The five best exhibitions, in July, around Italy.
Ascoli Piceno, Vicenza, Florence, Treviso and Urbino: these are the cities hosting them. We will tell you the rest.
The Search for Beauty. The Cavallini Sgarbi Collection at the Palazzo dei Capitani in Ascoli Piceno until September 30, 2022
The Search for Beauty. The Cavallini Sgarbi Collection is in Ascoli Piceno, at the Palazzo dei Capitani.
It gathers the main works of the famous collection Cavallini Sgarbi aiming to create an intimate atmosphere typical of a private collection.
The exhibition is the result of the work of Vittorio Sgarbi together with his mother Rina Cavallini, who acquired the works at various auctions around the world.
The Palazzo dei Capitani hosts in its rooms numerous works, including paintings and sculptures, dating from the 15th to the 19th century, as well as terracottas by Matteo Civitali and Agostino de Fundulis, and an extraordinary collection of precious paintings dated to the late 15th century and early 16th century.
Among the artists are the painters – Boccaccio Boccaccino, Francesco Zaganelli, Giovanni Battista Benvenuti known as l’Ortolano, Nicolò Pisano, Benvenuto Tisi known as il Garofalo, and also Liberale da Verona, Jacopo da Valenza, Antonio da Crevalcore, Giovanni Agostino da Lodi, Johannes Hispanus, Bartolomeo di David, Lambert Sustris.
The Search for Beauty. The Cavallini Sgarbi Collection is realized in collaboration with the Cavallini Sgarbi Foundation, the Elisabetta Sgarbi Foundation, and the Cultural Association Culturalmente Insieme and is produced by Contemplazioni, which oversees its artistic direction.
Manuel Tolsá from the photographic perspective of Joaquín Bérchez at the Palladio Museum in Vicenza until October 16, 2022
Manuel Tolsá from the photographic perspective of Joaquín Bérchez offers a critical and visual reading of some episodes of the artistic production of Manuel Tolsá, sculptor and architect active in Spain and Mexico at the end of the 18th century and early 19th century.
The photographs of Joaquín Bérchez capture the peculiar classical environments, with sparkling fragments of stucco and moldings, architectural orders caught in the dense silences of walls, facades, and domes portrayed against the backdrop of today’s Mexico, loggias and staircases immersed in a glacial, almost hypnotic aura, all aspects that testify to the exceptional quality of the works of the Valencian artist and, at the same time, the rare ability of the photographer to reveal their plastic values to recreate entirely new images.
The shots of the photographer have been exhibited in numerous Spanish cities and in various international venues including the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute in New York, the Palladio Museum in Vicenza, the University of Palermo, the Real Academia de España in Rome, the Colegio de Minería in Mexico City, the Ducal Palace of Camerino, and the Museu de Arte Popular in Lisbon. Since 2003, his photographs have illustrated the covers of the magazine “Annali di architettura”.
Women in Balance 1955 – 1965 at the Ferragamo Museum in Florence until April 18, 2023
At the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum in Florence the exhibition “Women in Balance. 1955 – 1965“, pays tribute to the female world and particularly to Wanda Miletti Ferragamo.
Wanda Miletti Ferragamo, wife of Salvatore Ferragamo, after her husband’s death in 1960, became the intelligent and solid guide of the Salvatore Ferragamo brand. Taking on her husband’s entrepreneurial legacy, Wanda Miletti Ferragamo made a cultural choice by transforming a women’s footwear workshop into a fashion house, now carried on by her children.
The female presence in Italian history during the fifties and sixties illuminates some aspects of the country’s modernization, a process in which women are both subjects and objects at the same time.
The exhibition path is a journey towards the construction of being a woman, a result of both the historical context and personal exploration. The narrative emphasizes that women, by entering the public scene, have also chosen nuanced solutions in a constant search for new balances between work and family relationships, which can only highlight the continuous, imaginative, and extraordinary creativity that has characterized and continues to distinguish women’s lives, their choices, and a different vision of the world and life; however, there is no doubt that gender difference has acted and still acts in a thousand subtle ways, shaping behaviors, individual models, and social relationships.
Canova, Gloria Trevigiana at the Luigi Bailo Museum in Treviso until September 25, 2022
“Canova, Gloria Trevigiana” is on display in the section of the newBailo Museum dedicated entirely to the Nineteenth Century. The exhibition’s journey into the Nineteenth Century begins with the portraits of two of the “founding fathers” of the Civic Pinacoteca: Margherita Prati Grimaldi, in the luminous painting by Andrea Appiani, and Sante Giacomelli, in the portrait by Natale Schiavoni.
Margherita Prati Grimaldi donated to the Municipality of Treviso in 1851 a collection of paintings intended to form the first nucleus of the Civic Pinacoteca.
From the Giacomelli Collection come the paintings of Francesco Podesti, Ludovico Lipparini, Eugenio Moretti Larese, Odorico Politi, Michelangelo Grigoletti, Natale Schiavoni, Ippolito Caffi, Luigi Querena. “Canova, Gloria Trevigiana” also exhibits Family Group by Francesco Hayez.
In addition to the paintings, ceramics are also presented, in homage to the great Treviso manufacturers of what today we would define as design production. Further enriching the exhibition path is a selection of 30 extraordinary artistic shots of Canova by Fabio Zonta. The photographer’s interpretative ‘lens’ highlights the three-dimensionality of the works, accentuating details, subjects, and expressiveness.
Federico da Montefeltro and Francesco di Giorgio: Urbino Crossroads of the Arts at the National Gallery of the Marche until October 9, 2022
At the National Gallery of the Marche until October 9, there is the exhibition Federico da Montefeltro and Francesco di Giorgio: Urbino Crossroads of the Arts.
The exhibition is curated by Alessandro Angelini, Gabriele Fattorini, and Giovanni Russo.
There are 80 works on display from Europe and the United States: paintings, sculptures, drawings, medals, detached frescoes, and codices.
It is an interesting journey through a crucial period for both the history of Urbino and its court, as well as for the history of Italian art, which owes much to those years.
The exhibition is documented in the catalog published by Marsilio, featuring photographs, descriptions of the artworks, and texts by the three curators, the Director of the Galleria Nazionale delle Marche Luigi Gallo, and other essays.
