La Torre dei pomodori” dell’ex IDIT Industria di Disidratazione Isola Tressa (dettaglio) [Carlo Vigni, dalla serie L'industria della polvere, 2021] [4]
Art and Exhibitions | Calendar of major events in Tuscany and Italy
2020 - 2022 Exhibitions in Tuscany
Carlo Vigni. L’industria della polvere | Carlo Vigni. The dust industry
Santa Maria della Scala, Siena
Piazza Duomo 1 - Siena - Toscana
30 Oct 2021 - 21 Jan 2022
LEVEL 4 - Santa Maria della Scala
Curators:Carlo Nepi and Francesca Sani
La mostra, attraverso gli scatti fotografici di Carlo Vigni, consente al visitatore di accedere all’interno di una delle architetture industriali più discusse dello scorso secolo: la Torre Idit, o la Torre dei Pomodori.
'The exhibition, through the photographs of Carlo Vigni, allows the visitor to enter one of the most discussed industrial architectures of the last century: the Idit Tower.
Traditionally known as the 'Tower of tomatoes' of Isola d'Arbia, the former Idit plant (Isola Tressa Dehydration Industry) represents to all effects an example of industrial archeology.
The iron, glass and concrete silo, more than seventy meters high, stands in the center of the Via Francigena and lets observe from any panoramic point south of Siena. Representation of a great dream of economic recovery, the Idit Tower is part of the collective imagination of an Italy in recovery, ready to invest and with a far-sightedness that can challenge, sacrificing the most rooted and secular peasant culture of the Sienese countryside, even those who did not look favorably on industrial development in a territory so far away from the great entrepreneurship of northern Italy. The construction was inaugurated in 1961 but its activity ceased in 1966.
The photographic works of Carlo Vigni, exhibited until January 31, 2022, represent an opportunity to reopen the debate around the fate of that 'Tower of tomatoes' which, for better or for worse, is now part of the landscape heritage of southern Tuscany , but which raises numerous questions about the need for conservation and maintenance of its architectural skeleton, which is less and less stable and safe. '
The Tower could be a great center of Contemporary Art.
Carlo Vigni, dalla serie L'industria della polvere, 2021
American Art at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Palazzo Strozzii, Firenze
From 28 May to 29 August 2021
From 28 May to 29 August 2021 Palazzo Strozzi presents American Art 1961–2001, a major exhibition taking a new perspective on the history of contemporary art in the United States.
The exhibition brings together an outstanding selection of more than 80 works by 55 artists including Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Louise Nevelson, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Bruce Nauman, Barbara Kruger, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Kara Walker and many more.
The era of the Sixties is witnessed through works by masters such as Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman and John Baldessari, figures who became reference points for subsequent generations of artists to redefine the possibilities of art. Artists of a subsequent generation continued to address such topics as the reframing of the male gaze in the work of Cindy Sherman; the appropriation of mass-media images by artists Richard Prince and Barbara Kruger, the denunciation of the stigma of AIDS in the work of Félix González-Torres; or the disquieting narratives of Matthew Barney, whose 1999 video installation Cremaster 2 is shown for the first time in Italy.
2019 Exhibitions in Tuscany
Tony Cragg in Boboli Gardens | Firenze
Giardini Boboli, Firenze
From 05/05/2019 to 27/10/2019
Tony Cragg in Boboli Gardens
The cycle of exhibitions of contemporary sculpture in the Boboli Garden in Florence continues. New works of contemporary art have once again “invaded” the Boboli Gardens in an appealing summer exhibition. The Boboli Gardens (Italian: Giardino di Boboli) is a park in Florence, Italy, that is home to a collection of sculptures dating from the 16th through the 18th centuries, with some Roman antiquities.
Bright steel geysers stand out against the sky of Florence, bronze stalagmites of prehistoric appearance and gigantic resin flowers sprout out of the gravel and between the hedges, colossal and candid stems, hilly eruptions and elliptical shapes, colossal interweaving of imaginary fossil forests, metal flows that shake, twist and fold, caught in the last soft phase before solidify: Tony Cragg's monumental sculptures offer an unexpected dialogue, between associations and dissonances, with the orderly nature of the Boboli Gardens and the panorama of the city, between their layered, fragile and organized historical fabric and the primordial force of the sculptural material.
