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October 2013, No.2
From cross-culture to cross-country
Galleries go on cultural exchange as Corri la Vita takes off in Florence LUCY DAVID
October showcases cultural exchange as Florence’s galleries and cinema screens celebrate cross-cultural influences ranging from Italy to France, Siberia and New Zealand. Both Palazzo Pitti and Villa Bardini host major exhibitions on loan from France that highlight artistic interplay between Italy and France in the nineteenth century. Palazzo Pitti displays Impressionists at Palazzo Pitti: 12 masterpieces from Musée d’Orsay until Jan-
uary 5, the result of a collaboration between the two institutions that saw a Palazzo Pitti collection take a starring role at a Musée de l’Orangerie exhibition earlier this year, comparing Tuscany’s so-called ‘Macchiaioli’ art pioneers with the French Impressionists. As French paintings leave native shores, Italian artworks return. The Renaissance from Florence to Paris and Back: Treasures of the Jacquemart-André Museum return home sees monumental Italian Renaissance works on display in Florence after a century’s sojourn
in Paris. Both the exhibition and its collection are the result of an Italo-French exchange: Parisian couple Édouard André and Nélie Jacquemart sourced the artworks from Florentine art dealer Stefano Bardini in the nineteenth century, and it is to Villa Bardini that the works return for their four-month stay. Venturing from Europe to Asia, The Russian Avant-garde, Siberia and the East exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi until January 19 traces the origins of the Russian avant-garde movement to its artists’ fascination with the Orient and
the melting pot of Eurasian cultures that formed the Russian Empire. Just as the Russian avant-garde movement saw the definition of ‘Russian territory’ change over the course of revolution and two world wars, Palazzo Strozzi’s little sister Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina hosts Unstable Territory: Borders and identity in contemporary art (also until January 19), which examines how globalization and technology has made ‘border’ a porous concept. On screen, the Odeon Cinema lights up for
a 50-day festival of international cinema, while the British Institute pays homage to Florence’s lesser-known Australian and New Zealand population with a tribute to Antipodean film. Outside the galleries and cinema halls, Corri la Vita fun run makes the most of autumn’s lingering days with a five-kilometer walk and 13-kilometer run past Florence’s most famous sights on October 13 in what may be considered a warm-up to the city’s more gruelling marathon on November 24.
50 Days of International Cinema
Corri la Vita fun run takes off on Oct. 13
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