), Rocca Viscontea Veneta, until 16 April.
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Bodies and colors
A week of performances, open rehearsals and workshops with Jacopo Godani and the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. Opens installation-performance Framing Reality that mixes moving bodies, light and color.
The project includes a one-week artistic residency, in which – in addition to the shows – i the company’s dancers will be engaged in two days of open workshops to dance students and anyone wishing to learn more about Jacopo Godani’s work and his way of innovating contemporary dance.
Continue with Premonitions of a Larger Planto close with the gala Anthology – Portrait of an Artistwith the most important works of the dancer from La Spezia.
INFO: La Spezia, Civic Theater, from 18 to 22 April.
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Time travel
The relationship between the photographer Mario Cresci and the region began in 1990 with his participation in a project dedicated to that territory. Thirty years later here Mon cher Abbe Bionaz! Mario Cresci for the Aosta Valleywhere on the one hand the photographer digitally reworks the shots of the writer, hiker and photographer Émile Bionaz, parish priest of Saint-Nicolas for a long time, on the other he creates a tribute to the territory and material culture.
From the series “Mon cher Abbé Bionaz!” (2023) by Mario Cresci (© Mario Cresci Archive).
INFO: Chatillon (Aosta), Cret-de-Breil. Castello Gamba, until 18 June.
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