March 29, 2024

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.

FLORENCE

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

ANSELM KIEFER AT PALAZZO STROZZI (until July 21)

Palazzo Strozzi hosts a major exhibition conceived and realized together with one of the most important artists between the 20th and 21st centuries, Anselm Kiefer. The exhibition allows direct contact with the German master through a journey between historical works and new productions, including a large new work created in dialogue with the Renaissance courtyard. A journey through allegories, figures and forms that reflect on identity, poetry, historical events and different philosophical thoughts.

RITORNI. DA MODIGLIANI A MORANDI AT MUSEO NOVECENTO (until Sept. 15)

The Museo Novecento celebrates ten years since its inauguration in 2014 by hosting Ritorni. From Modigliani to Morandi, a major exhibition dedicated to the history of one of its most prized collections: the Alberto Della Ragione Collection. Gathered together for the first time are some 15 works by great masters of the Italian twentieth century. Along with Modì's legendary Self-Portrait, Morandi's Metaphysical Still Life, Carrà's Camera Incantata and Guttuso's great Crucifixion will be on display, all loans of inestimable historical and artistic value that have come from major Italian and foreign museums.

JANNIS KOUNELLIS AT MUSEO NOVECENTO (until June 9)

The art of Jannis Kounellis returns to Florence with the exhibition The Room Sees. Drawings 1973-1990. More than one hundred works on paper, mostly executed in India ink, pencil, and charcoal between the 1970s and 1980s, and exhibited in full for the first time in 1990, in an exhibition curated by Rudi Fuchs entitled The Room Sees at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in The Hague. That exhibition was an opportunity to verify a different aspect of the poetics of the artist, known as one of the protagonists of Arte Povera, and of his undoubted quality as a great master of drawing, in accordance with the most recurrent inclinations of modern artists from the fifteenth century onward.

LUCCA

ANTONIO CANOVA E IL NEOCLASSICISMO AT CAVALLERIZZA (fino al 29 settembre)

Un percorso suggestivo, tra pittura e scultura, che partirà da Antonio Canova, icona universale del nuovo classicismo, e dai più celebri esponenti internazionali come Francisco Goya e Francesco Hayez, fino ai maestri lucchesi e toscani della medesima corrente, tra cui Pompeo Batoni, Bernardino Nocchi, Stefano Tofanelli e Lorenzo Bartolini, solo per citarne alcuni. La mostra va a coniugare la maestria di Antonio Canova, tra i più celebri artisti a livello mondiale, con il recupero, la promozione e la valorizzazione di parte del patrimonio artistico lucchese e toscano.

PISA

THE AVANT-GARDE. MASTERPIECES FROM THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART AT PALAZZO BLU (until 07 April 2024)

The masterpieces of the 20th century avant-gardes are the protagonists of Palazzo Blu's autumn exhibition, an extraordinary sequence of paintings and sculptures from the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The exhibition, curated by Matthew Affron, is a unique opportunity to admire some of the absolute landmarks of European art from the early decades of the 20th century; in the rooms of Palazzo Blu we find works by Chagall, Dalí, Duchamp, Kandinsky, Mirò and Picasso. To which are added works by Matisse, Mondrian, Klee, Ernst and Gris, and many other artists who have never been exhibited at Palazzo Blu.

PRATO

WALTER ALBINI. THE TALENT, THE DESIGNER AT MUSEO DEL TESSUTO (until 22 september)

The Foundation celebrates fashion designer Walter Albini with a major exhibition curated by Daniela Degl'Innocenti and Enrica Morini. Walter Albini. The Talent, the Designer is the result of an intense work of study and research conducted by the Museum on the entire professional career of Albini, an absolute protagonist of Italian fashion in the late 1960s and early 1980s. The research activity behind the exhibition project and the accompanying catalog was born as a result of a conspicuous donation that the Museum received on several occasions between 2014 and 2016: a rich fund of bijou, sketches, drawings, photographs, documents, and books that belonged precisely to Walter Albini, documenting the great creative and design capacity of this extraordinary fashion creator, from his youthful period (1959) until his death (1983).

ECCENTRICA. THE COLLECTIONS OF THE CENTRO PECCI (until 31 December 2024)

Until 31 December 2024, Eccentrica becomes permanent at the Centro Pecci, with an installation conceived by the famous designer duo Formafantasma, a collection that brings together 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.

SIENA

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JUAN ARAUJO AND SERSE AT GALLERIA CONTINUA

Last days to visit Cuban artist Susana Pilar Empatía's solo exhibition, through which she expresses her desire to identify with others and allow each person to reciprocally share their feelings. And also Jam Proximus Ardet, La Dernière Vidéo by Adel Abdessemed, in which 'primary element is an entity as powerful but fleeting as existence.