24 ORE Cultura has a jam-packed schedule for autumn 2022, with three major exhibitions open to the public in Milan.
One thing at a time.
On 8 October, Mudec inaugurated the exhibition-story - sponsored by the Italian and Peruvian Ministries of Culture and RAI - "Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru”. A spectacular journey - from the origins to the climax of the Inca Empire. An exhibition through millennia-old artifacts, videos, immersive 3D reconstructions, and an image-based installation that gives the idea of a true journey through time, taking the public back through the millennia, telling the story of a civilization as glorious as it is ancient and remote, of which only the last piece is often known, the most recent and universally made famous by the finding of the remains of the great sacred city of Machu Picchu.
But Peru's history goes back much, much further. The exhibition will remain open to the public until 19 February 2023 and is sponsored by the Municipality of Milan-Culture and produced by World Heritage Exhibitions (Cityneon Holdings) and 24 ORE Cultura, in association with the Government and Ministry of Culture of Peru, the Inkatera Association, and thanks to the collaboration with the LARCO Museum of Lima, where the over 170 artifacts come from.
The project, curated by Ulla Holmquist director of the LARCO Museum of Lima and archaeologist Carole Fraresso, crosses Andean artistic history and biodiversity throughout its vast geographical dimension and chronological depth, peaking in an ideal journey to the Inca city of Machu Picchu. For further information https://www.mudec.it/ita/machu-picchu-e-gli-imperi-doro-del-peru/
The other exhibition event of Milan's cultural autumn is at Palazzo Reale, "Bosch and Another Renaissance”. Jheronimus Bosch (1453 - 1516) is known worldwide for his language of dreamlike visions and peculiar worlds, fires, monstrous creatures, and fantastic figures.
For the first time ever, under the artistic direction of Palazzo Reale and Castello Sforzesco, Milan pays tribute to the great Flemish genius and his fortunes in southern Europe, with an unprecedented exhibition project that unveils a fascinating thesis: according to the curators, Bosch represents the emblem of an 'alternative' Renaissance, far from the Renaissance governed by the myth of classicism, and bears witness to the existence of a plurality of Renaissances, with artistic centres spread across Europe.
Open to the public until 12 March 2023, "Bosch and Another Renaissance" is sponsored by the Municipality of Milan-Culture, Palazzo Reale and Castello Sforzesco and produced by 24 ORE Cultura-24 ORE Group with the support of Unipol Group, the project's main sponsor.
Three curators: Bernard Aikema, former professor of History of Modern Art at the University of Verona; Fernando Checa Cremades, professor of History of Art at the Complutense University of Madrid and former director of the Prado Museum; and Claudio Salsi, director of Castello Sforzesco, Archaeological Museums and Historical Museums and professor of history of engraving at the Catholic University of Milan. The exhibition path displays roughly 100 works of art including paintings, sculptures, tapestries, engravings, bronzes and ancient volumes, including some 30 rare and precious objects from wunderkammern. This extremely rich corpus features some of Bosch's most celebrated masterpieces and works derived from the Master's subjects - never before presented together in a single exhibition. Bosch is in fact creator of very few works universally attributed to him and kept in museums around the world. And because they are so rare and precious, this artist's masterpieces seldom leave the museums they belong to, and even more rarely do we have the opportunity to see them brought together in a single exhibition. https://www.palazzorealemilano.it/mostre/e-un-altro-rinascimento
Lastly, starting 11 November at Mudec, the exhibition "Robert Capa. In History". For the 110th anniversary of Robert Capa's birth (22 October 1913), Mudec pays tribute to the great Hungarian photographer with a solo exhibition embracing the main war and travel reportages Capa made during his 20-year career, years that coincided with key moments in the history of the 20th century.
The exhibition, open to the public at Mudec Photo until 19 March 2023, is produced by 24 ORE Cultura - 24 ORE Group, promoted by the Municipality of Milan-Culture and curated by Sara Rizzo. The Mudec Photo space - which is totally dedicated to art photography - is now in its sixth monographic exhibition and in just under four years has presented the Milanese public with the giants of 20th-century photography: Steve McCurry, Elliott Erwitt, Tina Modotti, Henri Cartier-Bresson. Mudec Photo's commitment thus continues through autumn 2022 with a retrospective of the work - a life-long work - of an artist who made 20th-century photographic history, Robert Capa.
Produced thanks to the collaboration with the Magnum Photos agency, the exhibition - curated especially for Mudec - brings together an exceptional corpus of shots: over 80 photographic prints, some never before shown in an Italian exhibition, accompanied by some vintage documents from Magnum's collection.
"Robert Capa. In History", intended as an opener to the celebrations of the 110th anniversary of the legendary photojournalist's birth, tells the History of the 20th century, the one with a capital H, through his black-and-white portraits and his war and travel reportages, the photographer's lens unveiled to the world not only the horrors and miseries of the many armed conflicts that marked the last century and the faces of the men and women who made History, but also the daily lives made up of brief moments of joy and craving for redemption, of the present and future, of realities and dreams of ordinary people, with no distinction from one side of the globe to the other. https://www.mudec.it/ita/robert-capa-nella-storia/