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 21st to Thursday 27th December .
IN EVIDENCE
Between extraordinary openings, guided visits to permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, educational workshops and the initiative “I’m at MAMbo for the Holidays” this year there are numerous opportunities that the Bologna Museums Institution’s offices offer to the public to spend Christmas festivities between art, history and culture.
In particular, during the week from the 21st to the 27th of December, the extraordinary opening of the Communal Art Collections and the exhibition “Steve McCurry : a head, a face, and even in the differences” on Monday, December 24th, from 10am to 6.30pm .
It should also be remembered that, on the occasion of the feast of Santo Stefano, as usual the museums will be open with public holidays.
All the venues of the Bologna Museums Institution will be closed on Tuesday 25 December (Christmas).
FOR CHILDREN
Saturday, December 22nd
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“Fly that passion!”
Workshop for children from 6 to 12 years.
Man has always dreamed of being able to fly, but to be able to fulfill this desire many have imagined, thought, attempted and realized this great adventure.
Through simple experiments and games we will discover the history of the air and some of its physical characteristics. We will discover how silk has also been the protagonist of the dream of flight, and how air can be exploited advantageously and in order to stay better anchored to the ground when we go by car, by motorbike or by bike, or to fly in the sky and maybe overcome it and get to the moon. During the workshop we will mention the Greek myths and the first inventors who have dedicated themselves to the art of flying, such as Leonardo da Vinci, we will talk about the history of kites and the first parachutes built with simple and natural materials such as paper, wood and silk.
An experiment with a hairdryer and a ball will serve to tell the story of Bernoulli and the birth of aerodynamics. Finally, the young builders will compete in the world of propulsion by building an advanced model of paper plane and a rocket also proving the launch!
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 13.00 on Friday 21st December).
Admission: € 5.00 (free for an adult escort)
Info: www.museibologna.it/patrimonioindustriale
Wednesday 26 December
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“Challenge to the Museum!”
Treasure hunt for children and teenagers from 6 to 12 years.
Packaging, packages and packages are part of our daily experience. Under Christmas we are surrounded and we love to discard them, but here at the museum, instead, we challenge you to build packages ready for any eventuality. A series of tests will allow children to discover the museum and gather clues to the final challenge: there will be enigmas to be solved with encrypted languages, scientific experiments, ingenious games and machines to be built to obtain all the materials necessary for the final challenge: ” Super-packing. “
The “Super-Packing” built by the boys will have to be inviting as a gift package but also robust, resistant to impact, humidity or fall! A creative challenge to make the children understand, first hand, having fun, the problems related to the packaging of products, discovering some of the solutions realized by the Bologna companies specialized in the production of automatic packaging machines.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 1pm on Monday, December 24th).
Admission: € 5.00 (free for an adult escort)
Info: www.museibologna.it/patrimonioindustriale
Thursday, December 27th
8.30-12.30 and 14-18: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“I’m at MAMbo for the Holidays. Art days at the Museum for children and teenagers”
During the holidays and school holidays, the art days dedicated to children aged 5 to 11 by the MAMbo Educational Department are back . The temporary exhibition ” That’s IT!” and the imagery of the ’80s will be the starting point for new and entertaining laboratory activities.
Reservations required and valid only by email at mamboedu@comune.bologna.it to be made by Friday 21 December for the days of 2018 and by Monday 31 December for the days of 2019.
The Art days at the Museum are activated only with a minimum of 8 participants (maximum 30 participants).
Admission: € 15.00 per participant per morning or afternoon, to be paid at the ticket office before the start of the activity
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Friday 21 December
5 pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4 / 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 visit to the Medieval Museum and to the QUADRERIA Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili”
Guided tour with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Last appointment of 2018 with the review “A zonzo for the museums”, realized by the Civic Museums of Ancient Art in collaboration with the QUADRERIA. Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili: 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.
Admission: entrance ticket to the Medieval Museum (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
Saturday, December 22nd
10.30 am: 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 Giacomo Alberto Calogero, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
4 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“To live forever: gods, rites, funerary symbols in ancient Egypt”
Guided tour by the archaeologists of the Aster company.
From the myth of Osiris to the meaning of objects, colors, materials and texts used in the tomb to be reborn and live in the afterlife.
