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April 5, 2021

AMORE LIBERA TUTTI

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Amore libera tutti is the exhibition by the artistic duo Antonello Ghezzi that was with us between late 2020 and early 2021 in the spaces of the ME Vannucci Gallery in Pistoia. A constant confrontation with the “other” to celebrate relationships of love and affection in a period when we are forced to keep a distance. The title, chosen by Nadia Antonello, Paolo Ghezzi and the exhibition’s curator, Manuela Valentini, harks back to the game of Italian hide and seek: "Bomba libera tutti (home free)" yells the last child, the one in the game who can free all their other playmates. Love becomes that magic formula that makes us dream, that closes the distance, that makes us think about ourselves, in the mirrors that are part of many of the works installed in the post-industrial building in Pistoia. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3715" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The main room in the gallery hosts six works. A large mirror leaning against...

April 5, 2021

in Art & Design, Culture

by Elitism

JR THE WOUND

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Palazzo Strozzi has unveiled a major new installation by acclaimed French contemporary artist JR, whose site-specific artwork La Ferita (The Wound) has reinterpreted the façade of the Renaissance palazzo, opening it up to reveal a vision of an interior at once real and imaginary achieved with a black and white photographic collage to trigger a debate on the accessibility of culture in the age of Covid-19.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="3707" img_size="full" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This latest work La Ferita imagines the Renaissance palazzo with a deep wound or gash revealing the interior of the building with some of Florence’s most iconic artworks occupying the space. Measuring 28 metres tall and 33 metres wide, this monumental photographic collage installation covers the primary façade of the Palazzo Strozzi and works like an anamorphosis, an illusion in which, observed from a specific viewpoint, various areas of the Palazzo Strozzi – the colonnade in the courtyard, an imaginary exhibition hall and a library – open up as a wound. By...

March 31, 2020

in Culture, Itineraries

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THE MEDICI VILLAS | Villa La Petraia

Villa LA PIETRAIA, which will be our focus in this edition, located in the hilly area of Castello, sits in a splendid panoramic position dominating the city of Florence and is considered, deservedly, to be one of the most beautiful of the Medici villas. ...

March 28, 2020

in Art & Design

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Jean Michel Folon in Love for Florence

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]"Folon's connection with Florence began in his youth, but was no doubt consolidated in 1990 with the staging of an exhibition, a curated by Cristina Taverna, entitled Folon Firenze"[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="34px"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text]Jean-Michel Folon was an illustrator, painter and sculptor who was and born in 1934 in Uccle, near Brussels and died in the Principality of Monaco in 2005. Despite having studied architecture, he soon devoted himself to drawing and moved to Paris, where was influenced by Pablo Picasso and the Surrealists. His illustrations were rapidly published in numerous magazines and periodicals and his works exhibited in many parts of the world. In 1970, he represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale. He created a world all of his own in which an anonymous figure seems to float in a vague, intangible, sometimes absurd world. Folon's connection with Florence began in his youth, but was no doubt consolidated in 1990 with the...

December 17, 2018

in Art & Design

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Marina Abramovic – The Cleaner

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] "Palazzo Strozzi hosts a major exhibition dedicated to one ofthe most controversial figures in contemporary art. A look at the unique season of creativeness in the former Yugoslavia during the 70’s is a key to understand her work and her artistic background." [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="34px"][/vc_column][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Marina Abramović is one of the greatest performer in the world. Her famous shows have been appreciated in so many countries in Europe and in North America and has been giving prestigious awards. Her extreme performances started at the Novi Sad Academy of Fine Arts in the 70’s, at that time former Yugoslavia experienced a decade of original and appreciated artistic production called “Conceptualism”. The fact that this type of radical art could be produced in an authoritarian socialist country is perhaps as interesting as the art itself. How was it possible? During the famous demonstrations of’68, students occupied the University in Belgrade too. They stayed there for...