Italy in motion, Highways and the future, MAXXI, Rome, from December 6 to February 2

What is the highway for you? The question is not at all strange because from a simple infrastructure of the country it becomes a socio-cultural device of technological innovation and integration with the landscape.

At least this is what Pippo Ciorra, curator of the exhibition with Angela Parente, proposes: a reflection on that snake of asphalt that in 1924 united a piece of Italy for the first time.

In fact, the construction of the first highway dates back to that year and from there the story begins, between construction sites in progress and projects that have made history. From the first half of the last century, to the productive and hypermodern acceleration of the second half of the twentieth century up to technological innovation in terms of efficiency and sustainability of the current scenario and even more so of the future.

Who will like it: engineers and historians of society, those who often travel on four wheels and those who love exhibitions with a touch of Amarcord.
Useful information: MAXXI, via Guido Reni 4/A, Rome, from 6 December to 2 February, open from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm.

Nino Migliori, my jewels, Museo civico archeologico, Bologna, until February 10

Nino Migliori is a great photographer known above all for having told the story of Italy between the 70s and 80s of the last century. But few know that he also designed jewelry. Also in that decade Migliori had worked precious materials to create a collection of wearable shapes.

Which arrive on display in Bologna, curated by Lorenzo Balbi and in collaboration with Fondazione Nino Migliori, on marble tables designed by Mario Cucinella, together with five lightboxes set up by In-Novo, of as many photographs that Migliori has created to reinterpret his creations through the art tool that is most congenial to him.

The exhibition is completed by a limited series of reproductions by the Giulio Veronesi Jewelery (Bologna - Cortina).

This exhibition is also a charity proposal, which is part of the program of the Do ut do art, architecture and design biennial, born in Bologna to support the Fondazione Hospice MT. Chiantore Seràgnoli. This edition has desire as its main theme and Nino Migliori presents a possible declination of yearning.

Who will like it: lovers of jewelry, design and photography
Useful information: Museo Civico Archeologico, via dell’Archiginnasio 2, Bologna, open Monday to Friday from 9 am to 6 pm; Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 7 pm, until February 10.

Memorabile. Ipermoda, Maxxi, Rome, until March 23

Memorabile is what remains imprinted in the memory, a clear recollection of an event of great emotional, emotional, cognitive and cultural significance. Memorable is something that has deeply involved us, regardless of the more or less ephemeral nature of the event. Fashion also reasons around this concept, that special declination of style that also has to do with art and contemporaneity.

Because fashion aspires to be memorable. So, asks Maria Luisa Frisia, curator of the exhibition at MAXXI, what are the objects that have proven to be evocative, capable of questioning and restoring the idea of ​​a memorable fashion? The time frame is the last decade, from 2015 to today, investigated to talk about the role of fashion in the global creative and economic structure.

Collaborations between authors, the work of stylists, utopian and ethical visions, the creative relationship with time and archives, the role of the creative director of large luxury groups and that of independent design are the protagonists of the exhibition.

Who will like it: those who navigate between fashion and design
Useful information: MAXXI, via Guido Reni 4/A, Rome, until March 23, open from Tuesday to Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm.

Bertozzi & Casoni, It's Not What It Seems, Labirinto della Masone di Franco Maria Ricci, Fontanellato (PR), extended until March 9

Bertozzi&Casoni are two alchemists: they transform matter through a dystopian mimicry that tells of degradation and a beautiful reality, of the present and the past, leaving the sign of the possible to the future. Bertozzi & Casoni grew up at the Faenza ceramic school and since 1980 have joined together in an artistic partnership that has led them to experiment with increasingly complex and industrial techniques to create their ceramic works.

The aim of the complication was to restore verisimilitude to the public, achieved so well that it becomes almost impossible to distinguish the true from the false. But not to reproduce reality, but rather to criticize the verisimilitude and make us reflect on our relationship with the environment.

Their ceramics can be found along the exhibition route, but also on tables originally laid, then abandoned with leftovers on the plates and that disturbing after-dinner mess, next to animals that somehow imitate human habits, passing through different sculptures, both Arcimboldian and zoomorphic, to arrive at a Pinocchio, strictly in majolica.

What is he doing there? Stories by Tiziano Scarpa accompany the works.

Who will like it: those who love ceramics and wunderkammers
Useful information: Labirinto della Masone, Strada Masone 121, Fontanellato (PR), open from 9:30 to 18 except Tuesdays. The exhibition has been extended until March 9 but the labyrinth will be closed to the public from January 8 to February 7 inclusive.

Shlomo Harush, Please, Do Not Seat, Nilufar gallery, Milan, until March

The boundary between art and function is investigated by the artistShlomo Harush who offers a series of reflections on sitting. How, where and when do we sit, but above all in what positions and on what materials?

