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DISCOVER AND ENJOY
JEFF KOONS. Shine CONTEMPORARY ART
at Palazzo Strozzi • until 30 January
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Francesco Vezzoli in Florence SITE-SPECIFIC
at Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio • until 2 February
JENNY SAVILLE CONTEMPORARY ART Several locations • until 20 February
SETA FASHION
at Museo Salvatore Ferragamo • until 18 April
“Benozzo Gozzoli e la Cappella dei Magi”
EXHIBITION at Palazzo Medici Riccardi • until 10 March
DIE FLEDERMAUS OPERA
at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino • 16-23 January
COMING SOON Donatello, il Rinascimento ART
at Palazzo Strozzi-Museo Nazionale del Bargello • 19 March-31 July
LAST DAYS Celebrating Dante Alighieri HISTORY AND ART
at Santa Croce until • 10 January
... and more about the Secrets Tours at Palazzo Vecchio, the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, the new layout of the Gallerie dell’Accademia and the Museo Galileo.
DISCOVER AND ENJOY
Permanent and temporary exhibitions in Florence are back to welcome visitors after difficult months: go and discover the traces of the Italian Renaissance and the great figure of Dante.
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PALAZZO STROZZI, UNTIL 30 JANUARY
THE SPECTATOR AT THE CENTRE OF ART
CONTEMPORARY ART A new major exhibition dedicated to Jeff Koons, one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary art, who has revolutionised the art system from the 1970s to the present day. The works recount 40 years of the American artist’s career and place the viewer at the centre of his surroundings. “Shine” is the key word on which the exhibition is built, in a game of ambiguity between splendour and glow, being and appearing. On display, the famous sculptures in perfectly polished metal replicating luxury objects, such as the “Baccarat Crystal Set” or the iconic inflatable toys such as the famous “Rabbit” and “Balloon Dog” (Red), through to the re-interpretation of pop culture characters such as the “Hulk”, or the re-invention of the idea of ready-made using everyday objects such as “One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank”.
JEFF KOONS. Shine
Palazzo Strozzi, Piazza degli Strozzi. www.palazzostrozzi.org
Francesco Vezzoli, “La musa dell’archeologia piange” (2021), in the Studiolo di Francesco I de’ Medici at Palazzo Vecchio
PIAZZA DELLA SIGNORIA - PALAZZO VECCHIO UNTIL 2 FEBRUARY
UNEXPECTING MUSES IN THE CITY
SITE-SPECIFIC After the interventions of Jan Fabre, Urs Fisher and Jeff Koons and the presentation of a work by Giuseppe Penone, with Francesco Vezzoli Piazza della Signoria once again becomes the fulcrum of contemporary art. Vezzoli is the first living Italian artist to create a site-specific work for Piazza della Signoria: a monumental twentieth-century lion rampant crushes a Roman head from the second century AD in its jaws; a second sculpture is positioned inside the Studiolo di Francesco I de’ Medici in Palazzo Vecchio, a precious treasure chest full of mysterious suggestions. Two works that recreate a surreal world made of archaeology and fantasy, memory and invention.
Francesco Vezzoli in Florence
Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio (Studiolo di Francesco I). musefirenze.it
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TEATRO DEL MAGGIO, 16-23 JANUARY THE BAT BY JOHANN STRAUSS
OPERA At the center of this “operetta” by the most famous of the sons of the Father of the waltz, Johann Strauss jr., is the classic love triangle, with consequent deceptions and scenes of jealousy, in the joyful setting of a masked party where the disguise guarantees an otherwise impossible freedom for the protagonists. Thus the lightness and disenchantment of the story translate musically into a phantasmagoric montage of heterogeneous musical elements. Obviously the beating heart of “Die Fledermaus” beats to the ternary rhythm of a waltz but the musical potpourri created by Strauss also includes polkas, arias that make the Italian opera verse, citations of the hits of the moment (the operettas of Offenbach) and folkloric pieces.
DIE FLEDERMAUS by Johann Strauss Jr.
Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Piazza Vittorio Gui, 1. www.maggiofiorentino.com
SEVERAL LOCATIONS, UNTIL 20 FEBRUARY
JENNY SAVILLE MEETS MICHELANGELO
CONTEMPORARY ART Enormous depictions of naked female bodies, portrayed posed on stools or lying down, displaying provocative sexual forms: these are the themes that the young English artist Jenny Saville uses to confront the great masters of the Italian Renaissance, particularly Michelangelo. In various locations in the city, Saville represents a contemporary humanism that puts the female figure, crushed by the weight of existence, back at the centre of the story. In the rooms of the Museo del Novecento, as in the Salone dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio, in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo as in the Pinacoteca of the Museo degli Innocenti and in Casa Buonarroti.
JENNY SAVILLE. Several locations. www.museonovecento.it
PALAZZO VECCHIO DISCOVERING THE SECRETS OF FLORENCE
Percorsi Segreti.
Palazzo Vecchio, Salone dei Cinquecento, Studiolo di Francesco I. musefirenze.it/attivita/ percorsi-segreti/ EXPERIENCE Guided tours of Palazzo Vecchio allow you to visit a series of particularly precious rooms, including the staircase built at the behest of Gualtieri di Brienne and carved into the thickness of the wall, the Studiolo di Francesco I de’ Medici, a refined treasure chest “of rare and precious things”, and the Scrittoio of his father Cosimo I (better known as the “Tesoretto”), and finally the imposing truss structure that supports the coffered ceiling of the Salone dei Cinquecento.
IVORY MASTERPIECES
Sala degli Avori.
Museo Nazionale del Bargello. Via del Proconsolo, 4. www.bargellomusei. beniculturali.it SCULPTURE Rethinking the exhibition itinerary, improving conservation methods and enhancing the works on display: this was the aim of the complete renovation of the Sala degli Avori in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, which alone covers a time span of fifteen centuries, from rare Etruscan and Roman objects to 19th century artefacts. This is undoubtedly a collection that in terms of the abundance and prestige can be considered in line with some of the great European museums, such as the South Kensington Museum in London and the Musée de Cluny in Paris.
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FIRENZECARD
www.firenzecard.it
“Firenzecard” costs €85 and allows access to 60 museums and is valid for 72 hours from the initial entry to a museum on the Circuit. It can be purchased online or from one of the authorised sales points in Florence. Firenzecard includes: • 1 entry ticket + 1 exhibition supplement + 1 priority ticket for each museum on the Firenzecard circuit • Priority access to museums without booking, except for the Dome, Galleria degli Uffizi and Galleria dell’Accademia, where the booking is required but free. • When purchasing the Firenzecard, you can add “Firenzecard+” to use the city’s public transport (Ataf &Line buses and tramway) and the dedicated commercial offers. Firenzecard+ is valid for 72 hours from the first validation. • Finally, with “Firenzecard Restart” you will be able to visit the museums of the circuit that you didn’t manage to see on your first visit to Florence; you will be able to add another 48 effective hours to your expired FirenzeCard.
FROM GALILEO TOWARDS THE MODERN SCIENCE
Museo Galileo
Piazza dei Giudici, 1. www.museogalileo.it SCIENCE Don’t miss a visit to the Museo Galileo, an extraordinary collection of scientific instruments collected over nearly three centuries by the Medici and Lorraine families, including the only original telescopes by Galileo Galilei in the world. This is a precious testimony to the progressive improvement of observation and measurement instruments that favoured the enormous advancement of scientific knowledge in the 16th and 17th centuries, a decisive contribution to the affirmation of modern science.
