There are many exhibits and special events that are nearing their end in just few days. It would be a pity to miss out on them if you are planning to be in Tuscany during the next week or two, or already are in this wonderful land. Below is the list of those ending during the month of January 2010, grouped by date, so you can choose which ones are of your interest more easily.
Exhibits ending on January 6th
It ends today January 6th the exhibit “All The Souls of the Mummy” in Chianciano terme dedicated to Egypt and mummies at the time of Sety. Interesting funerary rituals of the ancient Egypt and pieces of art from many Italian collections. Hosted at the civic and archaeological museum of waters.
Also today ends the exhibit dedicated to the forms of writing in antiquity “From The Roll to The Codex”, which compares eastern and western methods of writing over a period from the 3rd century BC to the 19th century. At the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in Florence.
Exhibits ending on January 10th
The recovered and restored Crucifix of Benedetto da Maiano is exposed in San Gimignano until January 10th. In San Gimignano at the Museo Civico.
On January 10th will also end the exhibit “Impulses of Color, 50 Artists on Show” which sees 50 contemporary artists interpreting in many ways the theme proposed to them. Photography, sculpture, and paintings are on show in Cascina at the Euro Hotel.
In Siena at the Santa Maria della Scala on the 10th ends the retrospective on Francesca Woodman. The pictures of the artist photographer that worked until 22 years old, when she committed suicide.
The 10th is also the last day of the “Style of the Tsar” in Prato at the Museo del Tessuto. A wonderful documentation on what the relations between Italy and Russia used to be, and how they were cultivated also through the precious textiles of Prato.
Federico Barocci will leave the Santa Maria della Scala in Siena on the 10th of January and so will his 34 paintings. The artist lived and worked between Urbino and Umbria during the 16th and 17th centuries.
The exhibition on the installation of Robert Cahen between 1979 and 2008 will end on January 10th in Lucca at the Auditorium San Micheletto. The most complete ever in Italy on the artist with 13 installations.
At the Centro Pecci in Prato the Hekhalot by Lena Liv will end on the 10th of January.
On the 10th “The God of little things – young artists from East and South-east Asia” will end at the Casa Museo Masaccio of San Giovanni Valdarno. It is an exhibit of contemporary far eastern young artists.
Finally on the 10th will also end the exhibit dedicated to Armando Marrocco and his interpretation of time with “Space, Time and Beyond”. At the Chiesa e Chiostro di Sant’Agostino in Pietrasanta near Lucca.
Exhibits ending on January 17th
On January 17th ends the exhibit “Manipulating Reality: How Images Redefine The World” in Center for Contemporary Culture in Strozzina in Florence. A very interesting exhibit concentrating on the meaning of the word “reality” in today’s image culture manipulating the possible and the real, the apparent and the actual.
Chagall in Pisa at the Blue Palace was supposed to end on January 17, but got extended to November 17th due to the tremendous success.
Exhibits ending on January 18th
On January 18th ends “The New After The Stain”, a retrospective of the passage from divisionism to modernism in Tuscany. From Giovanni Fattori to Signorini, the exhibit covers the last 50 years of the 19th century. In Montecatini Terme at the Parco Termale.
Exhibits ending on January 24th
On January 24 will end the “Art and Illusion” in Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. The exhibit on the Trompe l’Oeil.
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