What's on this week: Anj Smith A Willow Grows Aslant the Brook, Benozzo Gozzoli and the Chapel of the Magi, From Hell to Empyrean: Dante's world between Science and Poetry, Annusare la terra, Fierucola di Natale, Unity Wanted Vol.2
The more we learn about great art and its creators, the more mysteries we uncover. Sometimes, these mysteries are more convoluted and salacious than any
In a huge show across five museums in Florence, Italy, the artist’s fleshy paintings and drawings hang next to idealized female forms of created by Botticelli, Michelangelo and others.
What's on this month in Florence: UNICEF Innocenti Film Festival, L’eredità delle Donne, Jeff Koons: ‘Shine’, Fán Huā Chinese Film Festival, Fabbrica Europa, Jenny Saville, Internet Festival Pisa, Dante Pop, The wonderful vision: Dante and the Comedy in the Symbolist Imagination, Internet Festival Pisa, Floralia per Santo Spirito, International Ceramics Fair, Florence Vintage Market, Children's Lending Library, Marina Calamai, St Mark's English Church, The British Institute of Florence, Cinema Odeon Firenze, Female Arts in Florence, Firenze dei Bambini
The exhibition is linked to a project series titled
Relocated in which well-known works receive temporary new homes, engaging viewers in an entirely different viewing experience. Medici tapestries and the Chimera of Arezzo have also been innovatively placed as part of the initiative.
Director of The British Institute of Florence Simon Gammell commented "I'm delighted and frankly astonished to see the work in the Sala Leone X because it's almost like seeing it for the first time. It has a completely different resonance and affect in this contained cube of space as opposed to the open cloister of Santa Croce. It becomes far more intimate and, certainly for me, more powerful and more focused when framed in this space."
It’s finally time to settle in front of the big screen as cinemas make their highly anticipated return. Online options are available on the Più Compagnia platform for all those preferring to tune in from their own homes. The line-up of the most important Italian festival dedicated to the best of contemporary South Korean cinema sees a tribute to film star Moon So-ri with screenings of eight of her films and a retrospective to recently deceased film director Kim Ki-duk. There’s a new category for this 19th edition of the popular festival: Korean New Wave, focusing on the best of Korean cinema from 1990 to 2004. Over 100 films are featured in the programme, ranging from short films to documentaries, with events dedicated to South Korean culture also set to stream online.
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April 24 to May 2
For the 85th edition of the International Crafts Fair in Florence, a vast array of events has been scheduled in an intriguing virtual tour through craftsmanship. Admission to the digital event is free, with exhibition space reserved for those already present in the last two editions of MIDA (Mostra Internazionale del'Artigianato di Firenze), and for new artisans who will be selected by application on their website. Normally held in Fortezza da Basso, this digital edition of the Florence International Crafts Fair seeks to support artisanal excellence and looks towards the future of craftsmanship. Artisans will present their products online, and there will be a packed online line-up of events that includes well-known personalities from institutions, associations and cultural operators in the field of craftsmanship. With lectures, meetings, exhibitions, workshops and performances, highlights include virtual guided tours of the 'Medici fortress' curated by Firenze Fiera and MUSE, and the CRAFT 4.0 exhibition by the University of Florence's Department of Architecture - Design Campus, presenting a 360 degree cross-section of futuristic encounters between handmade design and cutting-edge technologies in the categories of Nature, Work, Humankind, Cultural Heritage and Community. Read more about the event here, or explore Mostra Artigianato's Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
This year's video mapping, projections, lights and artistic installations of the Flight Festival will be under the artistic direction of Sergio Risaliti (director of Museo Novecento). This edition is titled
Sight, From the Dark Wood to the Light, as Risaliti explains, "We cannot deny that we all have need to see a light guiding us in this dark forest, when the straight path of progress seems lost." The annual F-Light Festival will embrace a Dante theme ahead of the 700th anniversary of the Supreme Poet's death in 2021. The video-mapping shows will travel through Dante's
Divine Comedy, finishing with
Paradiso, where Dante also encountered the lights of Christmas. Launched on December 8, the show will go on until January 6, 2021, helping us to commence the new year with a bit of brightness. The light installations will be visible on the Ponte Vecchio, at the Chamber of Commerce, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, in piazza Santissima Annunziata and at the Museo Novecento. Read more about where to find the dazzling displays here and enjoy