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Milan, September 23 2020 – The Milanese autumn sees the resumption of exhibition activity in all the offices of the Municipality of Milan with a calendar of almost 50 exhibitions that extends into the summer and beyond. Many projects postponed due to the health emergency have been rescheduled, as has the "Women's Talents" schedule, which until April 2021 will continue to offer exhibitions, shows and meetings dedicated to the world of female creativity. There are also many new proposals that have taken shape in recent months and which will enrich the artistic and cultural offer of the city in the coming seasons.

The first exhibitions on the calendar immediately take us back to the "Talents of Women" program. In fact, the autumn exhibition sees the photography exhibition “Prima, donna” dedicated to the work and life of the pioneer photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White scheduled at Palazzo Reale (from 25 September); at the Civic Aquarium (from 29 September) “A life as a scientist”, exhibition of portraits of one hundred of the greatest Italian scientists, thanks to the #100experts project of the Bracco Foundation; the Carla Accardi retrospective, entitled “Contesti” curated by the Museo del Novecento (from 9 October); and the exhibition “Divine and avant-garde. Women in Russian art”, the result of an exclusive collaboration with the State Russian Museum of St. Petersburg, still at the Royal Palace (from 28 October).

Before hosting, again within the “The talents of women” program, the solo exhibition of the Cuban artist Tania Bruguera “The truth even at the expense of the world” (from November), the PAC proposes a new edition of “Ri-scatti ”, a project of social redemption through photography which this year features seven victims of trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation who photographed their reality (16-25 October). To then return (from March) to representing female creativity with an exhibition dedicated to the Italian artist Luisa Lambri, who explored modernist architecture through photography.

The Castello Sforzesco continues its research on ancient art and, on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of Raphael's death, proposes the exhibition "Giuseppe Bossi and Raphael at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan", a focus on the Lombard painter, designer and collector, great admirer of Raphael and his work (from 27 November); while (from 5 March 2021) the exhibition curated together with the Louvre Museum on Italian Renaissance sculpture, entitled "The body and the soul, from Donatello to Michelangelo", will be set up in its exhibition rooms. The same exhibition is on display in the rooms of the Louvre from 22 October to 18 January 2021.

“The talents of women” return to be protagonists during the winter season: at Palazzo Reale (from 3 December) with “The ladies of the Baroque”, an exhibition dedicated to the great artists of the seventeenth century and also to others less known to the general public; at Mudec (again from 3 December) with the exhibition “Io sono/I am” by Luisa Menazzi Moretti, which through twenty photographic portraits tells the story of twenty refugees who arrived in Italy and come from sixteen different nations; at Mudec Photo, in whose spaces (from 19 January) the shots of "Tina Modotti" evoke the sense of the triad contained in the subtitle of the exhibition: "Women, Mexico and Freedom"; at the Boschi Di Stefano House Museum, where an exhibition (from February) recounts the work and work of the owner of the house, Marieda Di Stefano, a very talented sculptor and ceramist; and, finally, at the Civic Aquarium, the “Castaways and Shipwrecks” by Barbara Pietrasanta, who in this project develops the theme of shipwreck as a metaphor for life.

Mudec will inaugurate two exhibitions already scheduled before the lockdown next winter: “Robot. The human project” (from 26 November), which narrates the evolution from ancient automata to contemporary robotics, starting from the first mechanical devices of ancient Greece up to the most advanced contemporary technologies, passing through Leonardo's machines and the surprising seventeenth-century automata and eighteenth-century; and the “Disney” exhibition (from 14 January), an in-depth journey into the talent and technique of the Disney Studios artists in the art of telling timeless stories.  

“The talents of women” will also cross next spring with a series of exhibitions in various exhibition venues: from the Museo del Novecento, with Anna Valeria Borsari's solo show which documents the artist's journey from the early Seventies to today (from March) ; at GAM where (since March) the sculptures of the Iranian artist Nairy Baghramian (“Furla Series #03”) are exhibited for the first time in the spaces of an Italian institution; at Palazzo Morando, where Federica Galli's engravings accompany the public on a real artistic tour between Milan and its farmhouses (from 19 March); at the Sormani Library, where (from March) a journey through archive documents, period magazines and original editions documents the role of "Women's writing, soul of the twentieth century".