Once again, Genoa opens the doors to art by hosting the 7th edition of the famous Exhibition-Market ArteGenova.

The exhibition’s venue will be even this year the trade fair show located in Piazzale Kennedy and the event confirms itself as a must for art lovers and for tourists visiting the city in this period, wanting to glance at artworks exposed and maybe buy one.

ArteGenova represents the greatest Italian exhibition-market keeping up new artists and, in the meantime, giving a wide exposition space to artworks belonging to Contemporary Italian art story. More than 90 Italian art galleries will exhibit their works starting from Surrealistic representations, Futuristic, Dadaist ones up to Trans-Avant-Garde expressions, Arte Povera and Pop Art.

The most recent contemporary works cover a large portion of the exhibition area, offering a broad-spectrum landscape on new art vein explored.

From last year the participation to the exhibition of Italian

Exhibition Exhibition”is the name of the exhibition which has begun on September 21st, and will wait for you until January 9th 2011 at Castello di Rivoli Museum of ontemporary Art, near Turin.

It is an exhibition organized by Adam Carr and includes works belonging to the last 60 years created around the concept of symmetry and duality of things.

Carr sets out to explore and reflect on the roles of perception and

Palazzo Reale in Milan is still waiting for us with one of its great exhibitions ongoing since March 17th 2010 and entitled “Goya e il Mondo Moderno” (“Goya and the Modern World”), which will be on display until June 27th 2010.

We are talking about a great exhibition dedicated to the influence the Spanish painter had on modern art, from Picasso to Bacon. An extraordinary collection made up of over 180 works, like paintings, drawings and engravings.

Therefore, the aim of the exhibition is to link and analyze the connections between the painter and other famous modern artists, by starting from a deep research about the themes faced by the Aragonese artist: the image of the new society, the expression of subjectivity, reactions with gestures, and violence.

Among the artists present at the exhibition, we find: Delacroix, Klee, David, Kokoschka, Victor Hugo, Mirò, Klinger, Picasso, Nolde, Bacon, Kirchner, Pollock, Guttuso and de Kooning.

Francisco Goya’s work had a great influence on all the artistic movements belonging to the 19th and 20th centuries, from the Impressionism to Symbolism, from Expressionism to Surrealism, and contributed to strongly influence the contemporary art and culture.

The importance of the body, irrationality, terror, fear, and violence are the incomparable features of Goya’s painting, elements that mark the painter style with immediately recognizable lights and shapes.

The exhibition is managed by Valeriano Bozal and Concepción Lomba, two important Spanish experts about Francisco Goya and contemporary art, supported by the Ministry of Cultural Activities and Heritage, and it was born from the cooperation among Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior (SEACEX), Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, Ministerio de Cultura di Spagna, Fundación Goya en Aragón and Palazzo Reale in Milan.

So, Milan awaits you all at the luxurious Palazzo Reale with the exhibition “Goya and the Modern World”, until June 27th 2010.

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“ArteGenova” comes back in the city of Genoa, in Liguria, and spreads its own creativity. An event entirely dedicated to all modern and contemporary art-addicted and simple curious people. This is the 6^th edition of such exhibition and will take place from Friday 26^th February til Monday March 1^st 2010, at the Fair building in the city of Genoa placed in Piazzale Kennedy.

The 6^th Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Art will host over 90 galleries with works which

Until January 15^th 2010, you have time to visit the wonderful retrospective dedicated to the artist Jacque Villeglè entitled “Vacanze Romane” (“Roman Holidays”), set by Dominique Stella at Mucciaccia Gallery in Rome.

In fact for the first time ever, since last October 8^th visitors can marvel at 75 his works in the rooms of Mucciaccia Gallery: dècollages d’affiches dating back to 1960s ‘til nowadays which keep billboards, adverts and manifestos’ strength and use it in turn to make up and create his dècollages which cancel and remove the message and the communication strength of such adverts.

He angrily dismantles the catch phrases, the images

Turin has the pleasure to present the 16^th edition of Artissima, the International Fair of Contemporary Art, which will take place from 6^th to 8^th November 2009 in the area of Lingotto Fiere.

This extraordinary exhibition represents one of the more prestigious events dedicated to future horizons of present art and to its experiments. It’s an unfailing occasion for both simple lovers and expert collectors. The fair provides the opportunity to meet artists coming from all over the world, to think about the present changes in the field of art, to convey young emerging authors and art galleries of the new generation. Here names and trends that tomorrow will matter are chosen, here “the present future” of art is planned.

The newest artistic expressions are presented to visitors divided into several sections:

A brand new event in Pisa: The House of Mirrors, from 5^th to 7^th November 2009, at Stazione Leopolda.

It’s an innovative and alternative art exhibition, which displays a series of works inspired by the same subject: the picture of a human face, selected by the organization team through a photographic contest. Starting from this common matrix, each one of the participants produced a unique creation, a personal work of art, resulting from his own techniques, inspirations and emotions.

From artist to artist, also the language used can change, and the possibilities are as many as the number of sections in which the exhibition is divided into: Sculpture, Painting, Computer Art, Comics, Video, Tales, Poetry.

Finally, a global message – that is at the same time the founding idea of the project, comes out:

No plans for the weekend?

Well, if your answer is “no”, then we’ll suggest you something unique to do.

This weekend in fact, on Saturday 26^th and Sunday 27^th September 2009, there will be a fully cultural event: as usual, also this year all the European countries will celebrate the European Heritage Days, which were conceived in 1991 by the European Council in order to encourage and promote the cultural dialogue and exchange between European countries.

As every year, MiBAC participates in the event with the slogan “Italy, the treasure of Europe” and organizes throughout Italy several initiatives intended to increase the value of Italian culture and heritage, with the aim to share all this great richness with other European countries.

In fact, throughout the country, many events and activities will take place in order to increase the national heritage value: over 1000 sites will be open to the public with free entrance, extraordinary openings, art exhibitions, concerts, shows and

Don’t miss the chance to go to Genoa and visit the historical dwelling of the Spinola family from another point of view!

Until September 13^th in fact, the picturesque palace will host an event entitled “Spinola Contemporanea” (“Contemporary Spinola”) which is not just a simple exhibition, but it represents a real itinerary inside the building located in Genoa old town, on which 35 Italian and foreign contemporary artists have been working for a year, working hard in order to search a subjective and personal way for interpreting its characteristics.

This itinerary (in a class by itself) was conceived just on the occasion of the 50^th anniversary of the palace opening as a National Gallery, after the last two descendants of the Spinola family, Franco and Paolo, gave as