Botticelli exhibition in Rovereto, Sgarbi invites Ferragni but not Fedez: "too straight"

Opening May 22 at the Mart in Rovereto is the exhibition Botticelli and His Time, the brainchild of Vittorio Sgarbi, president of the Trentino museum, and Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi, and curated by Alessandro Cecchi and Denis Isaia. The exhibition will be devoted to Botticelli’s fortunes from the 20th century onward: after an introduction devoted to Botticelli and his workshop (there will be a number of important masterpieces by the Florentine artist, including the Pallas and the Centaur from the Uffizi, the Venus from the Galleria Sabauda in Turin, and the Lamentation over the Dead Christ from the Poldi Pezzoli in Milan), this will be followed by a section in which the exhibition will explore how 20th-century artists, from Mario Ceroli to Renato Guttuso, Michelangelo Pistoletto to Cesare Tacchi, Giosetta Fioroni to David LaChapelle, Fernando Botero to Oliviero Toscani, have looked at Botticelli.

The exhibition had been announced months ago by Sgarbi, who had anticipated his intention to have Botticelli converse with influencer Chiara Ferragni, and the idea of involving the Cremona-based entrepreneur has not yet sunk in. According to Sgarbi, Chiara Ferragni’s photos at the Uffizi testify how the masterpiece of Renaissance art is still a source of inspiration for painters, photographers, fashion designers and influencers.

The invitation for Chiara Ferragni, the companion of rapper Fedez, the musician with whom Sgarbi recently polemicized over his pro-DDL Zan speech at the May Day concert (according to the art critic and historian, Fedez’s was a political rally), has departed from the museum. But for him, no invitation. “I have never spoken with Ferragni,” Sgarbi said, “and I have never asked her anything. However, I think she can only feel honored to participate in an exhibition that places her alongside Botticelli’s Venus. If she comes, I will be delighted to welcome her.” Sgarbi, however, believes that Fedez is an inconvenience: “Linvito, clearly, is not extended to Fedez: too heterosexual. The exhibition, after all, is a meeting between women: Venus and Chiara.” Will Sgarbi be able to ... separate the Ferragnez?

Botticelli exhibition in Rovereto, Sgarbi invites Ferragni but not Fedez: "too straight"

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