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Milan's contemporary artistic summer told by eight exhibitions in five different locations

Milan, 14 August 2019 – The month of July, together with tourists (+6,6%) and visitors to civic museums (+3%), also saw an increase in overall visitors to exhibitions in the main venues compared to July 2018 exhibitions of the Municipality of Milan: Palazzo Reale, PAC and Mudec. An increase of 10,4% which demonstrates the attractiveness of cultural Milan even at the height of the summer season.

The artistic proposal for the Milanese summer, which was appreciated by Milanese and tourists, is characterized by particular attention to the contemporary, also offering for the month of August eight exhibition projects linked to the plurality of languages ​​and multidisciplinarity typical of creativity simultaneously in five different civic locations.

At Palazzo Reale, for the fourth consecutive year, the summer offers a theme that offers the public the opportunity to get to know, with free entry, Italian artists born in the twentieth century with an important role in the history of more recent art: the exhibitions dedicated to Nanda Vigo (“Light projet”), Guido Pajetta (“Myths and figures between shape and color”) and Ugo Nespolo (“Fuori dal coro”) have in fact already been visited by over 26 thousand people.

The contemporary artistic summer continues at the PAC|Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, where the solo exhibition dedicated to the Italian-Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino (“O amor se faz revolucionàrio”) remains open throughout the month of August from Tuesday to Friday (from 9am to 30pm) with a reduced ticket of 19 euros, waiting for the finissage on 30 September with the concert, in the exhibition rooms, by Malika Ayane.

In the exhibition rooms of the nearby Gallery of Modern Art, with free admission, the exhibition dedicated to the painter Andrea Ventura, among other illustrators for the "New Yorker" and the "New York Times", offers another piece to understand the multiplicity of language of contemporary creativity.

Contemporary languages ​​also at the Museo del Novecento with Remo Bianco's solo exhibition ("The footprints of memory") which, included in the museum itinerary, allows you to discover the work of one of the protagonists of the artistic scene of the second half of the last century.

Finally, throughout August, the Museum of Cultures in Milan offers two exhibition projects linked to contemporary representation: the surprising chameleon-like approach to reality by Liu Bolin (“Visible, invisible”) and the sophisticated, and only apparently easy, art of Roy Lichtenstein ( “Multiple visions”), which has fascinated generations of creatives since the early years of pop art, from painting to advertising, from photography to design and fashion.