Life and death Pompeii and Herculaneum

28.03 – 29.09.2013
www.britishmuseum.org/

AD 79. In just 24 hours, two cities in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy were buried by a catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Preserved under ash, the cities lay buried for just over 1,600 years, their rediscovery providing an unparalleled glimpse into the daily life of the Roman Empire. From the bustling street to the intimate spaces of a Roman home, this major exhibition will take you to the heart of people’s lives in Pompeii and Herculaneum.

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Una grande mostra che, attraverso 250 oggetti provenienti da Pompei ed Ercolano, descriverà la vita quotidiana che lì si svolgeva fino alla data del 24 agosto 79 d.C., giorno in cui le due città vennero sepolte da una catastrofica eruzione.

Conservati sotto le ceneri, la loro riscoperta 1700 anni più tardi, fornirà uno sguardo senza precedenti alla quotidianità dell'Impero Romano. Dalle strade affollate agli spazi intimi di una casa romana, questa imponente esposizione al British Museum, porterà il visitatore nel cuore della vita della gente di Pompei ed Ercolano.
Il progetto espositivo, curato da Paul Roberts, responsabile della sezione romana, è frutto di una partnership con la Soprintendenza speciale per i beni archeologici di Napoli e Pompei ed è sponsorizzato dalla Goldman Sachs.

De l’Allemagne. German Thought and Painting, from Friedrich to Beckmann, 1800-1939

28.03 – 24.06.2013

http://www.louvre.fr

This exhibition, comprising over two hundred works, offers a reflection on the main themes that structured German thinking from 1800 to 1939. It places artworks and their artists—including Caspar David Friedrich, Paul Klee, Philipp Otto Runge and Otto Dix—in the intellectual context of their time, and confronts them with the writings of great thinkers, chief among whom is Goethe.

German history from the late 18th century to the eve of World War II is marked by the difficulty of establishing political unity at a time when the concept of a Europe of nations was gaining hold. A multi-faith country characterized by geographical discontinuity, the instability of its borders and different or even antagonistic political and cultural contexts, Germany needed to establish the underlying unity of all Germans, from Bavaria to the Baltic, from the Rhineland to Prussia.

The concept of Kultur, inherited from Enlightenment thought, seemed most likely to constitute the breeding ground from which a modern German tradition could emerge. The Napoleonic occupation fostered awareness of this unity and provided the political background for the beginnings of Romanticism, at the start of our timeline—while at its end, the rise of Nazism highlighted the tragic dimension of this concept, without managing to destroy it. The exhibition analyzes the role of the fine arts, from Romanticism to New Objectivity, in this period of great artistic innovation that sought to invent a new German tradition.

David Bowie is

23.03 – 28.07.2013.

http://www.vam.ac.uk

The V&A has been given unprecedented access to the David Bowie Archive to curate the first international retrospective of the extraordinary career of David Bowie - one of the most pioneering and influential performers of modern times. David Bowie is will explore the creative processes of Bowie as a musical innovator and cultural icon, tracing his shifting style and sustained reinvention across five decades.

The V&A’s Theatre and Performance curators, Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh have selected more than 300 objects that will be brought together for the very first time. They include handwritten lyrics, original costumes, fashion, photography, film, music videos, set designs, Bowie’s own instruments and album artwork.

The exhibition will explore the broad range of Bowie’s collaborations with artists and designers in the fields of fashion, sound, graphics, theatre, art and film. On display will be more than 300 objects including Ziggy Stardust bodysuits (1972) designed by Freddie Burretti, photography by Brian Duffy; album sleeve artwork by Guy Peellaert and Edward Bell; visual excerpts from films and live performances including The Man Who Fell to Earth, music videos such as Boys Keep Swinging and set designs created for the Diamond Dogs tour (1974). Alongside these will be more personal items such as never-before-seen storyboards, handwritten set lists and lyrics as well as some of Bowie’s own sketches, musical scores and diary entries, revealing the evolution of his creative ideas.

Delvaux e il Surrealismo Un enigma tra De Chirico, Magritte, Ernst, Man Ray

23.03-30.06.2013
http://www.magnanirocca.it

Tele dominate da baluginanti nudita, da scheletri implicati in scene religiose. Le mostre di Paul Delvaux hanno destato scandalo, come la retrospettiva di Ostenda del 1962, che consacrera definitivamente l'artista sul piano internazionale, vietata ai minori di diciotto anni.

Oppure la Biennale di Venezia del 1954, nella quale il patriarca, futuro papa Giovanni XXIII, proibi ai preti l'eccesso di una pittura che avrebbe potuto turbarli.

