The Lost Murals of Renaissance Rome and Judy Baca: Hitting the Wall: Beginning May 31, visitors to the Getty Center in Los Angeles can compare preliminary drawings for lost Renaissance murals with Judy Baca's 1984 mural in two parallel exhibitions.
At the time of the Renaissance, painted facades in Rome were considered treasures of the city, but most of them have not survived. The Getty Center in Los Angeles will exhibit sketches of the murals from its collection in The Lost Murals of Renaissance Rome beginning May 31. At the heart of the collection are works by Federico Zuccaro, who recorded the life of his older brother Taddeo. The drawings were probably intended for the family's palazzo, which would serve as a hostel for young artists visiting Rome.
In parallel, the Getty Center is showing Judy Baca: Hitting the Wall, the story of the creation of her mural of the same name, painted in 1984 for the Los Angeles Olympics and restored in 2021. Women were allowed to participate in marathons for the first time at that time. The painting is symbolic of the tearing down of old orders. In the exhibition, preliminary drawings are juxtaposed with a reproduction. The presentations, planned as a unit, are open until September 4.
With her project And in 2084, You Are 62, artist Jiajia Zhang won the fifth edition of the Art Vontobel Contemporary Photography Prize. The award is presented every two years and includes a solo exhibition at Bank Vontobel AG in Zurich, which opens on June 5.
Featuring works by a total of 279 international artists, the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg showcases the diversity of the medium. Under the theme Alliance, Infinity, Love – in the Face of the Other, eleven exhibitions will open consecutively from June 4 to 6.
