August is not just about the beach and the mountains in Tuscany. In the hottest month of the Italian summer, Florence is full of life and unmissable events. If you come to the city and are in doubt about how to enjoy your days here, check out the list of the 7 exhibitions to visit in Florence during the month of August 2023.
Yan Pei-Ming – Palazzo Strozzi
Until September 3rd, the public will be able to visit the largest exhibition in Italy dedicated to the French Chinese artist Yan Pei-Ming, with more than 30 works that explore the contemporary artist’s research on the relationship between image and reality in a short circuit between personal experience and collective history, between memory and the present.
Luca Giordano – Palazzo Medici Riccardi
The exhibition “Luca Giordano. Baroque master in Florence” brings together a selection of around 50 works, some of which have never been seen in Florence. Among them, a series of ten sketches of the Galleria degli Specchi and the vault of the Riccardiana Library, property of the National Gallery in London, stand out. The exhibition itinerary will investigate other aspects of Luca Giordano’s Florentine patronage and activity, particularly valuing the works closest to him in terms of theme, most original in terms of technique and most significant in the painter’s career, weaving a strongly suggestive story.
Nico Vascellari – Forte di Belvedere
It is the first time that Forte Belvedere dedicates an exhibition to an Italian artist of Nico Vascellari’s generation. Melma is an unprecedented exhibition route that runs through the internal and external spaces of Forte Belvedere, with nine aluminum foundries installed on the walls and in the garden, accompanied by two videos in the spaces of the embrasure and a work mounted on the facade of the building. The internal rooms house an exhibition itinerary with more than thirty works, many of them unpublished.
Steve McCurry – Museo degli Innocenti
Until October 8, the Museo degli Innocenti hosts the exhibition “Steve McCurry Children“, with 100 photographs taken in almost fifty years of activity and that portray children from all corners of the world in scenes of everyday life will be visible in the exhibition script.
Lisetta Carmi – Villa Bardini
The master of photography, a survivor of racial persecution, transforms the camera into a tool to understand the world and the human condition and at the same time find answers about herself and alleviate her existential anguish. In “Lisetta Carmi. Suonare forte”, you will be able to check out 180 photographs taken in twenty years of professional life between the sixties and seventies, which offer a selection of her most important photographic projects. Until October 8th.
Lucio Fontana – Museo Novecento
Until September 13, the exhibition “Lucio Fontana. L’origine du monde” can be seen in the Museo Novecento. The two floors of the museum house Fontana’s sculptures, paintings, and drawings from 1946 to the last years of his long career. Less explored aspects of his work are, therefore, investigated, such as the original relationship between artistic creation, procreation, and the birth of life in the universe and the relationship between the finite and the infinite world.
Exhibiting – Manifattura Tabacchi
Dedicated to the close connection between the history of the old cigar factory and the production of contemporary art, “Exhibiting” is a true collection of multivocal stories that intend to underline the value of training, interdisciplinarity and dialogue with the new generations of artists, in a perspective in which research and production are essential for understanding our present. Until September 3rd.