A magician in the use of common metals such as aluminum, bronze and steel, Harush considers everyday objects to distance them from the archetype and give them the possibility of becoming new emblems, as the artist himself underlines. In fact, it is the material that plays a leading role that becomes very light, almost aerial, in the game that is created between light and space.

Thus the seats are never gravitational and anchored to the ground, but always balanced, suspended in a fantastic time that shines in space. In this case Harush works with copper alloys to engrave and shape the material and with brass wire to create a three-dimensional design. The result is a minimal weight, close to lightness.

Who will like it: those who play between art and design, questioning our perceptions.
Useful information: Nilufar Gallery, via della Spiga 32, Milan, open Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 7 pm.

The Elda Cecchele Donation. Story of a Weaver, Palazzo Mocenigo Museum, Venice, until March 2

Elda Cecchele was a Venetian weaver, artist and craftswoman of the 1950s. Her creativity would soon involve the world of Italian fashion, in years of great excitement and success, but Cecchele's work has remained almost unknown until now.

She was behind the scenes, but her fabrics represent a unicum: she used different materials, from leather to plastic, from silk to cotton, from fur to trimmings, to lace. And if the starting point for Elda was the production of household linen, the point of arrival was artistic fabrics for which she was invited twice to the Venice Biennale, in 1956 and 1960, and had important collaborations with Roberta di Camerino, Franca Polacco and Salvatore Ferragamo.

The archive of all her work, including documents and materials, was donated by her heirs to the museum which, after a long scientific cataloguing process, made it available to the public at the museum library, and in an exhibition curated by Irina Inguanotto that tells the story of Elda Cecchele.

Who will like it: fashion and costume enthusiasts, but also art and weaving.
Useful information: Palazzo Mocenigo Museum, Santa Croce 1992, Venice, open every day from 10 am to 5 pm, until March 2.

Natural essences, three exhibitions, MAN - Museo d’Arte della Provincia di Nuoro, until March 9

There are three artists who will compete in the spaces of the Sardinian museum starting from the theme Natural Essences, the title of a cycle of activities that started with the successful Diorama. Generation Earth exhibition.

This time it is the personal works of the individual artists that decline their relationship with nature for the curatorship of Chiara Gatti and Elisabetta Masala. Christiane Löhr presents Accumuli, natural architectures characterized by extreme lightness. The German artist based in Tuscany creates sculptures of dandelions, stems, pods or horsehair, hoisting thin tree structures into space that build minimal landscapes. A tribute to Sardinia, created for the occasion, presents small accumulations of grains or seeds, evoking towers and Nuragic constructions. Next to her is the work of

Una Szeemann entitled Scenafenomenica: mythology and magic tell the classical and archaic tradition, mixing with the work of the Swiss artist who gives voice to the earth and the night, to the thaumaturgical power of herbs and mystery, giving abstract and atavistic forms to the feeling of the forest.

Finally, Alessandro Biggio presents Filira, an encounter between classical myth and nature, which is used as a pictorial tool. After his experiments with ash, the Sardinian artist uses the juice of phillyrea berries, which when squeezed produce a dark ochre color with purple hues. Thus the painting transcribes traces of nature, in its metamorphosis and consumption.

IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET… You have until December 31st

Gianni Berengo Gardin: Marazzi, the fast lines, Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo - Galleri Estensi, until December 31st

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the single-fired patent that transformed production in the ceramic sector of Marazzi, an exhibition is being staged with unpublished shots by Gianni Berengo Gardin.

It was 1977 when the photographer was called by the company to document, three years after their birth, the new fast lines. And he, Berengo Gardin, with this work marks a new way of conceiving industrial photography of the time. The use of color in the story of the speed of production in fact composes an unprecedented and kaleidoscopic story of the company.

«It was immediately clear to me that the professional challenge was to be able to capture the fast flow of colors, the dynamic trail of shapes – underlines Gianni Berengo Gardin –. Color, which I have always used little, therefore imposed itself as a choice. I also tried to work differently from what I normally did.

Here I often changed the distance, getting very close to the subjects, to be able to capture the details, the fragments of what I saw and thus create photos different from the others: dreamy, colorful, almost abstract ». The exhibition curated by Alessandra Mauro and currently underway in the spaces of the Sale della Musica, degli Incanti e dei Sogni of the Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo – Gallerie Estensi (Modena), has been extended until 31 December 2024 .

Who will like it: photography enthusiasts
Useful information: Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo, Gallerie Estensi, Piazzale della Rosa 10, Sassuolo (MO) open from Monday to Friday from 8 am to 7:30 pm; Saturday from 8:30 am to 7:30 pm; Sunday from 10 am to 7:30 pm.