MUSEO SALVATORE FERRAGAMO, UNTIL 18 APRIL ▲ A WUNDERKAMMER OF SILK PRINTS
BY FERRAGAMO
FASHION Until 1950, the Ferragamo name was synonymous with women’s footwear. The brand’s founder, Salvatore, dreamed of transforming his internationally renowned brand into a fashion label that dressed a woman from head to toe. And his dream came true: it was one of his daughters, Fulvia, who launched in the 1970s the continuous production of women’s and men’s silk accessories with personalized patterns characterized by exclusive decorative subjects, especially flowers and exotic animals. This creative world overflows with inspirational references, from oriental art to twentieth-century paintings or ancient tomes on botany. At the Museo Salvatore Ferragamo you can explore the universe of printed fabrics, ties and scarves combined with the sources of inspiration for each motif - whether it be a book, a painting, vase or sculpture.
SETA. Museo Salvatore Ferragamo. Palazzo Spini Feroni. www.ferragamo.com
PALAZZO MEDICI RICCARDI, UNTIL 10 MARCH
BENOZZO GOZZOLI AND THE MAGI CHAPEL
EXHIBITION An exhibition dedicated to the Renaissance master Benozzo Gozzoli and his relationship with Florence and Tuscany. With a particular focus on the painting of the Chapel, the exhibition ranges from original works to multimedia creations that allow us to explore his pictorial evidence in the city, through his intense relationship with the Medici family.
“Benozzo Gozzoli e la Cappella dei Magi”
Palazzo Medici Riccardi. musefirenze.it
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NEWS FROM THE “DAVID” MUSEUM
COLLECTION A new layout has marked the reopening of the Galleria dell’Accademia in recent weeks: from the Gipsoteca to the Sala del Colosso, from the Sale Bizantine to the Dipartimento degli Strumenti Musicali. Six hundred works have found a new location in the museum with the largest number of Michelangelo’s sculptures in the world, in particular the ones placed along a path that accompanies the visitor to Michelangelo’s “David”. Work will continue in the coming months to make the vast Florentine collection of masterpieces of painting, sculpture and musical instruments even more attractive.
Galleria dell’Accademia. Via Ricasoli, 58/60. www.galleriaaccademiafirenze.it
CELEBRATING DONATELLO
COMING SOON
EXHIBITION Coming next spring to Florence, this exhibition dedicated to Donatello aims to reconstruct the extraordinary career of one of the most important and influential masters of Italian art of all time, also comparing it with masterpieces by artists such as Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Andrea Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Raphael and Michelangelo. The project was conceived as a celebration of Donatello in dialogue with museums, collections and institutions in Florence and throughout Italy, as well as through fundamental international collaborations, broadening the reflection on the materials, techniques and genres of his universe.
>> In the following months the exhibition will move to the Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst in Berlin (autumn 2022) and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (spring 2023).
“Donatello, il Rinascimento”
Palazzo Strozzi-Museo Nazionale del Bargello. www.bargellomusei. beniculturali.it
Santa Maria Novella
CELEBRATING DANTE ALIGHIERI
Dante Alighieri, the father of the Italian language, is a symbol that tells of Italy to the world, of its humanism and its identity made of beauty and warm hospitality. To commemorate the 700th anniversary of his death, last year, a full calendar of initiatives has been created involving the three cities associated with Dante (Ravenna, Verona and Florence) and several locations in Tuscany. The main sites in Florence that hosted the events has included the Uffizi Galleries, the theatre of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the University of Florence, the Accademia della Crusca, the Galileo Museum, the Fondazione Franco Zeffirelli, the Bargello and the Casa di Dante Museum. For info about the events in January: www.700dantefirenze.it
LAST DAYS
SANTA CROCE,UNTIL 10 JANUARY
NARRATING DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY
The monumental complex of Santa Croce is hosting a new cultural project that aims to update the iconic engravings of Gustave Dorè – French engraver considered one of the greatest illustrators of Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy” - by carrying out an original re-reading of his legacy. A multimedia event based on high-definition projections that aims not only to “explain” the Divine Comedy but also to “narrate” Dante and the relevance of his universal message. It is in Santa Croce, Dante’s place par excellence, that this initiative intends to reconcile the figure of the Supreme Poet with his native city. The artistic expression of the exhibition’s creator, Felice Limosani, aims to make Dante’s message even more alive and relevant, through an approach that combines humanistic disciplines with digital technologies (Digital Humanities).
