Da Kandinsky a Pollock. La grande arte dei Guggenheim

Dal 19 marzo al 24 luglio 2016
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Dal 19 marzo al 24 luglio 2016 Palazzo Strozzi ospiterà una grande mostra che porta a Firenze oltre 100 capolavori dell’arte europea e americana tra gli anni venti e gli anni sessanta del Novecento, in un percorso che ricostruisce rapporti e relazioni tra le due sponde dell’Oceano, nel segno delle figure dei collezionisti americani Peggy e Solomon Guggenheim. Curata da Luca Massimo Barbero, la mostra nasce dalla collaborazione tra la Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi e la Fondazione Solomon R. Guggenheim di New York e permette un eccezionale confronto tra opere fondamentali di maestri europei dell’arte moderna come Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Man Ray e dei cosiddetti informali europei come Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, Jean Dubuffet, Lucio Fontana, insieme a grandi dipinti e sculture di alcune delle maggiori personalità dell’arte americana degli anni cinquanta e sessanta come Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, Cy Twombly.

Divine Beauty from Van Gogh to Chagall and Fontana

24 September 2015 - 24 January 2016
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This outstanding show, with over one hundred works by well-known Italian and international artists, sets out to explore the relationship between art and religion from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century. The exhibition will be hosting work by such major Italian artists as Domenico Morelli, Gaetano Previati, Felice Casorati, Gino Severini, Renato Guttuso, Lucio Fontana and Emilio Vedova, together with works by such international masters as Vincent van Gogh, Jean-François Millet, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Georges Rouault and Henri Matisse.

With sections devoted to the crucial themes in the religious and artistic debate, Divine Beauty will provide visitors with a unique opportunity to compare extremely famous works of art observed in a new and different light, alongside pieces by artists whose work is perhaps less well-known today but who, in their own way, have helped to forge the rich and complex panorama of modern art; and this, not only in a religious environment.

Power and Pathos. Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World

14 March−21 June 2015
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Using outstanding examples of large-scale bronze sculptures, the exhibition sets out to explore the development of art in the Hellenistic age as it spread from Greece throughout the Mediterranean between the 4th and 1st centuries BC.
The use of bronze, with its unique characteristics, allowed artists to impart an unprecedented level of dynamism to their full-figure statues and of naturalism to their portraits, where psychological expression became a hallmark of the style.
Thanks to the valuable cooperation of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, and with the contribution of Bank of America, the exhibition will be hosting pieces from many of the world's leading archaeological museums. The monumental statues of gods and goddesses, athletes and warriors, will be on display alongside portraits of poweful public figures, together with a number of works in marble or stone selected for the fascinating way in which they successfully emulate bronze.

The Russian Avant-garde, Siberia and the East. Kandinsky, Malevich, Filonov, Goncharova

27 September 2013 – 19 January 2014
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The Russian Avant-garde, Siberia and the East, is the first international exhibition to examine the fundamental importance of the Oriental and Eurasian connection to Russian Modernism. The exhibition follows the destinies of Russia’s self-proclaimed “Barbarians” in their search for new sources of artistic inspiration and demonstrates how modern Russian culture experienced a deep attraction to – and an apprehension of – the exotic, the unknown and the “Other”, which artists and writers identified with the spirit of the taiga, the virgin territories of desert and steppe and the “otherness” of Oriental culture.

The exhibition underscores, displaying 130 works (79 paintings, watercolors and drawings, 15 sculptures and 36 Oriental artefacts and ethnographical objects) divided into 11 sections, the complex relationship Russian artists experienced with the Orient, Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Natal’ia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov, Leon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, Pavel Filonov. These prime movers of the Avant-garde were deeply aware of the importance of the East and contributed to the rich debate which left a profound and permanent imprint on their creative imagination.

In addition to the heroes of the Russian Avant-garde, this exhibition will also acquaint the visitor with other, less familiar but strikingly original, artists of the day such as Nikolai Kalmakov, Sergei Konenkov and Vasilii Vatagin, many of whose works are being shown in the West for the first time.