6 FEBRUARY - 23 MAY

The story of painting’s long journey to modernity is told through the unusual channel of theatre and stage. The exhibition consists of about two hundred works including paintings, drawings and set designs covering a span of time from the eighteenth century to the threshold of the twentieth century. This important exhibition once again sees Mart in collaboration with prestigious international institutions such as Marseille’s Musée Cantini, the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the British Museum and New York’s Metropolitan Museum.
On show for the first time in Rovereto are masterpieces of the greatest nineteenth century European painters - from Jacques-Louis David to Eugène Delacroix, from Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres to Edgar Degas - artists who successfully imbued their canvases with the dynamism, stage settings and illusory perspectives of that world.

8 MAY - 27 OCTOBER

Alessandro Mendini pays tribute to the futurist movement and to Fortunato Depero with his own works. The exhibition presents a series of items of furniture and tapestries inspired by Depero’s creativity, specially designed and made for this occasion. The public will witness a continuous and logical dialogue, as on the stage of a theatre, between the works of Depero and the new creations; for example, the four large tapestries designed by the master and executed by Katia Brida come face to face with Fortunato Depero’s appliqué work or the furniture of alpine inspiration made by local artisans.

5 JUNE - 12 SEPTEMBER

After the successful 2005 exhibition From Goya to Manet, from Van Gogh to Picasso Mart is once again collaborating with the prestigious Phillips Collection in Washington. This time the focus is on American art between the mid-nineteenth century and the first sixty years of the twentieth century with particular attention given to the major exponents of what would later become known as the American style.
On exhibition are over 100 works of great narrative and expressive power, filled with images drawing heavily on scenes from the American way of life - metropolitan, rural and industrial - by artists such as Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, John Sloan, Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis, Adolph Gottlieb, Philip Guston, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell and Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko.

25 SEPTEMBER - 23 JANUARY

The exhibition documents Mario Botta’s most significant works created during fifty years of intensive and successful professional activity. The architect has tackled projects firmly rooted in the culture in our times: from his earliest ideas for family houses in Ticino to large public works such as the libraries, theatres, museums and religious buildings which are to be found in many European, Asian and American countries. In the exhibition more than 60 completed building projects can be studied and admired. These are documented with sketches and original models, photographs and unpublished drawings. The exhibition is divided into 12 sections: from Encounters, a fitting introduction to the exhibition with allusions to and memories of artists and works that have left a profound mark on the architect’s formation, to the more recent projects for large urban spaces. The last section is devoted to concepts for designer objects and interior design projects.