Admission: € 4.00 for a guided tour + museum ticket (€ 3.00). For the holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 for the guided tour (free museum entrance)
Info: www.museibologna.it/archeologico
4.30 pm: Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
“Genovese 18th century cribs from the Museo Giannettino Luxoro “
Guided tour of the exhibition with the air Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Free entry
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
5 pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
In the context of the #novecento review
“A Christmas Special”
Guided visit with the Komos Choir and the participation of Enrico Tabellini (Music Museum).
Through the use of music, both “cultured” and “pop”, the Komos Choir supports the movement to fight homophobia and promotes a culture of respect towards all sexual orientations. And to celebrate its 10th birthday, give everyone this special visit sung with “surprise” musical incursions in the rooms and spaces of the Music Museum.
Tickets can be booked at www.museibologna.it/musica .
Admission: free subject to availability
Info: www.museibologna.it/musica
Sunday, December 23rd
2 pm-6pm: Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Dina Danish & Jean- Baptiste Maitre . All They Do May It All Turn Out Wrong “
Mediation cultural a exhibition by the Department educational MAMbo .
Free entry
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
4 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“Guided tour of the Morandi Museum, the Collection”
The exhibition traces the different phases of the artistic story of Giorgio Morandi, also proposing combinations between his works and those of other contemporary authors. The path, recently renewed, also includes a section specifically dedicated to engraving.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: € 4.00 + museum ticket (€ 6.00 full price / € 4.00 reduced). For the holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 for the guided tour (free museum entrance)
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“On the edge of the water: the ancient Bologna between locks, canals and keys”
Guided tour.
Since the twelfth century Bologna has built a complex artificial hydraulic system composed of locks (on the river Reno and the Savena stream), canals (including that of Reno, Savena, delle Moline and Navile) and gutters, underground pipelines, which distributed to network the water in many areas of the city.
Water was mainly used as a source of energy for the operation of numerous factories including the 15 grain mills along the Moline canal and hundreds of silk mills. It will be precisely the abundance of water resources, combined with the high technology achieved by the silk mills in Bologna, to allow a city not equipped with significant natural water courses or an outlet on the sea, to play a leading role in the panorama of European proto-industry and international trade for over four centuries.
Finally, after the system, a canal port built in 1548 on the design of the famous architect Jacopo Barozzi, called Vignola, near the current Via Don Minzoni , and a navigable canal called Navile, allowed goods and passengers to reach the Po and the great port of Venice. This system, perfected and managed over the centuries with great foresight by the city government, remained functional to the needs of the city until the end of the nineteenth century.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 13.00 on Friday 21st December).
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
Info: www.museibologna.it/patrimonioindustriale
Wednesday 26 December
10.30 am: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“The image of the Nativity through the centuries”
Guided tour with Silvia Battistini, museum curator.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
3.30 pm and 4.30 pm: Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
Under Andar for cribs
“Genovese 18th century cribs from the Museo Giannettino Luxoro “
Guided tour of the exhibition with Fernando Lanzi, Center for Studies for Popular Culture.
Free entry
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
4 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“A peaceful revolution: the birth of writing”
Guided tour by the archaeologists of the Aster company.
Accounting books, administrative letters, contracts, prayers, poems, proclamations. Engraved signs, graffiti, paintings, traces, sculptures. Writing allows us to remember, to communicate at a distance, to deceive if misinterpreted, to hit more than one weapon, to erase a memory.
A journey on communication in the ancient world, between orality and writing.
Admission: € 4.00 for a guided tour + museum ticket (€ 3.00). For the holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 for the guided tour (free museum entrance)
Info: www.museibologna.it/archeologico
Thursday, December 27th
4 pm and 5 pm : Municipal Art Collections and Sala Farnese, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“A head, a face, even in differences”
Guided tour of the exhibition organized by the Educational Services Institution Bologna Musei. With Angela Lezzi.
Admission: € 4.00 for the guided tour + show ticket
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica – www.biennale.coop
EXHIBITIONS
Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
“Genovese 18th century cribs from the Museo Giannettino Luxoro “, until 20 January 2019
As is now the case for over ten years on the occasion of the Christmas holidays, the Civic Museums of Ancient Art, in collaboration with the Center for Popular Culture of Bologna, promote the Davia Bargellini Museum an exhibition event dedicated to traditional crib art , as a moment of approach and collective celebration of the representation of the Nativity.