Tony Cragg, Object in Sculpture Garden. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Statua della Libertà della Poesia di Pio Fedi | Santa Croce, Firenze, Ellis Island, New York
Santa Croce , Firenze - Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration in New York
Replica featured in special exhibition at Ellis Island National Museum of Immigrationin New York: October 18, 2019–April 26, 2020
The restoration project is part of celebrations honoring the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Consulate in Florence and diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Tuscany—an independent state when the consulate opened.
The exhibit explores America and Italy’s ideas of liberty at the turn of the 19th century through the lens of two heroic public sculptures: Frédéric Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty (1886) and her Italian twin, Pio Fedi’s Libertà della Poesia (1883). [3]
Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy to New York, New York | sistersinliberty.com
The Opera di Santa Croce and the Friends of Florence Foundation collaborated with the Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio, to restore the Freedom of Poetry, Pio Fedi’s (1816–1892) tunning monument to Giovanni Battista Niccolini (1782–1861), a poet, playwright, and statesman during Italy’s unification (or Risorgimento) in the 19th century.
There are visible similaritiesbetweenTheFreedom of Poetry, unveiled in 1883, and Liberty Enlightening the World(better known as the Statue of Liberty) which French sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi created between 1877 and 1886. The similarities—the pose, upraised arm, crown, drapery of their robes, and their symbolic meanings—have long been the subject of critical and scholarly debate [2].
Pio Fedi, Memorial monument to the poet Giovanni Battista Niccolini (Basilica of Santa Croce, Florence). The sculpture represents the Libery of Poetry, who holds a lyre in her right hand and a laurel wreath in her left hand. The broken chain sybolizes defeated tyranny.
Sisters in Liberty: From Florence, Italy to New York, New York, Frédéric Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty (1886) and her Italian twin, Pio Fedi’s Libertà della Poesia
The Rape of Polyxena by Pio Fedi | Galleria Uffizi, Florence
Il Ratto di Polissena. Pio Fedi scultore classico negli anni di Firenze capitale
Uffizi, Sala del Camino
From 24/11/2018 to 10/03/2019
The Uffizi Galleries present the new acquisition of a terracotta sketch for the Rape of Polissena, a monumental group made of marble by the sculptor Pio Fedi and exhibited in the nearby Loggia della Signoria.
In May 1865, in conjunction with the inauguration in Piazza Santa Croce of the statue of Dante Alighieri, the sculptor Pio Fedi unveiled to the public the colossal marble group of the Rape of Polissena in his studio in via de 'Serragli, in the Oltrarno della city. In fact, the artist decided to open the doors of his atelier to the citizens during the evening hours, presenting the large sculpture, illuminated with only the dim light of candles, together with the preparatory sketches in terracotta and plaster in order to illustrate the process of the ideational and creative process of the masterpiece.
The exhibition Il Ratto di Polissena - Pio Fedi classical sculptor in the years of Florence Capital, curated by Simonella Condemi and Elena Marconi, aims to evoke that evocative setting desired by the artist: thus, in the cozy and refined environment of the Sala del Camino, a frame the recently acquired model, five more of his clay sketches will be exhibited, as evidence of a still embryonic executive phase, or the "birth of the idea", on the way to the final realization in marble, corresponding to the "resurrection of the sculpture ”, As well as some preparatory drawings for the marble group.
Pio Fedi, Neottolemo rapisce Polissena da Ecuba, 1855 - 1865, Piazza della Signoria, Loggia dei Lanzi
2018 Exhibitions in Tuscany
Piero della Francesca, La seduzione della pospettiva | Sansepolcro
Museo Civico, Sansepolcro
Piero della Francesca, La seduzione della pospettiva
Museo Civico, Sansepolcro
25 marzo 2018-6 gennaio 2019
La Resurrezione è un affresco che Piero della Francesca (nato a Sansepolcro nel 1416 o 1417, e morto nella sua città il 12 ottobre 1492, il giorno della scoperta dell’America da parte di Cristoforo Colombo) eseguì nel periodo compreso fra il 1450 e il 1463 quando l’artista era impegnato ad Arezzo nelle Storie della Vera Croce. L’affresco, di dimensioni di poco superiori ai due metri per due, è collocato in una delle sale dell’attuale Museo Civico che all’epoca era il Palazzo del Governo della città.
