Every week the Civic Museums of Bologna propose a rich calendar of events, to unveil their collections and tell new and unusual aspects and episodes of the city ‘s history, also through different points of view and unusual combinations between the different collections. Conferences, workshops, concerts, guided tours, language visits are the main “tools” of this story, which unfolds over thousands of years of history, from the first stone tools of men who lived 800,000 years ago to the products of the current industrial district, from painting to the various forms of modern and contemporary art, from music to great political and civil epics.
Following are the appointments scheduled from Friday 9th to Thursday 15th November.
IN EVIDENCE
Friday 9 November
6 pm: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“The soul and the body: Images of the sacred and the profane between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age”
Inauguration of the exhibition, curated by Silvia Battistini and Massimo Medica.
Entrance to the inauguration: free
FOR CHILDREN
Saturday 10 November
10 am and 11.15 am: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the review The Best of
“Mamamusica IV” (I meeting) Laboratory in 4 meetings for children from 0 to 36 months and parents.
At 10 am for children from 0 to 18 months; at 11.15 for children from 25 to 36 months.
A project of the Music Museum in collaboration with Associazione Musica e Nuvole. With Chiara Bartolotta, Luca Bernard, Linda Tesauro.
A special, exciting and inclusive musical space for adults and children where attention is focused exclusively on sounds. Canti e rhythms coming from very different repertoires, an enveloping embrace of sounds marked by intense silences, in which adults and children build a unique communicative relationship, to discover and rediscover the enchantment of expressing themselves through music.
Reservations required online only on www.museibologna.it/musica .
Confirmation or cancellation is required by the Thursday before the laboratory date.
Admission: € 5.00 per participant
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“Air: airplanes, kites and missiles” Workshop for children aged 6 to 10.
Laboratory experiences and scientific games to learn about the air and build flying objects with recycled materials.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 13.00 on Friday, November 9th).
Admission: € 5.00 (free for an adult escort)
Sunday 11 November
4 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
Within the cycle At the museum for games
“Guards and thieves in ancient Egypt”
Guided tour with archaeologist and actor for children aged 8 to 11 and parents, by the archaeologists of the Aster company.
We visit the Egyptian collection where for an afternoon children and parents will take on the role of guards and thieves. While the former will have to learn tricks and magic by attending a fun “half-notch crime school”, the others will have to assimilate as much information as possible to defend the precious finds kept in the museum.
Between skill tests, riddles and games, the challenge has already begun!
Reservations required on the museum website: www.museibologna.it/archeologico/eventi
Admission: € 4.00 for the guided tour + museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced). For the holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 for the guided tour (free museum entrance)
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Friday 9 November
5.30 pm: Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
For the Palazzo Davia Bargellini cycle: a rediscovered dwelling
Guided tour of the palace and 17th century paintings, recently restored and re-located in the main floor hall. With Paolo Cova, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
For the occasion, the Davia Bargellini Museum makes an extraordinary opening from 4.30pm to 6.30pm.
The Palazzo Davia Bargellini, one of the most significant examples of Bolognese Baroque architecture, has returned to its splendor thanks to a complete restoration performed by the Opera Pia Da Via Bargellini Foundation, owner of the entire building. On the occasion of the planning of the recent restorations on the main floor of the building, it emerged that the adaptation of the building for school purposes had involved important modifications to the distribution structure of the rooms. Eliminated numerous superstructures, the living room overlooking Piazza Aldrovandi has returned to light.
Free entry
Saturday 10 November
from 10 am: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14 / DAMSLab – Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini 5 / b
“Italian Contemporary Art Forum: the word to the artists”
For its fifth edition, the Italian Contemporary Art Forum arrives at MAMbo.
The strategic areas previously identified in the Prato editions (2015-2016) and in the thematic days of Genoa and Turin (2016) have been limited to the areas of high-level training of artists, promotion and visibility of Italian artists abroad, position of the artist in the different contexts of his work (from the museum to the public sphere, from the market to society, without forgetting the ethical sphere and that of gender differences).
