The weekend exhibitions, from Marino Marini to Wang Yancheng

(by Marzia Apice) Marino Marini and Otto Hofmann, next to William Kentridge and Wang Yancheng: these are some of the artists featured in this week's exhibitions. AREZZO - At the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art and at the Medici Fortress from June 28th to October 31st "Marino Marini. In dialogue with man", the anthology of paintings and sculptures curated by by Alberto Fiz and Moira Chiavarini, with the coordination scientific by Alessandro Sarteanesi. The exhibition, designed from the cultural association Le Nuove Stanze and Magonza, proposes two paths that integrate with each other - the first at the Galleria Municipal Modern and Contemporary Art with a series of paintings together with plaster casts and bronzes, the second at the Medici Fortress with large sculptures and monumental works - to investigate the research conducted by the sculptor from the 1910s to the Sixty. LECCE - It is entitled "Otto Hofmann - the imaginary and the real. From the Bauhaus a Free Artist. Works 1930-1954", the exhibition set up until September 14th at the Biscozzi Rimbaud Foundation. Edited by Paolo Bolpagni and Giovanni Battista Martini, the The itinerary is divided into 3 rooms and presents approximately 50 works with the aim of outlining the complex profile of the artist German who perfected his pictorial training at the Bauhaus in Dessau, where he was a student of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, and he embraced abstraction with originality and without dogmatism, on the contrary allowing himself to be "contaminated" by surrealist and dada elements, not avoiding figurative legacies. CESENA - In the Sala Pïana of the Malatestiana Library from June 26th the exhibition "tOUR", born from the dialogue between some works from the Olivo Barbieri archive and a selection of volumes ancient ones from the funds of the same library. Set up until September 26, the exhibition - curated by Stefania Rössl, Elena Mucelli and Paolo Zanfini - presents 39 works by the photographer which weave a stimulating dialogue with the views of the cities and of the architectures preserved inside the books of the Malatesta. SPOLETO - From June 28th to November 2nd Palazzo Collicola hosts 5 new exhibitions: among these the solo exhibition of Stefano Cerio entitled "Corpi d'aria", edited by Stefano Chiodi with a selection of photographs from two recent series of the artist, Aquila (2019-2021) and Brenva (2023), as well as a video. "Fleeting Thoughts" is instead the personal exhibition of William Kentridge edited by Saverio Verini: in the path a wide selection of works created over the last 25 years from the South African artist, including drawings, sculptures, videos, prints, and notebooks to compose a rich and multifaceted repertoire. The 3 other projects are an exhibition with a selection of works coming from the collection of Primo De Donno; an exhibition of the posters of the Festival of Two Worlds; and an exhibition for celebrate the ten years of activity of the Mahler & LeWitt Studios, active in Spoleto since 2015. NUORO - Born to investigate the complex relationship between an island and its simulacra the exhibition "Islands and idols", at the Man from 27 June to November 16, curated by Chiara Gatti and Stefano Giuliani. In balance between the Neolithic and the dawn of the twentieth century, between archaeology and avant-garde, between the Cycladic idols and the wooden sculptures that Gauguin carved during his years in Tahiti, the The path proposes a reflection on today's concepts of otherness, primitivism and their repercussions in the heart of the postcolonial debate presenting a selection of over 70 works. Among these, the results of the research, as well as of Gauguin, also by Pechstein, Miró, Arp or Matisse and others artists. FLORENCE - At the Accademia Gallery from June 24th to 21st September the exhibition "Light energy infinite" with which the artist Franco-Chinese Wang Yancheng, on the occasion of the initiatives that celebrate the 550th anniversary of the birth (1475) of Michelangelo, makes homage to the Renaissance genius. Edited by Gabriele Simongini, the exhibition presents around 25 paintings dating from between 2018 and 2025, some of which were made for Florence and in which he takes on increasingly important is the conception of emptiness as a state material that bubbles with possibilities. ROME - The Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi welcomes "George Hoyningen-Huene. Art.Fashion.Cinema" from June 25th to 19th October: over 100 photographs taken along the route between the Ville Lumière and Hollywood that are immediately recognizable also thanks to the references to the history of art and to archaeology to tell the importance of Hoyningen-Huene (1900-1968) in the development of photography fashion. MORESCO - In the spaces of the Tomav Torre di Moresco Arts Center Matteo's solo exhibition on view from June 28th to September 7th Costanzo entitled "American Drumpf" edited by Barbara Caterbetti. Through sticker painting, video loops and installations, the artist proposes a sort of pirate raid among the American icons and symbols hit by such a crisis profound enough to call into question our life models, of progress and democracy.