David Lazzaretti, il Messia dell’Amiata - Cimeli e documenti
Castello aldobrandesco di Arcidosso
31 luglio 2017 - 31 agosto 2018
Per informazioni: Pro loco Arcidosso: 0564 968084
La mostra David Lazzaretti, il Messia dell'Amiata - Cimeli e documenti è organizzata dal Comune di Arcidosso in collaborazione con il Centro Studi David Lazzaretti e fa parte di un progetto condiviso con il Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari – Museo delle Civiltà di Roma. Gli oggetti e i documenti esposti provengono dalle collezioni e dai fondi del Centro Studi David Lazzaretti, del Museo Nazionale delle Arti e Tradizioni Popolari e dell'Archivio di Stato di Grosseto.
La mostra rimarrà allestita fino all’agosto 2018, data del 140° anniversario della morte di Lazzeretti, ucciso il 18 agosto 1878 da un soldato durante una manifestazione proprio ad Arcidosso.
Davide Lazzaretti
Davide Lazzaretti on the top of Monte Labbro
MIRÒ E MARINO. I colori del Mediterraneo
Palazzo del Tau, Pistoia
16 Settembre 2017 - 07 Gennaio 2018
Pistoia, Palazzo del Tau
Corso Silvano Fedi, 30
Pistoia, Toscana
Come compendio alla mostra Marino Marini. Passioni Visive, dove viene messa visivamente a confronto l’opera scultorea di Marino con i capolavori che hanno influenzato la sua produzione artistica, la Fondazione Marini ha deciso di dare rilievo al lato pittorico dell’artista pistoiese nella sede del Museo Marino Marini al Palazzo del Tau con una mostra dal titolo “Mirò e Marino. I colori del Mediterraneo” che avrà luogo dal 16 settembre 2017 al 7 gennaio 2018.
La pittura e il colore per Marino erano di fondamentale importanza e ne è testimonianza la ricca collezione di tele e tempere presenti nel Museo che l’artista ha voluto donare alla sua città natale.
“Riteniamo fondamentale – afferma Maria Teresa Tosi, Direttore della Fondazione Marini – che l’opera di Marino dialoghi con le opere di altri artisti suoi contemporanei. Pensando alla pittura, il nostro pensiero è subito caduto su Mirò, perché pur distanziandosi per temi e approcci, la grande affinità linguistica li rende vicini nell’esprimere la vitalità e la gioia di vivere attraverso l’uso del colore. Mirò e Marino, inoltre, erano anche amici, come testimonia la corrispondenza presente nei nostri archivi e che sarà esposta in mostra”.
KENGIRO AZUMA. Sculture
Palazzo del Tau, Pistoia
22 Ottobre 2017 - 26 Novembre 2017
Pistoia, Palazzo del Tau
Corso Silvano Fedi, 30
Pistoia, Toscana
Events
Waiting for the end | Aspettando la fine della mostra
March 17—19, 2017
On the occasion of its reopening, the Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art presents the exhibition The End of the World, curated by director Fabio Cavallucci. The Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci intends to be Tuscany’s contemporary art museum.
Siena | Bellezza Ferita: Norcia, Earth Heart Art Quake
La Speranza rinasce dai capolavori della città di San Benedetto
Siena, Cripta sotto il Duomo e Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala
23 dicembre 2016 – 29 ottobre 2017
Until October 29, 2017, Duomo of Siena
A seguito del sisma che il 26 e 30 ottobre 2016 ha colpito Norcia e il territorio circostante, la Protezione Civile, il Corpo Nazionale Vigili del Fuoco, il Comando Carabinieri per la Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale e la Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio dell'Umbria, insieme con l’Ufficio Beni Culturali dell’Archidiocesi di Spoleto-Norcia, hanno provveduto alla messa in sicurezza delle opere d’arte del territorio.
