With the autumn, the exhibition season starts again. There are many exhibitions not to be missed (according to the organizers). There is only the embarrassment of the choice, combined with that other embarrassment that usually precedes every public appearance: what do I wear?
The closure of Art Basel 2024 marks the beginning of the summer season, during which the proposal of the artworks necessarily takes place only in galleries and cultural exhibitions. Finally, one might say. After a binge of fairs and auctions, there is now time to reflect on what will be the next steps of the market in autumn.
Tornabuoni Arte celebrates 20 years of activity in Forte dei Marmi. After the opening in Florence and Milan, the founder Roberto Casamonti opened in 2004 the Versilia headquarters of what will become a reference point for collectors and art lovers. On view, from mid-June to mid-September, works by all the greatest masters of the ‘900. A passion passed on by his father, which leads him over the years to select valuable works proposed to a careful and demanding clientele.
The Tate St Ives hosts the large retrospective “Beatriz Milhazes: Maresias”, which traces, through paintings of intense tones, the evolution of the Brazilian artist in the last four decades. The title of the exhibition evokes the sea breeze of the native Rio de Janeiro, source of inspiration from which begins a deep investigation on the color and the centrality of the naturalistic theme.
The four paintings selected as an integral part of “Alex Katz: Seasons” are on display at the MoMA in New York.
The exhibition aims to highlight that sensation the artist has always sought in the raw palettes of winter and in the vibrant colors of the summer, spring and autumn seasons. He interprets the natural world, reworks it and dazzles the viewer with large compositions, revisited and faced as a new enterprise. Organization by Ann Temkin, edited by Elizabeth Wickham and Lydia Mullin. Until September 8th.
The artist, born in Alessandria, has developed a distinctive style, characterized by a fresh and captivating black and white trait, which recalls great names of international pop art. He moves with inventiveness between illustration, street art, fine art, and crypto-art.
Josh Kline’s Climate Change showcases a total artwork: a suite of sci-fi installations that envisions a future shaped by a devastating climate crisis and the ordinary people who will inhabit it. Sculptures, moving images, photographs and ephemeral materials transform the galleries of the museum. Kline creates a visceral vision of the 21st century, seemingly far, actually very close. A catastrophic rise in sea levels has flooded the world’s coasts, causing hundreds of millions of traumatized refugees.
“Making as if Wondering: So What Is This?” is the title of the exhibition dedicated to Eva Lootz. When Lootz arrived in Madrid in the 1960s, she investigated the combination of language-material, taking an interest in the need for a new dialogue between humans and animals. Later, her analysis will focus on a wide variety of themes: contemporary visuality, overexposure to images and the impact of digital culture on current gnoseology; issues always deepened through a feminist, anticolonialist and careful perspective to the most marginalized social classes.
The Centre Pompidou hosts the exhibition: “Corto Maltese, a romanesque life”. Created in 1967 by Hugo Pratt (1927-1995), Corto Maltese is one of the most famous and recognizable characters in comics. Explorer, anarchist sailor, gentleman, travels the world in turmoil at the beginning of the twentieth century. There are many literary sources that accompany his adventures: Hermann Melville, Jack London, Joseph Conrad, among others.
Palazzo Reale hosts the exhibition of Valerio Adami: “Pittore di idee” (“Painter of ideas”). The artist, born in Bologna in 1935, trained with Achille Funi at the Brera Academy before moving to Paris where he attended Sebastian Matta and Wifredo Lam. The first solo exhibition was opened in Milan in 1959, and then embarked on an international transversal career, from east to west of the globe.
