{"id":17894,"date":"2026-03-24T09:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/?post_type=magazine&#038;p=17894"},"modified":"2026-03-24T09:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:45:12","slug":"exhibitions-rome-florence-venice","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibitions-rome-florence-venice\/","title":{"rendered":"Must-see exhibitions in Rome, Florence and Venice"},"content":{"rendered":"TRAGICOMICA AT THE MAXXI IN ROME<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nCurated by Andrea Bellini and Francesco Stocchi, the exhibition <em>Tragicomica. Perspectives on Italian art from the mid-20th century to today<\/em> is on display at the MAXXI in Rome from 2 April 2026.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nIdentifying irony and self-irony as a distinctive feature of the Italian tradition, the exhibition \u2013 whose title is inspired by the contents of Giorgio Agamben\u2019s essay <em>Comed\u00eca<\/em> \u2013 offers a multidisciplinary reinterpretation of Italy\u2019s creative history from the post-war period onwards. Elena Bellantoni, Mirella Bentivoglio, Alighiero Boetti, Maurizio Cattelan, Gino De Dominicis, Lucio Fontana, Chiara Fumai and Paola Pivi are just some of the more than 140 artists featured in an exhibition \u2012 the result of a collaboration with the Centre d\u2019Art Contemporain Gen\u00e8ve \u2012 which brings together references to cinema, visual art, theatre, philosophy and literature. The show is paired with a public programme curated by Andrea Cortellessa for the talks with writers and poets and by Davide Oberto for the film section, whilst Annalisa Sacchi will give a lecture on the history of Italian performance art and a talk by philosopher Antonella Moscati, introduced by Elettra Stimilli, will explore topics such as family relationships, medical language, identity and the body.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nMARK ROTHKO IN FLORENCE<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nFrom 14 March 2026, the public will finally be able to admire over seventy works by Mark Rothko \u2013 some of which have never been shown in Italy \u2013 brought together in the rooms of Palazzo Strozzi as part of the exhibition <em>Rothko in Florence<\/em>, curated by the artist\u2019s son, Christopher Rothko, and Elena Geuna. Right from the title, the exhibition \u2013 one of the most comprehensive ever dedicated to the painter \u2013 sets out the context in which it is rooted: the connection between Rothko and the Tuscan city, and the influence exerted on his practice by the style of Beato Angelico and the architecture of the Vestibolo della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, which he visited for the first time in 1950, as well as the Museo di San Marco. It is therefore no coincidence that these two venues also host some of the artist\u2019s masterpieces, reinforcing the dialogue between his creative experience and the legacy of the Florentine tradition.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nAt Palazzo Strozzi, the exhibition narrative follows a chronological line, tracing Rothko\u2019s journey towards abstraction, whilst at the Museo di San Marco five of his works are displayed in five frescoed cells by Beato Angelico, and in the Vestibolo della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana two works visually interact with the space designed by Michelangelo.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nEXHIBITIONS AT PALAZZO GRASSI AND PUNTA DELLA DOGANA IN VENICE<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nIn addition to the exhibition that the Casa dei Tre Oci is dedicating to Joseph Kosuth, in March the spotlight in Venice will be on the launch of the new exhibition programme at Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, the Pinault Collection\u2019s venues in Venice, which are set to host four leading figures from the contemporary art scene.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nOver 150 historical and recent works by Michael Armitage are on display at Palazzo Grassi, under the curatorship of Jean-Marie Gallais, in collaboration with Hans-Ulrich Obrist for the catalogue, and Caroline Bourgeois and Michelle Mlati. The Kenyan-British artist\u2019s paintings, combining figuration and abstraction, explore the concepts of memory, identity and spirituality, unafraid to confront the urgencies and dramas of the present age. Painted in oil on a fabric derived from tree bark \u2013 in the tradition of Uganda and Indonesia \u2013 Armitage\u2019s works are the result of a process of layering that takes its inspiration from drawing.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nThe second floor of Palazzo Grassi, meanwhile, is \u201cinhabited\u201d by two multimedia installations by Amar Kanwar, a filmmaker and artist engaged in an exploration of the contemporary history of South Asia. Curated by Jean-Marie Gallais, the exhibition centres on <em>The Torn First Pages<\/em> (2004-2008) and <em>The Peacock\u2019s Graveyard<\/em> (2023), which invite the public to reflect on the sense of justice and injustice rooted in human existence, drawing on concrete events such as the struggle for democracy in Myanmar\/Burma.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nPainting returns to centre stage thanks to Lorna Simpson\u2019s solo exhibition, curated by Emma Lavigne, at Punta della Dogana. Created in partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York \u2013 which hosted the 2025 version, entitled <em>Source Notes<\/em> and curated by Loren Rosati \u2013, the exhibition brings together around fifty works \u2013 including paintings, sculptures, collages, installations and a film \u2013 on loan from private collections, international institutions and the artist\u2019s studio, alongside several previously unseen works created especially for this occasion. Organised around three themes, the works offer a critical interpretation of the present, highlighting the weight of stereotypes and the importance of collective memory.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nCurated by Fernanda Brenner, Paulo Nazareth\u2019s exhibition completes the exhibition programme at Punta della Dogana: on the first floor, the viewer\u2019s gaze moves through the Brazilian artist\u2019s works \u2013 including a group of previously unseen pieces \u2013 following a timeline spanning two decades. By observing the fragmentation of history, Nazareth reveals the effects of racial and colonial violence and finds in the act of walking a means of fostering dialogue between different geographies and perspectives.","protected":false},"featured_media":17873,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categorie_magazine":[343],"class_list":["post-17894","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categorie_magazine-words-from-marte"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Must-see exhibitions in Rome, Florence and Venice - Marsilio Arte<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From contemporary art with a tragicomic twist to Mark Rothko, Michael Armitage and Lorna Simpson: some exhibitions not to be missed\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibitions-rome-florence-venice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Must-see exhibitions in Rome, Florence and Venice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From contemporary art with a tragicomic twist to Mark Rothko, Michael Armitage and Lorna Simpson: some exhibitions not to be missed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibitions-rome-florence-venice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Marsilio Arte\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MarsilioArte\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MAXXI_Paola_Pivi_SenzaTitoloasino2003_photo_HugoGlendinning.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2128\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1738\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@MarsilioArte\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"5 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibitions-rome-florence-venice\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibitions-rome-florence-venice\/\",\"name\":\"Must-see exhibitions in Rome, Florence and Venice - Marsilio Arte\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibitions-rome-florence-venice\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibitions-rome-florence-venice\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MAXXI_Paola_Pivi_SenzaTitoloasino2003_photo_HugoGlendinning.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-03-24T08:45:12+00:00\",\"description\":\"From contemporary art with a tragicomic twist to Mark Rothko, Michael Armitage and Lorna Simpson: some exhibitions not to be missed\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibitions-rome-florence-venice\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibitions-rome-florence-venice\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/en\/magazine\/exhibitions-rome-florence-venice\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MAXXI_Paola_Pivi_SenzaTitoloasino2003_photo_HugoGlendinning.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.marsilioarte.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MAXXI_Paola_Pivi_SenzaTitoloasino2003_photo_HugoGlendinning.jpg\",\"width\":2128,\"height\":1738,\"caption\":\"Paola Pivi, Senza titolo (asino), 2003. 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