On Sunday 21 January choose to visit a Museum, with Musei in Festa and more

Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Castello di Rivoli

We move to Piedmont, to the Turin area to remember the exhibition dedicated to one of the greatest living contemporary artists: Michelangelo Pistoletto. Molti di uno. Set up in the spaces of the Manica Lunga, until 25 February 2024, the exhibition project reinvents the orthogonal architecture of the Manica Lunga transforming it into an astonishing harmonious tangle, an irregular and free urban device through which to collect and reread all its art in a gigantic self-portrait that functions as a map of an ideal city of the future. The exhibition unfolds among 29 Uffizi, communicating with each other and interconnected through a series of doors, bearing the indication of the specific activity on the architrave. The shape of the doors reflects the Segno Arte. Conceived by the artist in 1976.

Michelangelo Pistoletto. QR-Code possession - Autoritratto, 2019-2023. Foto Damiano Andreotti. Courtesy Cittadellarte e Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino

Pistoletto is among the artists who have redefined the concept of art since the mid-sixties of the last century through Arte Povera. Famous for his mirror paintings - the first date back to 1962 - in which the beholder and the world enter into his work.

On the occasion of the exhibition, the spaces of the Library and the CRRI Research Center of the Castello di Rivoli host a special reading room dedicated to Michelangelo Pistoletto. The room brings together a wide selection of over 170 publications, books and monographic catalogs that trace the artist's production from his beginnings to the present.

For all the information on using the exhibition read here.

Florence, the Museo Novecento and Anish Kapoor at Palazzo Strozzi

Speaking of great contemporary international artists, we cannot help but remember the exhibition Anish Kapoor. Untrue Unreal, which can be visited at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence for just two more weeks. For residents in the Florence area who have not already done so, an opportunity not to be missed to get to know one of the most influential artists in the entire contemporary international artistic panorama up close.

Anish Kapoor, Svayambhu, 2007 Photo: Dave Morgan. © Anish Kapoor. All rights reserved SIAE, 2023

Alternatively, last day of opening is Sunday 21 January, for the exhibition Viaggio di Luce. Claudio Parmiggiani / Abel Herrero, which brings together for the first time the works of Claudio Parmiggiani and Abel Herrero in the space in the Carriage Gallery of Palazzo Medici Riccardi. The exhibition presents Parmiggiani's boats painted with pure pigments, in dialogue with the large monochrome canvases of equally chromatic purity signed by Abel Herrero. Project promoted by Museo Novecento, which represents another visit alternative for next Sunday, with its various ongoing exhibitions: find them here.

MAXXI and other exhibitions in Rome

After Gabriele Basilico at the Triennale, another great contemporary Italian photographer is the protagonist of museum exhibitions, this time at the MAXXI in Rome. We are referring to the exhibition Mimmo Jodice. Mediterraneo, which presents shots belonging to projects dedicated to Mediterranean culture and archaeology, which begin with an initial exploration of the area closest to him (Paestum, Neapolis, Pompeii, Cuma, Baia) and then extend to the Mare Nostrum - from Greece to Tunisia , from Jordan to Libya – to museums around the world.

Mimmo Jodice, Atleta della Villa dei Papiri, 1986 © Mimmo Jodice

In addition to the exhibition dedicated to Mimmo Jodice, by visiting the Maxxi you can explore other interesting proposals, from the one dedicated to Jacovitti, to the exhibition featuring the great designer and architect Alvar Aalto, in the projects created together with his two wives, Aino Marsio and Elissa Mäkiniemi, continuing with Jannis Kounellis. Night, dedicated to the character deeply connected to theater and performative actions that runs through Jannis Kounellis' entire research.

Gallerie d'Italia in Naples, between classic and contemporary

We move to beautiful Naples to remember two exhibitions set up in this period in the Neapolitan headquarters of the Intesa Sanpaolo Galleries. The first is dedicated to the Viennese painter Joseph Rebell and the lively and vibrant cultural atmosphere of the city of Naples in the years from 1808 to 1815: Napoli al tempo di Napoleone. Rebell e la luce del Golfo. On display are 73 works from important national and international cultural institutions, such as the Belvedere of Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna, the Austrian National Library, the Castle of Fontainebleau and Versailles. as well as from the Intesa Sanpaolo collection. The French Decade was a very flourishing period for landscape painting, particularly during the reign of Joachim Murat and Caroline Bonaparte, who called to their court French masters of the genre, such as Simon Denis, Alexadre Dunouy, Auguste de Forbin, and reserved special protection to the Viennese Joseph Rebell, who, alongside other innovators of landscape painting of those years, is the great protagonist of the exhibition.

Contemporary art lovers, however, cannot miss the exhibition Vitalità del Tempo, a renewed exhibition itinerary dedicated to twentieth-century works from the Group's collections, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero.

Vitalità del tempo, Gallerie d'Italia - Napoli

The new exhibition offers a selection of 44 works dating from the post-war period to the contemporary, with artists on display who will vary over time, until 21 June 2024. From the 1950s and the Informal, moving on to Italian Pop imagery, up to Arte Povera and contemporary. On display therefore not only masterpieces, but also lesser-known works, emblematic of the artistic research of Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Alberto Burri, Bice Lazzari, Titina Maselli, Carol Rama, Alighiero Boetti, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Domenico Gnoli, Sol LeWitt, Jannis Kounellis , Robert Rymane.

In addition to the cities and museums mentioned here, don't forget to search for the exhibition or event that's right for you among the almost 500 published proposals, including exhibitions and events, ongoing or scheduled!