Affabulatore dell'inconscio, intrigante stratega di atmosfere da sogno, Delvaux trova fonte d'ispirazione in quelli che lui considera i suoi due mentori, Giorgio De Chirico, il metafisico "faro" per i surrealisti, e Rene Magritte, insieme a Delvaux il piu grande pittore belga del XX secolo: "Cercavo negli altri l'alimento che mi permettesse di scoprire me stesso. Percio ho fatto pittura espressionista. Ho fatto pittura come quella di Ensor. C'era qualcos'altro che volevo trovare: fu allora che scoprii Giorgio de Chirico, e fu lui, d'un tratto, a mettermi sulla strada giusta". Si presenta con queste parole Delvaux, protagonista della stagione del Surrealismo, il movimento d'avanguardia nato nel 1924 col Manifesto di Andre Breton, che eleva il sonno a stato di coscienza e realta, con Sigmund Freud inconsapevole profeta: "Automatismo psichico puro con il quale ci si propone di esprimere il funzionamento reale del pensiero, in assenza di qualsiasi controllo esercitato dalla ragione, al di fuori di ogni preoccupazione estetica o morale."

Questa dimensione artistica viene indagata dalla nuova mostra della Fondazione Magnani Rocca dal titolo "DELVAUX E IL SURREALISMO" dal 23 marzo al 30 giugno 2013, a cura di Stefano Roffi insieme al Musee d'Ixelles-Bruxelles, dove l'enigma, perfettamente surreale, sull'adesione o meno dell'artista al dettato del movimento surrealista (egli la negava, contraddicendo una apparente evidenza, definendosi un "realista poetico") costituisce il tema della mostra stessa che, con circa 80 opere scandite tematicamente (Il paesaggio, L'enigma della ferrovia, Il mistero femminino, Le coppie, La classicita, Gli scheletri) offre anche il confronto con i lavori di accertati surrealisti quali lo stesso Magritte, Max Ernst, Man Ray, oltre al grande De Chirico; con loro Delvaux partecipa a "L'Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme" nel 1938 a Parigi, in un incontro artistico fra i piu sorprendenti del Novecento, dopo essere rimasto molto colpito dalle opere che aveva visto alla mostra "Minotaure", tenutasi al Palais des Beaux-Arts di Bruxelles nel 1934.
Nella "Villa dei Capolavori", sede a Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma) della Fondazione Magnani Rocca, presieduta da Giancarlo Forestieri, accanto alle celebri opere di Durer, Rubens, Van Dyck, Goya, Canova, Monet, Renoir, Morandi e molti altri, i lavori di Delvaux trovano dialoghi di raffinata suggestione.
La mostra, che si avvale del sostegno di Fondazione Cariparma e Cariparma Credit Agricole, e corredata da un ricco catalogo, contenente saggi di Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, Stefano Roffi, Laura Neve, Mauro Carrera, Elisa Barili, Pierre Ghene.

Clouds

22 .03.2013 - 01.07.2013
http://www.leopoldmuseum.org

From 1800 landscape painting experienced an impressive heyday. Within this genre, artists paid increasing attention to the motif of clouds. These strange, elusive formations consisting of water, air and light appear as conveyors of different emotions and messages. Bushy clouds in a sunny sky contribute significantly to the positive atmosphere of a landscape and seem to be an almost indispensible feature in idyllic depictions of nature. A sky traversed by dark rain and thunder clouds, on the other hand, is perceived as threatening, while a band of clouds bathed in the glow of the red evening light sets a melancholy mood. Bizarre cloud formations, in turn, can be interpreted as enigmatic signs, as mysterious messages and warnings of imminent danger. A sense of foreboding is also conveyed by masses of clouds that appear out of control, occasioned either by natural disasters or by man as a result of technical intervention, such as exhaust fumes and atomic explosions.

The exhibition seeks to shed light on these different aspects of cloud depictions with a great variety of select examples of European and American painting and photography from 1800 to today. The presentation features works by Caspar David Friedrich, William Turner, Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch, Emil Nolde, René Magritte, Salvador Dali.

Hyperrealism 1967-2012

22.03. - 09.06.2013
http://www.museothyssen.org

The late 1960s saw the emergence of a group of artists in the USA who painted objects and scenes from daily life with a high degree of realism, using photography as the basis for their works. This new movement achieved international recognition when it participated in the Kassel Documenta of 1972. The present exhibition at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza offers the first survey of Hyperrealism, from the great US masters of the first generation such as Richard Estes, John Baeder, Robert Bechtle, Tom Blackwell, Chuck Close and Robert Cottingham, the movement’s continuation in Europe and its impact on painters of subsequent generations up to the present day. Hyperrealism is not a closed movement and today, more than forty years after it first appeared, many of the group’s pioneers continue to be active, together with new artists who deploy a photo-realist technique in their works. The artistic resources and motifs have evolved and changed over time but Hyperrealist works, with their astonishing definition, precision and detail, continue to fascinate the public.

