Penone, Dosso Dossi and Rubens: the Borghese Gallery announces its 2023 exhibitions

The Borghese Gallery announces its upcoming exhibitions to be held in 2023.

It starts with the contemporary art exhibition Giuseppe Penone. Universal Gestures, from March 14 to May 28, 2023, curated by Francesco Stocchi. The Secret Gardens will host the exhibition dedicated to one of the most important exponents ofArte Povera, Giuseppe Penone, who has always been interested in the relationship between man and nature. His practice is characterized by the constant union of sculpture with the observation of nature. His works highlight this symbiosis and emphasize the fluidity that unites all plant, human and mineral elements. The exhibition will take place in the gardens and part of the rooms on the ground floor. The aim is to reactivate that natural osmotic exchange between the museum and the surrounding park, a relationship that has inspired and continues to inspire many of the museum’s works.

In spring, in continuity with the research begun in 2020 to explore landscape painting and the relationship between art and nature, the exhibition Dosso Dossi. The Frieze of Aeneas, which aims to reconstruct the relationship between painting and the natural element. Visitors will be led to reflect on the cultural nature of landscape, how much the surrounding environment and the materials of nature have been the inspiration and object of artists’ activity. The exhibition, curated by Marina Minozzi, will be held from April 4 to June 11, 2023, and will be dedicated to Dosso Dossi ’s Frieze of Aeneas and focused on the precious canvases that made up the series of ten paintings depicting scenes from Virgil’sAeneid.

Finally, the major exhibition The Touch of Pygmalion. Rubens and Sculpture in Rome, curated by Francesca Cappelletti and Lucia Simonato. Visible from November 14, 2023 to February 18, 2024, the exhibition will trace the drawings and paintings of the great Flemish artist, who came to Rome, and highlight the artist’s contribution to a new idea of the antique and to the concepts of natural and imitation in the Rome of the 1720s, on the threshold of the Baroque, emphasizing in what the novelty disruptive of his style in his first decade in Rome and how the study of models can be understood as a further possibility of momentum toward a new world of images.

“The Borghese Gallery’s 2023 itinerary hinges on looking from afar: Rome and Italy as seen by foreign artists. It is a fundamental journey to discover Italy’s cultural heritage and the Borghese collection in particular, the works that we preserve, study and enhance here,” said Galleria Borghese director Francesca Cappelletti.

Image: Pieter Paul Rubens, Lamentation over the Dead Christ (1601-1602, oil on canvas; Rome, Galleria Borghese) © Galleria Borghese, Photo by M. Coen

Penone, Dosso Dossi and Rubens: the Borghese Gallery announces its 2023 exhibitions

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