DANTE. Il Poeta Eterno by Felice Limosani
Complesso Monumentale di Santa Croce www.santacroceopera.it
2022 EVENTS IN ITALY
JANUARY
14-18/1 | Milan | Milano Moda Uomo. www.milanomodauomo.it 20-23/1 | Cortina d’Ampezzo (Veneto) | Alpine World Ski Championship. www.fis-ski.com 30/1 | Val di Fassa (Trentino-Alto Adige) | 49th Marcialonga Skimarathon. www.marcialonga.it
FEBRUARY
12/2-5/3 | Viareggio (Tuscany) | Carnevale di Viareggio. viareggio.ilcarnevale.com 12/2 -1/3 | Venice | Carnevale di Venezia. www.carnevale.venezia.it 22-28/2 | Milan | Milano Moda Donna. www.milanomodadonna.it
MARCH
End of March | Several locations | Spring Days FAI. www.giornatefai.it 24-27/3 | Perugia | Eurochocolate. www.eurochocolate.com 27/3| Rome | Run Rome The Marathon. www.runromethemarathon.com
APRIL
1-3/4 | Milan | Miart. www.miart.it 5-10/4 | Milan | Salone del Mobile. Milano. www.salonemilano.it Mid-April | Milan | Milano Art Week. milanoartweek.comune.milano.it 10-13/4 | Verona | Vinitaly. www.vinitaly.com 23/4-27/11 | Venice | Biennale Arte 2022 (59th edition). www.labiennale.org 27/4-1/5 | Milan | MIA Fair (105th edition). www.miafair.it
MAY
2-15/5 | Rome | Tennis. Internazionali BNL d’Italia. www.internazionalibnlditalia.com 6-29/5 | Several locations in Italy | Giro d’Italia (105th edition). www.giroditalia.it Mid-May | Brescia-Rome-Brescia | Mille Miglia 2022. www.1000miglia.it 28/5-5/6 | Venice | Salone Nautico Venezia. www.salonenautico.venezia.it End of May | Mugello (Tuscany) | Moto GP. Gran Premio d’Italia. www.motogp.com
2022 EVENTS IN ITALY
JUNE
16-19/6 | Milan and Monza | Milano Monza Motor Show 2022. www.milanomonza.com 17-21/6 | Milan | Milano Moda Uomo. www.milanomodauomo.it 17/6-4/9| Verona | Arena di Verona 99th Opera Festival. www.arena.it
JULY
3/7 | Siena | Palio. www.ilpalio.org 8-17/7 | Perugia | Umbria Jazz. www.umbriajazz.it 16/7 | Venice | Festa del Redentore. venice.whereitalia.com
AUGUST
16/8 | Siena | Palio dell’Assunta. www.ilpalio.org 31/8-10/9 | Venice | International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art. www.labiennale.org
SEPTEMBER
11/9 | Monza (Milan) | Formula 1. Italian Grand Prix. www.formula1.com 16-19/9 | Terni | Umbria Jazz. www.umbriajazz.it 17-25/9 | Venice | The Venice Glass Week. www.theveniceglassweek.com 20-26/9 | Milan | Milano Moda Donna. www.cameramoda.it 22-27/9 | Genoa | International Boat Show. www.salonenautico.com
OCTOBER
8/10– 6/12 | Alba (Piedmont) | International Alba White Truffle Fair. www.fieradeltartufo.org 9/10 | Trieste | Barcolana. www.barcolana.it
NOVEMBER
8-13/11 | Milan | EICMA. International Motorcycle and Accessories Exhibition. www.eicma.it Mid-November | Milan | BookCity Milano. bookcitymilano.it and Music Week. www.milanomusicweek.it 21/11 | Venice | Festa della Salute. www.whereitalia.com/venice
DECEMBER
7/12| Milan | Teatro alla Scala – Opening of the Opera Season. www.teatroallascala.org
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