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

Running Exhibition till May 15th 2005

"IMAGO URBIS ROMAE"
MUSEI CAPITOLINI, ROMA

Opening hours: Dailyfrom Monday to Sunday 9 - 20. Closing time: every Monday January 1 , May 1 , December 25 Ticket office closes 1 hour before closing time.
Tickets: Ticket office is in Piazza del Campidoglio, first floor of Palazzo dei Conservatori. On the occasion of temporary exhibitions taking place at Palazzo Caffarelli the ticket price is increased by a small amount and it includes the exhibitions entrance. Ordinary entrance: Full price € 6,20 (+ € 1,60 exhibition) Reduced € 4,20 (+ € 1,60 exhibition) Exhibition entrance: Full price € 4,20 Reduced € 2,60 Capitolini Card: cumulative ticket Musei Capitolini e Centrale Montemartini (valid 7 days) Full € 8,30 (+ € 1,60 exhibition) Reduced € 6,20 (+ € 1,60 exhibition) Free Entrance Italian citizens and foreigners with same conditions under 18 and over 65. Teachers and students groups holding a list on headed letter-paper of the School and compulsary reservation.
Informations: Information, reservations and conventions Musei Capitolini, Piazza del Campidoglio 1 - 00186 ROME 06 39967800 Information : 24 hours Bookings : Monday-Saturday 9-13.30; 14.30-17.00 06 39080725 Conventions It is also possible to book on-line
ACCESS FOR DISABLED: In Via del Tempio di Giove a flight of steps lead to the entrance of Portico del Vignola, entering on the first floor of Palazzo dei Conservatori; lifts reach the other palace floors. Tabularium is in Via di S. Pietro in Carcere and from here it is possible to reach through a stair the Galleria di Congiunzione and the ground floor of Palazzo Nuovo. Since these entrancies are normally closed to the public, it is necessary to book in advance by calling ph nr 06-67102071.

Running Exhibition till May 31st 2005

"XIV Quadriennale di Roma"
PALAZZO VENEZIA, ROMA

The XIV Quadriennale exhibition has been promoted and set up by Soprintendenza alla Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. Among the curators we find famous people of contemporary critics like Luciano Caramel, Valerio Dehň, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Marco Tonelli and Giorgio Verzotti. Approximately 155 works are present in a space of about 3000 square metres and which is devided in 3 macro-sections: "Fuori tema", "Italian Feeling" and "Retrospettive". The first section is devoted to Transavanguardia, to Pop Art, to concept art and other italian artistic movements represented by: Accardi, Alviani, Cucchi, De Maria, Mochetti, Ontani, Paladino, Paolini, Pistoletto, Plessi, Rotella, Spalletti, Zorio; among the youngest contemporary Italian artists we find: Mario Airň, Stefano Arienti, Lara Favaretto, Lucio Perone, Alessandro Pessoli, Paola Pivi, Francesco Simeti, Grazia Toderi, Vedovamazzei. On display in the "Italian Feeling" section we find works by 11 foreign artists who got their inspiration to create them from Italy. Among them we can mention Franz Ackermann, Arthur Duff, Eric Fischl, Caio Fonseca, Nan Goldin, Jacob Hashimoto, Anselm Kiefer, Jason Martin, Kenneth Noland, Tony Oursler, Tobias Rehberger. The last section "Retrospettive" is a historical look on the 1931 and 1948 Quadriennali exhibitions, that is the first one and the first one after the second post-war period. Among the chosen artists we find important figures of the 20th century, belongin to Futurism and Abstractism, such as Balla, Casorati, Dorazio, Martini, Scipione, Prampolini, Wildt..

Opening hours: Daily from Tuesday to Sunday 8.30-19.30. Closed on Monday.
Tickets: Full € 7,00; Reduced € 5,00