Alcuni di questi capolavori, ricoverati nei depositi, saranno nuovamente mostrati al pubblico per raccontare la “ferita” subita dal patrimonio culturale della zona di Norcia. Le opere saranno infatti ospitate dalla città di Siena e protette all’interno della “Cripta” sotto il Duomo e nel percorso del Santa Maria della Scala.
Nel segno di Roberto Longi: Piero della Francesca e Caravaggio
Museo Civico Sansepolcro, Via Niccolò Aggiunti, 65
February 12th – June 4th, 2017
Opening hours
February 12th - June 9th: from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
June 10th - September 17th: from 10 am.. to 1.30 p.m. and from 2.30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
September 18th - November 5th: from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2.30 p.m. to 6 p.m
On February 11th, the exhibition spaces of the Sansepolcro Civic Museum will host the opening of the exhibition "Nel segno di Roberto Longhi. Piero della Francesca e Caravaggio". This event is just the beginning of a rich season, which will continue with the exhibition “Luca Pacioli. Tra Piero della Francesca e Leonardo”, opening in June. Thus, from February to November a visit to the museum will be an opportunity to admire the link between important works by different masters of Italian art and similar works by Piero della Francesca.
The exhibition – curated by Maria Cristina Bandera – presents a new comparison between Caravaggio and Piero della Francesca. At a first glance this comparison might seem risky. But the reasons are easy to understand looking at the two artists, so far and so different from each other, under the spotlight of Roberto Longhi; both were studied and "rediscovered" by the great art historian during his educational years.
Roberto Longhi (1890-1970) was one of the most fascinating characters of the XX century art history. He carried out pivotal studies about Caravaggio, Piero della Francesca and other artists, in an essay he called "Officina Ferrarese".
In 1927, Longhi wrote a fundamental monograph about Piero della Francesca, preceded by the 1914 sharp essay “Piero dei Franceschi e lo sviluppo della pittura veneziana”. This essay was crucial for a new interpretation of the painter born in Borgo Santo Sepolcro, who is seen by the art historian not only in the light of his Florence “ancestry”, but also, and especially, of his Venetian “progeny”, Antonello da Messina and Giovanni Bellini. The exhibition opens with the magnificent Polyptych of the Misericordia, recently exhibited with a great success at Palazzo Marino in Milan, and then brought back to its original place in the Sansepolcro Civic Museum.
The next exhibition, dedicated to Luca Pacioli tra Piero della Francesca e Leonardo, which will be opened to the public from June, 10th to November, 5th, will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the death of the great mathematician. Among other masterpieces, a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci - normally hosted in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan - will be exposed, near a painting of his pupil, Giampietrino, granted by the Poldi Pezzoli Museum.
Piero della Francesca, Polyptych of the Misericordia, 1444-1465, tecnica mista su tavola, 273x330 cm, Museo Civico, Sansepolcro
LEILA ALAOUI / KADER ATTIA / NEDKO SOLAKOV
Feb 18 to April 23, Galleria Continua
Leila Alaoui has just died recently on January 18th. The 33 year old photojournalist was shot in a terrorist attack in Burkina Faso while working on a visual campaign about womens rights for Amnesty International.
Bill Viola Electronic Renaissance | Palazzo Strozzi
March 10 to July 23, Palazzo Strozzi
Una grande mostra che celebra il maestro indiscusso della videoarte contemporanea in dialogo con i capolavori del Rinascimento.
Non perdere "Bill Viola. Rinascimento elettronico" a Palazzo Strozzi dal 10 marzo al 23 luglio 2017
From 10 March to 23 July 2017 the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi will be introducing the Florentine public to Bill Viola. Electronic Renaissance, a significant exhibition celebrating this unchallenged master of video art.
A single, comprehensive exhibition occupying both the Piano Nobile and the Strozzina will immerse you in space, music and sound as you track the career of this artist from his early experimental work in the 1970s right up to his monumental installations of the 21st century.
Mostra "Bill Viola. Rinascimento elettronico"
Master of Kitsch Jan Fabre in Florence
Works by multidisciplinary Belgian Master of Kitsch Jan Fabre are now in Florence for Spiritual Guards, an exhibition taking place in piazza della Signoria, Palazzo Vecchio and Forte di Belvedere until 2 October 2016. The sculptures serve an ornamental and decorative purpose rather than amounting to a work of true artistic merit.
