Escape from the sea to dive into a museum. Comics, design, author shots, sculptures. Reasoned map of the exhibitions (in Italy) close to holiday places
Give up the sea beach or the lake shore to spend an hour or two in the cool of a museum; Give up an uncertain morning of time on the walk on mountain paths to enjoy the beauty of a painting; Leaving the commercial streets of the city you are discovering to be ecstatic in front of classic or modern works: they are the (welcome) art distractions, which make every holiday richer.
If you are in Romagna, Superman is distracted to you, that the Italians of the past knew as a cyclone or nembo Kid. From 13 July, at the Malatestiano Castle in Rimini, the Cartoon Club Riminicomix event celebrates it with an exhibition and an installation, made with Warner Bros Discovery. Until July 29, every evening the facade of the castle will be colored by a projection that traces the amazing history of the superhero. And in the isotta room he pays homage to him (until August 17) with all the trappings of the myth: from Kryptonite to glasses with which Clark Kent becomes, to the original tables of the comics. On the international collective register just released – Chicca as collectors – Italy is represented by the designer Fabio Celoni and the writer Marco Nucci.
In Sardinia, Nuoro’s Man, the home of the Patria of the writers Grazia Deledda (Nobel Prize 1926) and Salvatore Satta (jurist who with the day of judgment, a posthumous work published by Adelphi, was worth a visit, gave us one of the major Italian novels of the twentieth century). The museum houses the exhibition islands and idols until November 16, edited by Chiara Gatti and Stefano Giuliani, with the contribution of Matteo Meschiari. Between Neolithic and early twentieth centuries, the over 70 works, exhibited in a sort of archipelago, investigate the close link between islands and simulacra, full of symbolic power. Masters such as Gauguin, Miró, Arp, Matisse have been able to resonate themselves with ancient voices. To meditate on the study on archaic Sardinia and the idols of an island still mysterious. We take the opportunity to recommend the novel by Sergio Atzeni, we passed on the Light Earth, in the Nuorese editions Ilisso, a complementary reading of the highest level.
Two exhibitions with photographic suggestions (and a series of mute lions) are excellent distractions. In Aosta, at the Saint-Bénin center, from 19 July to 9 November there is the Brassaï retrospective. The eye of Paris, edited by the grandson of the great photographer, Philippe Ribeyrolles, and produced by Silvana Editoriale. The focus is on 150 vintage prints, as well as sculptures, documents and objects that belonged to the photographer who, as few he knew how to give a soul to the Paris refuge of artists and writers. With his goal, he portrayed the nights and the minute people of the French capital, in the neighborhoods where the law was struggling to be respected. All with the attention of the humanist photographer, who knows that – to put it to De André – “Fior are born from the manure”.
In Venice – City never as now in the spotlight and traveled by heated (and useless) controversy because of the wedding of Jeff Bezos – a distraction of strong cultural content is no Stone UNERNED. Conceptual Photography, dedicated to John Baldessari’s work, an artist who lived and worked in another Venice: Venice, California.
The exhibition inaugurates a new chapter of the prestigious Querini Stampalia Foundation, directed by Cristiana Collu. This is the largest exhibition ever made in the lagoon on the artist. It focuses on the late sixties, when photography became the fulcrum of Baldessari’s conceptual practice, a precursor like Giovanni Querini. Other works on display include videos that present absurd situations, trivial and funny performances. Also for the Querini Stampalia Foundation, here are the lions in the field of Davide Rivalta. Sculptures that until 23 November fit into an suspended urban space, intertwining myth and reality.
Majestic and silent, the lion and the lioness are always renewed symbols of power and freedom, witnesses of a centuries -old story of stone and waters that preserves a fascinating wild side.
Mark the existence of a place to discover: Oasi Dynamo, on the Pistoia Apennines. Until November 7, the path in the Naturalistic Reserve, called the Oca (acronym for Oasy Contemporary Art and Architecture), curated by the artistic director Emanuele Montibeller, can be visited.
You can walk between original works by architects and artists such as Alejandro Aravena, Mariangela Gualtieri, Michele De Lucchi, Kengo Kuma, Quayola, David Svesson, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Matteo Thun.
The silent dialogue between art and nature – admitted there are differences between the two realities – is the most contemporary there is: it allows you to live a regenerating stop far from the fictions of the daily day, usually set on the less playful aspect of existence. To the present, other works will be added, as if they were the arts of a live organism, in perennial evolution.
Not negligible: at the Visitor Center, the Casa Luigi restaurant offers a gourmet refreshment highly appreciated by those who have set off. Also remember to visit the exhibition The art is Wow!, Which presents a selection of the over 2 thousand works created at Dynamo Art Factory, a special Dynamo Camp project with Dynamo recreational therapy.
We realize, compulsiveing agendas and catalogs, that art distractions, in the hot Italian summer, are an infinity, a sign of great ferment under the sky. In Monreale, in the Norman monumental complex, until 8 December a hundred works with a common thread are exhibited: the ceramic of the great artists, from Picasso to Warhol (exhibition edited by Vincenzo Sanfo).
And in Villa Carlotta (Tremezzina, Como), in the perhaps most beautiful botanical garden in Europe, here is the artistic project of Maria Dompè, entitled Chilometric to Wertmüller: to all those women to whom it is not allowed to make their dreams come true. It is an intimate and flowery plastic space, a permanent green intervention, an offer to the woods, from women for women.