In the context of this awaited appointment there is the exhibition “Genoese 18th century nativity scenes from the Museo Giannettino Luxoro “organized with the Civic Museums of Genoa, edited by Mark Gregory D’Apuzzo, Simonetta Maione and Giulio Sommariva, with the contribution of Fernando and Gioia Lanzi.
The initiative is part of the series of exhibitions that confronts nativity scenes in different regional areas, to document the extraordinary diffusion of this specific type of artistic production in Italy. After the strong Neapolitan tradition, which, through the “Scarabattola” of the Gianfranco Bordoni Collection, was the theme of the 2008 exhibition, this year the great school of Genoa, a city that since the first half of the 16th century has been the object of attention it has established itself as one of the most active centers in the production of nativity figures, alongside Naples and Bologna.
Next to the rich collection of the Davia Bargellini Museum – the largest, both numerically and qualitatively, of polychrome terracotta statues of the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries present in the city – the exhibition allows the public to admire two crib groups dating from the second half and the end of the eighteenth century, from the collections of the Museo Giannettino Luxoro di Genova, representative of the very high executive quality achieved in the production of this particular type of sculpture, generally for domestic use, of small size, but of great value.
The specimens selected for the exhibition, reconstructed with careful philological attention, can be traced back to the two main compositional variations represented in the Ligurian capital: on one hand wooden statuettes sculpted in the round and polychrome, on the other articulated wooden mannequins, partially polychromed , and covered with clothes in beautiful fabric, testimony of the great city textile manufacture.
Free entry
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
Municipal Art Collections and Sala Farnese, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“A head, a face, even in differences”, until 6 January 2019
An exhibition made of glances against all forms of discrimination, with 40 large portraits of the American photographer Steve McCurry , including some unpublished, which tell the uniqueness of each individual and respect for life.
The photographs of Steve McCurry – 4 times winner of the World Press Photo and author of one of the most iconic images of the twentieth century, the “Afghan Girl” – portray a series of faces in which to recognize themselves beyond borders and barriers. Photographs that educate the knowledge and the vision without prejudice to the other, to safeguard the heritage of the differences between the cultures in the world. Because culture is the only means to save us as human beings. Hence the title of the exhibition which, paraphrasing one of the pivotal values of cooperating, ie the parity of each in making decisions, proposes it again in the universal terms of fairness: “a head, a vow” becomes “A head, a face” , the thought and the traits that make every person unrepeatable. And that, conjugated to the plural, they generate a community that produces tomorrow.
At Palazzo d’Accursio, McCurry’s photographs are exhibited on anthropomorphic wrought iron structures, designed by production designer Peter Bottazzi, who are positioned as if they were people walking inside the Sala and Cappella Farnese.
The exhibition is promoted by the Alliance of Italian Cooperatives (Legacoop, Confcooperative , Agci ) as part of the Biennial of Cooperation, in collaboration with the Bologna Museums Institution.
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica – www.biennale.coop
Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Dina Danish & Jean- Baptiste Maitre . Whatever They Do May It All Turn Out Wrong ” , until January 6 , 2019
The exhibition project, curated by Giulia Pezzoli, constitutes the final phase of the residency period that the duo of artists of Franco-Egyptian origin Dina Danish & Jean- Baptiste Maitre performed in Bologna as part of the 2018/2019 edition of the ROSE Residence Program promoted byMAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, aimed at promoting the international mobility of emerging artists and enhancing the most current expressions in the field of arts visual.
Danish & Maitre – a couple in life and art – have spent a total of six weeks in the Residence for Artists Sandra Natali, the multi-purpose venue that MAMbo makes available to young international artists to offer a space for comparison and experimentation, in order to support research and promote professional growth through the residence methodology adopted by major European training centers. During this period, the artists had the opportunity to develop a work plan aimed at creating an unpublished exhibition project, specifically designed for the rooms of Villa delle Rose, and the related publication published by Edizioni MAMbo .
The exhibition consists of 28 works, including a selection of recent works referring to the autonomous practices of the two artists and 14 new productions made as a collective during the period of residence in Bologna.
