The Ricci Oddi Gallery of Modern Art has announced the exhibition program for the coming season, defined by the new Board of Directors chaired by lawyer Stefano Antonio Marchesi, who took office in recent days. The calendar includes two exhibitions already launched during the previous council term and set to materialize between 2026 and 2027, as well as new initiatives aimed at expanding the Gallery’s cultural offerings and audience.
The first exhibition is scheduled for the fall of 2026 and will be dedicated to Armando Spadini, a Tuscan artist associated by critics with the early Roman School. The Gallery already holds two of his works, The Portrait of De Carolis’ Wife with Daughters and Lillo in Cradle. The exhibition will be curated by Barbara Cinelli.
The second exhibition, scheduled for spring 2027, will instead be dedicated to Medardo Rosso. Ricci Oddi already owns two central works by the artist, Ecce puer and Madame Noblet. The exhibition project, curated by Francesco Guzzetti, will anticipate the centenary of the sculptor’s death, scheduled for 2028, and will focus on the relationship between sculpture, graphics and photography in the artist’s production. The investigation will focus in particular on the use of photography as a tool for research and reinterpretation of sculpture, a practice shared by numerous artists active between the late 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century.
“Also under study,” President Marchesi continues, “is an exhibition with an international scope on early 20th-century European art, when all the arts contributed, each for its part, to the definition of a new world taste. We are still in the embryonic stage, but our intention would be to realize it between the fall and winter of 2027 by organizing it in collaboration with other cultural realities of our territory, in a competition of ideas, energies and synergies as it is necessary to foresee for a major exhibition event.”
Parallel to the exhibition programming, Ricci Oddi confirms the continuation of the public activities already initiated in recent years. Thus, meetings, workshops, guided tours and cultural entertainment initiatives will continue, with a focus on broadening the target audiences. The note circulated by the Gallery also emphasizes the work done by the previous Council led by Massimo Toscani, which is credited with the path of enhancing the museum’s exhibition spaces and functionality.
Among the objectives indicated by the new Council is also the involvement of younger generations and the opening to new cultural languages, through initiatives that can extend beyond the strictly artistic perimeter. In fact, the management intends to strengthen the Gallery’s role as a space for cultural exchange, capable of dialogue with different interlocutors and contemporary forms of expression.
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