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 16 to Thursday 22 November.
IN EVIDENCE
Thursday 22 November
6 pm: Casa Morandi – via Fondazza 36
“Umberto Bonfini, a doctor in Grizzana, from medicine to photography”
Inauguration of the exhibition, curated by Claudio Spottl.
For the occasion, a musical performance will be held by Marco Tascone and Carlo Alberto Montori of the LeFragole group.
Free entry
FOR CHILDREN
Saturday 17 November
10 am and 11.15 am: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the review The Best of
“Mamamusica IV” (II 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
3.30 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“Tutti in onda” Visit and workshop for children from 5 to 11 years dedicated to the exhibition “Hokusai Hiroshige, Beyond the Wave”, by the Educational Services Institution Bologna Museums.
While the adults visit the exhibition or take part in the conference, the little ones have fun with the museum operators, discovering new images every time, hunting for details and details that are always different to be captured and reworked in the laboratory, creating artefacts to take home. and collect.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Duration: 2 hours. The activity starts with a minimum of 6 children.
Admission: € 5.00 per child + exhibition ticket (free for children under 6, reduced from 6 to 17 years and family)
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“The marvelous machines of Alessandria” Workshop for children from 8 to 14 years.
Following the traces of a young and curious Archimedes and his studies at the Museum of Alexandria in Egypt, we will discover with the help of working models, experiments and games, the operation of some famous historical apparatus like the eolipile, the temple and the fountain of Erone.
The participants will then have to help the young scientist and mathematician of Syracuse in the construction of a model of catapult, testing its range with amusing practical tests!
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 1pm on Friday, November 16th).
Admission: € 5.00 (free for an adult escort)
Sunday 18 November
4 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
On the occasion of the Week of Children’s Rights and Adolescence
“To each his nest” Laboratory for children from 5 to 11 years.
“There was a very nice house, without ceiling and without kitchen …”. The experience of outdoor schools makes us understand that to become explorers of the world it is important to treasure the teachings of nature. The visit to the exhibition “Back to the future?” and the reading of some illustrated books provide the children with the necessary tools to discover their “natural habitat” by building personal three-dimensional shelters from which to re-discover reality.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: free subject to availability
4.30 pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the review The Best of
“Who wants to be a costume designer?” (I meeting) Laboratory in two meetings for children from 7 to 9 years. With Giulia Sassi, in collaboration with Associazione Senza Titolo.
A path to get closer to the world of the Opera and get to know the many professional figures who work behind the scenes of the great theaters. Visiting the Museum you will know the stories and the protagonists of famous opera performances, you will browse through sketches and maquette of theaters, we will deepen fashions and customs of different eras. In the laboratory, children and parents together can use a costume designer’s table to design a stage dress and to make a magnificent accessory inspired by their costume.
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
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Friday 16 November
5 pm: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6 / La QUADRERIA. Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili – via Marsala 7
For the exhibition A zonzo for museums: paths between civic heritage and ancient works of art
“Guided tour of the Municipal Art Collections and the QUADRERIA Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili”
Guided tour by Paolo Cova, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
The exhibition “A zonzo for the museums”, realized by the Civic Museums of Ancient Art in collaboration with the QUADRERIA. Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili proposes a series of guided tours involving works in the collections of the Museo Civico Medievale, the Municipal Art Collections, the Davia Bargellini Museum and the QUADRERIA. Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili, owned by the ASP Città di Bologna.
Guided tours take place until December 21st, the third Friday of each month at 5pm.
Admission: ticket for the Municipal Art Collections (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
Saturday 17 November
3pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“Presentation of the volume ‘For a history of open-air schools in Italy'”
On the occasion of the exhibition “Back to the Future” From outdoor schools to new educational experiences in nature “MAMbo hosts in the conference room the presentation of the volume of Mirella D’Ascenzo” For a history of open-air schools in Italy “(Edizioni ETS, Pisa, 2018).
