Autumn has arrived! This means the final farewell to the summer heat and the welcome to pumpkins, chestnuts and colorful landscapes of all shades of yellow and red. Autumn is also the month of exhibitions, which open more and more in the many city museums and galleries (to which we have dedicated a special article on the occasion of the Photofestival 2021 ).
Many exhibitions already scheduled, extended until winter, due to the months lost during the second lockdown: among the most awaited exhibitions certainly the one dedicated to the Disney world at Mudec and the great monographic on the father of Impressionism, Claude Monet at the Royal Palace , with 150 works from the Marmottan Museum in Paris.
Mudec
TINA MODOTTI. Women, Mexico and freedom (May 1 – November 7, 2021)
After so many postponements, the exhibition dedicated to the photographer Tina Modotti , reckless adventurer who in the 1950s told about Mexico and its contradictions, finally arrives at Mudec . His short life (he died at the age of 46) was lived in the service of causes such as freedom and the denunciation of the conditions of extreme poverty of the population of Latin America. Tina Modotti has become a symbol of South America in struggle, together with her friend and lover Frida Kahlo and the poet Pablo Neruda, who dedicated her famous verses.
Tickets:
- Full € 14
- Reduced € 12
- Special reduced € 8
- Children from 6 to 13 years € 8
- Children aged 4 to 5 € 5
- Children under 4 free
Disney. The art of telling stories (2 September 2021 – 13 February 2022)
The exhibition consists of precious original works from the Disney Archives of these immortal feature films and other famous films from Walt Disney Animation Studios.
The exhibition tells the masterpieces of Walt Disney, tracing the stories back to the ancient matrices of epic tradition: it is the myths, medieval legends and folklore, fables and fairy tales that have constituted the narrative heritage of the different cultures of the world for centuries. From these traditions derive the most famous stories from which the Disney films have been drawn and are presented in a narrative key through the exhibition of the preparatory sketches of creative research, focused on the exploration of characters, settings and narrative plots.
Tickets:
- Full € 14
- Reduced € 12
- Special reduced € 8
- Children from 6 to 13 years € 8
- Children aged 4 to 5 € 5
- Children under 4 free
Museum of the twentieth century
Mario Sironi. Summary and grandeur (23 July 2021 – 27 March 2022)
One hundred and ten works on display reconstruct the entire artistic career of Mario Sironi: from the youthful symbolist season to the adhesion to Futurism; from his original interpretation of metaphysics in 1919 to the classical moment of the Italian twentieth century; from the expressionist crisis of 1929-30 to the monumental painting of the 1930s; until the Second World War and the Apocalypse painted shortly before his death.
The exhibition does not stop at the Museo del Novecento, but also extends to the Boschi Di Stefano House Museum and plans to expand to the Sironian legacies in Milan, from the Information Building to the Court up to the Triennale. A way to get the exhibition out of conventional spaces and open a dialogue with the city and its historical and artistic memory, as a true crossroads of contemporary art of the twentieth century.
Tickets:
- Full: € 10
- Reduced: € 8 (Adults aged 65 and over, young people aged 18 to 25, university students and academies of fine arts, employees of the municipal administration)
- Special reduced: € 5 (Young people aged 13 to 17, first and third Tuesday of the month after 2 pm, with combined ticket (admission to the Civic Museums for three days), accredited scholars with permission from the Museum Management, officials of the State Superintendencies and peripheral bodies of the Ministry)
- Free admission for children up to 12 years of age, teachers accompanying school groups (max. 4 per class), school groups accompanied by the teacher up to grade II, tourist guides and interpreters (by showing a valid license), disabled people and a companion , accredited journalists with permission from the Museum Management, holders of the Lombardia Milan Museums Subscription, ICOM members, with Coupon Esselunga, AMACI members, with Coupon Sironi
Royal Palace
Claude Monet. Works from the Musée Marmottan in Paris (18 September 2021 – 30 January 2022)
The Musée Marmottan Monet is the institution that holds the largest collection of Monet’s works, from which 50 paintings have been selected to propose an in-depth study on the theme of the reflection of light and its changes in the work of the father of Impressionism. Among the works exhibited numerous masterpieces, including On the beach of Trouville , Walk to Argenteuil , The Parliament. Reflections on the Thames , Charing Cross and the Water Lilies. A naturalistic focus on water lilies will be created at the Civic Aquarium .