The organizational scheme of the Forum includes a promoter committee (formed by Lorenzo Balbi, Ilaria Bonacossa, Fabio Cavallucci, Antonella Crippa, Anna Daneri, Pietro Gaglianò, Cesare Pietroiusti, Pier Luigi Sacco, Silvia Simoncelli and Chiara Vecchiarelli) and a series of 9 tables, entrusted each of the coordinators and composed of different speakers – all artists representing generations, geographical areas and different practices – among which will develop the discussion, open to the public.
It is possible to register at the tables directly on the morning of 10 November, at MAMbo at 10 am or by sending an email to forumarteitaliana@gmail.com specifying the name and surname, the chosen table and a short abstract, from three to five lines, of the content that you intend to present.
With the contribution of Fondazione del Monte of Bologna and Ravenna and in collaboration with DAMSLab – Department of Arts of the University of Bologna and Department of Communication and Didactics of Art – Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
At the end of the day of the “Italian Contemporary Art Forum”, the public is invited to continue with an evening of screenings dedicated to films produced by artists of the exhibition “That’s IT”. The meeting is at the Cinema Lumière at 8 pm. In the vision “Fragment 53” by Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli (71 ‘), “MALÙ – The Stereotype of the Black Venus of Invernomuto” (30′), “Archipelago” by Giulio Squillacciotti (60 ’30’ ‘).
Introduce the artists.
Admission to the Forum and projections: free
11 am: Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
“Illustrated war, lived war: the Great War in Bologna between history and memory”
Guided tour of the exhibition.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
3pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
“Marco Minghetti and his contemporaries” Guided tour with Elena Musiani and Mirtide Gavelli, Museo Civico del Risorgimento.
On the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth, a journey to discover the cultural, social and economic world that revolved around Marco Minghetti (1818-1886), the greatest Bolognese statesman of the 19th century, political figure of national importance in the first years of training of the Kingdom of Italy.
Meeting at the main entrance of the Certosa (Church courtyard), via della Certosa 18.
Free entry
4.30 pm: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“The soul and the body: Images of the sacred and the profane between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age”
Guided tour of the exhibition with Paolo Cova, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
5 pm: Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Mariella Simoni, 1975 – 2018”
Guided tour of the exhibition by the MAMbo Educational Department.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: € 4.00 + show ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced). For the holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 for the guided tour (free admission exhibition)
5 pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the #novecento / Jazz Insight review
“The incredible jazz guitar” dedicated to Wes Montgomery (1923-1968).
Musical narration with Emiliano Pintori, Hammond. Special guest Marco Bovi, guitar and Marco Frattini, drums.
For the first time, “Jazz Insight” presents the portrait of a guitarist, the one who at one of his debut releases was simply called “The Incredible Jazz Guitar”, the legendary Wes Montgomery.
Characterized by a disarming naturalness and a deep sense of blues, Montgomery in just a decade managed to write some of the most extraordinary pages of the guitar in jazz, exerting its influence on legions of musicians. His music has a cathartic quality, managing to combine an apparent simplicity with an uncommon intensity of expression.
“Jazz Insight”, or five protagonists of American and African-American music, of which this year important anniversaries are recounted, told from the inside, that is from the perspective of a jazz musician, Emiliano Pintori, in the company of the piano and its “guests” surprise.
Tickets can be booked (with payment on the day of the event) from the website www.museibologna.it/musica .
Admission: € 5.00
Sunday 11 November
10.30 am and 11.30 am: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
On the occasion of the exhibition HOKUSAI HIROSHIGE. Beyond the wave. Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston
“Communicating the form of the gods” Origami workshop with Tayama Noriko, edited by Nipponica. Max 10 people per shift.
Considered for years a rare and valuable product, paper found its use in the East in religious ceremonies and on important occasions. The word “origami” is composed of the verb “oru” (fold) and the word “kami” (paper) and is commonly used to define a manual technique of paper folding.
Japanese origami is characterized by a preference for abstraction and the essentiality of folds: it must be the imagination of the observer to complete the figure represented with simplicity and elegance.
Admission: € 5.00
10.30 am: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
For the cycle Il filo d’Arianna: textile collections at the Civic Museums of Ancient Art
“Pieces of needlework from the Aremilia Ars” guided tour with Silvia Battistini, museum curator.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
10.30-13 and 15-17.30: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the #novecento review
“Music to see … on Sundays” guided tours “with open questions” to the collections of the museum with Giuseppe Ayroldi Sagarriga, Museum of Music.
