Do not miss these 6 exhibitions

LEONARDO

When: from April 16th to July 19th 2015

Where: Palazzo Reale, Milan

Few days left for the most important monographic exhibition ever organized in Italy dedicated to the genius of all time, Leonardo Da Vinci. Sponsored by the City of Milan and created and produced by Palazzo Reale and Skira Editore, it is divided into twelve sections, each of which will perform its original codes, more than one hundred original drawings (including around thirty from the famous “Atlantic Code”) and a number works of art, including manuscripts, drawings, sculptures and incunabola of the sixteenth century from the most famous museums and libraries of the world.

JEFF KOONS: A RETROSPECTIVE

When: from June 9th to September 27th, 2015

Where: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Delusions of grandeur, exaggerated proportions, stratospheric prices and unprecedented media attention: Jeff Koons, the king of the beyond measure stops at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, with a retrospective created by the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou of Paris. From the beginnings in 1970 to the successful series of the eighties, until the epochal CELEBRATION conceived between 1994 and 2000, as a spread over the limit (see the baloon dog in mirrored stainless steel) to tell the stages of human history and especially to send a smile to his child far away. “I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So If you have a sense of a heightened situation where there’s an excitement, a phtsical excitement and an intellectual stimolation, there’s just this sense of expansion. Because that’s where the art happens. Inside the viewer”, JK.

SERIAL CLASSIC

When: from May 9th to August 24th, 2015

Where: Fondazione Prada

Co-curated by Salvatore Settis and Anna Anguissola, the exhibition is devoted to classical sculpture and, in particular, it highlights the ambivalent relationship between originality and imitation in the Roman culture. With more than 60 works, the retrospective begins with an in-depth analysis about the lost originals and their multiple copies, represented by two well-known series: the Discobolo and the Venere accovacciata.
Special attention is also paid to materials and color of bronze and the classic marble, in addition totechnologies and methods used in the realization of the copies, showing two stages in particular: the creation of the plaster cast and the transfer of the measures on the new block of marble. In the exhibtion also Penelope and the Cariatidi.

ART & FOODS

When: from April 10th to November 1st, 2015

Where: Milano Triennale

7000 square meters dedicated to the multifaceted relationship between the arts and the food. Arts & Foods, in fact, will focus on the plurality of visual languages ​​and models, object and environment that from 1851, year of the first Expo in London, have revolved around food, nutrition and the ritual of the banquet. Curated by Germano Celant, the retrospective has been entrusted to the Studio Italo Rota for the preparation, starring kitchen tools, a table spread, a picnic, as well as joint public bars and restaurants, as well as changes that have occurred in report the road trip, by plane and in space, from the design and presentation of buildings dedicated to its rituals and its production. “

HERB RITTS

When: from March 14th to November 8th, 2015

Where: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

During a trip with a friend, the young and as yet little known Richard Gere, on a hot summer’s day in 1978 to the San Bernardino desert they got a puncture which forced them to spend some times at a service station. In white singlet, jeans and cigarette, Richard Gere changed the tyre while Herb Ritts, who was 26 at that time, began taking photographs. It was those photographs precisely in fact that two years later would be used to promote the film American Gigolò. Museum of Fine Art in Boston is celebrating  this genius with the camera, exceptional portraits, a man of inexhaustible energy, his multi-faceted career in the exhibition that shows his more representative shots: those that portray Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz, Claudia Schiffer, Stephanie Seymour, Milla Jovovich, Helena Christensen, Kate Moss and Esther Canadas (models he discovered) to the many advertising campaigns, to the collaborations with artists such as Andy Warhol, Billy Idol, Prince and Madonna.

CHINA: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

When: from May 7th to August 16th, 2016

Where: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

It is difficult to go through step by step, collection after collection, that fatal attraction that China, already in very difficult times, before becoming the “Dragon” – one of the strongest economic powers in the world – has been able to exercise on the most famous designers and Creative Western. Clothing, accessories, detail and atmosphere than on the glossy fashion runways of Paris, Milan, New York and London became vintage postcards, long journeys to Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing. To rebuild the complex as prolific, creative dialogue between East and West is the exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass hosted at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, from May 7 to August 16, 2015. One hundred and thirty creations on display, including haute couture and ready-to-wear dresses, each flanked by jewelry, porcelain and Chinese historical relics, the imperial era to the present day. Fashion, art, film, culture and history united by the common thread of creativity. Unforgettable masterpieces, like the dress designed by Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent in 2004, inspired by the garment worn by the last emperor Pu Yi, or that of 2005 by Roberto Cavalli, influenced by the colors and decorations of Chinese porcelain of the fifteenth century.