Modern Art - Finestre sull'Arte

Ten things to know about Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, important Portuguese painter of the 20th century

Portuguese artist Maria Helena Vieira da Silva (Lisbon, 1908 - Paris, 1992) was an enigmatic and multifaceted figure in the 20th-century art scene, rediscovered in Italy in 2025, just over 30 years after her death, with an exhibition at the Peggy Gug...
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Picasso, story of a myth and a complex man. What the Palermo exhibition looks like

Cannibal. At times he had apostrophized himself thus, Pablo Picasso, with lucid consciousness of his own carnal experimentation in continuous search for ever new forms, for unprecedented materials, with an unmistakable stylistic signature that made h...
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Pignotti's manuscripts and Italian visual poetry on display at BNCF

From May 8 to July 29, 2025, the Dante Room of the National Central Library in Florence will host a major exhibition of contemporary Italian poetry and art. Entitled Originals. "The Manuscripts of Today's Poets" and Verbo-Visual Poetics in Italy, the...
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Casorati to reconsider the appropriateness of talking about "magic realism." On the Milan exhibition

The curators of the Felice Casorati exhibition at Palazzo Reale, through June 29, are the same ones who followed the edition of the Piedmontese artist's general catalog 30 years ago: Giorgina Bertolino and Francesco Poli. They are joined by Fernando ...
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Morandi and Fontana together at CAMeC: the exhibition revealing the Invisible and the Infinite

The CAMeC-Center for Modern and Contemporary Art of La Spezia is inaugurating a new exhibition season with an exhibition intended to mark a turning point in the museum's programming. From April 12 to September 14, 2025, the rooms of the renovated La ...
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Pinot Gallizio on display in Alba: focus on his interest in prehistory and archaeology

From April 12 to October 12, 2025, the "Federico Eusebio" Civic Museum in Alba is hosting the exhibition Era Gallizio. Pinot Gallizio and the Discovery of Prehistory: Finds, Works, Collecting, an unprecedented exhibition project that interweaves cont...
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Eugenio Cecconi, painter of the Maremma, on display in Forte dei Marmi

One of the most important retrospectives dedicated to Eugenio Cecconi (Livorno, 1842 - Florence, 1903) a painter friend of the Macchiaioli and authentic witness of a Tuscany made up of countryside, hunting and everyday peasant life, comes to life in ...
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Irony exhibition at MAMbo in Bologna kills a fundamental aspect of irony

After Mozzarella in Carrozza, a large work by Gino De Dominicis that opens the exhibition Facile Ironia at the MAMbo Museum in Bologna, the path is fragmented into many works that tend to get lost and unremarkable within a setting where red and yello...
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