Mozart was wrong with his homework? Is the perfect keyboard insuonable? Wagner was from Bologna? In Respighi’s orchestra was a turntable?
Do not you know? Then you can not miss the special “extended release” Sunday tours in which the museum staff will be at your disposal to answer these questions and all those that jump in mind on the collections on display: a guided tour (but not too much) through six centuries of music history talking about books, paintings, instruments starting from Palazzo Sanguinetti, the splendid seat of the museum.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
2.30-18.30pm: Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Cultural mediation at the exhibition” Mariella Simoni. 1975 – 2018 “
An operator of the MAMbo Educational Department is present every Sunday from 14.30 to 18.30 to provide information and insights on the works and the artist.
Admission: show ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced). For holders of the Musei Metropolitani Card, free entry
4 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“That’s IT! On the last generation of artists in Italy and one meter eighty from the border” guided tour of the exhibition organized by the MAMbo Educational Department.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Tuesday and Thursday from 9 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: € 4.00 + show ticket (€ 6.00 full price / € 4.00 reduced). For the holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 for the guided tour + € 3.00 for admission to the exhibition
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“The Resuscitator: Giovanni Aldini between reality and imagination” Presentation-workshop for families (children aged 8 years). With Antonio Costantini, author of the book “Il Rianimatore” of the series “Le Storie”.
“Il Rianimatore” is a thriller straddling the historical and the fantastic, between the past and the present, between Bologna and London.
Explore the museum as its protagonists do. Discover what is true and what is invented by replicating the experiments carried out by Giovanni Aldini himself.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 13.00 on Friday, November 9th).
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
4.30pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“It’s here – Social pattern design on seating”
Guided tour of the exhibition, by the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts and the La Fraternità social cooperative.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
5 pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the review #novecento / Voices from beyond
“Misha Mengelberg” Projection of “Afijn” by Jellie Dekker (NL 2006, 70 ‘) – Italian premiere.
Excerpts from “Misha and so on” by Cherry Duyns (NL, 2015).
With Misha Mengelberg, Louis Andriessen, Han Bennink, Dave Douglas, ICP Orchestra.
Misha Mengelberg, an incredible and brilliant improviser, an oblique and original composer, but also and above all a revolutionary cultural agitator. Member of Han Bennink of the last quartet of Eric Dolphy in the early sixties, avant-garde fellow Fluxus and founder of the ICP Orchestra (Instant Composers Pool) in 1967, Mengelberg represented one of the leading experiences of the creative identity of jazz European.
“Voices from the afterlife” is a review of films, a “journey into memory” about missing composers who continue to stay among us … An Angelica project by Walter Rovere.
Tickets can be booked (with payment on the day of the event) from the website www.museibologna.it/musica .
Admission: € 5.00
from 20 hours: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“40th Celebration Orea Malià”
An evening-event at MAMbo on the occasion of the exhibition “That’s IT!” and to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the creative group of Orea Malià, since 1978 protagonists in the history of Italian costume.
Special Guest Datura, a duo of musicians that boasts many hits from the 90s to today and numerous collaborations among which the Righeira, Ben Volpeliere-Pierrot of the Curiosity Killed the Cat, 883, Club Dogo, Gigi d’Agostino and many others. For the occasion the re-edition of the single “Fade to Gray” by Datura ft will be presented. Steve Strange Visage with copyright cover created exclusively by Fabrizio Passarella – Retrophuture.
Dj’s: Andrea Bassi, Dj Cenz, DJ Cream. Live Exhibition: Nibirv, G Role X Juan Tavano & MR Monkey. Featuring: Simone “Pippo” Merlini, Ricky Forni. Video Design: Federico Ajello. Graphic Design: Dina & Solomon.
Admission: free subject to availability
Wednesday, November 14th
17-19.30 hours: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
Within the review The Music Market
“How to dress a song, the figure of the artistic producer in music” I meet with Taketo Gohara, an artistic producer and sound engineer.
Taketo Gohara, one of the most established producers in the current panorama (he has worked with Motta, Elisa, Brunori Sas, Vinicio Capossela and many others) will accompany those present in the world of artistic production.
