Hoping to counteract a downward trend in visitors to major exhibitions during 2008, Palazzo Strozzi will mount a series of blockbuster exhibitions over the next three years.
In March 2009, Palazzo Strozzi kicks off a year of events devoted to Tuscan genius Galileo Galilei. A show exploring the development and evolution of trompe l’oeil through the ages will open in autumn 2009.
The spring 2010 exhibition will compare and contrast the work of three maestros who shaped twentieth-century European art: Giorgio de Chirico, René Magritte and Balthus. The summer show for 2010 is the first of three shows celebrating Florence as the cultural, political and financial center of the Italian peninsula in the Renaissance and will be curated by British critic Tim Parks.
In spring 2011, Palazzo Strozzi inaugurates an exhibition on Spain’s most renowned twentieth-century artists. Giovani e Arrabiati (‘Angry Young Men’) will consider the early work of Pablo Picasso, Joan Mirò and Salvador Dalì. Donne, Amore e Arte nella Firenze del Rinascimento (‘Women, Love and Art in Renaissance Florence’) is the second exhibition in the Renaissance series and will be co-curated by British author Sarah Dunant.
2011 closes with an event dedicated to nineteenth-century French artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and his influence on Italian art: Ingres in Italia: il rivoluzionario riluttante (‘Ingres in Italy: The Reluctant Revolutionary’).
