The new exhibition from Fondazione Ferragamo and Museo Salvatore Ferragamo features works from Keith Haring and more
The new exhibition from Fondazione Ferragamo and Museo Salvatore Ferragamo features works from Keith Haring and more
Text: William Defebaugh
Today sees the unveiling of a new exhibition in Florence organized by Fondazione Ferragamo and Museo Salvatore Ferragamo. Appropriately titled Across Art And Fashion, the collection examines the intricate crossover between the two creative genres—a long-time fascination of Salvatore Ferragamo himself.
Fitting for a project that explores collaboration, the exhibition is a collaboration between multiple Italian art powerhouse institutions: in Florence, the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, the Gallerie degli Uffizi (the Galleria d’arte moderna, the Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti), Museo Marino Marini, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo and Museo del Tessuto in Prato.
The body of work was curated by Maria Luisa Frisa, Enrica Morini, Stefania Ricci and Alberto Salvadori, and includes an extensive collection of pieces across many mediums: fabric, books, paintings, photographs, and more from both international and Italian collections (private and public).
Art expert Hikari Yokoyama, who attended the opening of the exhibit, tells V: "Seeing high Renaissance works by Botticelli, Lippi, Bugiardini and van der Goes jump off the wall in vivid colour, in the freshly redone rooms in the Uffizi Gallery just shows how important it is to carefully restore and present historic works of art. I'm grateful that Ferragamo has decided to contribute to the gift of eternal life of these treasures, just as Salvatore's spirit lives on in the playful and whimsical, yet historically rigorous exhibition Across Art And Fashion."
Read on for a preview of the works featured in the exhibit.
See Across Art And Fashion:
Museo Salvatore Ferragamo, Florence, 19 May 2016 — 7 April 2017
Other locations:
The Nineteenth Century in Fashion
Sala del Fiorino - Gallerie degli Uffizi, Galleria d’arte moderna di Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 19 May — 24 July 2016
Collaboration
Museo Marino Marini, Florence, 19 May – 31 July 2016
Italian Periodicals in the Nineteen Hundreds
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze, Florence, 20 May – 15 October 2016
Nostalgia for the Future in Post-War Artists’ Fabric
Museo del Tessuto, Prato, 21 May 2016 – 19 February 2017