The meeting, conducted by Pierfrancesco Pacoda, journalist and music critic, will be an opportunity to talk about the figure of the artistic producer and the importance of the sound of a song. We will deal with the theme of the choice of sound in a disc, the instruments to be used and how a producer can bring a song from one musical world to another.
Taketo Ghora will also analyze through listening, the transformation that have undergone some traces of famous projects, to which he has worked.
“Il Mercato della Musica” is a series of meetings organized by the Music Office of the Municipality of Bologna in collaboration with Bologna Welcome, with the aim of developing musical entrepreneurship and strengthening managerial and managerial skills.
The whole journey is a journey and a guide within the music market, through the understanding of the professional figures who inhabit such a complex environment and the activities necessary to create and manage a project.
Admission: free subject to availability
Thursday 15 November
from 4 pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
“Myth, History & Dream of Farinelli”
Round table and concert curated by Musicaimmagine, Rome, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Centro Studi Farinelli of Bologna. In collaboration with Museo della Musica, Real Collegio di Spagna, Basilica and Musical Chapel of San Petronio, Monumental Complex of Santa Maria della Vita, Molinari Pradelli Villa-Museum, Lions Club of Castenaso, La via dell’Anima, Bolognese Harpsichord Association.
At 4 pm, round table led by Flavio Colusso with the participation of Patrick Barbier, Sandro Cappelletto, Vincenzo De Gregorio, Maria Pia Jacoboni, Vincenzo Lucchese Salati, Carlo Vitali, Valerio Losito (Farinelli and Viola d’amore).
At 6 pm concert “La viola scarlatta … and other love stories” with Ensemble Seicentonovecento: Margherita Chiminelli, soprano; Valerio Losito, viola d’amore; Flavio Colusso, conductor at the harpsichord and reciting voice.
Music by Giuseppe Adrovandini, Carlo Broschi known as “il Farinelli”, Giacomo Carissimi, F. Colusso, Egidio Romualdo Duni, Luigi Verdi (first performance).
Admission: € 5.00
7 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
As part of the review The fabulous ’80
“1984. Giulio Delvè” by popular demand, MAMbo re-proposes the Thursday appointment dedicated to ten works, ten artists, ten years: thirty minutes to tell a work of the exhibition “That’s IT!”.
Ten engrossing meetings to relive the atmosphere of the fabulous’ 80s. Each appointment will be dedicated to an artist present in the exhibition whose year of birth becomes a pretext to retrace or learn about the events, the images, the protagonists, the fashions, the HIT of the period. Whoever was there will remember him, who was not there … he will find out.
For children 12 and older and adults. By the MAMbo Educational Department.
And if you keep the admission ticket, at the following appointments you pay only the cost of the guided tour.
Reservations required by 13.00 to 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: € 4.00 per person per visit + reduced admission € 4.00 (adults). For holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 per visit per person + admission € 3.00
EXHIBITIONS
Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“The soul and the body: Images of the sacred and the profane between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age” 10 November 2018 – 24 February 2019
The Civic Museums of Ancient Art are continuing their efforts to promote the Municipal Art Collections in conjunction with the restoration work on the Palazzo d’Accursio roof, which will be completed in spring 2019, promoting a new exhibition that will revisits the extensive permanent heritage in the light of a new thematic criterion.
After a first reorganization focused on the birth of modern taste between the 18th and 19th centuries, the new arrangement of the exhibition itinerary proposes a fundamental theme in Western figurative culture, the representation of the divine and the human figure, investigating the iconographic evolution between the XIII and the eighteenth century.
The exhibition, curated by Silvia Battistini and Massimo Medica, recomposes some of the museum’s most important historical-artistic works – including the rich collection of Primitive sculptures and medieval paintings; the precious tables of Francesco Francia, Amico Aspertini, Luca Signorelli and the paintings by Prospero Fontana, Ludovico Carracci, Michele Desubleo, Guido Cagnacci, Donato Creti, Gaetano Gandolfi, Pelagio Palagi – ordered according to two lines of reading that alternate in the exhibition rooms narrating on the one hand, the essence of the divine, on the other, life and daily feelings.
Visitors can thus understand how even the most famous religious and secular representations have not remained the same over the centuries, but have accompanied the renewal of artistic language, reverberating the debate on the representation of the human body in changing the social climate and European religious.
