Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died on December 31, 2022, he was 95 years old, and had resigned in 2013 after a pontificate that lasted 8 years. His funeral took place in the Vatican on January 5, 2023. (see more photos)
The funeral of Benedict XVI.
Jacques Henri Lartigue. L’invenzione della felicità. Fotografie
“The invention of happiness. Photographs” is the largest retrospective ever made in Italy, curated by Marion Perceval and Charles-Antoine Revol, respectively director and project manager of the Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue and by Denis Curti, artistic director of the Casa dei Tre Oci, promoted by the Lazio Region and created by LAZIOcrea in collaboration with Casa Tre Oci in Venice and Donation Jacques Henri Lartigue in Paris.
The exhibition brings together 120 images, 55 of which are unpublished, all from Lartigue’s personal photo albums, some pages of which are exhibited in facsimile.
Added to these are some archival materials, books such as the Diary of a Century (published with the title “Instants de ma vie” in French), period magazines, a slide show with album pages. These documents trace his entire career, from the beginnings of the early 1900s to the 1980s, and reconstruct the story of this photographer and his rediscovery.
From 30 October 2021 to 09 January 2022 in Rome: WeGil, Largo Ascianghi 5
Caio Mario Garrubba / FREElance on the road to RomeFotografia 2021 FREEDOM
In Rome at Palazzo Merulana from 9 October until 28 November the exhibition Caio Mario Garrubba / FREElance on the road, conceived and organized by Archivio Storico Luce / Cinecittà SpA and which returns the work of one of the masters of photographic reportage of the ‘900. 116 shots, 30 years of images, four continents.
A master. The rediscovery of a giant of 20th century photographic reportage. An exhibition at Palazzo Merulana explains why the time for Caio Mario Garrubba has come.
From 9 October to 28 November 2021.
Adolfo Farsari the Italian photographer who portrayed japan end 800
The amazing Adolfo Farsari feats, adventurer and photographer in Japan at the end of ‘800 are alive in the 64 images of the exhibition, expressions of photography in black and white hand-colored after printing, called Yokohama Shashin. The poignant tale of a Japan in slow and ineluctable becoming emerges, described in the aesthetic topos intended to constitute the Western imagination on the subject up to the present day.
From 15 October 2020 to 8 January 2021 at the Japanese Cultural Institute in Rome.
Che fine hanno fatto Bette Davis e Joan Crawford?
It’s 1961, Joan Crawford – Riccardo Castagnari, an aging star with many past successes, wants to relaunch his career. He has a script by Lukas Heller: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Crawford wants Robert Aldrich for the staging and Bette Davis – Gianni De Feo as a partner. One night Joan goes to see Bette in a Broadway theater and knocks on her dressing room door. From that moment the author – Jean Marboeuf, imagines a dense correspondence between the two bitter rivals of the screen, in which the two divas challenge and attack each other. On the scene the two protagonists give voice, body and soul to the imaginary epistolary relationship between Crawford and Davis, before, during and after the shooting of the famous film. It is a sadistic, amusing and moving role-playing game that will lead both to discover that, despite their successes, solitude is the fate of every artist.
Translation and adaptation by Riccardo Castagnari: Off / Off Theater from 22 to 31 October 2019. Directed by Fabrizio Bancale.
Medardo Rosso
Rome dedicates for the first time a monographic exhibition to Medardo Rosso. It is the National Roman Museum which, in the Palazzo Altemps headquarters, presents the ambitious exhibition in collaboration with the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan from 10 October 2019 to 2 February 2020 and with the support of the Medardo Rosso Museum in Barzio, with the organization and the promotion of Electa.
The unprecedented selection of works in wax, plaster and bronze, and their transformations, combined with the collection of sculptures of Palazzo Altemps investigates, as never before, the relationship with the ancient and the concept of copying in Medardo Rosso.
Canova. Eternal beauty
An exhibition-event focused on the link between Antonio Canova and the city of Rome, with over 170 works and prestigious loans from important museums and Italian and foreign collections.
Framed within an installation of great visual impact, over 170 works by Canova and some contemporary artists enliven the rooms of the Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi. The exhibition tells in 13 sections Canovian art and the context that the sculptor found when he arrived in the city in 1779.
Through sophisticated lighting solutions, the warm atmosphere of torchlight is recalled along the exhibition route, with which the artist, at the end of the eighteenth century, showed his works to the guests, at night, in the atelier in Via delle Colonnette.
Palazzo Braschi Museum of Rome: until 15 March 2020
Ars Erotica – The art of non-violent love in ancient Rome
At the Stadium of Domitian was opened the exhibition “The art of not-violent love in ancient Rome”, a collaboration between Codacons and MANN. It is a real “path” in eroticism through art and works kept at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples.
The initiative will be open to middle and high schools throughout Italy to explain to students, through the help of psychologists and experts, the relationship between affectivity and sex, integrating psychology with art in order to identify a different key to speaking to young people of love, eroticism and sensuality and fighting the phenomena of bullying and violence against women, unfortunately constantly growing in Italy.
The exhibition will be open until November 6th 2019.
World Press Photo 2019 exhibition at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni.
From April 25th to May 26th 2019 the 62nd edition of the World Press Photo will be held in Rome, at Palazzo delle Esposizioni.
The exhibition, conceived by the World Press Photo Foundation of Amsterdam, promoted by Roma Capitale – Assessorato alla Crescita Culturale and organized by Azienda Speciale Palaexpo in collaboration with 10b Photography, will host the 140 finalist photos of the prestigious photojournalism contest, which from the 1955 awards the best professional photographers every year, thus helping to build the history of the world’s best visual journalism.
Paolo Di Paolo. Mondo perduto.
Paolo Di Paolo. Mondo perduto curated by Giovanna Calvenzi
17 April 2019 – 30 June 2019 – MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Century Arts.
A delicate, rigorous and wise recount of an Italy emerging from the ashes of the Second World War.
This exhibition presents an extraordinary chronicler of the Italy of the Fifties and Sixties who published more than 500 photographs in the weekly Il Mondo, portraying created by the famous journalist Mario Pannunzio, protagonists of the worlds of art, culture, fashion and film along with ordinary people.
Among his photos, rediscovered after more that 50 years of neglect, are those of Pier Paolo Pasolini at Monte dei Cocci in Rome, Tennesse Williams on the beach with his dog, Anna Magnani with her son on the Circeo beach, Kim Novak ironing in her room in the Grand Hotel, Sofia Loren joking with Marcello Mastroianni in the Cinecittà studios. And then a family seeing the sea for the first time at Rimini and the devastated faces of the people at the funeral of Palmiro Togliatti.
Main sponsor Gucci
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