Felice Casorati and Tarek Atoui in Milan, Tracey Emin in Florence, Picasso and Caravaggio in Rome: our itinerary of exhibitions not to be missed in the coming weeks is back

FELICE CASORATI AND TAREK ATOUI IN MILAN
One of the largest retrospectives dedicated to Felice Casorati, an artist who contributed greatly to the pictorial history of the twentieth century, opened its doors on 15 February 2025. Staged in the rooms of the Palazzo Reale in Milan and curated by Giorgina Bertolino, Fernando Mazzocca and Francesco Poli, among the greatest experts on Casorati’s artistic philosophy, the exhibition marks his “return” to the city thirty-five years after the last exhibition dedicated to him. Over one hundred works presented in chronological order synthesise the artist’s human and creative arc, including paintings on canvas and on panels, graphic works from the symbolist period, sculptures and sketches of opera sets for the Teatro alla Scala, highlighting the many areas in which Casorati exercised his craft with talent and success.
The scene and era change as you cross the threshold of Pirelli HangarBicocca, which hosts Improvisation in 10 Days, the first solo show in Italy by Tarek Atoui, a Lebanese electroacoustic artist and composer born in 1980, interested in the potential of sound as a medium to activate the public’s perception and activate participatory dynamics. Curated by Lucia Aspesi, the exhibition is inspired by the concept of an improvisation that gives life to an actual device born from the interaction between the material of the works, sound, the surrounding architecture and people.

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Casorati
until 29 June 2025
PALAZZO REALE
Piazza del Duomo 12, Milan
https://www.palazzorealemilano.it/mostre/casorati

Improvisation in 10 Days
until 20 July 2025
PIRELLI HANGARBICOCCA
Via Chiese 2, Milan
https://pirellihangarbicocca.org

TRACEY EMIN IN FLORENCE
On 16 March 2025, the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence will raise the curtain on the largest Italian exhibition dedicated to Tracey Emin, a British artist who for years has been engaged in a practice that makes use of several different languages ​​– from painting to drawing, from video to sculpture to photography – and an innate aptitude for experimentation. Curated by Arturo Galansino, general director of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Tracey Emin. Sex and Solitude features over sixty works that retrace Emin’s career from the 1990s to the present and evoke the themes underlying her work – the body, love, desire and sacrifice. In addition to a series of works that are being exhibited in Italy for the first time, the show also includes new productions created especially for this event.

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Tracey Emin. Sex and Solitude
from 16 March to 20 July 2025
PALAZZO STROZZI
Piazza Strozzi, Florence
https://www.palazzostrozzi.org/

PICASSO AND CARAVAGGIO IN ROME
After the Palazzo Reale in Milan and the Palazzo Te in Mantua, the exhibition Picasso the Foreigner arrives in Rome, at the Museo del Corso – Polo Museale. Organised by Fondazione Roma with Marsilio Arte, the exhibition is once again the result of the project conceived by Annie Cohen-Solal, curator of the exhibition with a contribution by Johan Popelard of the Musée national Picasso-Paris. Over one hundred works by Picasso are displayed alongside photographs, documents, videos and letters, while a core of never-before-seen works was selected by the curator especially for the event in Rome. Of particular interest is the section dedicated to the Roman spring of 1917, spent by Picasso in the company of Jean Cocteau, Serge Diaghilev, Erik Satie and Léonid Massine.
The Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica in collaboration with Galleria Borghese, on the other hand, host an in-depth study of the revolution sparked by Michelangelo Merisi (known as Caravaggio) in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art scene. Curated by Francesca Cappelletti, Maria Cristina Terzaghi and Thomas Clement Salomon at Palazzo Barberini, Caravaggio 2025 invites the public to admire some of the artist’s most famous works, but also lesser-known paintings, exceptional loans and new discoveries, such as the extraordinary Ecce Homo rediscovered in Madrid. What makes the exhibition even more special is the location that hosts it, a symbol of the bond between Merisi and his patrons.

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Picasso the Foreigner
from 27 February to 29 June 2025
MUSEO DEL CORSO ‒ POLO MUSEALE
Via del Corso 320, Rome
https://museodelcorso.com/

Caravaggio 2025
from 7 March to 6 July 2025
GALLERIE NAZIONALI DI ARTE ANTICA ‒ PALAZZO BARBERINI
Via delle Quattro Fontane 13, Rome
https://barberinicorsini.org/

Text by Arianna Testino