The weekend exhibitions, from Futurism to Jago and Caravaggio
(by Marzia Apice) The comparison between Jago and Caravaggio, the excursus on Futurism, the shots of the World Press Photo 2025: these are some of the exhibitions of the week. DESENZANO DEL GARDA - The exhibition is entitled "Futurist World" curated by Giordano Bruno Guerri and Matteo Vanzan scheduled from 4th May at the Castle of Desenzano del Garda until October 26th. Offering an overview of the cultural, aesthetic and formal, represented by Futurism, the exhibition is composed of 50 works (oil on canvas, drawings, preparatory studies, techniques mixed media on canvas and paper, sculptures, lithographs and posters (vintage) from public and private collections, and of a selection of texts arranged in a path that begins in 1901 with The washing of humanity by Gaetano Previati and ends in 1942-1943 with Billiards by Renato di Bosso. MILAN - The Pinacoteca Ambrosiana hosts from May 8th to 4th November "Still Life" by the sculptor Jago, curated by Maria Teresa Benedetti. In the exhibition the unprecedented comparison with the Basket of Fruit by Caravaggio, through a work in which he sculptor proposes a basket not full of fruit but of weapons, objects built by man to kill, mass-produced, emptied of meaning and yet terribly real. From May 8th to 7th September Chiara Dynys is the protagonist at Palazzo Citterio with the new monographic project "Once Again", curated by Anna Bernardini. Dialogue with space, real and fictitious, the artist designs and creates a gigantic mobile "machine" consisting of three rotating perspective rollers that unfold ten meters wide, simulating the movement of the waves sea and their breaking on the shoreline for a length of twelve meters. FORLI' - "The Water of the Two Thousand" by Cosimo Veneziano edited by Nadia Stefanel and Matteo Zauli, in collaboration with the Museum Carlo Zauli, is scheduled at the Dino Zoli Foundation until the 7th June. The artist, chosen for the project that the Foundation has dedicated to the reflection on the prevention and treatment of territory after the flood of May 16, 2023 in Forlì and Faenza, proposes two installations for the occasion: at the centre of the works the memories of the flood victims transformed into "narrations for images", to construct through the medium of drawing a tangible mapping that tells a collective imagination made of lost presences. TURIN - As part of the IV edition of Liquida Photofestival, scheduled from 8 to 11 May 2025, at the Polo del '900 in Turin the exhibition "What Echoes Remain - Photographs and archives between Palestine, Ukraine and Contested Identities", which brings together the works by Sofya Chotyrbok, Greg. C. Holland and Varvara Uhlik: from Palestine, investigated by Holland through the eyes of the new generations, to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict documented by Chotyrbok and Uhlik, who intertwine their personal stories, the project explores the invisible legacies of war, reflecting on conflicts not experienced directly, but which they still leave traces. ROME - In the historic rooms of the Palazzo Corsini Library the exhibition "The Prince and Islam. Leone Caetani and the Academy dei Lincei", from May 8th to June 29th. Curated by Roberto Tottoli and Andrea Trentini, the exhibition focuses on Caetani, prince, orientalist, politician and cultured man, bibliophile and traveler: he was the first in Europe to analyze the origins of Islamic history exclusively through the sources Arab-Islamic, interpreted with critical rigor and method scientific (for this reason he was a member of the Royal Academy of Lincei, although he was not directly linked to any academic institution), and firmly opposed the venture Italian colonialism in Libya underlining the illusions of the government propaganda and the lack of knowledge that the was driving. At Palazzo delle Esposizioni from May 6th to June 8th World Press Photo 2025 Exhibition: The Winner of the Photo Award of the Year 2025 is the Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf, with based in Doha, for a shot taken for The New York Times which portrays Mahmoud Ajjour, a child seriously injured while was fleeing an Israeli attack on Gaza. From May 9 to 10 July the Zema Gallery hosts "Colors", a solo exhibition by Daniela Cavallo (Ostuni, 1982), edited by Alessia Locatelli: they compose the path of works belonging to the latest production of the artist, a collection of 7 series in which Cavallo uses of a stratification of artistic languages and expressions, starting from photography and arriving at graphic processing and digital, through drawing and painting.
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