ROME EXHIBITIONS
- Reviews of all major exhibitions taking place in Rome Italy -

Running Exhibition from February10th to June 30th 2004
"GUERCINO. POESIA E SENTIMENTO NELLA PITTURA DEL '600"
Stazione Termini, Ala Mazzoniana,

Sir Denis Mahon is the curator, with Vittorio Sgarbi and Massimo Pullini, of the beautiful exhibition opened at the Ala Mazzoniana, into the Stazione Termini of Rome. This event comes from the Palazzo Reale in Milan, where the Italian painter Guercino has had an exceptional success and that is very different from the artistic critic of 1930; in fact, the critics of art were very sceptical towards the paintings of Guercino, new, however, this artist is loved for her artistic qualities and for her versatility. There are two moments of the artistic life of Guercino: the first step is her studies in Bologna, near the Caracci's school with a painting links to the orthodoxy rules of the Counter-Reformation; the second phase(1621-1623) is a moment links to: the magnificence and the traditions of Rome, the baroque court of the Pope in which Guercino changes the colours of her works.

Opening hours: Daily from Sunday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10.30 p.m. The entrance closes one hour before of the closing.
Tickets: 9€; special prize 6€; reduced prize 7.50 €; students groups 4 €
Informations: Stazione Termini, Ala Mazzoniana, Piazza del Cinquecento 32, Roma
Phone: 06/478411 - 06/44252170

Running Exhibition till 02nd May 2004
"VELAZQUEZ, BERNINI, LUCA GIORDANO
LE CORTI DEL BAROCCO"
Scuderie del Quirinale, via XXIV MaggioRoma

The Scuderie of the Quirinale opens the new year with an exhibition dedicated to the European courts after 1650. The curator of this complex event is Fernando Checa Cremades, who wants to tell the history of Rome of Innocenzo X and Alessandro VII, the life of the courts of Filippo IV, Carlo II and Luigi XIV, with Italian masterpieces and also importants works from foreign. The fitting out includes about 170 works: paintings, models of terracotta, etchings, engravings, equestrians portraits, tapestries, medals and preliminary studies that give account of the ups and downs of the European collections and of the tastes and love for the arts of the popes and kings; in fact, the collections of these men of power are fundamental, not only to understand the history of art, but also to reconstruct the historical events of which, we have, sometimes, only the visuals documents. In this exhibition there are excellents masterpieces of indisputable value like: the big canvas of Luca Giordano from Spain, the "Portrait of the Infanta Margherita" of Velazquez, the works of Maratta, Baciccio, padre Pozzo, Juan Carreno de Miranda, and one section is dedicated to Gian Lorenzo Bernini, in particular to her late paintings more spiritual and religious.

Opening hours: Daily from Sunday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 10.30 p.m. The entrance closes one hour before of the closing.
Tickets: 9 €; reduced 6 €
Informations: Scuderie del Quirinale, via XXIV maggio 16, Roma
Phone: 06-696270

Running Exhibition till 9th May 2004
"NICOLA DE MARIA NANNI BALESTRINI ELISABETTA BENASSI PASCALE MARTHINE TAYOU"
MACRO, Via Reggio Emilia 54, Roma

Danilo Eccher is the curator of the new exhibitions dedicated to: Nicola De Maria, Nanni Balestrini, Elisabetta Benassi and Pascale Marthine Tayou. This event is very important because is the first time that the Italy dedicates an one-man show to the Italian Nicola De Maria. He was born in Benevento but always works in Torino and he doesn't like the fame, so De Maria has chosen to stand aloof, compared to her friends of the Transavanguardia, founded by the critic Achille Bonito Oliva, about 1980. These works of De Maria are divided in two moments: the big paintings, that are the new murals for this "roman event" and the small works, that are the famous oils on canvas, with the flowers, the abstract shapes, the material and the "nocturnes". In the Galleria Vetrata there is Nanni Balestrini, an other important artist of Italian culture, who always works with the language and images; in the Sale Panorama it is possible to admire the researches on the technology of the young roman Elisabetta Benassi and the remarks of Pascale Marthine Tayou about the religion and the tradition.

Opening hours: Daily from Tuesday to Sunday 9 a.m.- 7 p.m. Festivity: 9 a.m.- 2 p.m. Closed on Monday.
Tickets: 5.20 €; cheap prize 4.20 €
Informations: O6.6710.7900/29

VITTORIANO MONUMENT Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele Vittoriano Piazza Venezia - Roma

Running Exhibition till July 27th 2004
"PAUL KLEE. UOMO, PITTORE, DISEGNATORE"
Complesso del Vittoriano, Roma

At Vittoriano it's possible to visit an exhibition dedicated to Paul Klee (1879-1940). The works exhibited are 180, which show the artistic iter and the researches of Klee, from the years of Avantgarde to his death. Hans Christoph Taval and Claudio Strinati, the twice curators of this event, have selected these works reconstructing the different phases of artist's production. First: the period of the refined graphic works, where it's clear the strong presence of his first love the music; second: about 1911-1914 the discover of the colour with the friends of the Blaue Reiter, but, especially, after the travel around Tunisia; at the end, the adventure of the Bauhaus, of which he was an original and counter-current teacher and the last paintings, linked to his illness and to his ache, which became, together to the dark and deep colours, the protagonists of the final phase of Klee's life and of his work.

Opening hours: Daily from 9.30 a.m.- 7 p.m. from Monday to Thursday; Friday and Saturday 9.30 a.m. - 11 p.m.; Sunday 9.30 a.m.-8 p.m.
Tickets: 9 €; special prize 6.50 €.