If the Middle Ages use the representation of the body to give an identity to the religious dimension in its different manifestations (Eternal Father, Christ, the Virgin, the saints), in the Renaissance the body represented in a naturalistic way becomes fundamental to give a face to holiness and facilitate the dissemination of Catholic doctrine.
Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
“Illustrated war, lived war: the Great War in Bologna between history and memory”, until January 27, 2019
A hundred years after the end of the First World War, the exhibition presents the results of the project “The Great War in Bologna between History and Memory” aimed at the implementation of the portal www.storiaememoriadibologna.it to create and make accessible, in a unified form, a collective memory, city and national events related to the first world war, with particular reference to the memory of the fallen Bolognese.
The initiative, curated by Mirtide Gavelli and Roberto Martorelli, intends to act as a moment of knowledge and promotion of the work of digitizing documentary and memorial sources of different nature carried out between 2015 and 2018, through the exposure to the public of some of the most important documents belonging to a heritage that is still little known and in some cases completely unpublished.
On the walls of the exhibition hall a selection of recently restored national loan propaganda posters recall what our ancestors could see on the walls of Bologna and other Italian and European cities: a massive, multifaceted, capillary propaganda, because every citizen without distinction of age and social condition, it felt “internal front” and behaved as such, contributing, according to its possibilities, to the final victory.
In the windows there are documents and original relics related to the city of Bologna, normally not visible to the public, that the implementation of the portal has allowed to know and contextualize, reproducing the images and telling the story. These include documents and photographs from public and private archives, including those donated by the families of Nazario Sauro and other heroes of the war; memories of the “Pantheon of the famous Fallen” created inside the Laura Bassi school during the years of the conflict; documents of the Office for news to the families of the military, the great first Bolognese experience then national women’s voluntary service; the numerous portraits of the fallen during the works.
Through a QR code, with a smartphone you can also access all the news and insights contained in the portal: the room has in fact free wireless access and the portal itself is viewable from all devices. The strongly educational and popular value of the project that is addressed not only to a young audience is evidenced by the presence of a totem in the exhibition that allows you to explore the virtual 3D reconstruction of the grandiose Lapidary of the Basilica of Santo Stefano, as presented in year of inauguration (1925): with the names of the 2,536 fallen of the city of Bologna recorded in the 64 tombstones placed inside the cloister.
Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“HOKUSAI HIROSHIGE: Beyond the Wave: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”, until March 3, 2019
The Archaeological Civic Museum houses the works of the two greatest Masters of the “Floating World”: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).
The exhibition exhibits, for the first time in Italy, an extraordinary selection of about 150 works from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The project, divided into 6 thematic sections, edited by Rossella Menegazzo with Sarah E. Thompson, is a MondoMostre Skira production with Ales SpA Arte Lavoro and Servizi in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, promoted by the Municipality of Bologna | Bologna Museums Institution and sponsored by the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan, the Embassy of Japan in Italy and the University of Milan.
The thirties of the nineteenth century marked the pinnacle of ukiyoe production known as “images of the Floating World”. At that time the most important silicon series were made by the masters who confirmed – a few decades later with the opening of the country – as the greatest names of Japanese art in the West.
Hokusai immediately emerged from the outset, an artist and personality out of line who was able to represent the places and faces with force, drama and conciseness, as well as the character and beliefs of the society of his time. He is considered one of the finest representatives of the ukiyoe pictorial vein. In his paintings on roll, but above all through his polychrome silographies, the artist knew how to interpret the world in which he lived, with free and fast lines, a skilful use of color and in particular of the Prussian blue, recently imported in Japan, drawing inspiration from both traditional indigenous painting and western art techniques.
Younger than about twenty years compared to Hokusai, Hiroshige became a famous name of ukiyoe painting shortly after the release of the master “Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji” thanks to a series, in the same horizontal format, which illustrated the great way that connected Edo (the ancient name of Tokyo) to Kyoto. These were the “Fifty-three post stations of the Tōkaidō”, known as “Hōeidō Tōkaidō” from the name of the publisher who launched the success of Hiroshige. Since then the artist worked repeatedly on this same subject, producing dozens of different series until thefifties. The quality of the landscape and views of Japan, the variety of seasonal and atmospheric elements – snows, rains, fog, moonlight – that Hiroshige was able to describe making them almost sensually perceived earned him the title of “master of rain and snow”.