Introduced by Tiziana Pironi, University of Bologna. Interventions by Mirella D’Ascenzo, University of Bologna; Antonella Cagnolati, University of Foggia; Maria Tomarchio, University of Catania.
Following, guided tour of the exhibition.
Free entry
4 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
Within the cycle The Floating World of Hokusai and Hiroshige: traveling between past and future
“Hiroshige and Japan” Conference by Giovanni Peternolli, Centro Studi d’Arte Estremo-Orientale of Bologna.
The cycle “The Floating world of Hokusai and Hiroshige: traveling between past and future” offers five meetings to learn about the “floating world” and the mastery of Hokusai and Hiroshige and their profound impact on Japanese culture and the art of the West .
Admission: free subject to availability
4.30 pm: Venturoli Art School Foundation – via Centotrecento 4
“The artists of the Collegio Venturoli: the enchantment of the Bolognese art”
A journey with Roberto Martorelli, Civic Museum of the Risorgimento, through the spaces of the ancient Illiro Ungarico College, later transformed in the current institute from 1825, by the architect Angelo Venturoli.
Between the halls and corridors it is possible to admire dozens of paintings, sculptures and drawings realized both by the artists who were trained in the College, and those who have taught you. A compendium of the Bolognese art between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
It will be possible to admire paintings, sculptures and drawings made both by the artists who were trained in the College, and those who have taught you, with many comparisons with the works of the Certosa.
Reservations required at 051 234866 (Monday-Friday, morning) or collegioventuroli@libero.it .
Free entry
5 pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the #novecento / Jazz Insight review
“Steal Away” Dedicated to Hank Jones (1918-2010). Musical narration with Emiliano Pintori, piano.
Special guest Stefano Senni, double bass.
A tribute to the great pianist Hank Jones, a hundred years after his birth.
Elvin’s elder brother (drummer of the historic quartet of John Coltrane) and Thad (along with Mel Lewis at the helm of one of the leading Big Bands of modern jazz), Hank Jones is one of the greatest pianists that jazz has ever produced, interpreter of a vast repertoire, with a light and crystalline touch.
Jones has not been in charge of any aesthetic break or break, but has simply proposed during his long career a music always excellent, sublime, cultured and accessible. Starting from his little known activity as a composer, we will also focus on his suggestive collaboration with the bassist Charlie Haden and their profound reinterpretation of the repertoire of the ancient songs of the Spiritual.
“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
5 pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“The Italian medieval ballads”
Concert of the Centotrecento Ensemble in collaboration with the Musica d’Aannata association.
With Anna Pia Capurso, Federica di Leonardo, Gloria Moretti, singing; Marco Ferrari, Fabio Resta, flutes; Elisabetta Benfenati, Diego Resta, ropes; Fabio Tricomi viella, marranzano and percussion.
At the beginning of the 14th century, an amazing music appears in Italy, known today as Ars Nova. Of its oldest repertoire are sixteen monodic ballads that seem to represent a link between the literary movement of the Stil Novo, which in the ballad had one of its most important forms, and the music of the Italian Ars Nova.
The ballads with a single voice of the 1300 certainly constitute one of the most interesting and mysterious repertoires of Italian music; they preserve echoes of the previous world and fully accept the rhythmic possibilities of the new measured notation, created to fix previously extraordinary extraordinary subtleties in an unknown way.
the Ensemble Centotrecenton began in 2017 with a long association between musicians who had already collaborated in the Sine Nomine, Acantus and Salon de Musiques groups. These ensembles have performed in the most important European festivals and have made a remarkable record production.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
Sunday 18 November
10.30 am: Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
For the cycle Il filo d’Arianna: textile collections at the Civic Museums of Ancient Art
“Painting with silk” Guided tour with Silvia Battistini, curator of the Communal Collections of Art.