Curated by Marianne Mathieu
Tickets:
- Full € 14
- Reduced € 12
- Lombardy Museums and Orticola Members € 10
- Special reduced € 6
- Family ticket: 1 or 2 adults € 10 / children aged 6 to 14 € 6 / free for children under 6
Tullio Pericoli. Fragments (13 October 2021 – 9 January 2022)
The exhibition aims to be a point of reflection and a tribute to the great career of Tullio Pericoli , an artist with a fruitful and multifaceted activity, whose works have found acceptance in exhibitions, pages of newspapers, volumes, commissions. An activity that in the last twenty years has focused on the landscape, but one cannot fail to remember his portraits of cultural figures, published all over the world and his forays into the theater, with the staging of works for the Opernhaus in Zurich and the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
A particularly complex project in several respects, including the number of works – over 150, ranging from 1977 to 2021 – an impressive collection that contains a large part of the artist’s latest production, which is inscribed in his always active reflection on the landscape.
Do not miss the room dedicated to portraits : faithful and at the same time transfigured physiognomies; a sort of assembly of the most important figures on the international cultural scene, friends, colleagues, inspirers. An important, unique exhibition, a dutiful homage from the city of Milan to an artist who for fifty years has decided to belong to it.
Curated by Michele Bonuomo
Magical Realism (October 19, 2021 to February 27, 2022)
A new look at the Movement, a new interpretation that, thirty years after the last Milanese exhibition on the subject curated by Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco in 1986, Palazzo Reale once again offers the public a unique opportunity to focus on a historical-artistic period – the one between the two wars – which has suffered a damnatio memoriae for a long time, but which in recent years has first been the subject of a gradual rediscovery through monographic studies on individual artists who have managed to keep it alive. interest and now the subject of a real development trend.
The chronological-philological path revolves around Italian masterpieces of this specific climate, in turn related to some works of the Neue Sachlickheit, the so-called German “New Objectivity”, which Emilio Bertonati was the first to promote and made known to Italian culture at the beginning of the Sixties through the Galleria del Levante, in the Milan and Munich offices. The comparisons will also be with the characters of the Novecento Italiano by Margherita Sarfatti, from which Magic Realism stands out, but with whom it shares some artistic personalities such as Achille Funi, Mario Sironi, Ubaldo Oppi.
On display are the highly original works of Felice Casorati , such as the Portrait of Silvana Cenni of 1922, as well as the first metaphysical inventions of Giorgio de Chirico such as The self-portrait and the October 1924, but also the proposals of Carlo Carrà , with The daughters of Loth of 1919, and Gino Severini with his card players; all offer an original and all-Italian “return to order”.
Curated by Gabriella Belli and Valerio Terraroli
Tickets:
- Full € 14
- Reduced € 12
- Lombardy Museums and Orticola Members € 10
- Special reduced € 6
- Family ticket: 1 or 2 adults € 10 / children aged 6 to 14 € 6 / free for children under 6
Sforza Castle Museums
The body and the soul, from Donatello to Michelangelo. Italian Renaissance sculpture (21 July – 24 October 2021)
The exhibition, in collaboration with the Louvre Museum, is dedicated to Italian Renaissance sculpture, from Donatello to Michelangelo. The exhibition aims to highlight, through sculpture, in dialogue with the other arts (painting, drawings, art objects), the main themes that run through Italian art in the second half of the fifteenth century, up to the time of apogee of the Renaissance, with one of the greatest creators of the history of art: Michelangelo.
Curated by Marc Bormand, Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi, Francesca Tasso
Tickets:
- Full € 5
- Reduced € 3
PAC – Contemporary Art Pavilion
Re-Shots. Until I disappear (15 – 24 October 2021)
Nine girls and a boy suffering from diseases of eating disorders are the protagonists of the new RI-SCATTI project entitled Up to make me disappear , an exhibition, scheduled from 15 to 24 October 2021, conceived and organized by the PAC Pavilion d ‘ Contemporary Art of Milan and by RISCATTI Onlus – the voluntary association that has been carrying out social redemption projects through photography since 2014.
