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Archive for November, 2009
Gianfranco Biagini “Works from 1969 to 2009″ – Livorno – from 30 October 2009 to November 22, 2009
Nov 2009
Livorno, 29 October 2009 – This is just a reality colors “(borrowing the title of a previous staff) the art of Gianfranco Biagini, an artist from Livorno, on display to Bottini Oil (Viale Caprera) from Saturday, October 31 until 22 November. His paintings are in fact a triumph of color, now in strong colors, now faded, but still aimed at telling emotions and imaginations. On display around 80 paintings ranging from 1969 to 2009: a productive period that marks the gradual transition from figurative art to greater abstraction “where it is always the color – as stated by the art More >
Julian and Ian Tweedy showing Rosefeldt all’EX3 – Florence – from October 29, 2009 to December 05 2009
Nov 2009
With solo exhibitions by Julian Rosefeldt and Ian Tweedy, by Lorenzo Giusti and Arabella Natalini, inaugurates the exhibition schedule of EX3, the new Center for Contemporary Art in Florence. The choice of two artists of different age, education and language, responding to the draft EX3, which promotes the artistic youth more attractive, without neglecting the study and dissemination of work by artists from more structured curriculum.
EX3 is supported by the City of Florence, Department of Culture, Department for Productive Activities, Council District 3. Thanks EX3 Convivium Firenze, Mercafir, Laba, Farrow & Ball, Starhotels. Azienda Agricola Petreto for your cooperation.
Duration: October More >
Between Earth and Tempera Painting and Sculpture in comparison – Arezzo – from October 24, 2009 to January 06th 2010
Nov 2009
Between Earth and Tempera: Painting and sculpture by comparing the Masters of the Renaissance
MUSEUM OF THE BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA DELLE GRAZIE
October 24, 2009 – 6 January 2010
San Giovanni Valdarno
INAUGURATION
October 24, 2009 17:00
Pieve di San Giovanni Battista
San Giovanni Valdarno
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Wed – Sun 10.00 / 13,00 – 14,30 / 18.30
closed Monday and Tuesday
INFORMATION
Monday to Friday: 9,30 / 12,00 – 15,30 / 18.00
Saturday: 9.30 / 12.00
For information, reservations, guided tours: 055943748
SHOW TICKETS
€ 5,00
€ 3,50 reduced
€ 1.00 school groups (no charge for an accompanying person)
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The virtues of the color of Daniela D’Orazio – Florence – from 21 November 2009 to April 16, 2010
Nov 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009 at Plus Florence in Florence – Fuchsia Plan – the project “Frontier” The opening of the exhibition under the color of Daniela D’Orazio.
Info:
tel.+39 0554628934
Piergiorgio Branzi AROUND THE EYE – Prato – from 24 October 2009 to January 10, 2010
Nov 2009
Stronger the bond that unites Piergiorgio Branzi photography. A passion was born when, in 1953, in Florence sees a show of Henri Cartier-Bresson. These photos show a possibility of the first expression, a story mode of reality that is not sketch, news, game types but learned, creating refined and bold blacks and whites on the surface of the silver salts.
In recent years Piergiorgio Branzi has long, though at intervals studied photography and grown steadily expanded his passion. He’s done traveling the world, moving from flâneur warned in his city and his country, then in Spain, Russia, France, and always renewing More >
John Constable and the English teachers in the collection Horne – Florence – from 23 October 2009 to January 30, 2010
Nov 2009
After a long period that saw the precious collection of drawings collection in the early twentieth century by H. P. Horne transferred to the Prints and Drawings of the Uffizi, the museum celebrates the return of the fund with an exhibition that focuses on el landscape, thanks to a choice between a core of well 237 works of English school, which proceed from the eighteenth century to early twentieth century, documenting such masters as Alexander Cozens, John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. Just this last great painter of the exhibition proposes (through 15 sheets of watercolor paintings and pencil drawings) sistesi More >
Youssef Nabil – Gallery Poggiali e Forconi – Florence – from 17 October 2009 to December 15, 2009
Nov 2009
On October 17, 2009 will open, in the spaces of Poggiali e Forconi Galleria in Florence, the first solo exhibition in Italy of Egyptian Youssef Nabil (Cairo 1972, lives in New York).
The exhibition brings together over 35 works, some large, since the early nineties to today.
For the occasion, will make its world premiere the work Self Portrait with Botticelli – Florence, 2009, portrait of the artist in front of Botticelli’s Primavera, made in the halls of the Uffizi Gallery and produced for this exhibition.
Youssef Nabil’s works consist of photographs retouched by hand. These mostly but not exclusively, of two types More >
“Motive for art” The Wonders of trompe-l’oeil the Palazzo Strozzi – Florence – from 16 October 2009 to January 24, 2010
Nov 2009
Promoted and organized by: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Soprintendenza PSAE and the State Museums of Florence, Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence.
Curator: Annamaria Giusti
The frescoes of ancient greek and Roman through modern European masterpieces to this day, hundreds of works from museums and private collections in both Italian and foreign, tell the intriguing history and spectacular trompe-l’oeil.
The theme of deception, of the eternal contest between reality and its simulation is presented not only in painting but in the fact that transversality has characterized his widespread success in the course of European art: wood inlays that More >
Anghiari, the portraits of Gloria Network Argeles – Arezzo – from 10 October 2009 to January 10, 2010
Nov 2009
“Portraits on the network” is the exhibition of the sculptor from Argentina Gloria Argelés, organized in Anghiari, near Arezzo. The exhibition will be staged in the historic rooms of the Palazzo Taglieschi room and Expo in via Garibaldi from 10 October until 10 January 2010. In a path anthology, will be exhibited three large polychrome wood, including the “large sofa” in 1980, a bronze preparatory other wood polychrome smaller the shadow of 2001 entitled “H-Shadows” already exposed to the Palace of Exhibitions in 2001, three large drawings and five new portraits of historical (shadows from wire mesh) made in 2009: More >
Betty Woodman: the cheerful vitality of the porcelain – Florence – from 01 October 2009 to February 15, 2010
Nov 2009
Among the prestigious porcelain kept the house of the Knight find an appropriate location picked and imaginative creations of Betty Woodman, in shop windows specially integrated with the development of the museum. The unusual Sevres porcelain, made by disrupting the traditional idea of “table-valued kit” with their unpredictable forms and intensity and brilliance of the colors, without neglecting the bon ton of well-established prestigious served beloved by monarchs. Ceramist already established in New York, Betty Woodman lives and works regularly at his home dell’Antella, immersed in the Florentine countryside, where he was able to dive into our stratified culture. His More >
