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Our exhibition projects are tailored to your museum interests. Together with your team, we will meet the directors of the lender museums, visit their collections and jointly develop the exhibition themes and structure according to your museum needs and audience.
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New Projects
West to East. Arms and Armor Across Cultures
This broad, bold, and sweeping exhibition explores the art of armor and arms from a myriad of historical perspectives, displaying exemplars of various cultures in confrontation and comparison. Conceived as a journey, spanning centuries from the late 1400s to the late 1800s, and crossing continents, some 120 original objects give testimony to the evolution of elements of iconic armor and weaponry as they evolved and were deployed across a broad expanse of world geography and history: Europe, Turkiye, Persia, India and Japan.
Women in the Ancient World. Modern Reflections
Today, women’s rights are still very much in debate or dispute across most societies of the modern world. The issues in most societies reflect an embedded perception of women in the need of male protection, but how did this perception evolve? Developed in collaboration with leading Museums of Italy, this unique exhibition presents an extraordinary selection of artifacts and artworks including original statues, precious everyday life objects, jewelry, and hidden epigraphic heritage that give voice to well-known and lesser-known women of the ancient Mediterranean world, with a specific focus on the ancient Egyptian, Etruscan and Roman culture, ultimately shedding light on all those precepts that frame the debate today.
Visions of the Cosmos. From Antiquity to Galileo and Modern Astronomy
The infinity that expands in the night sky has been a subject of contemplation and study since the dawn of civilization. From the ancient Mesopotamians of the 4th millennium BCE to the Copernican Revolution – disseminated by Galileo Galilei, the “father of modern observational astronomy” civilizations have long sought to conceive, theorize, and represent the structure of the Universe. This exhibition, conceived by the Galileo Galilei Museum of Florence, in collaboration with Contemporanea Progetti, celebrates this millennia-long story and its protagonists.
Lucio Fontana and Spatialism. The Italian Postwar Avant-Garde
“I do not want to make a painting; I want to open up space, create a new dimension, tie in the cosmos, as it endlessly expands beyond the confining plane of the picture.” With these words, 20th century Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana would define a new type of art, seeking to break free from traditional artistic forms and opening up new dimensions of space, light, and colour, in order to ultimately connecting art with the infinite cosmos. This comprehensive exhibition brings together ca. 50 works of art by Lucio Fontana and leading figures of Spazialismo, the Italian Spatialist movement first theorized in the 1946 Manifiesto Blanco.
The Allure of the Modern Woman. From Boldini, Sironi, to Picasso.
Either inspiring, candid muses or charming, carnal femmes fatales, the female figure has seen countless interpretations in the painting of the changing times of the late 19th and early 20th century. This special exhibition of +50 paintings unveils original portraits of the Belle Époque women, from the voluminous and alluring Donne of Giovanni Boldini, to the mysterious and solemn female representations of Mario Sironi and Female Figure by Pablo Picasso, definitely marking the passage to the Modern Era.
Ulysses
Of all the ancient Greek heroes and gods that have transcended time, perhaps none is more enduring in the public imagination than Ulysses, king of Ithaca. Portrayed as a complex and multi-faceted man of courage and shrewdness, his legendary exploits are recounted in Homer’s epic poems of the 8th century BCE, the Illiad and the Odyssey. This is the first large-scale, modern exhibition dedicated to this extraordinary, contradictory hero – both a courageous champion and master of deception who confronts all that the gods and the vicissitudes of life throw at him with cunning and grace.
Hollywood Icons
Cinema is not just entertainment: it is the most vivid mirror of our lives, the universal language that for over a century has helped us understand the world and tell the story of who we are. As the frames unfold, lasting moments take root in our imagination: a dialogue, an emotion, a costume, a striking shot. This one-of-a-kind exhibition celebrates this intangible yet profoundly tangible heritage through a carefully curated selection of original objects, including costumes and props from the sets of Hollywood’s most famous films.
Heroes and Gods in Venetian Baroque Painting
Through myth and allegory, Venice has always identified itself with high ideals, as a place where
justice prevailed. During the artistic season of the Baroque, Venetian painting expressed ethical and philosophical messages that exalted Venice as the ideal republic. It was an artistic season defined by a stylistic revival, a rediscovery of the traditions of color and atmosphere that distinguished the 16th century painting. This extraordinary exhibition beautifully illustrates the reflection of Venice through the masterful, mythological and allegorical Baroque language of important Venetian painters.
Italian Design
The 1950s witnessed in Italy the exciting emergence of an experimental design laboratory fueled by the greatest architects and designers of the times. This unique exhibition reconstructs the variety of form and the diffusion of creativity of this era and afterwards through a selection of approximately 80 original objects and design drawings that embody the creativity and special flair for which Italian design in the modern age is consistently appreciated, admired and awarded.
Shunga. Love and Art in the Japan of the Samurai
The exhibition invites the general public into a special world of Japanese art and culture; one that focuses on the ideal of feminine beauty, on erotic imagery and on certain lifestyle habits of Japan during the Edo period (1603-1867). On view is a selection of print masterpieces, paintings and refined decorative artworks belonging to the collections of MUSEC, the Museum of Cultures of Lugano, which has specialized for many years in the study of Japanese art.