Costanza Mansueti’s art exhibition at the Present Art Space

10 Jan 2012

Salotto verde Palazzo Orsetti LuccaIn Florence reopen the doors of an old renaissance workshop, where the rich Florentine families used to buy silks and  textiles, to make room for art and contemporary culture.

It is inaugurate “Present Art Space”, a space that wants to be a meeting point between art, languages and poetry of our time.

Friday 20th Genuary 2012 at 18.30 the Present Art Space will host Costanza Mansueti, a freelance photographer, who will present “Forografie di interni lucchesi” (Photographs of interiors of Lucca), an art exhibition dedicated to the works estract from editions of Maria Pacini Fazzi Editor.

Will take part to the art exhibition Ms Claudia Nardini, author of  the book “Il Palazzo Santini, arte nel tempo a Lucca”.

The exhibition will be held at Present Art Space at de ‘Serragli 56 (FI), tel. 055 26455767.

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The seventh Biennial of Contemporary Art in Florence

28 Nov 2011

The Fortezza da Basso in Florence will host the seventh edition of the Biennial of Contemporary Art from 3th to 11th December 2011.

The Biennial of Florence confirms himself  like showcase of excellence in the contemporary art world, hosting over 600 artists from 70 different countries with more than 2500 works, sculpture, graphics, mixed media, installations, photography and digital art.

The event will focus not only on the rooms of the Fortezza da Basso, but will also involve schools, citizens, and the territory around Florence. In fact, 10 high schools, academies of art and the University are working to reinterpret the chairs, donated by Ikea, in a contemporary key and will parade, during the days of the Biennial, along Florence’s streets.

During the event will be awarded the Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Awards  to José Luis Cuevas, painter, sculptor, writer and politician, considered one of the greatest Mexican artists of the XX and XXI century and to Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, one of the most renowned designers of all  time with her creation inspired by art, that in this occasion will celebrate its thirtieth year in business with a retrospective of 40 dresses.

Biennale d'Arte Contemporanea 2011 FirenzeWill also dedicated a space to the renowned artist Jeff Koons, American artist and painter, famous for its large-scale works inspired by kitsch.

A unique opportunity to know and admire artists emerging and established on a new perspective.

For more information visit the official site of the event.

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Tuesday in Art: Free entrance to Florence’s Museums in the evening

13 Oct 2011

Next months in Florence continues the initiative “Tuesday in Art“, launched in April 2011 until the end of the year. The event, scheduled for the last Tuesday of each month, will be held October 25th, November 29th and December 27th, 2011.

For the occasion, the museums that participate to the initiative will make some special openings, from 19:00 to 23:00, where it will be possible for anyone visit for free the most beautiful museums in Florence ,gratis.

Tuesday in Art is a project organized by the Italian Minister for Heritage and Cultural Activities arranged in many parts of Italy, including Florence, that will also allow at those people who work all day and does not have the time to enjoy the artistic beauty of Florence and its museums.

An excellent initiative to make known to everyone, Italians and foreigners, the richness of our cultural heritage and do something different and suggestive.

List of museums that participate to Tuesday in Art:

  • Cappelle Medicee, Piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini
  • Galleria degli Uffizi e corridoio Vasariano , Via Della Ninna
  • Galleria dell’Accademia, Via Ricasoli – October 26 Opening hours from 20:30 to 0:30
  • Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Piazza Pitti
  • Galleria Palatina e appartamento Palazzo Pitti, Piazza Pitti
  • Museo del Bargello, Via del Proconsolo
  • Museo San Marco, Piazza S. Marco
  • Palazzo Davanzati, Via Porta Rossa.

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Exhibition in Florence “The Money and Beauty. The bankers, Botticelli and the fire of the vanities”

29 Sep 2011

Il Denaro e la Bellezza - Mostra Firenze

From next weekend until January 22nd 2012 at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence you can visit the exhibition “The Money and Beauty. The bankers, Botticelli and the fire of the vanities”.

Through the masterpieces by Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Beato Angelico, Paolo Uccello, Donatello, Antonio del Pollaiolo, Domenico Veneziano, Lorenzo di Credi – the elite of Renaissance – the exhibition “The Money and the Beauty” tells the story of the modern banking system’s invention and economic progress which has given rise.

The works on display illustrate how the flowering of the modern banking system was parallel to the more artistic season of the Western world: the exhibition connects the interweaving of economic events and art with changes in religious and political era.

Mostra Firenze - Il Denaro e la BellezzaThe exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi is therefore a trip to the root of the Florentine power in Europe, but also an analysis of the economic mechanisms that allowed the Florentines to dominate the world trade and, consequently, to finance the Renaissance. An opportunity to look across the arts, involving economists, politicians and diplomats, and telling the roots of the Florentine Renaissance optics of the relationship between art, power and money.

The exhibition “The Money and the Beauty. The bankers, Botticelli and the fire of the vanities” also makes use of detailed representations of the banker’s job (work of Flemish artists) to describe the period when Florence was the capital of the financial world. It also clarified with the help of multimedia tools the ancient paths of money and trade.

The exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi is open daily from 9 to 20; on Thursday the opening is extended up to 23.

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Vasari’s Exhibition at the Uffizi in Florence

08 Sep 2011

Bernardino Gaffurri e Jaques Bylivelt, Ovato con la prospettiva della piazza granducale, mosaico in pietre dureUntil October 30th 2011 at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence will host the exhibition “Vasari, the Uffizi Gallery and the Duke”, to mark the fifth centenary of Giorgio Vasari’s birth (1511-1574).

Subject of the exhibition is the founding of the Uffizi, which occurred between the years 1559-1560: more than a building, an architectural system on an urban scale, the result of close collaboration between the Duke Cosimo I de ‘Medici, and Vasari, his favorite artist.