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“It’s here – Social pattern design on seating”, until December 9, 2018
On the occasion of the Giornata del Contemporaneo, promoted by AMACI, the Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna presents “It is here” Social pattern design on seating “, a research project dedicated to living, created by the students of the Decoration Course for Architecture of the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts.
Starting from the story of words, images and sounds of the boys of the social cooperatives La Fraternità e Arca di Noè, the students realized the textile patterns, printed on fine series fabric at the company Dino Zoli Textile, for Jointly, an original collection of chairs . The archive of the signs and the oral heritage collected during the meetings, have been graphically re-elaborated by the students in the 29 textile prints from the new narrations.
“IS HERE”, the phrase printed on one of the sessions on show, symbolically presents the relationship fruit of the mixture of different identities, made of desires, emotions and memories that have inspired the path of work. And it is starting from here that the students Bingjie An, Xi Chen, Hanssen Diaz, Arianna Fiorentino, Xue, Jiang Samira Khajavi, Ghazaleh Kohandel, Debora Lake, Weiguo Lai, Ruobi Li, Baoyi Liu, Ruiqi Ma, Elora Ndini, Ailar Noori, Sara Ruggeri, Yuxiang Wang, Ning Yu, Luo Zhang, Liyuan Zheng, Yianxi Zhou have developed their experimentation, made of that initial encounter experience combined with personal research languages.
Promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts and the Civic Museums of Ancient Art, the project, sponsored by the Dino Zoli Foundation of Forlì, is supported by Dino Zoli Textile of Forlì and the Progetto Recooper in collaboration with the social cooperatives La Fraternità e Arca di Noah of Bologna for the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
The exhibition, curated by Vanna Romualdi with the coordination of Laura Giovannardi, is part of the cultural project “Heritage, resources for public space, tools for contemporary artistic research” promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“Back to the Future – from outdoor schools to new educational experiences in nature”, until December 9, 2018
MAMbo dedicates to a very topical subject – the open-air schools – the exhibition “Back to the future, from outdoor schools to new educational experiences in nature”, curated by Mirella D’Ascenzo and Mino Petazzini. The outdoor schools, born for the care of children frail and frail, were in fact also a forge of innovative pedagogical and educational experiments, thanks to the daily contact with the natural environment and a new relationship between indoor and outdoor.
Through original documents, photographs, objects and videos the exhibition traces some fundamental stages of the relationship between education and nature from the 1700s to today, focusing on outdoor schools since the early twentieth century – Bologna was then a significant and original stage – up to the most recent educational experiences in nature, of which Bologna is still a place of interesting experimentation.
The initiative is promoted by the Bologna University Institution and Education, Education and New Generation Area of the Municipality of Bologna in collaboration with the Fondazione Villa Ghigi and the University of Bologna. The exhibition also takes place within the framework of a broader project entitled The backstage of the museum: to create and make an exhibition live, organized by MAMbo in collaboration with Oficina Impresa Sociale, which won the tender “Take part! and creative thinking “conceived by the Directorate General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, with the aim of promoting the cultural inclusion of young people in areas characterized by situations of economic and social marginality.
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
“VHS + Video / animation / television and / or independence / technical training / production control 1995/2000”, until 17 February 2019
In the exhibition space of the Project Room, dedicated to the rediscovery of some of the most stimulating and innovative artistic episodes originated in artistic and bolognese field, the MAMbo presents “VHS +”.
The exhibition project, born from an idea by Saul Saguatti (Basmati Film) and Lucio Apolito (Opificio Ciclope) with the curation of Silvia Grandi and realized in collaboration with the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna, is configured as a audio-visual pulsations that arise from the hybridization of different languages, formats and practices of video communication experimented in Italy between 1995 and 2000, telling the electronic dream of a season between analog and digital.
