What to do in Milan during Fashion Week February 2019

The most prestigious event of the Lombardy capital returns from 19 to 25 February: the Milan Fashion Week, an unmissable event to discover the Fall Winter 2019/2020 collections. Seven days in the capital of glamour to learn about the coolest trends and pieces of the most famous brands on the planet. But in addition to the FW ​​2019/2020 fashion shows, exclusive parties and aperitifs, you can take a break from clothes and accessories to admire the beauty of the city of Milan in all its frenetic splendor. Let’s see what to see, between art, culture and events, during the Milan Fashion Week of February 2019.

And who knows if during the Milan wanderings you are enough lucky to meet any of the VIP guests, standying about one of these splendid exhibitions. Among other things, if you are not the ones to have received one of the precious invitations to the Milan Fashion Week of February 2019, these exhibitions will give you the opportunity to take advantage of this crazy week. Remember that in addition to the fashion shows from 22 to 25 February, it is possible to discover White, one of the most important events for those who love design and trends.


Paul Klee and primitivism – Mudec, Museum of Cultures

The great German artist: a painter, musician and theorist, known for his abstract and polychrome works, is with a collection that tells a phase of Klee’s formation: the origins of his art. The review, focused on the theme of “primitivism”, among oils, tempera, particularly original watercolors and drawings, reveals the influences respect all that can be termed wild. A must to see are his first experiments: the works characterized by geometric design and those unpublished by the caricatural trait.

 

 

Romanticism – Exhibitions at the Galleria d’Italia and at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli

The exhibition is about Italian Romanticism. A way to celebrate the contribution to the artistic movement, born in the first half of the nineteenth century, that has changed the way to see and feel in Europe. It will be possible to admire the art of the most iconic painters of that time, but also the stage costumes from La Scala. Paintings of artists like Francesco Hayez, Giovanni Carnevali called Il Piccio, and Massimo d’Azeglio, and then again the works of Giuseppe and Carlo Canella, Pitloo, Domenico Girolamo Induno with nature as the center of main engine of reality. Among the sculptures stand out the works of Lorenzo Bartolini and Pietro Tenerani and those of the great artists active in Italy, such as Caspar David Friedrich, William Turner and many others.

 

 

Icons 5.7 – Master Photographers at the Whitelight Art Gallery

The exhibition contains an interesting selection of the best works by four great masters of national and international photography. In thw show there are the icon shots of Steve McCurry author of the “Afghani Girl”, Gian Paolo Barbieri, one of the most important names in fashion photography (he portrayed Audrey Hepburn, Veruska, Monica Bellucci), Eolo Perfido, interpreter of street photography and the Brazilian Christian Cravo, international signature of nature photography. Through their looks you are transported within a fascinating timeless journey.

 

 

The art of Banksy. A visual protest – MUDEC

If you want to detach from the vortex of colors, clothes and accessories on the catwalks among the many exhibitions to see in Milan and from which to take creative inspiration, there is also the exhibition dedicated to Bansky, the brilliant english street artist who revolutionized the concept of modern art. The monographic retrospective, obviously not authorized by the faceless artist (always opposed to the commodification of art), collects about 80 works including paintings, numbered prints in limited editions, objects, photographs and videos, covers of records he designed and much more that illustrates the incredible talent of the mysterious writer.

 

 

 

Sanguine: Luc Tuymans on Baroque – fondazione Prada

Over than 80 works by 63 international artists. A personal reinterpretation of the Baroque, brought to the present day, through particular combinations between works of contemporary artists who have redefined seventeenth-century art and the works of the masters of the past. The exhibition also becomes a pretext to visit the Fondazione Prada, a modern exhibition space full of original projects. And the Baroque becomes the privileged interlocutor to understand the political value, the disturbance and the international dimension of the current artistic representation.

 

 

 

A mini tour in the Milan Liberty

In the center there is a particular space, enclosed by four streets, really irresistible: the quadrilateral of silence. It is the liberty area of ​​Milan, habited by evocative Art Nouveau buildings, colorful and imaginative that hide stories and legends. All made for important industrial families by creative architects such as Giuseppe Sommaruga or Giovan Battista Bossi. To see the polychrome house Galimberti, rich in mosaics and wrought iron decorations. The front is covered with female figures and decorated ceramic floral motifs. Among the many little gems from the particular sculptures there is also Palazzo Berri Meregalli, near Corso Venezia, with its Vittoria Alata in the entrance hall, while continuing in via Serbelloni 10, we arrive at the powerful Casa Sola-Brusca, a building of the ’30s , called by the people of Milan  as Ca ‘de l’Oreggia, the house with the ear that was once used as an intercom.

 

 

 

The Greta Van Fleet on 24 February @Alcatraz in Milan

Originally from Frankenmuth, Michigan, the American rock band of Greta Van Fleet, composed of very young people over 20, has in a short time managed to conquer its highest step in the international music scene. Awaited on the stage of Alcatraz in Milan, will be in concert on February 24, 2019 for a single stop in our country. The group also followed by Slash, guitarist of Guns N’Roses. From the ’70s look, he will play the songs of the new album inspired by the legendary sound of Led Zeppelin, entitled “Anthem of the Peaceful Army” which was anticipated a few months ago by the single “When the courtain falls”.