The Uffizi was designed to be welded into one body the two ducal residences of Palazzo Vecchio and Palazzo Pitti, across the Arno, giving the city the physical presence of power in the form of architecture.

The exhibition Vasari, the Uffizi Gallery and the Duke, which starts from the personalities of protagonists-makers (the Duke and his artist), put first in the urban scene between Palazzo Vecchio and the Arno river before the construction of Uffizi Gallery, and then illustrates the stages of policy design and construction of the complex, whose site stands as the largest of the sixteenth century in Florence, evoked by ancient working tools which are flanked finds that, for centuries drowned in filling times, were recently rediscovered.

The Uffizi was also the result of a vibrant artistic environment, polarized by the court and on which hung the terrible grandeur of Michelangelo’s genius. A competitive environment, as witnessed in the exhibition, which Vasari had been kept at a distance and fought until his triumphal entry (1554) in the service of Duke. The artistic statement of Vasari, which goes with its political legitimacy, was also driven from his historiographical production, strengthened the foundation of the Academy of Design.

A very rich exhibition, interesting and original awaits you at the Uffizi in Florence. Take the opportunity to organize a vacation in the cradle of the Renaissance: book your room with Ars Hotels Firenze, in the heart of the city.

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Rabarama Exhibition in Florence

22 Aug 2011

Rabarama a FirenzeUntil September 30th will be opened in Florence the exhibition “ANTICOnforme“ by Paola Epifani (aka Rabarama), with works on display at Le Pagliere, the Boboli Gardens and the Garden of the Royal Mews at Porta Romana.

The works of Rabarama always divide the critics in the way of interpreting the human figure in the middle of Body Art and Performance Art, in which the human body is intended as a showcase of a existential DNA.

The Rabarama’s sculptures on display in Florence are almost all large, some, mostly painted in bronze, now belong to the famous series.

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Opening of “ANTICOnforme“exhibition:

Le Pagliere viale Machiavelli 24

Every day from 16.30 to 19.30

free admission

Boboli Gardens

8.15 to 19.30

Admission 7 euros, reduced 3.5 euros

Garden of the Royal Mews at Porta Romana

Every day from 8 to 20

free admission

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The Treasure of the Kremlin in Florence

15 Aug 2011

mostra tesoro cremlino firenzeUntil 11th September 2011 at the Museo degli Argenti of Palazzo Pitti in Florence you can visit the exhibition “Treasury of the Kremlin”.

The approximately 150 works on display present the unique development of one of the most important treasures of Europe: the Kremlin Armory, the richest collection of the oldest Russian museum that collects real treasures, objects of daily use and the court ceremonial of the biggest names associated with the Tsar of Russia through several centuries of history.

From the twelfth to the eighteenth century, the Armory was in fact the “treasure room”, full of precious objects: jewelry, armor, embroidery from Byzantine, Russian, Persian, Turkish and European Union, helped with the pomp of the court of the Tsars. When, in the eighteenth century, the Court moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the Armory was designed to accommodate items related to the ceremony of coronation robes and sumptuous stately.

The exhibition includes a selection of 19 works from the Medici collections, arrived in Florence as a valuable diplomatic gifts to the tsars of Russia Grand Duke of Tuscany, to witness the profound intercultural relations between the two courts at the end of the sixteenth century until the early decades of the eighteenth century.

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Lorenzo Bartolini exhibition in Florence

01 Aug 2011

Bartolini mostra FirenzeUntil November 6th 2011 at the Galleria  dell’Accademia in Florence,  you can visit the first major exhibition dedicated to Lorenzo Bartolini (1777-1850), an artist whose work played a central role in development of sculpture in Italy, Europe and the United States.

The exhibition is inspired by the extraordinary group of plaster models stored in Accademia Gallery and brings the highest level of quality Bartolini’s production, highlighting the wealth of artistic interests ranging on various topics ranging from those of an intimate nature and sentimental, to the monumental themes, in which, not infrequently, reveals his political participant in the historical events of his time.

Through the works on display are highlighted the most important commissions of sculptures, shown alongside those of decorative art produced by his studio, also in great demand by the protagonists of the cosmopolitan society that animated the cultural life of Florence, a must on the Grand Tour.

scultura Bartolini mostraThe sculptor also happy portrait painter, is wanted by all the major European figures of the time in music, literature, politics, high finance and investigates psychological subtlety in a series of memorable portraits, like those of M.me de  Stael, Lord Byron, Franz Liszt, Gioacchino Rossini.

The Bartholin’s stylistic evolution is illustrated with 75 works. For the first time the nineteenth century will be visible again in Florence a number of important sculptures, testifying to the milestones of the affirmation of Bartolini.

The exhibition at the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence is open from Monday to Sunday from 8.15 to 18.50.
For information visit the official website of the exhibition. Phone: +39 055 284883

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Exhibition at Palazzo Pitti: “From the splendor of the court to the bourgeois luxury”

21 Jul 2011

Until 11th September 2011 at Palazzo Pitti in Florence you can visit the exhibition “From the splendor of the Court to the bourgeois luxury. The Precious Stones into united Italy.”

Palazzo Pitti Firenze
This is a show dedicated to the activity of the historic “Opificio delle Pietre Dure” (Precious Stones) of Florence and connects to the initiatives for the 150 years of unity of Italy, focusing on a specific theme, Florence and international at the same time: that of the new path which opened after 1861 for the brilliant artistic manufacture, which had flourished for three centuries to shadow of the grand ducal court of Tuscany, became famous throughout Europe for its inimitable creations in precious stones.

Wall panels, tables, boxes, sculptures made of precious stones and ornamental paintings captivate the beauty of rare stones, like the refined decorative inventions.

For further information visit the official exhibition’s website.

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