At the beginning of the summer, the schedule of upcoming exhibition events and exhibitions planned forfall 2021 in the Milanese capital was fully released by the City of Milan: many appointments in Milan’s main museums and exhibition hubs, under the banner of the much hoped-for resumption of cultural activities and tours in the city. The schedule promises to be more varied than ever, a kaleidoscope of initiatives spanning centuries of history and figurative art, Milanese, Italian and international. From the emotionality of Renaissance sculptures on display at the Castello Sforzesco to Monet ‘s iconic water lilies at the Royal Palace, from fairytale Disney at Mudec to Magic Realism at the Royal Palace; from Marieda’s ceramics at Casa Boschi Di Stefano to the Divisionisms at GAM; from Sironi ‘s urban views exhibited at the Museum of the Twentieth Century to the Dutch landscapes that inspired Piet Mondrian‘s abstractionism, the subject of another highly anticipated exhibition in the halls of the Mudec…
Needless to say, for those who love to visit exhibitions and museums, you will be spoiled for choice! Among the many possible guided tours dedicated to the autumn exhibitions in Milan, we recommend for the meantime three that will undoubtedly strike the attention of the general public for the beauty of the masterpieces on display and the fascination of the stories they intend to tell: the celebration of Renaissance sculpture in the exhibition The Body and the Soul, from Donatello to Michelangelo (July 21 to October 24, 2021), organized by Milan’s Castello Sforzesco in collaboration with the Louvre; Mudec’s original exhibition project Disney. The art of timeless storytelling (Sept. 2, 2021 to Feb. 13, 2022); finally, in the halls of the Royal Palace, the retrospective devoted to the painting of Claude Monet. (September 18, 2021 to January 30, 2022).
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Fall exhibitions in Milan
Exhibition The Body and the Soul, from Donatello to Michelangelo at Milan’s Castello Sforzesco
The body and the soul, from Donatello to Michelangelo. Italian Renaissance Sculpture. is the profoundly evocative title of the exhibition that opened at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan at the end of July: open from July 21 to October 24, 2021, the exhibition was the result of a collaboration between the Milanese Civic Museums and the sculpture department of the Louvre Museum in Paris, under the curatorship of Marc Bormand, Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Francesca Tasso. It was in the French capital last fall that the exhibition had opened within days of a new wave of the pandemic and a new national lockdown. Not very many, then, visitors on French soil were able to appreciate the extraordinary masterpieces collected in a rich overview dedicated to the main themes of Italian Renaissance sculpture. A journey through the most diverse human emotions, carved in marble, bronze, wood or terracotta… but always in dialogue with the other arts practiced by the artists of the time, such as painting, applied arts, drawing and engraving. In the setting of the Castello Sforzesco, it is impossible not to think of Michelangelo Buonarroti’sPietà Rondanini as a worthy crowning glory of a visit to the exhibition that aims to investigate the body and soul of Renaissance art, touching the deepest chords of theemotionality of us viewers.
Show Disney. The art of timeless storytelling at Mudec
Turning visitors into storytellers-this, instead, is the challenge of the exhibition Disney. The art of timeless storytelling , long awaited in the halls of the Mudec after the postponements caused by the well-known pandemic crisis.Visible from Sept. 2, 2021 to Feb. 13, 2022, the exhibition promises to make everyone, young and old alike, dream! The project, curated by The Walt Disney Animation Research Library together with the 24 Hour Culture Group, not only traces the history of Disney, from the earliest sketches to the most recent productions, but also returns to tell us about celebrated fairy tales and their iconic characters: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Robin Hood, Hercules, Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Frozen… A guided tour of the exhibition, however, takes us far beyond the stories and spells seen and revised on the big and small screen: it takes us through the creative journey that illustrators, set designers and designers undertake, with increasingly refined techniques, at Disney Studios… there where the art, ancient as it is, of storytelling is learned!
Show Claude Monet. Works from the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. at the Royal Palace
Finally, among the autumn exhibitions in Milan, the exhibition Claude Monet. , scheduled at the exhibition venue of Royal Palace from September 18, 2021 to January 30, 2022. An explosion of lights and colors, on the canvases of the very famous painter father ofFrench Impressionism! The exhibition brings together some 50 masterpieces from the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris, an institution that holds the largest collection of Monet’s works. Among the works selected to be put on display in Milan we will undoubtedly remember the paintings On the Beach of Trouville, Walk in Argenteuil, The Parliament. Reflections on the Thames … but, above all, its beautiful Water Lilies, true icons of Western art! An extra tip for this occasion? Pop into Sempione Park and admire at theCivic Aquarium a naturalistic project dedicated precisely to these marvelous aquatic plants, in continuity with the exhibition itinerary of Palazzo Reale, among the most unmissable of the Milanese autumn.
