Thomas J Price A Place Beyond, 2023. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

 

Amina by Beatrice Brandini

Museo Novecento has presented the program for the first semester, an ambitious and complex project, characterized by important exhibitions for spring – summer 2025.

Fatima Bianchi L’ouvert

The program, curated by its director Sergio Risaliti, will involve not only the museum spaces of the former Leopoldine, but also Piazza della Signoria, the Museum of Palazzo Vecchio and Manifattura Tabacchi, creating a common thread between the past and the present, between themes, now urgent, such as climate change and inclusiveness.

Chiara Baima Poma La Donna è più oscura del mare, 2024

It starts on Saturday 8 March (a perfect date!), with the inauguration of the collective Messaggere, which will see the artists Chiara Baima Poma, Fatima Bianchi, Lucia Cantò, Tuli Mekondjo and Parul Thacker in dialogue, in a reflection on art understood as a spiritual practice, not religious but personal in which the most urgent question is: can art be interpreted as a spiritual message?

Thomas j Price Untitled (icon 6) 2023. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

The exhibition will continue on March 14th with the great exhibition of the artist Thomas J Price, Thomas J. Price in Florence, which will include a large installation in Piazza della Signoria, as happened in the past for Koons or Fabre. The bronze sculpture, characterized by a golden patina, will be surprising, a young girl about 4 meters tall who will place her feet directly in one of the most beautiful squares in the world. Price highlights the intrinsic value of the individual, his figures have great personality, characterized by a proud and fierce attitude.

Marion Baruch photographed by Peter Colombo

Also on March 14, the exhibition project Un passo avanti tanti dietro by Marion Baruch will open, a ninety-year-old artist who has always looked ahead; wonderful textile scraps recovered from companies in the Gallarate district, half sculptures, installations and ready-mades, works that inhabit a space.

Lorenzo Bonechi conversation, 1994. Lorenzo Bonechi Archive

Then in April it will be the turn of Lorenzo Bonechi with La città delle donne, an artist who died prematurely; the monographic exhibition offers a selection of paintings and sculptures from the Lorenzo Bonechi Archive, from private and museum collections (we recall that one of his works was purchased by the Tate Modern in London).

   

LOW RES Haley Mellin, 2022 

Finally, in June, Haley Mellin will take the stage, a land conservation artist and environmental activist, one of the most interesting and modern voices in the international art scene. With her works she always opens a debate on climate change, a traveler to safeguard natural reserves, capable of combining a pictorial artistic language with a concrete and continuous commitment to the issues of environmental sustainability and climate change. Her wonderful paintings look like photographs.

The project also includes the redevelopment of the museum cloister thanks to a collaboration with the American foundation Re:wild, a foundation with which the artist herself has been collaborating for a long time, which includes, in addition to renowned scientists, people known for their commitment to the environment such as Leonardo Di Caprio.

Women di Beatrice Brandini

“We face the coming months with great energy and motivation and with a scientific and curatorial program that veers decisively towards current events and the great political, social and artistic themes and the most pressing urgencies of our time”. Sergio Risaliti

So let’s go to exhibitions and museums in our beautiful Florence, because if perhaps the world will not be saved by beauty, its suggestion will definitely do us good.

Good life to everyone!

Beatrice