Florentine Exhibitions for Louise Bourgeois: Do Not Abandon Me
By Linda Falcone “There is tremendous anticipation for the Florence exhibition on Louise Bourgeois, one of the absolute protagonists of...
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Calliope Arts
Documenting women’s stories, today and through the centuries.
A project for the ‘restoration’ of women’s creative achievements,
through research, awareness, conservation and cultural exchange.
Calliope Arts also raises awareness through Restoration Conversations livestream broadcasts and bi-annual magazine.
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Restoration Conversations presenter Linda Falcone interviews National Central Library conservator Alessandro Sidoti and Natacha Fabbri, co-curator of 'Women of the Skies: From Muses to Scientists', on location at the exhibition, at Florence's National Central Library with Museo Galileo. View rare books and manuscripts featuring allegorical 'Urania' and flesh-and-blood women with an interest in or talent for astronomy, including Margherita Sarrocchi, Henrietta Swan Leavett and Cristina di Lorena.
Reading up...
Our SPRING/SUMMER 2024 issue is now 'out' in its digital version.
Press the cover to read the magazine online.
The Curators' Quaderno: Lola Costa at Il Palmerino
Our first edition of The Curators’ Quaderno explores the evolution of Lola Costa’s art over the course of the 20th century, through paintings, drawings, and poetry. Thanks to the musings of curators and sector experts, this new publication examines Costa’s life as an expat British woman in Florence, and follows the makings of the exhibition, ‘Return Home: Lola Costa at Il Palmerino’, curated by the artist’s granddaughter Federica Parretti. Our debut edition of The Curators’ Quaderno, a notebook-style publication conceived and developed by the Calliope Arts Foundation and The Florentine Press, marks the 20th anniversary of Lola’s death, and aims to commemorate the legacy of her Tuscan hillside home.
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Louise Bourgeois, LES FLEURS, 2009, Gouache on paper, suite of 12, 59.7 x 45.7 cm, each sheet
Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by S.I.A.E., Italy and VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Louise Bourgeois in Florence
Exhibitions at the Museo Novecento and the Museo degli Innocenti
From June 22 to October 20, 2024, art lovers can enjoy ‘Louise Bourgeois in Florence’, which includes two exceptional exhibitions ‘Do Not Abandon Me’ and ‘Cell XVIII (Portrait) at the Museo Novecento and the Museo degli Innocenti, respectively. The project brings the works of Louise Bourgeois (Paris, 1911-New York, 2010) to Florence for the first time, and includes survey of Bourgeois’s late red gouaches with a thematic focus on the motif of the mother and child. The exhibition’s title refers to Bourgeois’s powerful and lifelong fear of abandonment, which relates to the mother-child dyad that sets the pattern for all future relationships.
The show, created in conjunction with the Easton Foundation in New York, is promoted by the City of Florence and organised by MUS.E.
Project sponsors: Museo FAMM / Christian Levett Collection and Calliope Arts Foundation
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Three main photos (left to right) by: Olga Makarova, Alinari Foundation for Photography Archives, Marco Badiani
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