The exhibition Surrealism and Magic at the Guggenheim Venice

Max Ernst | Europe after the Rain II

Max Ernst, Europe after the Rain II- 1940-42. Oil on canvas, 54.8 × 147.8 cm. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin Sumner Collection Fund. Inv. 1942.281 © Max Ernst, by SIAE 2021

THE EXHIBITION SURREALISM AND MAGIC AT THE GUGGENHEIM VENICE

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice presents, from April 9 to September 26, 2022, the exhibition “Surrealism and Magic. Enchanted Modernity”.

The exhibition was to take place in 2021 but the pandemic situation has made it necessary to move the exhibition to 2022 and now it will finally be possible to admire the works of an exhibition that aims to narrate and celebrate Surrealism.

The exhibition Surrealism and Magic

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The plot of time in the works of Nadia Nespoli

Offerte di tempo | Nadia Nespoli

Nadia Nespoli, Offerte di tempo

THE PLOT OF TIME IN THE WORKS OF NADIA NESPOLI

Artist Nadia Nespoli, in 2019, entrusted incarcerated men and women with skeins of cotton yarn and asked each to make a canvas, never unraveling it while doing so.

Each of the works of art bears the name of the person who created it and constitutes one of the elements of what can be considered a true collective performance.

The artist Nadia Nespoli

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Dante at the Royal Palace: an exhibition in Naples

Tommaso de Vivo | Inferno

DANTE AT THE ROYAL PALACE: AN EXHIBITION IN NAPLES

At the end of the Dante year, Dante comes to the Royal Palace.
An exhibition in Naples dedicated to the Supreme Poet with paintings by Tommaso De Vivo on the Divine Comedy and other works made in Naples in the nineteenth century.

The exhibition takes place in the spaces of the “Galleria del Genovese”, an ancient passageway between the Palace and the San Carlo Theatre, returned to the public for the occasion.

Dante at the Royal Palace

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Photographs by Giuseppe Loy: the story of Italy

Giuseppe Loy | una certa Italia

PHOTOGRAPHS BY GIUSEPPE LOY: THE STORY OF ITALY

Forty years after his death, the Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica is hosting the first retrospective devoted to Giuseppe Loy’s photographs, curated by Chiara Agradi and Angelo Loy.

Una Certa Italia brings together more than 130 original prints, many of them previously unpublished, from the Giuseppe Loy Photographic Archive. The exhibition is the result of cataloguing and research activities in the archive of the photographer, writer and intellectual, who died prematurely in 1981.

 Photographs by Giuseppe Loy

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