The entire exhibition project is conceived in close connection with the Villa delle Rose space and its structural features. In particular, Danish & Maitre were inspired by the symmetrical configuration of the first three rooms of the two floors of the building, identical in size and position, to develop an exhibition entirely based on dialectical and mirror-like counterpoints in which the works on the ground floor reverberate in those of the first and vice versa.
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
Casa Morandi – via Fondazza 36
“Umberto Bonfini, a doctor in Grizzana, from medicine to photography” , until February 3, 2019
The door of Casa Morandi opens to the meeting with the photography of Umberto Bonfini for the exhibition project curated by Claudio Spottl . A dialogue between the atmospheric atmosphere of the house-atelier in which Giorgio Morandi lived and worked for long decades until his death and a selection of images taken from the photographic archive left by Umberto Bonfini , a doctor led to Grizzana, who re-establishes a closeness between two figures united by a friendly acquaintance and an affinity of thought.
Born in Pisa in 1918, Umberto Bonfini arrived in Grizzana at the end of the forties to practice his profession as a surgeon. In the country of the Apennines of Bologna he met Giorgio Morandi, and later became a great admirer. Later he moved to Lagaro, a small town adjacent to Grizzana, where he continued to practice as a doctor and remained until his death on 10 August 1980.
His acquaintances with Giorgio Morandi brought Bonfini closer to his painting, causing him to paint several canvases under his influence. But Morandi’s art proves to be propaedeutic, above all, of what will become his real artistic figure: photography. In fact, he is interested in the world of photography only after Morandi’s death in 1964, starting to portray compositions of objects inspired by the still life of the Bolognese master, of which at Casa Morandi we can admire 14 copies made in the sixties.
Bonfini finds its definitive poetic expression in the register of photographic story, technique with which a story is told through a short sequence of photos tells a story, and in which it associates aesthetics and content by tracing a new path of artistic photography.
The exhibition set up at Casa Morandi bears witness to his intense photographic production contextualizing it through the exhibition of catalogs and documentary materials such as portraits, biographical notes and interviews.
Info: www.mambo-bologna.it
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“The faces of the Buddha from the lost Indian Museum of Bologna” , until April 28, 2019
The exhibition, curated by Luca Villa, recomposes for the first time a large part of the collections that belonged to the Museo Indiano of Bologna, now divided and preserved in three different locations: the same Medieval Civic Museum, the Museum of Palazzo Poggi in Bologna and the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Padua.
The exhibition allows you to rediscover a significant heritage of objects and photographs that illustrate archeology and Asian Buddhist art at the time when the Indian Museum, also known as the Museum of Indology and Museum of Indian East Ethnography, remained open since 1907 to 1935.
The Indian Museum, housed in the Palazzo dell’Archiginnasio in the rooms now used by the Library, was originally designed to house the conspicuous collection of objects, photographs and manuscripts acquired by Francesco Lorenzo Pullè (1850-1934), professor of Indo-European Philology and Sanskrit from the 1899 at the Royal University of Bologna, during a trip in 1902 in Vietnam, Ceylon, India and Pakistan on the occasion of his participation in the International Congress of Orientalists in Hanoi.
The scholar had in mind to create a museum that would represent not only the geographical area to which he devoted his research for many years, but the entire Asian continent. However, his goal could only be achieved when the Municipality and the University of Bologna, entities that had participated in the creation of the Indian Museum, undertook to increase the original collection with purchases and temporary loans.
At the time of the opening, in the rooms reserved for the museum the public could observe photographs and objects collected during the stages of the Pullè voyage through British India, purchased for the purpose of illustrating the peculiar aspects of religion and the artistic and craft tradition of the subcontinent Indian, as they had manifested themselves during the previous centuries and for how they appeared in the present.
The exhibit, of which we have traced thanks to the museum plan, kept in the Municipal Historical Archive of Bologna, included many representations of divinities of the Hindu pantheon and, compared to the museums of the time, was distinguished by the presence of a vast collection of images that immortalized the Templar architecture of India, Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic.
The story of the Indian Museum ended definitively in 1935 and two years later the act was drawn up with which the collections were divided between the City and the University, which still remain custodians, and the Pullè family . The latter a few years later yielded at least a part of the collection received by the professor’s son, Giorgio, at the University of Padua, where Pullè had taught for a long time before moving to the Alma Mater.
