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Axel Vervoordt Gallery presents the exhibition Breath of Air by Ida Barbarigo (1920–2018) at Frieze Masters 2025, from October 15 to 19 at The Regent’s Park, London. This solo presentation brings together rare works from the 1950s to the early 1970s, highlighting Barbarigo’s evolution in abstraction: from a highly formal and geometric style to a much more lyrical and deeply personal visual language. Barbarigo’s abstract paintings, particularly in the Chairs series, transform simple objects into haunting symbols of presence and absence, using repetition, distortion, and atmospheric space to evoke psychological tension rather than depict actual furniture.

The retrospective Zoran Music. La Stanza di Zurigo, le opere, l’atelier is now open at Palazzo Attems Petzenstein in Gorizia. On the occasion of Gorizia being named European Capital of Culture 2025, Zoran Music returns home. The exhibition revolves around La Stanza di Zurigo, a masterful work created between the late 1940s and early 1950s, and features over 100 works divided by decade, from the 1930s to the 2000s, tracing the artist’s life and creative journey. The exhibition concludes with a reconstruction of the artist’s studio, displaying his tools and personal belongings.

The Eremitani Museum in Padua presents Ida Barbarigo. Works 1940–2015, a retrospective dedicated to the artist. Beginning with her debut at the 1942 Venice Biennale with the painting Operaie in riposo, the exhibition unfolds chronologically and thematically, documenting the extensive and diverse body of work of a painter who, with tenacity and determination, developed a deeply personal and distinctive artistic language. The exhibition concludes with her final series, begun in 2010, titled Unity in Depth.

The Magnani-Rocca Foundation in Mamiano di Traversetolo (Parma) is exhibiting the painting Nudo e paesaggio fiorito by Guido Cadorin in the exhibition FLORA. The Enchantment of Flowers in Italian Art from the 20th Century to Today. The exhibition features over 150 masterpieces, spanning from the late 19th century to the present day, as a floral tribute to Italian art.

In Paris, the mahJ, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, presents a painting by Zoran Mušič from the cycle Nous ne sommes pas les derniers, in which he depicts the tragedy of concentration camps through monochrome paintings, symbolizing the horror and silence of the camps. This artwork, one of the most remarkable in the series, powerfully embodies the intensity of the survivors’ suffering. Exhibition curated by Laura Bossi and Jean Clair, of the Académie française.

On 6 April 2024 Marco Polo’s world opens at Palazzo Ducale in Venice. The journey of a thirteenth-century Venetian merchant. The exhibition dedicates particular attention to analyzing the “”myth” of Marco Polo between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, up to the suggestions of the figure of the merchant and his adventure in contemporary art”, and displays the great tapestry by Zoran Music, History of Marco Polo, 1951. The work was chosen to illustrate the exhibition poster, which reproduces a detail.

On 25 November 2023, at the Museo del Paesaggio in Torre di Mosto (Venice), the exhibition Ri-nascite. Female art from the 20th century to the contemporary, curated by Stefano Cecchetto. The exhibition highlights the work of female artists who, in the last century to the present day, have renewed the language of the male universe. The exhibition juxtaposes the work of some famous female artists of the 20th century and that of young contemporary artists. The works include three canvases by Livia Tivoli and three by Ida Barbarigo.

MART, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, will host two paintings by Guido Cadorin in the exhibition ‘Klimt and Italian Art’: Il Kimono (The Kimono) and Nudo e paesaggio fiorito (Nude in a flowery landscape). The exhibition aims to show how Italian artists took Klimt’s influence and reworked it in their own independent and original way. It was conceived by Vittorio Sgarbi and curated by Beatrice Avanzi.

The exhibition Gesture, Paint. Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940–70 includes two paintings by Ida Barbarigo: Promenade, 1963 and Open Game, 1961, both from the Tate’s collection. From 4 June – 22 October 2023 the show will tour to Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France.

Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca: opening of the ‘Nuove Tendenze. Leonardo Dudreville e l’avanguardia negli anni Dieci’ exhibition.. The exhibition will include L’idolo (The Idol), tempera on cardboard painted by Guido Cadorin in 1911.

Opening of the ‘Dialogue with the self-portrait’ exhibition at the Axel Vervoordt Gallery (Wijnegem, Antwerp). The exhibition will feature self-portraits and double portraits painted by Zoran Music, and paintings by Ida Barbarigo from the Erme series.

The ‘La stanza e la strada. Zoran Music und Norbert Möslang’ exhibition opens in Chur, Switzerland.

The ‘Riflessi. Autoritratti nello specchio della storia’ exhibition opens and runs until 2 October 2022 at Palazzo Attems Petzenstein, home of the Pinacoteca dei Musei Provinciali di Gorizia. Curated by Johannes Ramharter and Raffaella Sgubin with the collaboration of Lorenzo Michelli and Vanja Strukelj, the exhibition focuses on the theme of the self-portrait, proposing about seventy works, mostly from prestigious Austrian institutions. The exhibition also includes works by Ida Barbarigo, Guido Cadorin and Zoran Music.

An exhibition dedicated to Ida Barbarigo’s paintings from the late 1960s opens at the Axel Vervoordt Gallery in Hong Kong: ‘Ida Barbarigo, Cafés’.

Opening of the Ida Barbarigo, ‘Self Portraits / Cose che incantano’ exhibition, curated by Daniela Ferretti, at the Axel Vervoordt Gallery (Wijnegem, Antwerp). The selection of works in the exhibition focuses on two fundamental series among the many that characterised the production of the Venetian artist: Son cose che incantano (dreamlike visions inspired by St Mark’s Square in the fog) and the self-portraits from the early 1990s (culminating in the Sphinxes already presented by Jean Clair at the 1995 Venice Biennale).

The Barbarigo Cadorin Music Archive is formally established by Axel Vervoordt (President) and Daniela Ferretti (Vice President). Its main purpose will be to defend, enhance and promote the work of Ida Barbarigo, Zoran Music and all the artists of the Cadorin family, fulfilling Ida’s expressed wish. The archive is located in Venice, San Marco 3366.