FLORENCE, ITALY – Ten contemporary masters will show their works alongside Michelangelo masterpieces at the home of his David, Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia, next year.
On the one hand, Michelangelo, Giotto, Taddeo Gaddi, Paolo Uccello, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio and Perugino, on the other 10 among the most renowned, thought-provoking and hotly debated contemporary artists such as Marina Abramovic, Cai Guo-Qiang, Maurizio Cattelan, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Bruce Nauman, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter and Cindy Sherman.
The exhibition, at the moment temporarily titled The great masters of contemporary art compared to Michelangelo is being curated by Fabio Cavallucci, director of the Centre for contemporary art Luigi Pecci in Prato, and Angelo Tartuferi, director of the Galleria dell’Accademia. The show will run from June 14, 2016 to January 8 2017.