The production of the period exerted from the individual self-direction to extend to a collective dimension, constituting independent media-cultural research groups that become real brands, such as Opificio Ciclope, Fluid Video Crew, Ogino Knauss, Otolab and Sun Wu Kung of which the exhibition documents the peculiar expressive approaches. In a world still without bulletin boards, chat rooms, social media and YouTube, these pioneering workshops have materially built projection screens in their respective residences – Link Project in Bologna, Forte Prenestino in Rome, CPA ExLonginotti in Florence, Garigliano and Pergola in Milan – developing creative forges tuned in with the most advanced contemporary experiments in Europe.
“VHS +” finds an extension on-line at www.vhsplus.it , in which archival and in-depth material can be consulted.
The exhibition avails itself of the technical sponsorship of Eurovideo that has granted the instrumental supplies for the preparation of the audio-video system.
“That’s IT! On the latest generation of artists in Italy and one meter eighty from the border”, until January 6, 2019
MAMbo opens the exhibition schedule of its main space – the Sala delle Ciminiere – under the artistic direction of Lorenzo Balbi, with “That’s IT! On the latest generation of artists in Italy and one meter eighty from the border”, an exhibition presenting the works of 56 artists and collectives born from 1980 onwards, exploring different media and languages.
The exhibition, with a clearly generational cut, investigates the most recent developments in art in our country, consistently with a precise positioning on the Italian and international scene that MAMbo has chosen to identify, identifying for each of its exhibition spaces a clear scientific identity . In this context, the museum confirms and develops a vocation that has historically made it a point of reference and privileges, for the exhibitions in the Sala delle Ciminiere, research on new generations, experimental media and emerging names never presented in Italy. Particular attention is also paid to the production of new works, also with a view to increasing the permanent collection: many works on show will in fact be made for the occasion.
“That’s IT!” (IT as the European Union code that identifies the initials of Italy) does not develop, intentionally, around a unitary and monolithic concept, but offers questions and possible readings of the contemporary in an open, dialectical and magmatic perspective. Does it still make sense to define an “Italian” artist today? What contributes to determining the definition of “Italianità”? Does this definition have consequences on the artist’s self-representation? Where and how do we put the geographical and generational border?
In the exhibition you can find some possible clues. Artists born in Italy who work in Italy are included; born in Italy who work abroad; born in Italy who work both in Italy and abroad; born abroad who work in Italy; born abroad who work abroad but who have studied in Italy.
The only limit that has been chosen to establish and maintain rigidly is that of the age registry, to give space and visibility to those who have appeared more recently on the art scene: none of the protagonists of the exhibition was born before 1980.
The exhibition presents an overview of the Millennials generation, the first to experience a continuous adaptation to the frenetic evolution of technologies, constant hyper-interconnection and, on the social level, a growing precariousness of the world of work in a context of economic crisis. A generation that has abandoned the certainties and ideologies of the previous ones in order to adopt expressive modalities that stimulate them to question themselves on the present, to investigate the contemporaneity rather than to provide answers.
“I am Mare”, until 2 December 2018
“Io sono Mare” is the exhibition, created on the occasion of Gender Bender, with tables and original drawings dedicated to the homonymous comic book for children by Cristina Portolano for the Dino Buzzati di Canicola series. A fantastic and evocative journey of a little girl and her friend an anthropomorphic clown fish, an extraordinary adventure, lived between dream and reality, through which to reflect on the themes of identity and self-discovery, on desires and emotions.
Cristina Portolano, illustrator and cartoonist, was born in Naples in 1986. She lives and works in Bologna. She is the author of “Quasi signorina2 (2016, Topipittori) and” I do not know who you are “(2017, Rizzoli Lizzard) She has collaborated on” Goodnight stories for rebel little girls “(2017, Mondadori).
Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Mariella Simoni, 1975 – 2018”, until 11 November 2018
Villa delle Rose continues its exhibition program – from 2018 based on a positioning and an international project – with “Mariella Simoni, 1975 – 2018”, shows that, thanks to the curatorial gaze of Barbara Vanderlinden, she rediscovers and re-reads the forty-year journey of an important Italian artist, who made the opening to the world and the attitude to nomadism one of her stylistic and existential figures.