Running Exhibition till June 19th 2005

"CANALETTO"
Republic Senate Seat, ROMA

An exhibition has been opened at Palazzo Giustiniani which is devoted to Antonio Canal called Canaletto (1697-1768). His confidential and typical nickname "Canaletto" first appears in the 1726 letters and even though he will use it only later on in the Fourties, it will be present in all the subsequent documents. Since its very beginning, his art gets inspiration from the Roman ruins painted by Viviano Codazzi and Giovanni Ghisolfi, from the '' bamboccianti'', Sweerts, Van Laer, Miel, Cerquozzi, and probably from the contemporary artist Panini and from the Vedutism of Gaspar Van Wittel. We find works coming from public and private European, American and Australian collections from the London and Washington National Gallery,from the New York Metropolitan Museum and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne; a good opportunity to gather and compare works never exhibited before in Italy. The works present at the exhibition show the similarities with Piazzetta, the young Tiepolo, Bencovich and above all Marco Ricci, even if his syle stands out for its accuracy and perspective rigorousness , for the bright and clear luminosity that make him one of the most important figures of XVIII century Vedutism. On behalf of his patron and major collectionist Joseph Smith, who will later become consul, he made about 40 paintings, as many drawings and some prints which represent many of his best works produced in 1740, introducing new lagoon and hill motifs of the towns of Mestre, Dolo, Padova and of the surrounding areas, Roman landscapes and of ruins. During the same period he began etching under the guidance of the painters-etchers Rembrandt and Castiglione, as shown in the landscape tableaux. Canaletto will be appreciated not only in iltaly but also abroad and in particular by English aristocrats, as demonstrated by his stay in London and by the paintings for the Duke of Northumberland, Francis Greville, Lord Brooke, the Duke of Beaufort, the prince of Lobkowicz and for the intellectual Thomas Hollis. Canaletto died in 1768 in his house in San Lio..

Opening hours: Every day from Sunday to Wednesday from 9.30 a.m. to 19.30 (last entrance at 18.30); from Thursday to saturday from 9.30 to 21.00 (last entrance at 20.00). The exhibition is open on March, 28, April, 25 , May,1, June, 2.
Tickets: full price 9 €; reduced 8 € for groups of at least 15 people, under 18 and over 65 years old, special conventions holders; reduced € 5 for schools; free: under 6 years old, desabled with guide, two teachers per classroom, journalists with badge.
Phone: ++39. 06.67063451

Running Exhibition till May 25th 2005

"EMILIO GRECO"
PALAZZO VENEZIA, ROMA

After ten years from Emilio Greco's death (1913-1995), a retrospective counting 80 sculptures (terracotta, cement works and big bronzes) has been set up at Palazzo Venezia. Shortly his Catalogo Ragionato delle Opere will be published. The exhibition, curated by Carlo Pirovano (helped by a scientific committee formed by Claudio Strinati, Francesco Buranelli, Maurizio Calvesi, Luciano Caramel, Elisabetta Cristallini, Antonella Greco, Anna Imponente, Simonetta Lux, Bruno Mantura, Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, Livia Velani,) has been set up with a chronological order as from the fourties and is devided in different themes : from the series Omini and Lottatori, to the period devoted to Bagnanti belonging to the Fifties-Sixties, to the series of sacred works and monuments, the portraits and the big statues of his last years . In the second half of the XX century Italian panorama, Emilio Greco sculpture standed out for its expressive figurativity which has distinct references to contemporary sculptors such as Martini, Marini, Moore and Pevsner, and to the plastic art of manieristic, baroque and antique origin. In 1956 he was awarded a prize at Biennale in Venice which was his first official acknowledgement. Since then he got internationally famous, infact his works are present in the most important international Institutions all over the world such as Tate Gallery in London, Ermitage in St Petersburg, Puskin in Moscow, Open-Air Museum in Hakone, American museums, Musei Vaticani, Gallerie d'Arte Moderna in Rome, Venice, Milan, Florence. Among his most important works are to be mentioned the airplane-monument devoted to Pinocchio, the gothic cathedral doors (Orvieto) , the Pope burial memorial (Giovanni XXIII) in San Pietro of which drafts are shown at the exhibition. Greco has been particularly keen on the feminine figure, in fact we can admire a series paintings dedicated to women like the different version of Anna, which cover a period that goes from 1954 to 1962 and the series dedicated to feminine heads of 1967 : Micaela, Patricia, Nadine e Maria Baldassarre.

Opening hours: Daily from Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-19.00
Tickets: Full € 7,00; Reduced € 5,00

Running Exhibition till May 29th 2005

"I TESORI DELLA STEPPA DI ASTRAKHAN"
PALAZZO VENEZIA, ROMA

The suggestive exhibition TESORI DELLA STEPPA DI ASTRAKHAN has been opened at Palazzo Venezia. The Fondazione Internazionale Accademia Arco has organized the first world exhibition about archaeological findings of Euro-Asian steppe found in the Astrakan region , near the Volga River. They are treasures belonging to the Sarmatians, a nomadic people who lived in Eastern Russia between the VII b.C. and IV secolo a.C. The exhibition shows the great fascination of this civilisation and their skill in working different materials as demonstrated by the precious objects present at the exhibition , full of mystery and showing a creativity where history.