The present exhibition brings together 66 works by three generations of artists, loaned from numerous museums and private collections. It has been organised by the Institut fur Kulturaustausch (German Cultural Exchange Institute) and is curated by its director Otto Letze. The Kunsthalle in Tubingen has been the first venue to present the exhibition, which will travel to various European cities. It can be seen at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid until 9 June, followed by the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (UK). The exhibition’s principal aim is to offer visitors a complete survey of the contribution made by Hyperrealism to the history of art and this is the first exhibition on the subject of this scale to be seen in Europe, offering an unprecedented chance to see a large group of works representative of this movement as a whole.

1000 лет золота инков. Из собрания музея «Золото Перу»/ «Oro del Peru».

19.03. – 26.05.2013
http://arts-museum.ru/

На выставке «1000 лет золота инков» в ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина  будут представлены более восьмидесяти уникальных экспонатов древних культур Южной Америки  из собрания «Музея золота» в Перу, расположенного в городе Лиме. Основу собрания этого музея составляет коллекция Мигеля Мухика Гало, в которой представлены более 8 тысяч древних экспонатов из золота и серебра. Начало коллекции Мигеля Гало положили приобретения 1935 года, сейчас в собрании «Музея золота», директором которого стала дочь известного перуанского коллекционера Виктория Мухико, собраны памятники различных культур доколумбовой Южной Америки, таких как чавин, уари, паракас, мочика, чиму, наска,  и, конечно, инков.

РОМАНОВЫ. НАЧАЛО ДИНАСТИИ. К 400-летию избрания на царство Михаила Федоровича Романова

19.03.2013–30.06.2013
http://www.shm.ru

К юбилею избрания на царство Михаила Федоровича, первого из династии Романовых, Исторический музей совместно с российскими и зарубежными музеями и архивами представит яркие памятники эпохи, сыгравшей важную роль в исторической судьбе России. После Смутного времени, разорившего страну в начале XVII века, на русский престол «советом всея земли» был избран родоначальник новой царской династии. При первых Романовых Россия завершила средневековый период своей истории и стояла на пороге грядущих преобразований.

Иван III

19.03.-14.07.2013
http://www.kreml.ru

19 марта в Одностолпной палате откроется экспозиция, посвященная Ивану III, при котором произошло объединение русских земель вокруг Москвы, ставшей центром государства, и был принят так называемый Судебник.

Предметными свидетельствами эпохи его правления являются кремлевские памятники. Как известно, именно по указу Ивана Васильевича в Москву были приглашены лучшие итальянские мастера, которые занялись перестройкой Кремля.

На выставке будут представлены редкие и ценные экспонаты — Корсунский крест, привезенный посольством Софьи Палеолог, монеты с изображением Ивана III, шитая пелена с портретами великокняжеской семьи, иконы и уникальные архивные документы.

Tresors de la Chine ancienne - Bronzes rituels de la collection Meiyintang

13.03 - 10.06.2013 Add to calendar
www.guimet.fr

Reunie depuis plus de cinquante ans par un collectionneur passionne, exigeant, admirable connaisseur de l’Asie et des arts de la Chine en particulier, cette partie de la collection Meiyintang bien qu’elle fut connue pour avoir fait l’objet d’importantes publications, n’a cependant
jamais ete presentee au public. Elle le sera ainsi pour la premiere fois en France, au musee Guimet a travers le plus bel ensemble de bronzes archaiques chinois datant des deuxieme et premier millenaires avant notre ere.

A l’inverse de ce qui se rencontre dans les autres civilisations du bronze, les bronzes archaiques chinois n’ont pas de vocation utilitaire. Leur fonction est, des l’origine, propitiatoire ou magique. En Chine, des le XIXe siecle avant J.-C., ces bronzes sont les instruments privilegies des
rites offerts aux manes des ancetres pour solliciter leur puissance, notamment sur le champ de bataille. Masquant les hesitations et la faiblesse d’une metallurgie qui cherche sa maitrise, l’art du decor mais surtout l’audace des formes atteignent immediatement a la perfection. En
temoigne l’extraordinaire elegance, le geste inspire du grand jue, ou coupe a alcool, temoignage exceptionnel de la civilisation Erlitou (XIXe-XVIe siecles av. J.-C.) par lequel commencera l’exposition.