More than twenty works are visible covering a period of time between the beginnings of the seventies up to the most recent developments and ranging between the different techniques with which Mariella Simoni has been compared: installation, painting, drawing, ceramics, interventions with botanical elements or with glass. Some important works that have been part of seminal exhibitions for the development of his artistic path, have been rebuilt and made visible again after forty years at Villa delle Rose, for example “Cinque stanze” – installation made in 1978 in his apartment in Via Crivelli in Milan, a few steps from the Galleria Luigi De Ambrogi – or “Chair”, exhibited in “At the height of the heart”, at the Karen Gallery and Jean Bernier of Athens in 1980.
In this period, in 1978, we find a point of contact with the Gallery of Modern Art of Bologna, of which the MAMbo has collected the legacy: Mariella Simoni participates, with the intervention “Sciarada”, to “Cara morte” ( Gavirate, Varese, 30 April 21 May 1978), a review with which the then Director of GAM Franco Solmi created a “twinning” on the occasion of the great exhibition on several venues “Metafisica del Quotidiano” (June – September 1978), also hosting the documentation in the exhibition catalog.
The peculiar nature of Mariella Simoni’s work makes it difficult to make a selection among her works: on the one hand a wide range of expressive registers, on the other a relatively small range of recurring themes, on which often returns, facing them from different angles and using different media. Starting from these assumptions, Barbara Vanderlinden’s curatorial intent was not so much to construct a retrospective representative of the artist’s main works and to propose a homogeneous corpus of works, as to bring to light hidden connections, generating new and unprecedented perspectives. .
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“Lauds for every hour The Franciscan chorales from the Basilica of San Francesco”, until March 17, 2019
The exhibition, realized in the context of the Franciscan Festival, presents a varied selection of the various liturgical cycles, made between the 13th and 15th centuries for the Bolognese Basilica of San Francesco, which are currently part of the rich collection of illuminated codices of the Medieval Civic Museum from Bologna. Among these we note the series of precious Franciscan grades richly illuminated by the so-called Master of the Bible of Gerona, the absolute protagonist of the Bolognese book decoration of the late thirteenth century. Next to this is also the slightly later series of antiphonaries, also widely decorated, partly inspired by the oldest experiences of Giotto assisiate, evidently filtered into the city through the same order of the minor friars. To these first series of choruses others followed during the fifteenth century,when the friars minor entrusted themselves to various miners coordinated by the Bolognese Giovanni di Antonio, to decorate around 1440-50 some of their liturgical books, also presented during the exhibition.
Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“The Emiliano Romagnolo Canal in the gaze of Enrico Pasquali”, until 6 January 2019
The promise to give the visitor unique and original suggestions of our territory – already included in the title of the exhibition for images ” Emiliano Romagnolo Channel in the eyes of Enrico Pasquali “- is widely maintained in the collage of emotions in black and white that the Consortium for the Emiliano Romagnolo Channel (CER) has conceived and organized with the collaboration of numerous partners to enhance not only one of the hydraulic works most important in the country, but to celebrate the activity of the hardworking man.
The exhibition gives to our present the relevance of the Channel for the agri-food economies of part of Emilia and much of Romagna. At the same time it makes us jump backwards, in a composite universe made of essential, raw, real, almost documentary, represented by the master of neorealism of Castel Guelfo, born in that slice of land washed by the Sillaro often referred to as the watershed of border between Emilia and Romagna, which started the “profession” of photographer in Medicine.
The exhibition will show a significant selection of Enrico Pasquali’s works from the 50s-60s and a video with a rich series of oral testimonies and interviews with workers, technicians, designers and executives, protagonists of the start-up of the works of the Emiliano Romagnolo Canal , recently created by Sonia Lenzi, directed by Enza Negroni.
“Sculpture and Business, exhibition of the sculptor Michele D’Aniello”, until January 27, 2019
The project “Sculpture and Business”, born in 2008 from an idea of the sculptor Michele D’Aniello, includes today about 80 companies, national and international, which enthusiastically welcomed and joined the positive and innovative project of contemporary art.
What the exhibition presents is the value of beauty and ingenuity, tenacity and courage; it is the history of values and its motto is summarized in these few words: “The shape of Values, the Values of Form”, which has always been the guiding thread of Sculpture and Business and of all the art of D’Aniello.
“Sculpture and Business” takes place under the patronage of the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Municipality of Bologna, the Municipality of Pianoro and Unindustria Bologna.
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