Opening hours: Daily from Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-19.00
Tickets: Full € 8,00; Reduced € 6,00

Running Exhibition till June 5th 2005

"RENATO GUTTUSO"
via della Pace, ROMA

Opening hours: Daily from Monday to Sunday 16.00-20.00. Tuesday and Thursday 16:00-21:00. Friday and Saturday 16:00-24:00. Monday closed.
Tickets: full price 9 €; reduced 7 € (Tuesday for Everyone). Groups with more than 20 persons: 6 €. Schools: € 4.50
Informations: Chiostro del of Bramante, Via della Pace, Roma
Phone: ++39. 06.68809035

Running Exhibition from March 3rd to June 5th 2005

"CAPOLAVORI DEL GUGENHEIM"
SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE, ROMA

Opening hours: Daily from Sunday to Thursday 10.00-20.00; Friday and Saturday 10.00-22.30.
Tickets: full price 9 €; reduced 6 €
Informations: Scuderie del Quirinale, via XXIV Maggio, 16, Roma
Phone: 06/39967500

Running Exhibition till June 19th 2005

"EDWARD MUNCH"
VITTORIANO COMPLEX, ROMA

The exhibition Munch 1863-1944 has been opened at Complesso del Vittoriano .It has been curated by Řivind Storm Bjerke and Achille Bonito Oliva; More than 100 are present; we find paintings and graphic works coming from the most prestigious international museums like Munchmuseet, which preserves the artist works donated by him to the town of Oslo just before his death. The exhibition has been set up following a chronological path that analyzes the development stages of Edvard Munch work: his first naturalist paintings, the consonance with symbolism and in the end the paintings that come just before the great expressionist season of which the painter is considered the father and the forerunner. Munch artistic career has been complicated and tormented as also demonstrated by the reputation he got from official contemporary critic; his 1892 exhibition at Künstlerverein in Berlin, stirred up a big scandal in the academic milieau and was even censored and shut down. Important for his cultural education was his friendship with August Strindberg, Friedrich Nietzsche philosophy and his trip to France such as the one taken in 1896, in Paris where Munch got in touch with the artists and writers group that used to meet on the " Mallarmé Tuesday" . Some of the works present at the exhibition are: Bambina malata, Pubertŕ, Madonna, Malinconia, Ragazze sul ponte, Il bacio, Morte nella camera della malata, Gelosia, Separazione, all showing the existential anguish he experienced during his life and present in all his works, an evident proof of a life tormented by diseases, and pain and by his family s death, in fact her sister Sophie died in 1877, his father in 1889 and his brother Andreas in 1895. Munch will experience physical pain because he was struck by different illnesses as for example the eye disease which prevented him from painting for a long time or the frequent hallucinations and the problems due to alcohol abuse which will take him to the sanatorium. He died in 1944 in his holding Ekely in Sköyen, near Oslo.

Opening hours: Daily from Monday to Wednesday 9.30 a.m.-7.30 p.m.; Friday and e Saturday 9.30a.m.-11.30 p.m. ; Sunday 9.30 a.m.-8.30 p.m.
Tickets: 9 €; special prize 6.50 €
Informations: Roma - Complesso del Vittoriano, Via S.Pietro in Carcere (Fori Imperiali)
Phone: 06/6780664

Running Exhibition till May 1st 2005
"Nunzio
Jenny Saville"
MACRO, Roma

Two new exhibitions dedicated to Nunzio and Jenny Saville and curated by Danilo Eccher have been opened at MACRO . The first one devoted to the Italian sculptor Nunzio, takes place in one of the four MACRO rooms where water-colours, wood and painted plaster sculptures are on display. The artist work shows how important is space and the real placing of forms in rooms involving a phisical and visual level. At a certain point of his life Nunzio will abandon plaster working to concentrate on wood qualities developing a skill to paint through a material combustion process; the artist also relentlessly experiments lead potentiality as an opaque surface capable of interacting with light effects and with space. Besides the Venice Biennale, Nunzio has taken part in many personal and collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad among which are to be mentioned Extemporanea, Galleria L'Attico, Roma (1984); Prospect 89, Francoforte (1989); Kodama Gallery, Osaka (1994); Galleria d'Arte Moderna- Villa delle Rose, Bologna (1995); Nunzio, Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo (2000). In the MACRO Panorama rooms a selection of twenty works by a 34 years old English artist Jenny Saville, who has successfully attended the Young British School, is on display. Her teachers might as well have being Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon, since the themes she confronts herself with, are always linked with the body and especially the woman body and examined by reading feminist movement essays. Ten drawings and six new oils representing animal carcasses, women faces and bodies which will or have undergone aestheitc surgery, are on display. Jenny Saville , who was born in Cambridge in 1970 and got a degree at the Glasgow School of Art, lives between London and Palermo. Her first exhibition was entirely bought by Galleria Saatchi in London. She has been awarded international prizes and she takes part in many personal and collective exhibitions like British Institute Prize for Painting, Royal Academy, London 1991, "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection", London 1997; "Territories" at Gagosian Gallery, New York 1999; "The Nude in Contemporary Art", at The Aldridge Museum of Art, Connecticut, 1999; "Ant Noises 2" Saatchi Gallery, London 2000, "Disparities and Deformations, Our Grotesque" at la Quinta Biennale Internazionale di SantaFč, New Mexico, 2004.

