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GAM - Gallery of Modern Art of Milan
The Gallery of Modern Art -Milan is the greatest collection of 19th century artworks and is located in the first two floors of the Royal Palace of Milan, whose visit is worth as much as the works, for the beauty and for the history that it represents, across the history and evolution of the city. Villa Belgiojoso has been built on a project by Leopoldo Pollack between 1790 and 1796 as the home of the count Lodovico Barbiano of Belgiojoso, who was returning to Milan after an important career in the European diplomacy, serving Austria. The English garden of the Villa, which he wanted, is the first one in Milan and it is highly admired by the contemporary visitors. The palace passed then in French hands, becoming the house of the military governor of Milan, Gioacchino Murat, and sumptuous scenery of many lunches and dance parties.
In 1804 Melzi of Eril purchased the Villa from Belgiojoso’s heirs to give it to Napoleon, during that time it took the name of “Villa Bonaparte." In 1806, after having welcomed illustrious guests as Camillo and Paolina Borghese and Letitia Ramolino, the emperor's mother, the Villa became home of the royal couple Eugene of Beauharnais, Napoleon’s adoptive child, and the princess Amalia of Baviera, who promoted a great decorative intervention in the upper floor.
After the kingdom of Italy was united, the Villa was assigned to the Crown of Italy and it suffered a long period of relative abandonment. It is only thanks to the transfer as a property of the City, in 1920, that it turned into the current Gallery of Modern art.
The exposition starts illustrating themes and characters of the Neoclassicism, among which there are some masterpieces by Canova. Two whole rooms are dedicated to portraits, with particular attention to the works of Hayez . The Romantic period moves through the most important artists (Faruffini, Mosè Bianchi, Induno, Piccio), while there is a monographic room devoted to the Scapigliatura movement. The divisionist moevement is recalled finally in a series of thematic rooms: Segantini, Grubicy, Longoni, up to the paintings with social subjects by Morbelli, Sottocornola and Nomellini. After the section with the masterpieces by Medardo Rosso, the first floor concludes with Previati and Segantini’s symbolist paintings.
The visit continues at the second floor with the Grasso Collection, composed by Italian and foreign masterpieces from the XIV to the XX century and by a nucleus of oriental artworks. Among the exhibited works there are unique pieces by Manet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin. In the end, there is the Vismara Collection, picking up paintings and sculptures belonging to the XX century from the Italian Carrà, De Pisis, Modigliani, Morandi, Sironi to the foreigner Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Vuillard, Rouault, Dufy. Take your time to admire these eternal works, which enrich us so deeply.
GAM - GALLERIA D’ARTE MODERNA
Via Palestro 16
20121 Milano
Telefono 02 884.459.47
STORIES OF REBIRTH
The art of cultivating the garden and oneself
"If you decide to play, play it well." Coherent to this motto, the author begins telling us her first, unexpected, approach with the art of the cultivation. Facing a ground that risked to become overgrown and abandoned, she couldn’t stand it and commits to keep it alive. Thanks to her skilled hands, the ground lived a new happy season. It begins from this unexpected event the experience of the writer with gardening and with the dimension of farming, so tied up to the earth but at the same time - she discovers - extremely close to the spirit. Educating the earth, the Man educated itself, or as a Greek philosopher wrote "the man is himself the field to be cultivated, the good seed and the experienced farmer."
The trip in which the author drives us is so fascinating, going through the details of seeding, the different steps of growth from the seed to the vegetable, in the always fundamental care (quoting Simone Weil "Never, in any case, a true effort of attention must be wasted): Care as exercise and daily appointment. Taking care of a garden is a way to love and to take care of Life. Care exemplified in to giving water, supporting, shearing and so on…because what matters is not to succeed but the entire process of caring of as base that the human existence makes possible properly as “human”. Through the description of these small but concrete and continuous gestures of love, through the history of parsley and the zucchini, it may seem paradoxical but in reality we fully understand the sense of Life and its complete dimension which, as Panikarr says, “is neither pure contemplation neither action alone; rather it is the contemplative action and the active contemplation, a non-separated life. Its name is wisdom.”
Adriana Bonavia Giorgetti
L’arte di coltivare l’orto e se stessi (The art of cultivating the garden and oneself)
Ponte alle grazie
TALES IN MILAN
BAGNI MISTERIOSI
If you still haven’t visited the “Mysterious Baths” yet, then you must go! The space, retraining of the former swimming centre Caimi, renamed “Bagni misteriosi”, closes on January 28th!
This space became an enchanting “winter story”, being situated behind Porta Romana, one of the six principal Roman doors in Milan, also defined “the Imperial Door” because it constituted the principal access to Milan, where departed the road that brought to the Ancient Rome, and still characterized by the 1596 monumental arc wanted by Phillip III of Spain.
Under the Artistic Direction of Andrée Ruth Shammah, the place is refined in every detail, from the harmony of colors to the choice of the materials, murales and sound design included, and it came to life on December 7 with the transformation of the swimming pool in an open Patinoire, with a magic atmosphere, also recreated through laboratories, art and theater shows that contribute to strengthen the enchantment. A project not easy to be realized but it turned into a beautiful gift to the whole city, thanks to private and public contributions. Up to the end of January laboratories of art and magic are still available, open to the public. Don't lose this experience of Rebirth!
Bagni misteriosi
Via Carlo Botta 18, Milano
info@bagnimisteriosi.com
www.bagnimisteriosi.com
T. +39 02 8973 1800
TALES IN MILAN
Frida Kahlo. Beyond the myth
On February 1st the exhibition “Frida Kahlo. Beyond the myth” officially opened at MUDEC, a project which results of six years of researches, curated by the passionate Diego Sileo. For the first time, thanks to Tender to Art, all the works of the Museum Dolores Olmedo and of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, the two most important and rich collections of Frida Kahlo in the world, will be in Italy, together with some international renowned museums which lent some masterpieces by the Mexican artist, never seen in our Country. A show focused on the artistic work more than on the “icon”, which unfolds in 4 sections: the Woman, the Earth, the Politics, the Pain.
The Woman section shows Frida Kahlo, the first woman artist who made her own body a manifesto, who exposed her own femininity in a direct, explicit, at times violent way and irreversibly revolutionized the female role in art history. The second section, Earth, reminds us that Frida Kahlo was always identified with her Land and in her work she gradually developed a new interest for the elements of the nature, establishing a series of relationships. The third section faces the political side, indissolubly tied up to Frida’s entire work. Social resistance and opposition, although never ideological.
The last section, in the end, is devoted to Pain. The art of Frida Kahlo is marked from a powerful and expressive pictorial quality and from violent images that inevitably flow in a true iconography of pain: its images are so powerful and able to instill uneasiness, anxiety, fear and horror. It is impossible to be indifferent.
Going "beyond the myth" is the real objective of this rich Milanese exhibition, that is going beyond the superficial vision of the relationship between the life and the work of the Mexican artist, showing that for a serious and deep analysis of her poetic it is necessary to push further the narrow limits of biography and to go over that consolidated myth, fed by last decades’s fashion. The Milanese date will underline how Frida Kahlo still hides many secrets and it will tell - through unpublished documents disclosed in 2007 in the secret archive of Casa Azul (the artist's home in Mexico City) and other important documents - new keys of reading its production. A brave, free, sincere, woman bearer of a so contemporary, revolutionary and powerful message. Have a Great Rebirth!
FRIDA KAHLO
Beyond the myth
Mudec – Museo delle Culture di Milano
Via Tortona 56
Milan
February 1st-June 3th -2018