ROME EXHIBITIONS
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Running Exhibition from October 10th to January 2nd 2005

"ITALIA-RUSSIA ATTRAVERSO I SECOLI. DA GIOTTO A MALEVIC. LA RECIPROCA MERAVIGLIA"
SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE, ROMA

Two geographically distant countries meet and compare each other thanks to the odd and complex world that forms and gives life to arts here represented by painting. This is the main theme of the Automn exhibition which has been opened at Scuderie del Quirinale with works by Giotto representing Italian Pre-Renaissance , and by Malevic ,one of the most important figure of Russian avant-gardes. Almost ninetey invaluable works like Rublev and Dionisij icons, and Chagall and Kandinskij paintings are present at the exhibition thanks to many Russian museums, which for the first time , have consented to lend them. The exhibition is devided into four sections In the first one, the title of which, is In principio era Bisanzio are present Russian icons. They tell the art history of a country, which, through images, has chosen to explain it by using symbolism and religious teaching ; in juxtaposition with that , we can see the experimental path of Italian artists like Giotto, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Duccio di Boninsegna. In the second section, Verso le identitŕ moderne, works of our Renaissance to Baroque are shown (Mantegna, Guido Reni, Domenico Fetti, Pietro da Cortona, and so on..); and besides them, we can admire the Russian artists skill in describing sacred images. The historical turning point can be seen during Peter the Great time (here represented in the section L'etŕ dei Lumi , who, through a political and cultural action , gathers Italian artists and architects in St. Petersburg Court. Their works are present in many important Russian private collections. In the section Il secolo della borghesia. Dal Romanticismo al Simbolismo and in Sfide della modernitŕ fra democrazia e pensiero we can see the ultimate and crucial union between the two cultures looking with interest and curiosity at Europe.

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: 06/696270

VITTORIANO MONUMENT Monumento a Vittorio Emanuele Vittoriano Piazza Venezia - Roma

Running Exhibition till February 1st 2005
"DEGAS CLASSICO E MODERNO"
Complesso del Vittoriano, Roma

From the 1st of October at Vittoriano starts a magnificent exhibition on Degas. More than 170 works among drawings, pastels, oil paintings, sculptures and some pictures from the Museo d'Orsay in Paris. This exhibition is the largest ever organized in Italy among those dedicated to the painter of classical dancer, of horses and musicians.

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 €.

Running Exhibition till January 9th 2005
"CARLA ACCARDI, VALERY KOSHLYAKOV, SISSI "
MACRO, Roma

An exhibition devoted to the three artists Carla Accardi, Valery Koshlyakov and Sissi has recently been opened in MACRO's rooms. The first one, put on in Sale Macro has been organized by Danilo Eccher, the museum director who, on this occasion, has decided to exhibit more than forty works which perfectly show the Italian artist path. The basic stylistic stages in Accardi's career , are four and through them, we can understan his very complicated poetics present in his works like his seventies sicofoil, such as the labyrinth house made of perspex , a series of ceramics very high cones and even 15 very big drawings especially made for the roman exhibit. The first time of Valery Koshlyakov takes place in Sale Panorama. This very interesting and unique exhibit has been especially planned for MACRO. Cloud is the title of his environmental work which is highly explicative of the Russian artist story origins : a village that has been built with poor materials like cardboard, tape, polysterene,on which a cloud, acting as a screen, hovers. Valery Koshlyakov calls these images ''iconic memories in space'' which are a sort of path going backwards in the artist career through an unceasing existential search. The third exhibition is devoted to Sissi, a very joung artist from the town of Bologna who is internationally well known after having been rewarded with the Furla Prize , given to her in 2002. At Macro, she is present with her environmental work , the title of which is NIDI (NESTS), another way to further examine her own body, a very important theme for the performer. Sissi's artistic searches may seem even obsessive when accurately analyzing bodiness and its special relationships created with the surroundings. The works exhibited are entirely made of Indonesian bombé wicker which forms a series of nests which can be seen as contaminations interweaving between men and animals.

Opening hours: Daily from Tuesday to Sunday 9.00-19.00; festivities 9.00-14.00; closed on Monday.
Tickets: full price 5,20 €; reduced 4,20 €; free up to 18 years old and for elderly aged more than 65
Informations: Chiostro del Bramante -Via della Pace - 00186 Roma
Phone: 06/671070400

LAST EXHIBITIONS

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 June 24th to September 19th 2004
"IGOR MITORAJ"

MERCATI TRAIANEI and FORO TRAIANO Foro Traiano e Mercati Via IV Novembre - Roma

MERCATI TRAIANEI, ROMA

At Mercati Traianei of Rome opens an extraordinary exhibition dedicated to the German sculptor Igor Mitoraj (1944). The archaeological site is very suggestive: his pieces of sculptures are big fragments of classical statues covered by bandages. The works are 70 and the material used are: marble, cast iron and bronze that recalls the sense of melancholy and yearning, a constant of the works of Mitoraj. Maybe, these sculptures are the symbols and the recollections of a unknown father, a figure that summarizes the concept of the "absence". Mitoraj studies to the Academy of Art (Polonia) and here he meets his "spiritual" guide: the extraordinary dramatist Tadeusz Kantor, who teaches to him that "to put in evidence an object its better to hide this". From here the birth of his mutilated statues, that want to arouse into us the love for the beauty and the thrilling theatre of the life.

