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.
She is a national heroine in Finland, but has only become known internationally in recent years: Helene Schjerfbeck fascinates with her original, simple style. For the first time, a major museum in the USA is presenting her work: Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck opens on December 5 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
From November 13 to 30, the Fremantle Biennale took place in Australia near Perth, focusing on site-specific contemporary art. Among the exhibiting artists was Raki Nikahetiya with a sensory installation about the intertwining of identity, displacement, and home.