Curated by PAC conservator Diego Sileo, the exhibition is an unfiltered journey into the lives of a group of young people who are trying to react to a disease that has driven their bodies to exasperation. One hundred photographs show the experiences of Alessandra, Alessia, Anna, Emanuela, Emanuele, Federica, Giulia, Sofia, Silvia and Teresa who, after a three-month workshop carried out under the guidance of Amedeo Novelli – soul of Ri-scatti together with Stefano Corso and Federica Balestrieri – found the courage and strength to tell their stories of suffering, discomfort, fear, in which the idea of being able to control the stimulus of hunger and being able to live without food become objectives to be pursued in order to cancel one’s physicality and limit one’s presence, in a desperate attempt to want to disappear.
Curated by Diego Sileo
Free admission
Prada Foundation
Domenico Gnoli (28 October 2021 – 27 February 2022)
The exhibition is presented as a retrospective that brings together more than 100 works created by Domenico Gnoli (Rome, 1933 – New York, 1970) from 1949 to 1969 and as many drawings. A chronological and documentary section with historical materials, photographs and other testimonies helps to reconstruct the biographical and artistic path of Gnoli more than fifty years after his death. The research underlying the project was developed in collaboration with the artist’s archives in Rome and Mallorca, custodians of Gnoli’s personal and professional history.
Curated by Germano Celant
Tickets:
- Single price: 12 €
Galleries of Italy
Jeff Koons. Gazing Ball (Centaur and Lapith Maiden), 2013 (September 14 – November 7, 2021)
On the occasion of the Jeff Koons. Shine of Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, the Gallerie d’Italia hosts Gazing Ball (Centaur and Lapith Maiden), 2013 , the impressive work of the American artist who has revolutionized the international art system from the mid-1970s to today.
The sculpture exhibited in Milan belongs to the famous Gazing Ball series , in which Koons places shiny blue glass spheres on faithful reproductions of famous works, creating an element of continuity between different stylistic genres and cultural histories.
In particular, Gazing Ball (Centaur and Lapith Maiden), 2013 belongs to the series dedicated to classical statuary, in which the artist replicates famous sculptural groups – placed on monumental pedestals – modeled in a white plaster specially designed by Koons’ studio, on which the blue blown glass spheres are supported. In this work the mirroring sphere is placed on the plaster cast of a grandiose marble sculpture, part of the western pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia in Greece, depicting the struggle between a centaur and a Lapite woman.
The episode, taken from the Greek myth of the battle between Centaurs and Lapiths, is one of the most popular subjects in the history of classical and Renaissance art, a symbol of the struggle between order and chaos, civilization and barbarism. For the cast Koons used a nineteenth-century one already part of a collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Tickets:
- Full: € 5
- Reduced: € 3
- Free admission for affiliates, schools, children under 18, customers of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group
Additional degrees of freedom, in the city that resists (10 September – 7 November 2021)
Gallerie d’Italia in Milan present the exhibition by Francesca Leone Further degrees of freedom, in the city that resists , an exploration of the artist’s most significant works in dialogue with some works from the Intesa Sanpaolo collection.
Francesca Leone uses every detail to lay the foundations of an architecture that builds “brick by brick” or, considering the standard material of her interventions, “sheet on sheet”. A further architecture in that it takes into account the reality we live in, but without resigning ourselves to it.
Leone’s research explores the value of architecture (metaphor of History) as a plural experience , the result of a negotiation between opposing dynamics and interests from which the multiplicity of the many individual stories emerges. The collective function of the public space is integrated with the singular function of the domestic space. The daily use of the community that interprets it intervenes on the utopia of the project (architectural or political). And every vision of progress carries the fate of rejection. For this reason, in the artist’s works, the construction never results in destruction but the resistance with which each element interpenetrates into the other.
Among the six cast iron columns present in the Sala delle Colonne, where the exhibition is set up, the artist insinuates a sheet metal wall, the main work of the exhibition : the artist composes an unexpected intention that defines an architecture in the architecture, mobile and curvilinear as in the Berninian or Borrominian Baroque, which transforms an internal volume into an external environment.
Tickets:
- Full: € 5
- Reduced: € 3
- Free admission for affiliates, schools, children under 18, customers of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group
Pirelli Hangar Bicocca
Breath Ghosts Blind (15 July 2021 – 22 February 2022)
The huge spaces of the Hangar Bicocca in Milan will host the Breath Ghosts Blind exhibition by Maurizio Cattelan and curated by Vicente Todolì from 15 July 2021 to 20 February 2022 . This is the first solo exhibition after 11 years of absence from Milan by the Paduan artist. Only three works strongly capture the great Nave and the Cube: Breath, Ghosts and Blind, which give the exhibition its title.
