Palazzo CitterioBrera
I Maestri di Brera. Insegnare l'arte
For the Brera Academy's 250th anniversary, works by its 20th-century and contemporary teachers, from Wildt and Carrà to Marini and Fabro, in the Sala Stirling.
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Preview: written before the show opened
Lucio Fontana never taught at the Accademia di Brera, but he is in this show. He studied there under the sculptor Adolfo Wildt, and Wildt is here too: Brera announced the show with his Volto di donna (Vergine), a marble face of a woman from 1925, 28 centimetres tall.
The Academy turns 250, and the show walks through its teachers in date order in the Sala Stirling, Palazzo Citterio's underground hall. You start in the 1920s to 1940s with Wildt, Carrà, Martini and Funi, heavy on sculpture, then Marino Marini and Gastone Novelli. Fabro, Varisco and Boero carry it from the 1970s, and the last section is about the students they shaped. If you studied at Brera, that section is your old teachers: a homecoming or a flashback to a bad crit.
So far the museum has named artists, not works. Entry is €12 (€8 reduced), or €20 with the Pinacoteca, booked on brerabooking.org. Tuesday to Sunday, 8:30 to 19:15 (last entry 18:00), until 10 January.
Look for
Adolfo Wildt, Volto di donna (Vergine), 1925
Look for a small marble face of a woman, 28 by 25 centimetres, by the sculptor who taught Lucio Fontana at Brera.
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- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Nerding Out
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- 100 Years for Brera. Gifts and Acquisitions from the FriendsCourtesy of Pinacoteca di Brera
- Pinacoteca viaggianteCourtesy of Pinacoteca di Brera
- Beauty and the IdealCourtesy of Pinacoteca di Brera
- Palazzo CitterioGiovanni Dall'Orto / Wikimedia Commons
- Pinacoteca di BreraKarlmontague / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Gallerie d'Italia MilanoJwslubbock / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museo Poldi PezzoliPaolobon140 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Museo Teatrale alla ScalaDaniel Case / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0