June 1, 2023

The most beautiful exhibitions not to be missed in Tuscany

All the exhibitions to mark in your diary

Art, photography and more. Here all the most important exhibitions in the main Tuscan cities.

AREZZO

AFRO. DALLA MEDITAZIONE SU PIERO DELLA FRANCESCA ALL'INFORMALE (until 22 October)

From 2 June to 22 October the exhibition Afro. From Meditation on Piero della Francesca to the Informal at the Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea. The exhibition is aimed at investigating the relationship between Afro, classical-Renaissance painting and the great masters of the past, focusing in particular on the theme of mural painting, which occupies a privileged position in Afro's production and in many respects still constitutes unpublished research on the artist.

FIRENZE

Here an in-depth look at all the must-see exhibitions in the city.

REACHING FOR THE STARS. DA MAURIZIO CATTELAN A LYNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE (until 18 June)

Until 18 June, the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi presents Reaching for the Stars. From Maurizio Cattelan to Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, an exhibition, curated by Arturo Galansino, director general of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, which offers a selection of works by the most important international contemporary artists, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection in Florence.

GHIBERTI, VERROCCHIO E GIAMBOLOGNA: OSPITI ILLUSTRI DA ORSANMICHELE (until 4 September)

Until 4 September, the Bargello National Museum is hosting an exhibition of the three greatest masterpieces of Renaissance bronze statuary from the Orsanmichele Museum, closed for restoration work.

LIGHT, GAZE, PRESENCE (until 24 September)

Until 24 September, we can see Light, Gaze, Presence, an exhibition by Y.Z. Kami (Tehran, 1956) with a selection of works exhibited for the first time in Florence in some of the city's symbolic places: Museo Novecento, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Museo degli Innocenti and, exceptionally, in the millenary Abbazia di San Miniato al Monte. Here also our interview with the artist.

STEVE MCCURRY CHILDREN (until 8 October)

The Steve McCurry Children exhibition by the famous American photographer at the Museo degli Innocenti. 100 photographs on display until 8 October to admire the first thematic exhibition in Italy dedicated to childhood by the most beloved photographer of all time and with some images never exhibited before in Europe, taken in almost fifty years of activity and portraying children from every corner of the world in scenes of everyday life. A tribute to an extraordinary period of life, a gallery of surprising portraits that recounts childhood in all its facets with a characteristic common to all, the gaze of innocence, and which is realised in the very place that symbolises childhood, the Istituto degli Innocenti.

PISA

IGORT. ATTRAVERSARE LE FORME (until 10 September)

The exhibition Attraversare le forme allows visitors to admire a selection of original drawings from some of Igort's greatest successes. 5 is the perfect number allows us to delve into the noir side and open up, with its sudden cuts and the pressing rhythm of the vision against an almost monochrome background, to the cinematographic sphere and the film of the same name, of which unpublished documents will be on show in the exhibition.

PISTOIA

IN VISITA | GIORGIO DE CHIRICO (until 22 October)

Until 22 October, Pistoia Musei' Collections of the Twentieth Century will host Giorgio de Chirico's famous painting Manichini in riva al mare (Mannequins on the Seashore), one of the artist's most famous works that marks the link between his classical and metaphysical periods. De Chirico returns to the exhibition in Pistoia after 40 years, as part of the project In visita a Palazzo de' Rossi.

PRATO

ECCENTRICA. LE COLLEZIONI DEL CENTRO PECCI (until 31 December 2024)

Until 31 December 2024 at the Centro Pecci, Eccentrica becomes permanent, with an installation conceived by the famous designer duo Formafantasma, a collection of the museum's most important works by artists such as Liliana Moro, Sylvie Fleury, Lucia Marcucci, Chiara Fumai, Lucio Fontana, Anish Kapoor, Jannis Kounellis, Julian Schnabel, Massimo Bartolini, Francesco Torrini and Superstudio. The installation is inspired by textiles, an important part of Prato's DNA, and moves according to criteria of sustainability and accessibility. Celebrating this new beginning is Volevo vedermi negli occhi (I wanted to see myself in the eyes), the first solo exhibition in an Italian public institution by the photographer Lina Pallotta (on view until 1 October), who here presents a selection of her photographs taken of Porpora Marcasciano, a trans activist, since the 1990s.

DUE SECOLI DI TEXTILE E FASHION DESIGN (until 19 November)

The exhibition Due Secoli di Textile e Fashion Design at the Museo del Tessuto continues until 19 November: the transformations of textile and fashion design from the end of the 18th century to the mid-20th century. More than 100 objects including clothing, textiles and accessories documenting the transformations in the textile sector over a period of time of great change, thanks above all to the mechanisation of production processes.

SIENA

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DALLA SPADA ALLA CROCE. IL RELIQUIARIO DI SAN GALGANO RESTAURATO (until 5 November)

A sensational theft, back in 1989, from the Museum of the Archiepiscopal Seminary of Siena. An extraordinary recovery, more than thirty years later, thanks to the Comando dei Carabinieri, Tutela Patrimonio Culturale. And finally the restoration, carried out in the Vatican Museum laboratories.

MICHELANGELO PISTOLETTO, I QUADRI SPECCHIANTI (until 10 September)

In the spaces of the Continua Gallery in San Gimignano, we find I Quadri Specchianti, a new exhibition by Michelangelo Pistoletto. This solo exhibition constitutes the first stage
of a large project that will cross the world involving the eight Galleria Continua venues, each of which will host an exhibition by the artist throughout 2023, the year of the Maestro's 90th birthday. This is an intercontinental project, aimed at highlighting
Pistoletto's art in all its forms, from its genesis to the present day. It will tell the story of a journey through the ages: the highlights of his career and his long collaboration with the gallery.

EVA JOSPIN, VEDUTE (until 10 September)

Until 10 September, the Continua Gallery in San Gimignano is hosting the first solo exhibition of French artist Eva Jospin, a leading figure on the contemporary international scene. With Vedute, the artist emphasises her passion for Italy, but also for art history. In these works, created for the exhibition, she takes a walk through different materials and techniques: a walk through the plurality of practices, marking the beginning of this new collaboration between the artist and the gallery.

CARLOS CRUZ-DIEZ, L'EUFORIA DEL COLORE (until 10 September)

In the exhibition spaces of the Continua Gallery in San Gimignano, a solo exhibition
of the Franco-Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. Pioneer of kinetic art and undisputed master undisputed master of colour, he has proposed the latter as an autonomous and evolving reality in which the implication of our senses reveals chromatic events as they unfold. The title of the exhibition presents the highlights of Carlos Cruz-Diez's career, exploring the artist's theory of colour by the artist, through some of his most iconic works, including an installation in the historical centre of San Gimignano. A rich archive documentation completes the exhibition.