Opening hours: Daily from Tuesday to Sunday 9.00-19.00; festivities 9.00-14.00; closed on Monday.
Tickets: 1 €;, free under 18 and over 65.
Informations: MACRO, via Reggio Emilia, 54- Rome Ph. 06/67.10.70.400 www.macro.roma.museum
Phone: 06/671070400

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Running Exhibition from October 10th to January 1st2 005
"PICASSO E LA SUA EPOCA - DONAZIONI A MUSEI AMERICANI"

An exhibition that makes a comparison between Pablo Picasso's works (1881-1973) and those of artists living in the same age, has been opened. The Spanish master has been one of the most important for his time and for the turning points of contemporary art. Pepe Karmel, Professor of the Department of Fine Arts at New York University, and organiser of the event , has chosen to exhibit works that can fully represent the artist stylistic path : from the ''Protocubist'' period to the one called ''Analytic Cubism'' showing a splitting up of layers aimed more at presenting than representing reality; the third section is devoted to the period called ''Analytic'' which began in 1910, showing a recomposition displaying more synthesis than analysis and finally ''the order return'' belonging to the post-war period. Then we have the classicist turning point followed by the surrealist period. Thanks to the cooperation of many American Institutions, at the exhibition are on display works by : Louis Bouche, Stuart Davis, Charles Demunt, Lionel Feininger, Roger de la Fresnaye, Albert Leon Gleizes, Arshile Gorky, Auguste Herbin, Alexey Jawlensky, Alexander Kanoldt, William de Kooning, Fernand Leger, Stanton Macdonald Wright, Jackson Pollock, Morgan Russell, Joaquin Torres Garcia, Alice Trumbull Mason, Georges Braque, Joan Miró e Max Weber.

Opening hours: 9.30-19.30 . closing time of the ticket desk : 19.30 (closing time of the exhibition : 20.30). Closed on Monday
Tickets: full price 8 euros; reduced 6 euros 30 October 2004 - 8 January 2005
Information: Fondazione Memmo, Palazzo Ruspoli, Via del Corso, 418 Roma.
Phone: + 39 066874704

Running Exhibition from April 20th to June 5th 2005
"Passaggio ad Oriente
Felice Beato, Leone Nani, Federico Peliti "

The exhibition, opened at Museo di Roma - Palazzo Braschi, has been curated by Anita Margiotta, Giovanna Calvenzi, Francesca Sonetti. It has been organized with the cooperation of Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, il Museo di Storia della Fotografia - Fratelli Alinari and Pontificio Istituto Missioni Estere lontano Oriente. The exhibition has been set up on the occasion of FotoGrafia - Festival Internazionale di Roma, at its fourth edition about Eastern countries and devoted to three Italian photographers who between the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century have explored far away countries like Japan, China and India. Padre Leone Nani was a missionary who went to China inner regions, Federico Peliti was both an intellectual and a businessman and Felice Beato was a traveller and a master. They have left extraordinary photographs of these far-away countries portraying fascinating atmospheres but with the good merit not to fall into the nineteenth century exotic stereotypes. Felice Beato (1830 - 1906) : an Eastern countries reporter photograph specialized in exotic documentation. He reported about many wars in a neutral way without showing commiseration. Leone Nani, was born in 1880, he left for China as a missionary in 1903. Federico Peliti (Carignano, 1844-1914) has been celebrated when still alive for his professional activity in India in the second half of the nineteenth century. .

Opening hours: rom Tuesday to Sunday: 9.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m.; Monday closed. Closed on Monday
Tickets: Museum entrance: €6,20, special price €3,10, free for citiziens of UE under 18 or over 65 years. The ticket office closed to 6 p.m.
Information: MUSEO DI ROMA - PALAZZO BRASCHI, Via Di San Pantaleo (00186) Roma
Phone: + 39 068207730

LAST EXHIBITIONS AT PALAZZO BRASCHI