Passionate about art, for you this promises like a golden summer, with a rich calendar of art exhibitions of prestige throughout the peninsula, from north to south. Here is what you can visit, but above all admire, in Italy in August, between a dive in the sea and a mountain trip.
Let's start with Sardinia where Cagliari, Ulassai and Nuoro host the three exhibitions that make up the great retrospective dedicated to Maria Lai, the most European and international of Sardinian artists.
In Sicily, to stay in the islands, Credito Siciliano proposes in its exhibition center Acireale a fascinating monograph dedicated to Gionata Xerra titled "Gionata Xerra". Travellers. Experiences, stories, images, looks. ?
The Basilicata offers an exceptional event, with exhibition of contemporary Lutheran sculpture set up in the Sassi of Matera, in the splendid scenery of the rock churches of the Madonna della Virtù and San Nicola dei Greci.
Rejoining the peninsula, in Umbria you can walk the itineraries and places that the great Steve McCurry has fixed on the film, connected to the beautiful exhibition -Sensational Umbria - set up in Palazzo della Penna and the Ex-Fatebenefratelli. In Ascoli Piceno, and we are in the Marches, at Forte Malatesta, to discover the power of the sculpture of Giuliano Giuliani.
Three unmissable appointments in Tuscany. In Viareggio, at the Matteucci Centre, Moses Levy with sealight, a story of Italian art. In Prato for a new, spectacular museum, that of Palazzo Pretorio with its heritage of art that ranges from the years of Lippi and Donatello to the twentieth century of Lipchitz. The third date is not with an exhibition, but with a mythical place. We refer to Pienza, Ideal city in the heart of Val d'Orcia, which in the summer offers, among the many events, the Festival del Teatro, in Montichiello.
In Genoa, in Liguria, not to miss the Villa del Principe, historic residence of the Doria Pamphili, where the exhibition -Imperatori di Luce - is set up. Between Lombardy and Piedmont, there are a series of events between nature and art in fascinating locations: the Borromean Islands on Lake Maggiore show the colorful blooms summer and show the restorations that the Princes wanted on their Palaces. At the Rocca di Angera is the time to admire, in addition to the collection of ancient dolls and autonomous, the Medieval Garden.
Another historic garden, indeed an immense park rich in Historical Trees, is to be admired at the Castle of Miradolo, in the pinerolese. Further north, at the Regional Archaeological Museum of Aosta, the exhibition on the Information: – An Informal Season. Head of the Reverberi Collection. ?
Moving to Sondrio, at the Galleria Credito Valtellinese surely deserve a visit -The Valley Talis -, the beautiful shots of Alberto Bianchi. As we are in the area, we pass the border with Switzerland to land at the Pinacoteca Zust di Rancate, in Canton Ticino. Here are two exhibitions: The fragile beauty. Italian art ceramics between Art Nouveau and Informal — and Rosetta Leins. Life and works of an anticonformist painter. 1906-1966.
In Trento, at Castello del Buonconsiglio, −Ancient Renaissance — is a great exhibition dedicated to Dosso Dossi, with a broad programme of related initiatives. Finally the Veneto. The whole region has mobilized around genius of Paolo Veronese, celebrated by important exhibitions in Verona (Gran Guardia) and Vicenza (Palladio Museum)), and present, as well as in exhibitions, in dozens of villas, palaces, monasteries, churches with works of extraordinary chromatic charm.
Finally Venice where, in collateral to the Biennale dell’Architettura, are stages of obligation the exhibition –Mikhail Roginsky. Beyond the Red Door — at the Ca’ Foscari University and, at the Querini Stampalia Foundation, – In the sign of Carlo Scarpa —. There is from lustrasis the eyes, in short, enjoying appointments of rare quality in beautiful contexts, of a Italy often -minor - that does not fear comparisons with the great tourist destinations.
