The exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute highlights the historical and stylistic continuity between Gard and the art of Vasarely

At the heart of the exhibition “Kinetic Art: A Tribute by Ferruccio Gard to Vasarely” - hosted at the Italian Cultural Institute in Marseille until May 15 - lies an idea of continuity, almost a passing of the torch.

With the series Recondite Realtà, the artist transforms the canvas into a theater of autonomous manifestations, where color stops representing the world to begin existing

 There is a precise moment in the act of painting when the author chooses to take a step back to let the matter express itself independently.

With the exhibition “Sisyphus’s Doubt”, the sculptor interrogates the meaning of repetition and the strain of the artistic gesture 

isyphus, King of Corinth, is considered among the shrewdest and most fraudulent figures of the ancient world. His Hybris toward Zeus and Hades condemns him to a terrifying torment: pushing an enormous boulder to the peak of a mountain only to be overwhelmed, a step from the summit, by the weight of the stone rolling back down to the valley. An agony that repeats itself infinitely.

A long artistic career that draws its inspiration from the becoming of existence

The Informel context of the mid-1950s served as a starting point for the young Valentino Vago (born in Barlassina, Monza, in 1931), allowing him to explore a specific creative approach before choosing paths more attuned to his spirit.

He is the acclaimed and contested painter of the Belle Époque. For him, divines, aristocrats, and celebrities pose. A fashionable painter, he is more than a trend-follower - he dictates the style.

A small, ugly man, deformed, and possessed of a vicious temperament. Giovanni Boldini is arrogant, sarcastic, malicious, and indiscreet to the point of rudeness. He possesses a piercing gaze, with a hint of the predatory and the untamable, which rests constantly on others as if they were prey - as if he knew instantly what he could extract from them.

It is the first major European survey dedicated to the artist. An evocative and unstable journey through paintings, collages, sculptures, installations, and videos

It's the first solo exhiibit in Italy dedicated to the Chilean artist

On April 29th, the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea will introduce the work of poet, artist, filmmaker and activist Cecilia Vicuña. Born in Santiago, Chile she also lived in London, Bogota and New York City. She is widely exhibited, authored over 30 books of art and poetry in USA, Europe and Latin America. In 2022, she was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime achievement at the 56th Venice Biennale. This will be her first solo exhibit in an Italian museum.

On display, over 300 works, arranged chronologically, many featuring international loans

Henri Matisse stands as one of the absolute titans of the early 20th-century avant-garde. We know him for his Fauve period, for the rhythmic vitality of The Dance, and for his Odalisques. Yet, between the 1940s and 1950s, in the twilight of his years, he underwent a decisive transformation.