The exhibitions not to miss in 2023 are happening all over Italy.
From the landscapes of the English countryside painted by John Constable on display in Turin to the exhibition on Caravaggio in Naples.
Below we tell you about them.
John Constable at the Venaria Reale in Turin until February 5, 2023
Arriving at the Venaria Reale in Turin, until February 5, 2023, John Constable.
An English artist who, along with Turner, is the leading figure of Romantic painting.
The John Constable exhibition narrates and chronologically retraces the entire artistic journey of the famous painter through works from the Tate, UK.
The English museum possesses the most important collection of Constable’s works in the world. The exhibition in Turin includes landscapes, drawings, watercolors, engravings, and portraits. After this stop at the Reggia di Venaria, the works will return to London and will not be visible outside of England for a long time.
The exhibition includes about sixty works, starting from sketches and small paintings created en plein air, to the most important and expansive Romantic landscapes, such as the view of Stratford Mill, or the views depicting places familiar to the painter like Dedham Vale in Suffolk. Constable never strays far from England, which he loved deeply, and depicts its Nature in a picturesque light.
A warm, reassuring nature that evokes places associated with his life and family circumstances. In the exhibition, alongside Constable, we also find contemporary artists such as Turner, John Linnell, Benjamin West, and others.
Victoria Lomasko The Last Soviet Artist at the Museo di Santa Giulia until January 8, 2023
In the exhibition spaces of the Museo di Santa Giulia in Brescia, the solo exhibition of the dissident Russian artist Victoria Lomasko is underway.
The exhibition titled Victoria Lomasko. The Last Soviet Artist, curated by Elettra Stamboulis, will be held until Sunday, January 8, 2023.
Victoria Lomasko. The Last Soviet Artist represents the third act of the research undertaken by the Brescia Museums Foundation under the curation of Elettra Stamboulis, which began in 2019 with the exhibition of Zehra Doğan, We Will Have Better Days. Works from Turkish Prisons, and continued with that of Badiucao in 2021, China Is Not Close. Works by a Dissident Artist.
Lomasko will spend a period in residence to create site-specific works, dedicated to what she has been experiencing and observing in recent months. The artistic research of Lomasko allows for a meticulous reconstruction of the social and political history of Russia from 2011 to today: from the anti-Putin protests that the artist has drawn live with an original and immediately recognizable style, to the representations of the “deep Russia”, that of the forgotten and marginalized, which have always been her favorite subjects.
Olafur Eliasson In His Time at Palazzo Strozzi until January 22, 2023
Palazzo Strozzi presents, until January 22, 2023, “Olafur Eliasson. In His Time”, the largest exhibition of Olafur Eliasson ever held in Italy.
The artist engages the Renaissance architecture in a suggestive path of historical works and new productions, including a large site-specific installation for the courtyard and a special digital art project created using VR technology, presented to the public for the first time at Palazzo Strozzi.
Palazzo Strozzi with “Olafur Eliasson. In His Time” exhibits the works of Olafur Eliasson, whose multifaceted production has encompassed installations, paintings, sculptures, photography, and moving images throughout his career.
Olafur Eliasson. In His Time is the result of the artist’s direct engagement with the spaces of Palazzo Strozzi through historical installations and new productions, which subvert perception, using the building itself as a tool to create art: windows, ceilings, corners, and walls become protagonists through interventions that employ lights, screens, mirrors, or colored filters.
The exhibition Olafur Eliasson. In Your Time questions the distinction between reality, perception, and representation.
Nunzio Meets Perugino at the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria until January 8, 2023
Nunzio Meets Perugino is an exhibition born from an idea by collector Giuseppe Cascetta and organized in collaboration with the Umbria Region and Sviluppumbria.
It will be possible to visit it until January 9, 2023.
At the Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, two sculptures by one of the leading contemporary Italian artists engage in dialogue with the Annunciation Ranieri, a masterpiece by Perugino housed within the museum’s new exhibition route.
The two works in liaison with the Perugino of the Annunciation Ranieri are one the ideal development of a curve that envelops the two figures of the painting, the other the projection of a “space,” interpreted as architecture, as landscape, as horizon in a dialogue that reflects on proportions and volumes. An eternal challenge for artists of every era.
Untitled, Nunzio, 2021, Pastel on paper
Beyond Caravaggio at the Museo Bosco di Capodimonte until January 7, 2023
The exhibition Beyond Caravaggio. A New Narrative of Painting in Naples unfolds in 24 rooms on the second floor of the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte.
It features 200 works on display, all from the museum’s permanent collections, without external loans, aiming to reignite the debate by presenting another reading of the Neapolitan ‘600, rediscovered and defined less than a century ago by art historian Roberto Longhi, according to whom the naturalism of Caravaggio would be the backbone of Neapolitan art.
The exhibition Beyond Caravaggio brings Ribera, represented in the Capodimonte collections by sacred, mythological, and still life works, to the center of the Neapolitan artistic scene.
Naples, in fact, was and is a great port city, a crossroads of Italian life and culture. In the 17th century, it had become one of the most populous megacities in the world, exerting a profound influence on European culture; its history presents itself as a rich stratigraphy, made up of different civilizations, peoples, and artistic expressions that have left traces in the artistic and monumental heritage.
