Twentieth Century - Finestre sull'Arte

Where is Chagall's pure soul hidden? Against goodist views

If one steps outside the Chagallian interpretive scheme that interweaves Chassidic Judaism and a certain ethnic-religious idea of fairy-tale reality that finds in the flying sweethearts and in certain upside-down world situations typical of the fairy...
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Armando Testa and sport: on the occasion of Milan Cortina 2026, a focus exhibition at Milan's Museo del Novecento

On the occasion of the Milan Cortina 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Museo del Novecento in Milan presents from January 22, in collaboration with Testa per Testa, the focus exhibition Urrà la neve! Armando Testa and sport, dedicated to ...
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Carla Sozzani Collection brings Man Ray, LaChapelle and 71 artists to CAMeC in Spice

Photography as a language capable of transforming the gaze and producing new readings of reality is the focus of the exhibition Fotosintesi. Photographs from the Carla Sozzani Collection, set up at the Modern and Contemporary Art Center of La Spezia ...
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Parma, a major exhibition on Italian Symbolism at the Magnani-Rocca Foundation

From March 14 to June 28, 2026, the Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo, a few kilometers from Parma, hosts The Symbolism in Italy. Origins and Developments of a New Aesthetic 1883-1915, an exhibition that brings together more than 14...
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Beyond the reflection: the mirror as threshold in twentieth-century art

There are places intwentieth-century art where reality suddenly seems to open up, multiply, slip out of its usual form. All it takes is a mirror, a sheet of glass that, instead of returning a faithful image, betrays it, doubles it, reinvents it. The...
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Achille Perilli, the labyrinth of form on display in Naples at Alfonso Artiaco's

First exhibition of 2026 for the Alfonso Artiaco Gallery in Naples: it is dedicated to Achille Perilli (Rome, 1927 - Orvieto, 2021), one of the most rigorous and radical protagonists of Italian abstraction in the second half of the 20th century. Enti...
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A collection of humanity painted by great names of the 20th century is on display at the de' Bonis Gallery in Reggio Emilia

Through Jan. 31, 2026, Galleria de' Bonis in Reggio Emilia is hosting the group exhibition Humans of Art. Every Human Has a Story. Inspired by Brandon Stanton's photographic and editorial project Humans of New York, the exhibition features a collecti...
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An exhibition in Catanzaro pays tribute to Mimmo Rotella with his self-portraits 20 years after his death

Twenty years after the death of Mimmo Rotella, the Mimmo Rotella Foundation celebrates the figure of the artist with the exhibition project Autorotella, curated by Alberto Fiz and open to visitors in the Casa della Memoria in Catanzaro, the house-mus...
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