Art and Exhibitions | Calendar of major events in Tuscany and Italy
2023 - 2024 Exhibitions in Tuscany
Anish Kapoor. Untrue Unreal
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, October 7, 2023 - February 4, 2024
Celebrated artist Anish Kapoor creates an original dialogue with Palazzo Strozzi in Florence
through a major exhibition including an immersive new work for its Renaissance courtyard
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi
7 October 2023 – 4 February 2024
From 7 October 2023 until 4 February 2024, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi presents Anish Kapoor. Untrue Unreal, a major exhibition devised and produced with the celebrated artist who has revolutionised the notion of sculpture in contemporary art.
Curated by Arturo Galansino, Director General of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, the show will feature monumental installations, intimate environments and thought-provoking forms that will forge an original and captivating dialogue between the art of Anish Kapoor and the architecture and audience of Palazzo Strozzi.
With a wide range of early, mid-career and recent works, including a new architecturally scaled work especially conceived for the Renaissance courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi, the exhibition offers an opportunity to engage directly with the artist’s oeuvre in all its versatility, discord, entropy and ephemerality. Palazzo Strozzi becomes a venue at once concave and convex, whole and yet fragmented, in which visitors are called on to question their senses.
Kapoor’s works merge empty and full space, absorbing and reflecting surface, geometrical and biomorphic form. Shunning categorisation and distinguishing himself by a unique visual language that embraces painting, sculpture and architectural forms, Kapoor explores space and time, the interior and the exterior, urging us to probe in the first person the limits and potential of our relationship with the world around us and to reflect on perceived dualities such as body and mind, nature and artifice. His work sparks amazement and uneasiness, encouraging us to question certainties and embrace complexity. In a world where reality seems increasingly elusive and manipulable, Anish Kapoor challenges us to seek truth beyond appearances, inviting us to explore the territory of the untrue and the unreal.
The starting point of the exhibition is Void Pavilion VII (2023), situated in the courtyard of Palazzo Strozzi,
the viewer enters a work that contains a profound meditation on space and perspective. Following this, each
room of Palazzo Strozzi will take the viewer on a journey through Anish Kapoor’s diverse artistic practice
where they will experience works that challenge the very notion of form and formlessness, fiction and reality [2].
Anish Kapoor, To Reflect an Intimate, Part of the Red (1981). Tecnica mista, pigmento [Anish Kapoor. Untrue Unreal, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2023, Palazzo Strozzi][3]
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
American Art at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2021
Palazzo Strozzii, Firenze
From 28 May to 29 August 2021
From 28 May to 29 August 2021 Palazzo Strozzi presents American Art 1961–2001, a major exhibition taking a new perspective on the history of contemporary art in the United States.
The exhibition brings together an outstanding selection of more than 80 works by 55 artists including Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Louise Nevelson, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Bruce Nauman, Barbara Kruger, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman, Matthew Barney, Kara Walker and many more.
The era of the Sixties is witnessed through works by masters such as Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman and John Baldessari, figures who became reference points for subsequent generations of artists to redefine the possibilities of art. Artists of a subsequent generation continued to address such topics as the reframing of the male gaze in the work of Cindy Sherman; the appropriation of mass-media images by artists Richard Prince and Barbara Kruger, the denunciation of the stigma of AIDS in the work of Félix González-Torres; or the disquieting narratives of Matthew Barney, whose 1999 video installation Cremaster 2 is shown for the first time in Italy.
Bill Viola Electronic Renaissance | Palazzo Strozzi
March 10 to July 23, Palazzo Strozzi
Una grande mostra che celebra il maestro indiscusso della videoarte contemporanea in dialogo con i capolavori del Rinascimento.
Non perdere "Bill Viola. Rinascimento elettronico" a Palazzo Strozzi dal 10 marzo al 23 luglio 2017
From 10 March to 23 July 2017 the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi will be introducing the Florentine public to Bill Viola. Electronic Renaissance, a significant exhibition celebrating this unchallenged master of video art.
A single, comprehensive exhibition occupying both the Piano Nobile and the Strozzina will immerse you in space, music and sound as you track the career of this artist from his early experimental work in the 1970s right up to his monumental installations of the 21st century.
Art in Tuscany
| The guide to the art and towns of Tuscany
Tuscany has an immense cultural and artistic heritage, expressed in the region's numerous churches, palaces, art galleries, museums, villages and piazzas. Much of these artifacts are found in the main cities, such as Florence and Siena, but also in smaller villages scattered around the region, such as San Gimignano, Pienza, Chiusi, Massa Marittima and many others. Tuscany has some of the very best art galleries in the world. These include the Uffizi Gallery, the Bargello Museum and Santa Croce Museum.
Mediaeval era and the Renaissance is the epoch which also left the enormous quantity of art masterpieces in Tuscany. Tuscany is known for its beautiful landscapes, its rich artistic legacy and vast influence on high culture. Tuscany is widely regarded as the true birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, and has been home to some of the most influential people in the history of arts and science, such as Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarca, Giovanni Boccaccio, Sandro Botticelli, Raffaello Santi, Giotto, Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgio Vazari and many others and Puccini. Due to this, the region has several museums, most of which (such as the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace) are found in Florence, but others in towns and smaller villages.
Residencies for writers and translatorsin Toscany | Podere Santa Pia
One of Tuscany's best kept secrets is the beautiful valley sheltering this recently renovated 18th century farm house, Podere Santa Pia.
This former small cloister is the perfect spot to slow travel. Waking up at dawn to start hiking, learning once again the names of flowers and trees, and above all, having the pleasure of getting lost, forgetting about guides, clocks and timetables.
Podere Santa Pia is a beautiful stone farmhouse only 2 km away from Castiglioncello Bandini. The main house is spacious, comfortable and well furnished and offers its guests a breathtaking view over the Maremma hills. It is the ideal location for those who wish to enjoy total privacy.
Reflections on the private swimming pool at Podere Santa Pia
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Podere Santa Pia, mystic holiday home in the heart of the Tuscan Maremma
Podere Santa Pia, garden view, December
The Maremma and isola Montecristo, view from Santa Pia
A beautiful early evening by the pool, in the resplendent Tuscan sun, time takes on a languid quality
The particular golden light of southern Tuscany is most noticeable when the intensely sunny days come to an end, with a totally different quality of light, amazing colors. Leaves turn to golden and russet shades and create a magical evening light.
Podere Santa Pia, con una vista indimenticabile sulla Maremma Toscana.
La terrazza è esposta a Sud per cui dalla mattina al pomeriggio è sempre colpita dal sole, tuttavia ci sono zone ombreggiate grazie agli alberi circostanti.
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