Eight exhibitions to see in Milan from this month of October
Autumn will be culturally effervescent in Milan. In addition to the succession of concerts and contemporary dance shows, many exhibitions open their doors in October. Selection of eight of them, (obviously) not to be missed.
This is the most prestigious photography exhibition on the natural and wild environment in the world. An admirer: 100 award-winning photos during the 57th edition of the competition Wildlife Photographer of the Year with the Natural History Museum in London as the jury. And the best of the 50,000 shots from 96 countries is French biologist and underwater photographer, Laurent Ballesta. He called a rare scene, a group of groupers swimming on a full moon night in the Fakarava lagoon in Polynesia. It took him five years of monitoring with his team to photograph this endangered species. In addition to the most prestigious title, there are the winners of all the other categories such as the behavior of mammals, under 10 years old, 15-17 years old, urban nature or photojournalism but also many other competitors.
From September 30 to December 31, 2022 – Via Meravigli 7
Avedon, clichés of elegance | royal palace
Some 106 photographs, from the collection of the Center for creative Photography in Tucson and the Richard Avedon Foundation, recount more than 60 years of the career of one of the most iconic photographers of all time.
A retrospective that allows us to deepen the innovative characteristics of the art of Avedon, the first to have abandoned the stasis of photos from the 1950s, but also the first to transform the image of immobile models by making them real actresses on the catwalk . One gallery is particularly dedicated to portraits of celebrities – actors, authors, writers, politicians and activists – such as Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg and Malcolm X. Another is exclusively devoted to fashion and inevitably to the collaboration between Richard Avedon with Gianni Versace.
Each photo is an encounter, an observer.
From September 22, 2022 to January 29, 2023 – piazza Duomo 12
Max Ernst, between magic and science | royal palace
This is the first retrospective in Italy devoted to Max Ernst (1891-1976), painter, sculptor, poet and theoretician of German art, then naturalized American and French.
400 works are exhibited, paintings, sculptures, drawings, collages, photographs, jewelry and illustrated books from museums, foundations and private collections, in Italy and abroad. Among these: the GAM in Turin, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Ca’ Pesaro Museum in Venice, the Tate Gallery in London, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Cantini Museum in Marseille.
The immensity of the themes and experiments in Ernst’s work spans seventy years of 20th century history, between Europe and the United States, always escaping any definition. A great connoisseur and visionary interpreter of the history of art, philosophy, science and alchemy, Max Ernst is presented in this context as a humanist in the neo-Renaissance sense.
From October 4, 2022 to February 26, 2023 – piazza Duomo 12
Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru | Mudec
The exhibition crosses 3,000 years of civilization, from the origins to the Incas. Thousand-year-old artifacts, videos, immersive 3D reconstructions and a set of images conveying the idea of real time travel, tell the public the story of a civilization as glorious as it is ancient and distant and of which often , only the last piece is known, the most recent and universally made famous by the discovery of the remains of the great sacred city of Machu Picchu. The retrospective presents a selection of more than 170 astonishingly beautiful artifacts from the Larco Museum in Lima: terracotta works made with great expressiveness and technical perfection, but also gold, silver and fabrics . Part of the itinerary is dedicated to the adventurous journey alongside the mythical hero of the Moche Ai Apaec culture, through which the public will discover the mysteries of Andean cosmology, moving transversely through the three planes of the universe: the above, here and below.
From October 8, 2022 to February 19, 2023 – via Tortona 56
The Podbielski Contemporary gallery (a place to discover!) opens its exhibition season with a LAND OF ENCHANTMENT, an original project by the artist Giulia Agostini (Padua, 1983). Her research is an investigation into the female body, its freedom of expression and representation in the face of social conditioning. A research often inserted, decomposed and reassembled in a flow of images that the photographer collected in the ordinary and the extraordinary, telling of places and spaces in which the human presence is sometimes spontaneous, sometimes romantic and playful, becoming a cement between two worlds, the everyday and the non-existent.
Until November 20, 2022 – Via Vincenzo Monti 12
A “museum” dedicated to dreamers | Dreamers Museum
Dive into a pool of pink balls, photograph yourself in an upside down room, swing through clouds, go through colorful tunnels… these are just some of the experiences that can be had in the new project experiential near the Duomo
It is called “museum” but it does not contain any works of art. The Museum of the Dreamers (a temporary exhibition space opened in Milan a few steps from the Duomo) is solely based on experience and entertainment with its 15 installations spread over 2,000 m² with which visitors can interact. A space open to adults and children.
Until December 18, 2022 – Piazza Cesare Beccaria, corner via Cesare Beccaria
The Pop Art of Keith Haring, one of the most famous street artists in the world and king of Pop Art of the 80s, is exhibited in Italy, at the Orangery of the Villa Reale in Monza. Symbols, dancing figures, dogs and snakes… More than 100 works represent a seemingly joyful world that masks social emergencies, health issues (AIDS) or even racism. Visitors will especially recognize the iconic “Radiant Babies,” which permeated American culture in the 1980s and became iconic symbols of the era. The images are powerful examples of how Haring fought for change using art as a platform for his activism.
From September 30, 2022 to January 29, 2023 – viale Brianza 1 (Monza)
Sony World Photography Awards | Stelline Foundation
The exhibition allows you to admire the winning and finalist photographs of the most heterogeneous photo competition in the world. This year, the Awards, now in their fifteenth edition, received more than 340,000 nominations from 211 territories.
Among the works on display – all tell the stories of humanity – we can admire the Migrantes project by Australian photographer Adam Ferguson, which won the title of Photographer of the Year, the works of Federico Borrella, awarded 2nd in the Wildlife and Nature category in the Professional Edition, those of Giacomo Orlando and Alessandro Gandolfi, who won 3rd place respectively in the Environment and Still Life categories, in addition to the project of the winner of the national prize Antonio Pellicano, Rise Up Again.
All proceeds will be donated to the Fondazione Progetto Arca to support the people in Ukraine.
Until October 30, 2022 – corso Magenta 61
And most of the exhibitions having started last month, still to be seen in October: Six exhibitions starting in September, not to be missed in Milan.