To avoid.
ROSSO FIORENTINO. ROSSO VIVO.
La Deposizione, la Storia, il ‘900, il Contemporaneo
A cura di Vittorio Sgarbi
23 maggio 2014 > 31 dicembre 2015
Scultori e pittori saranno esposti presso gli spazi di Palazzo dei Priori, Pinacoteca Civica, Museo Etrusco Guarnacci, Battistero di San Giovanni, Teatro Romano, Ecomuseo dell'Alabastro e si alterneranno nel corso dell’esposizioni: questo darà vita a un continuo rinnovamento dell’iniziativa, che vedrà eventi dedicati continui. Fino al 31 dicembre 2015 questo grande omaggio a Rosso Fiorentino, la più originale e spettacolare manifestazione mai dedicata al grande maestro nato a Firenze nel 1495, sarà visibile con un solo biglietto valido per tutti i luoghi, la Volterra Card, che permetterà a ogni visitatore di godere della sorprendente esposizione diffusa per la Città.
ORARIO ESTIVO dal 9 marzo al 1 novembre 2015
Pinacoteca Civica:
Tutti i giorni 9.00 – 19.00 Ecomuseo dell’Alabastro:
Tutti i giorni 9.30 – 19.00 Battistero di san Giovanni:
Tutti i giorni 10.00 – 18.00 Palazzo dei Priori:
Tutti i giorni 10.30 – 17.30 Museo Etrusco Guarnacci:
Tutti i giorni 9.00 – 19.00 Teatro Romano:
Tutti i giorni 10.30 – 17.30
(la biglietteria chiude un’ora prima)
Rosso Fiorentino, Deposition, 1521, oil on wood. Pinacoteca Comunale di Volterra
Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Madonna col Bambino tra San Pietro, San Paolo, una Santa martire e San Michele Arcangelo (particolare), tempera su tavola, Siena, Chiesa di San Pietro in Castelvecchio. (Foto Marcello Formichi, Soprintendenza Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Siena, Grosseto e Arezzo, 2015)
Art in Tuscany
| The guide to the art and towns of Tuscany
Tuscany has an immense cultural and artistic heritage, expressed in the region's numerous churches, palaces, art galleries, museums, villages and piazzas. Much of these artifacts are found in the main cities, such as Florence and Siena, but also in smaller villages scattered around the region, such as San Gimignano, Pienza, Chiusi, Massa Marittima and many others. Tuscany has some of the very best art galleries in the world. These include the Uffizi Gallery, the Bargello Museum and Santa Croce Museum.
Mediaeval era and the Renaissance is the epoch which also left the enormous quantity of art masterpieces in Tuscany. Tuscany is known for its beautiful landscapes, its rich artistic legacy and vast influence on high culture. Tuscany is widely regarded as the true birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, and has been home to some of the most influential people in the history of arts and science, such as Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Sandro Botticelli, Raffaello Santi, Giotto, Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgio Vazari and many others and Puccini. Due to this, the region has several museums, most of which (such as the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace) are found in Florence, but others in towns and smaller villages.
[1] Source:press release Piero della Francesca. Indagine su un mito | www.mostrefondazioneforli.it [2] Source: Santa Croce and the Friends of Florence complete restoration of Freedom of Poetry, Pio Fedi's Monument to Giovanni Battista Niccolini | Friends of Florence | Press Release [3] Ellis Island: Finally Lady Liberty Meets her Italian Twin “Libertà della Poesia” | www.lavocedinewyork.com [4] Source:press release Santa Maria della Scala, Siena | www.santamariadellascala.com
Residencies for writers and translatorsin Toscany | Podere Santa Pia
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Podere Santa Pia
Podere Santa Pia, garden view, December
The Maremma and isola Montecristo, view from Santa Pia
Podere Santa Pia, con una vista indimenticabile sulla Maremma Toscana.
La terrazza è esposta a Sud per cui dalla mattina al pomeriggio è sempre colpita dal sole, tuttavia ci sono zone ombreggiate grazie agli alberi circostanti.