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Archive for February, 2010
Post-Macchiaioli Macchiaioli, Novecento – Florence – 6 to 25 March 2010
Feb 2010
The Fine Art Society – Circle of Artists “Casa di Dante” has the pleasure and honor to invite you, the Event-Exhibition entitled “Post-Macchiaioli Macchiaioli, Novecento” (6 to 25 March 2010), which will enhance the heritage history of our Art Gallery. Images and memories that attest to the origins and evolution of the prestigious history Group which took in Giovanni Fattori prominent exponent of the new conception of the realistic painting of the late nineteenth century. With this exhibition, our company intends to restore, as it was in the past, its role as an anchor as a center of cultural aggregation More >
Spring Exhibition – Chiellini Art Gallery – Livorno – from March 20th to April 3, 2010
Feb 2010
Always actants enhancement of painting tradition-bound labronica Gallery Chiellini proposes “Spring Exhibition”. In the exhibition you can admire works of Bettarini Bottosso, Guidi, Luxardo, Madia, Mazzaccherini, Pelagatti, Pelleschi, Scola, Vaccari and many others. Opening Saturday, March 20th at 16.30. More: Gallery Chiellini – Via C. Battisti, 52 Livorno Tel 0586 892855 www.galleriachiellini.it
Meeting on Pietro Annigoni, painter and writer – Gallery Tannaz – Florence – Saturday, March 6th, 2010 at 17:00
Feb 2010
Tannaz Gallery is pleased to invite you (Saturday March 6th 2010 at 17:00) to the event “Meeting on Pietro Annigoni, painter and writer” for the occasion of the centenary of the birth and the publication of the diary of the artist (by A. Sanna, Edizioni Abscondita, Milano, 2009). Speakers, along with Benedetto Annigoni, son of the artist, Carlo Corsi, Francesco Galluzzi (critic and art historian), Angela Sanna (curator).
More Info: Gallery Tannaz Via dell’Oche 9, 11 / r Florence tel. and fax. 0039 055 219274
“Surregailism” A solo show of Corrado Gai – Hay Hill Gallery (London) – Monday 1st March – Thursday 1st April 2010
Feb 2010
In the first exclusive pictures of the show!
Surregailism’ pairs the works of Italian artist Corrado Gai with an iconic private collection of Auguste Rodin bronzes in the new exhibiting space of the Hay Hill Gallery at 5a Cork Street, London W1 The Rodin posthumous bronzes are cast from the foundry plasters Exhibition – Monday 1st March – Thursday 1st April 2010 – Private view 4 March 2010, 6pm – 9pm
The new movement ‘Surregailismo’ born out of crisis The critically acclaimed and award winning artist Corrado Gai, born in Leghorn (Livorno), Tuscany-Italy, on the 8th March 1977, is creating quite More >
Meeting art at the Goldoni Art Gallery Giovanni Lomi (1889-1969) – Livorno – 10th March 2010 at 17.30
Feb 2010
The next meeting Goldoni’s art gallery will be devoted to the painter Giovanni LOMI. Fulvio Venturi retrace the artistic career of Lomi through the analysis of some of his most important paintings, gathered together for the occasion. After the success of previous meetings were discussed art, where artistic career of Giovanni March, Voltolino Fontana and Carlo Domenici, the Galleria Goldoni directed by Massimo Padovani, promotes a new and significant event, open to all fans and collectors’ s art, to speak of a truly unique artist on the scene labronica. Wednesday 10th March 2010 at 17.30
More Info: ART GALLERY GOLDONI by More >
Sensitive energy – Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Art – Arezzo – from December 18, 2009 al 28 Feb. 2010
Feb 2010
The exhibition focuses on a core of works that, from the sixties of the 900 to the present, have variously addressed the issue of energy, light, entropy, man’s relation to energy. The approach to these issues is suggested by the individual sensitivity of the performers, but also by the climate on the year, the cultural debate, the degree of attention to environmental issues, the variety of their manifestations.
The event is visited from December 19, 2009 to 28 February 2010, develops into two distinct sections, articulated in the first and second floor.
Where: Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea Piazza San Francesco, 4
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The manner of today. Based in Florence – from 3 Feb. to 11 Apr. 2010
Feb 2010
The invited artists – Mario Airò, Mark Bagnoli, Massimo Bartolini, Paolo Masi, Massimo Nannucci, Maurizio Nannucci, Paul Parisi, Remo Salvadori – played through the language of contemporary popular historians and museum spaces, creating a path that cancels the time distances place between the host and their intervention in the same visual horizon and includes the ‘old’ and the ‘new’.
The exhibition is sponsored by the Region of Tuscany and carried out in collaboration with the Superintendence for Artistic and Ethno-anthropological Heritage and the State Museums of Florence, and involves some of the most prestigious museums and historical sites such as: Galleria More >
Thomas Santucci – CinemaTeatro Lux – Pisa – 04 Feb. to 05 Mar. 2010
Feb 2010
Attach this to understand it better, perhaps to understand, noting everything that the author sees, feels and lives. This is the common thread that ties the words and drawings that go to compose the work of Thomas Santucci. Bic black on separate pieces of paper scotch, sometimes prepared with acrylic-based, all pasted on wooden planks. Feelings, words heard or spoken, try passions spill over into emotional diary, where you settle a passion for painting and writing. For more information about the artist: www.tommasosantucci.it Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday at 19.00 to 24.00
More Info: CinemaTeatroLux Piazza Santa Caterina No. 6, Pisa More >
Lauraballa-2 – at La Raccolta – Florence – from 20 Feb. to 27 Mar. 2010
Feb 2010
The perception of a single entity, a single emotion, a complete idea itself unique in its perfection. The two instead is the comparison, sharing and awareness. Two as a ratio and two are in front of a mirror and two are twins born by binary fission of cells.
Presenting the work of art is a way to express a feeling, a moment, is to propose a dual perception of the observer.
Lauraballa enriches the meaning of their works in a simple and interesting. Fitting it allows us to compare and confront, through parallels, similarities, symmetry and diversity. A vision that requires the More >
De Chirico, Max Ernst, Magritte, Balthus. A look into the invisible – Florence – from 25 Feb. to July 18, 2010
Feb 2010
The gravitational center of the exhibition is composed of a core of masterpieces by Giorgio de Chirico’s metaphysical period (1909-1919). Pictorial translation of the sensitivity and the particular view of life gained by the artist through the reading of Nietzsche, the poetic metaphysics is recognized as reflecting the mood of an entire century. Alienation and loneliness. Sense of abandonment, isolation, anxiety and despair: De Chirico avant lettre port to the depiction of the “great silence” generated by the first war. Famous artists and poets will immediately recognize in the alienating and enigmatic vision of the world and in the representation More >