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Running Exhibition from June 1st to August 29th 2004
"ITALIA - DOPPIE VISIONI"
SCUDERIE DEL QUIRINALE, ROMA

QUIRINALE Quirinale Piazza del Quirinale - Roma

At Scuderie del Quirinale opens a photographic exhibition dedicated to history of Italy seen by the eyes of Italian and foreign photographers. This exhibition belongs to the event of the FotoGrafia, the International Festival of Rome. The title is "Italia. Doppie visioni" (Italy. The doubles visions) and shows the theme of these 112 photos: Italian fragments of our past, original foreshortenings of distant places and inner and everyday frescos of common people. The exhibition tells about 10 "thematic- places": the village of Scanno, with the photos of Henri Cartier- Bresson and Mario Giacomelli; the land of the Pianura Padana (Plain of the North of Italy) with the works of Paul Strand and Berengo Gardin; Herbert List and Mimmo Jodice who tell about the Myth of the Ancient; Venice seen by the mechanical eye of Hernst Haas and Luca Campigotto; the social-political photos, about the 1970's, of Carla Cerati and Raymond Depardon; the releases of Salgado and Giorgia Fiorio; the images of the volcano of Biasucci and Ressmeyer; the Rome of Sternfeld and Basilico, and, at the end, the photos of Massimo Vitali and Martin Parr. The catalogue of this exhibition has two article of Italian and German literature written by Francesca Sanvitale and Peter Schneider.

Running Exhibition till September 12th 2004
"PABLO ECHAURREN"
MACRO, Roma

At Chiostro of Bramante opens an exhibition dedicated to Pablo Echaurren. The works of this event are 200 and show very well the eclectic activity of this artist who, son of Sebastian Matta, translates and proposes again, but in an original way, the spirit of Avant-gardes of XX century, creating works in which the different arts agree. The début is as painter; then, the love of artist for the different kinds of genres drives him to work for graphic and publishing projects, as the covers for Savelli ("Porci con le ali"); about '80s and '90s, Echaurren meets the metropolitan cultures and decides to used the imaginary of the strips (Frigidaire, Alter Alter, Linus, etc.), that recalls the Pop Art. In this exhibition there are: watercolours, minimalist enamels and works that are inspired by the society of the information of mass and by the cinema, TV, theatre and performances: from the covers of Lotta Continua and L''Espresso, to reviews of alternative culture, posters of music, covers of CD and records, post cards and watchs for Swatch. So, this is a good opportunity to know the whole work of Echaurren, original artist who joins the high culture with the lower culture.

Opening hours: Daily 4 p.m.-8 p.m.; on Tuesday and Thursday 4-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 4-12 p.m..
Tickets: 4 €; special price 2.50 €
Informations: Chiostro del Bramante -Via della Pace - 00186 Roma
Phone: 06-68809035

Running Exhibition till January 9th 2005
"CARLA ACCARDI, VALERY KOSHLYAKOV, SISSI "
MACRO, Roma

An exhibition devoted to the three artists Carla Accardi, Valery Koshlyakov and Sissi has recently been opened in MACRO's rooms. The first one, put on in Sale Macro has been organized by Danilo Eccher, the museum director who, on this occasion, has decided to exhibit more than forty works which perfectly show the Italian artist path. The basic stylistic stages in Accardi's career , are four and through them, we can understan his very complicated poetics present in his works like his seventies sicofoil, such as the labyrinth house made of perspex , a series of ceramics very high cones and even 15 very big drawings especially made for the roman exhibit. The first time of Valery Koshlyakov takes place in Sale Panorama. This very interesting and unique exhibit has been especially planned for MACRO. Cloud is the title of his environmental work which is highly explicative of the Russian artist story origins : a village that has been built with poor materials like cardboard, tape, polysterene,on which a cloud, acting as a screen, hovers. Valery Koshlyakov calls these images ''iconic memories in space'' which are a sort of path going backwards in the artist career through an unceasing existential search. The third exhibition is devoted to Sissi, a very joung artist from the town of Bologna who is internationally well known after having been rewarded with the Furla Prize , given to her in 2002. At Macro, she is present with her environmental work , the title of which is NIDI (NESTS), another way to further examine her own body, a very important theme for the performer. Sissi's artistic searches may seem even obsessive when accurately analyzing bodiness and its special relationships created with the surroundings. The works exhibited are entirely made of Indonesian bombé wicker which forms a series of nests which can be seen as contaminations interweaving between men and animals.

Opening hours: Daily from Tuesday to Sunday 9.00-19.00; festivities 9.00-14.00; closed on Monday.
Tickets: full price 5,20 €; reduced 4,20 €; free up to 18 years old and for elderly aged more than 65
Informations: Chiostro del Bramante -Via della Pace - 00186 Roma
Phone: 06/671070400