Exhibitions in Genoa
The most interesting ehibitions in Genoa
Sulle tracce di Darwin.
Origine dell’uomo, domande ‘scabrose’ e scoperte nelle grotte liguri (1846-1908)
(In the footsteps of Darwin.)
(Descent of Man, ‘rough’ questions and discoveries in the caves of Liguria.1846-1908)
Museo di Archeologia Ligure.
Genoa, untill 17 April 2011
The museum, located in one of the most famous historical gardens in Genoa, in the spaces of Villa Pallavicini, exhibits the biggest show of Ligurian archaeology: prehistory and protohistory of Liguria;.
In the caves of Liguria starts since the mid-800 the work of researchers and collectors to meet the great questions raised by the ideas of Darwin in 1859 published “The Origin of Species.”
A journey in the halls of the prehistory of the Archaeological Museum identifies the most significant findings and the tireless work of the early paleontologists.
www.archeologico.museidigenova.it
Zuiganji. La vita dei monaci Zen.
(Zuiganji. The life of Zen monks.)
photographs by Fabio Massimo Fioravanti
Museo d’Arte Orientale E. Chiossone
Genoa, untill 1st May 2011
The exhibition consists of a series of photographs documenting the life and rituals of the Rinzai school of Zen monks in the monastery Zuiganji.
Founded by the Monaco Jigaku Daishi in 828 and rebuilt in its present form during the Momoyama period (1573-1603), the temple complex of Zuiganji has been designated national treasures.
Fabio Massimo Fioravanti, born in Rome, after graduating in Modern Literature began his career as a professional photographer working with Italian and foreign magazines, publishing houses and agencies of images. He’s the author of photographic reportage on Japan, Central Asia, India and Africa. He has published several books on photography and has participated in numerous exhibitions, collective and personal, in Italy and Japan.
www.chissone.museidigenova.it
Mediterraneo da Courbet a Monet a Matisse
(Mediterranean. From Courbet to Monet and Matisse)
Palazzo Ducale, Appartamento del Doge
Genoa, from 27 November 2010 to 1 May 2011
The sea, its vastness and the concept of infinity yet also proximity, became an immensely popular subject during the nineteenth century. While in the north this was expressed by Friederich’s visions and Turner’s storms, in the south the Mediterranean coast – and of course its immediate Provençal hinterland – was the meeting point for several generations of French painters (at least five), who moved away firstly from the realm of classicism and subsequently also from realism, culminating in the dissolution of colour in Bonnard’s exquisite paintings at the turn of the twentieth century. The Exibition in Palazzo Ducale explore this magical journey through the color, using eighty paintings coming from museums and private collections throughout the world: from Vernet to Robert, from Camille Corot to Prosper Marilhat, Félix Ziem, Émile Loubon, Paul Guigou and Adolphe Monticelli, to Gustave Courbet; from Cézanne to Monet, from Renoir to Boudin and Van Gogh.
www.lineadombra.it
www.palazzoducale.genova.it
L’Africa delle meraviglie. Arti africane nelle collezioni italiane
(The wonders of Africa. African arts in the Italian collections)
Palazzo Ducale and Castello d’Albertis
Genoa, from 31 December 2010 to 5 June 2011
The fascination of the West for African art, a phenomenon that dates back to early last century, due to a rediscovery of the avant-garde art: it is a century ago in Paris that artists like Picasso, Matisse, Derain, etc.. were literally “struck” by the inexhaustible variety of African art forms. It is only a few decades that the visual arts of Africa have gained recognition and its own market in our country. The Italian private collections of African art have many works of superior quality, and it is this amazing heritage that exposure will enhance by selecting about 200 pieces, mostly from ethnic groups to established artistic productivity – Dan, Raman, Dogon, Senufo, Baoulé, Yoruba, Fang, Kota, Teke, Kongo – chosen for their extraordinary visual force.
The aim of the exhibition is to provide an overview of African arts by selecting the best works in the collections of Italian private (often never before been exhibited in public spaces) and at the same time critically reflect on what Africa so it makes the scene.
An exhibition that wants to be accessible to all and even beautiful, but that does not stop here, wondering how a show that continues to be born in us a feeling of beauty, even if it matches the experience of these works have the Africans themselves. Here then that the African works of art speak not only of others but also of us, of those who have collected but also Italian story and society in its relations with the African. www.palazzoducale.genova.it
Mediterraneo fantastico. Mediterraneo da museo.
Viaggio nel mare di capolavori della Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Genova e delle Raccolte Frugone
(Mediterranean fantastic. Mediterranean from the museum.
GAM – Galleria d´Arte Moderna and masterpieces from Wolfson Collection
Musei di Nervi – Raccolte Frugone
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Genoa, from 25 September 2010 to 1 May 2011
Sea and rocks, pirates and unloaders, bathers and fishers, marine animals and tuna fishing, moonlight and ports, sea bathing and shipyards in the works of some international leading figures of the nineteenth and twentieth century: from Ippolito Caffi to Petrus Theodor Tetar Van Elven, from Ernesto Rayper to Serafín Avendaño, from Plinio Nomellini to Rubaldo Merello, da Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida to Richard Miller, from Leopold Survage to Aligi Sassu, to Zao Wo Ki.
www.gam.museidigenova.it