Free entry
11 am: Museum for the Memory of Ustica – via di Saliceto 3/22
“Guided visit to the Museum for the Memory of Ustica”
A visit to the place that the French artist Christian Boltanski created for the city in memory of the victims of the tragedy of Ustica. An opportunity to reflect on the memory and identity of each of us, retracing the events of our contemporary history.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Museum entrance: free
Guided tour: € 4.00. For holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00
3pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
“Monumental Charterhouse”
An opportunity with Monica Fiumi to discover the Certosa that reveals its wonders in the light of day. Extraordinary artists interpreters of the nineteenth-century and twentieth century schools, monuments of immense beauty and emotional charge, characters of yesterday and today. A visit to discover the most significant places of the first monumental cemetery in Europe.
By GAIA Eventi.
Reservations required at info@guidegaiabologna.it or at 051 9911923 (Monday-Friday, 10 am-1pm).
Meeting at the main entrance of the Certosa (Church courtyard).
Admission: € 12.00 (for each paying entrance two euros will be donated for the development of the Certosa)
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“The train whistled” Guided tour.
A journey through the museum collections to deepen, taking inspiration from literary texts and musical pieces, the history of social, urban and economic transformations, resulting from the introduction of the steam engine, which have changed, during the nineteenth century, both ‘aspect of the city that the habits and ways of life of the Bolognese.
The Napoleonic occupation and the subsequent papal restoration lead to the definitive collapse of the silk industry, forcing the city to fall back on an economy linked to the transformation of agricultural products and to seek new forms of production on the model of the Industrial Revolution. In the 1960s the Aldini Valeriani Institution was the first to operate in Italy for civilian courses for steam trainers and telegraphists. At the same time, the City promotes public works designed to change the structure of the historic center, opening – for example – the very spacious Via Indipendenza, embellishing the government buildings and other places of public decorum.
The city entrusts the gas lighting network to private concessionaires, launches the first horse trams and restores the ancient Roman aqueduct in 1881. Other interventions concern the sewage systems, the new slaughterhouses and food markets.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 1pm on Friday, November 16th).
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
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 Ilaria Negretti,, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
4.30 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“Journey to Japan” Guided tour of the exhibition “Hokusai Hiroshige, Beyond the Wave”, organized by the Educational Services Institution Bologna Museums.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Duration: 1 hour and 15 ‘hours. The visit starts with a minimum of 6 participants.
Admission: € 4.00 + exhibition ticket
Thursday 22 November
4.30pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“Praise for every hour: Franciscan chorales from the Basilica of San Francesco”
Guided tour of the exhibition with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
7 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
As part of the review The fabulous ’80
“1985. Adelita Husni-Bey”
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”, until 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 the fifties. 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.
“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 originating in the Bologna and regional artistic field, 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 , where 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.
“Io sono Mare”, until 2 December 2018
“Io sono Mare” is the exhibition, created for Gender Bender, with original drawings and drawings dedicated to the homonymous comic book for children by Cristina Portolano for the Dino series Buzzati di Canicola. 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).Goodnight stories for rebel little girls “(2017, Mondadori).
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.
The Bologna Museums Institution recounts, through its collections, the entire history of the metropolitan area of Bologna, from the earliest prehistoric settlements to the artistic, economic, scientific and productive dynamics of contemporary society.
A single widespread route across the territory, divided into thematic areas.
Archeology, history, art history, music, industrial heritage and technical culture are the great themes that can be tackled and also through transversal paths to the various sites.
The Bologna Museums Institution: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, Morandi Museum, Casa Morandi, Villa delle Rose, Museum for the Memory of Ustica, Civic Archaeological Museum, Medieval Civic Museum, Municipal Art Collections, Museum Civic of Industrial Art and Davia Bargellini Gallery, Museum of Industrial Heritage, Museum and Library of the Risorgimento, International Museum and Library of Music of Bologna, Museum of Textile and of the “Vittorio Zironi” Upholstery.
Info: www.museibologna.it .
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