From June 10 to July 25, 2026, the de’ Bonis Gallery in Reggio Emilia presents the exhibition Grand Tour. Reinterpreting the Journey in 21st Century Art, an exhibition project dedicated to the reinterpretation of the Italian landscape through 20th century painting. The opening is scheduled for Wednesday, June 10, at 6 p.m.
The exhibition is part of the gallery’s annual program, which for 2026 develops the theme of travel in its real, metaphorical and interior declinations. In this context, Grand Tour. Reinterpreting the Journey in 21st Century Art resumes and expands a scholarly project already presented on the occasion of the 30th edition of MiArt, the international fair dedicated to modern and contemporary art in which the gallery is a regular participant.
The historical reference is to the Grand Tour between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, the educational journey that took the European elite to discover Italy through the study of its monuments, cities and artistic heritage. The exhibition proposes a contemporary transposition of that experience, shifting the focus from the didactic dimension to a more intimate and perceptive reading of the territory. The landscape thus becomes an active element of identity construction and visual memory.
The exhibition brings together some of the main protagonists of 20th-century Italian painting, including Carlo Carrà, Bruno Cassinari, Giorgio de Chirico, Filippo de Pisis,Gianni Dova, Piero Gilardi, Renato Guttuso, Antonio Ligabue, Umberto Lilloni, Alberto Manfredi, Giuseppe Migneco, Zoran Music, Mario Schifano and Ardengo Soffici.
At the center of the project emerges the concept of genius loci, understood as the spirit of place that influences artistic perception and production. In this perspective, the Italian landscape is interpreted as a cultural and psychological space. The works in the exhibition return an emotional geography in which Tuscany, Veneto, Emilia, Sicily and other regions become internal narrative elements in the artists’ research. The exhibition insists on the experiential dimension of travel, understood as a process of observation and transformation of the gaze. The visitor is called to confront a sequence of images that refer to a layered Italian everyday life, in which memory and perception overlap seamlessly.
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 4 p.m.-7 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
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