EXHIBITIONS

Museums and other cultural sites in Italy are open only to visitors with a Super Green Pass (the certificate issued following vaccination or recovery from covid-19). This provision does not apply to visitors under the age of 12. Most venues require advance booking and the wearing of masks is obligatory. Weekend visits to more popular sites such as the Colosseum and the Pantheon must be booked at least one day ahead. For visiting details check websites in advance.

JAGO

12 MARCH-3 JULY

Palazzo Bonaparte reopens after two years with an exhibition devoted to the young Italian sculptor Jago, born Jacopo Cardillo in 1987, who is known for his hyper-realistic sculptures and his huge following on social media. The show features 12 works, ranging from small carved river stones to the more recent monumental sculpture La Pietà and his highprofile Habemus Hominem bust of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. See Art News page XX. Piazza Venezia 5, www.mostrepalazzobonaparte.it.

Bill Viola at Palazzo Bonaparte. Martyrs series - Water Martyr (detail). Photo Kira Perov © Bill Viola Studio.

BILL VIOLA: ICONS OF LIGHT

5 MARCH-26 JUNE

Palazzo Bonaparte’s first show in its new season is dedicated to Bill Viola, the American video artist whose installations revolve around electronic, sound and image technology. Curated by Kira Perov, the exhibition comprises 10 works by Viola including Ascension (2000) and Water Portraits (2015). Piazza Venezia 5, www. mostrepalazzobonaparte.it.

Jago with Habemus Hominem at Palazzo Bonaparte.

GUIDO RENI AND ROME: NATURE AND DEVOTION

1 MARCH-22 MAY

Galleria Borghese stages a exhibition of works by Guido Reni, the first such major show dedicated to the Baroque master in Italy in three decades. The exhibition is built around Reni’s painting Country Dance, recently returned to the museum’s collection from which it was sold at the end of the 19th century. Curated by Francesca Cappelletti, the exhibition will focus on Reni’s interest in landscape painting in relationship to the other Italian and foreign painters active in Rome in the early 17th century. Galleria Borghese, Piazzale Scipione Borghese 5, www. galleriaborghese.beniculturali.it.

CRAZY: MADNESS IN CONTEMPORARY ART

18 FEB-8 MARCH 2023

Chiostro del Bramante presents a new large-scale exhibition project curated by Danilo Eccher. The works of 21 international artists fill the venue’s internal and external spaces “because madness cannot have limits.” The exhibition, described as unpredictable and immersive, will features 11 sitespecific works displayed in rooms not normally open to visitors. The 21 artists include Petah Coyne, Ian Davenport, Janet Echelman, Lucio Fontana, Anne Hardy, Thomas Hirschhorn, Alfredo Pirri, Gianni Politi. Chiostro del Bramante, Arco della Pace 5, www. chiostrodelbramante.it.

painting has had on the art world over the centuries, the exhibition comprises 31 works, from major institutions, including the Prado and the Thyssen Museum in Madrid, the Capodimonte Museum in Naples and the Borghese Gallery in Rome. The show features works by artists including Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, Valentin de Boulogne, Pietro Novelli, Mattia Preti and Giuseppe Vermiglio. Palazzo Barberini, Via delle Quattro Fontane 13, www.barberinicorsini.org.

KLIMT: LA SECESSIONE E L’ITALIA

Guido Reni at Galleria Borghese. Atalanta e Ippomene © Photo courtesy Ministero della Cultura - Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte, Napoli.

ANTONIO PRONOSTICO

5 FEB-5 MARCH

Rosso20sette Arte Contemporanea hosts the solo exhibition Seduta di coppia by Antonio Pronostico, winner of the Artribune award as best illustrator 2021. The Romebased artist presents a series of illustrations depicting couples seated uncomfortably, as they carry out daily activities, in what has been described as “a delicate and romantic reflection on the difficult balance that characterises every form of coexistence.” Rosso20sette contemporary art, Via del Sudario 39, www.rosso27.com.

CARAVAGGIO AND ARTEMISIA

26 NOV-27 MARCH

Caravaggio and Artemisia: Judith’s challenge. Violence and seduction in painting between the 16th and 17th centuries. This exhibition at Palazzo Barberini takes as it starting point Judith who decapitates Holofernes in Caravaggio’s masterpiece which was rediscovered 70 years ago before being acquired by the Italian state. Evaluating the impact the powerful

27 OCT-27 MARCH

Palazzo Braschi presents an exhibition of paintings by Gustav Klimt, including Portrait of a Lady, which went missing for almost 23 years after its theft from a gallery in Piacenza. The painting was stolen in 1997 before being rediscovered in the gallery’s garden, in mysterious circumstances, in 2019. The works on show feature some of the Austrian artist’s masterpieces from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, the Klimt Foundation and public and private collections such as the Neue Galerie Graz. Highlights among the paintings, sculptures and drawings on display include Judith I, Lady in White, Friends I (The

GOOD NEWS: WOMEN IN ARCHITECTURE

16 DEC-11 SEPT

Rome’s MAXXI documents the growing presence of women, collectives and studio couples in the architectural profession as it shakes off the 20th-century stereotype of the architect of the charismatic (male) grandmaster. The exhibition Good News examines how “new figures are infusing new forces” into contemporary architecture, with a particular focus on the work of studios directed or co-chaired by female international designers. MAXXI, which was designed by the celebrated Zaha Hadid, pays tribute in the show to architects including Charlotte Perriand, Elizabeth Diller and Frida Escobedo alongside a series of video interviews. Museo nazionale delle arte del XXI secolo, Via Guido Reni 4/A, www.maxxi.art.

Gustav Klimt at Palazzo Braschi. Judith I, (detail).

Good News: Women in Architecture at MAXXI.

Sisters), Amalie Zuckerkandl and The Bride. The exhibition focuses on the artist’s relationship with Italy and the influence he had on other artists working in the country. Museo di Roma, Piazza Navona 2, tel. 060608, www.museodiroma.it.

SEBASTIAO SALGADO

1 OCT-13 FEB

Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado provides a black and white photographic journey through the Brazilian Amazon, after he spent six years capturing images of the forest, the rivers, the mountains and the people who live there. MAXXI, Italy’s national museum of 21st-century arts, presents Salgado’s 200 photographs against a soundscape of sounds - recorded in the forests and created by Jean-Michel Jarre – feauring the rustling of trees, birdsong, the shrieks of animals, and the roar of waterfalls. The exhibition highlights the fragility of this ecosystem, showing that in the protected areas where the indigenous communities live the forest has suffered almost no damage. MAXXI, Via Guido Reni 4A, www.maxxi.art.

MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE

21 AUG-30 APRIL

Museo di Roma in Trastevere presents an exhibition dedicated to the pioneering American photojournalist Margaret BourkeWhite (1904-1971). The show comprises more than 100 images from the Life archive in New York, documenting the photographer’s unconventional vision and life. Bourke-White was the first known female war correspondent and the first woman to be allowed to work in combat zones during world war two. The photographs on display in Rome chronicle soldiers in world war two, aerial shots of American cities, portraits of Stalin and Gandhi, apartheid in South Africa and racial segregation in the US. Piazza S. Egidio 1/b, tel. 060608, www.museodiromaintrastevere.it.

Margaret Bourke-White at Museo di Roma in Trastevere.