EXHIBITIONS Museums and archaeological sites in Rome, including the Vatican Museums, are open only to visitors with the covid Green Pass or its equivalent. Most venues require advance booking and the wearing of masks is obligatory. Weekend visits to the more popular sites such as the Colosseum and the Pantheon must be booked at least one day ahead. For visiting details check websites in advance.
CY TWOMBLY: SOUVENIRS OF TIME 30 OCT-13 NOV
The Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs by Cy Twombly, the celebrated American painter who died in Rome in 2011. The show features photographs taken by Twombly throughout his career of his studios and domestic interiors and of classical sculptures. The images span a 60-year period between the US and Italy, chronicling locations central to the artist’s life and work, from the 1950s through the 2000s, including his ateliers in Rome,
Bassano in Teverina and Gaeta. The gallery says the images also show his paintings and sculpture in varying states of completion, offering insights into his working process. Gagosian Gallery, Via Francesco Crispi 16, tel. 0642086498, www.gagosian.com.
KLIMT: LA SECESSIONE E L’ITALIA 27 OCT-27 MARCH
Palazzo Braschi presents an exhibition of paintings by Gustav Klimt, including Portrait of a Lady, which went missing for almost 23 years after its theft from a gallery in Piacenza. The painting was stolen in 1997 before being rediscovered in the gallery’s garden, in mysterious circumstances, in 2019. The works on show feature some of the Austrian artist’s masterpieces from the Belvedere Museum in Vienna, the Klimt Foundation and public and private collections such as the Neue Galerie Graz. Highlights among the paintings, sculptures and drawings on display include Judith I, Lady in White, Friends I (The Sisters), Amalie Zuckerkandl and The Bride. The fivemonth exhibition will focus on the artist’s relationship with Italy and the influence he had on other artists working in the country. Museo di Roma, Piazza Navona 2, tel. 060608, www.museodiroma.it.
INFERNO
15 OCT-9 JAN
Cy Twombly photos at the Gagosian.
The Scuderie del Quirinale marks the 700th anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri with an exhibition based on the first book of The Divine Comedy. The show comprises more than 200 artworks on loan from 80 museums, public collections and private collections from Italy, the Vatican and across Europe. Inferno documents hell-related iconography from the Middle Ages to the present day, in what is hailed as the first major art exhibition dedicated to this theme. Curated by Jean Clair, the show will take visitors on a terrifying visual journey into the depths of hell, as imagined by artists through the
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Portrait of a Lady by Klimt at Museo di Roma.
centuries, accompanied by the words of Dante. These visions range from the tormented and nightmarish to the romanticised, from Mediaeval to Baroque, up to psychoanalytic interpretations from the 20th century. Scuderie del Quirinale, Via XXIV Maggio 16, www.scuderiequirinale.it.
TOKUHIRO KAWAI AND JEFFREY CHONG WANG 16 OCT-16 NOV
Dorothy Circus, a prominent gallery specialising in international popsurrealist art, presents a double exhibition by two artists: Beijingraised and Canada-based Jeffrey Chong Wang and Japan’s Tokuhiro Kawai. The gallery says that Kawai draws from classical Renaissance themes to elaborate surreal fairytales while Chong Wang gains inspiration from Romanticism to create cinematographic reflections. Dorothy Circus Gallery, Via dei Pettinari 76, www.dorothycircusgallery.it.
SEBASTIAO SALGADO 1 OCT-13 FEB
The celebrated photojournalist Sebastião Salgado provides a black and white photographic journey through the Brazilian Amazon, after he spent six years capturing images of the forest, the rivers, the mountains and the people who live there. MAXXI, Italy’s national museum of 21st-century arts, presents Salgado’s 200 photographs against a soundscape of sounds recorded in the forests and created by Jean-Michel Jarre - feauring the rustling of trees, birdsong, the