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
“Praise 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. These first choral series followed others 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.
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
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 the 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.
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
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, 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 still little known and in some cases completely unprecedented.
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.
Info: www.museibologna.it/risorgimento
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, curated 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 peak of production
ukiyoe 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 tradition . 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. It was about “Fifty-three post stations of Tōkaidō “, known as” Hōeidō Tōkaidō “from the name of the publisher who launched the success of Hiroshige, since then the artist repeatedly worked on this same subject, producing dozens of different series until the fifties.The quality of landscape illustrations and views of Japan, the variety of seasonal and atmospheric elements – snows, rains, mists, moon flares – that Hiroshige was able to describe making them almost sensually perceived earned him the title of “master of rain and snow.” Info: www.museibologna .com / archeological
MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
” That’s IT! On the latest generation of artists in Italy and one meter eighty from the border”, until January 6, 2019
The MAMbo opens the exhibition program of its main space – the Hall of Chimneys – under the artistic direction by Lorenzo Balbi, with ‘ ‘s That IT! On the last generation of artists in Italy and a six-footer 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 declared generational cut, investigates the most recent developments in art in our country, in line with a precise positioning on the Italian and international scene that the MAMbo he chose to give himself, identifying a clear scientific identity for each of his exhibition spaces. 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 concept unitary and monolithic, but proposes 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.
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 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 device of 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 physically 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 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.
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
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 contained in the title of the exhibition for images “The Emilian Romagnolo Channel in the gaze of Enrico Pasquali” – is largely maintained in the collage of emotions in black and white that the Consortium for Canale Emiliano Romagnolo (CER) has conceived and organized with the collaboration of numerous partners to enhance not only one of the most important hydraulic works of 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 essentiality, 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 began 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.
Info: www.museibologna.it/patrimonioindustriale
“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 in these years, with enthusiasm, have 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.
Info: www.museibologna.it/patrimonioindustriale
Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau – Constitution Square 11
“PHOENIX. The Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau between reconnaissance and restoration”, until January 13, 2019
A year after its reopening to the public after the restoration work financed by the Emilia-Romagna Region and the Municipality of Bologna, the Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau hosts the exhibition “PHOENIX: The Pavilion of the Esprit Nouveau between reconstruction and restoration” curated by Maria Beatrice Bettazzi , Jacopo Gresleri and Paolo Lipparini with the high consultancy of Giuliano Gresleri .
The exhibition, designed by architect Jacopo Gresleri , offers the viewer the opportunity to retrace the history of building the building, a replica – faithful in every detail – of the prototype housing unit thatarchitect Le Corbusier had proposed in Paris in 1925 at the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes , then demolished in the event conclusion. Inside the Pavilion are exposed the projects, drawings, images and testimonies that document the process of realization of what is the only work of the Swiss-French master present in Italy, from the ideation and study to the various stages of work. The drawings, coming from the Fund of the Historical Archives of the University of Bologna and from the private one of Professor Giuliano Gresleri , highlight the research process at the base of the reconstruction and the choice of all the details – fixtures, doors, floors and colors -, to which Le
Corbusier paid particular attention, in a vision of chromatic and functional space in constant relationship between interior and exterior.
On display are some materials from the Cassina Collection of the Historical Archive of Cassina in Meda, the models made by the students of Giuliano Gresleri’s Atelier at Syracuse University and the exceptional arrangement of historical volumes from the Gresleri Collection , dedicated in particular to the themes of low-cost accommodation, architectural colors and architecture education.
Original films from 1977 are also visible, in which illustrious protagonists of the Italian architectural world talk about the specific features of the Pavilion, the first building in the history of architecture to introduce a large plant element within the building, and the importance of its reconstruction.
The exhibition is promoted by the University of Bologna, Historical Archive – ASUB-SA with the support of the Urban Quality Service and Housing Policies – Directorate General for the Territory and Environment of the Emilia-Romagna Region and IBC – Institute for Artistic Heritage, cultural and natural resources of Emilia-Romagna.
In collaboration with Bologna Museums Institution | MAMbo – Museum ofModern Art in Bologna and under the patronage of Fondation Le Corbusier , National Council of Architects, Planners and Landscapers and Conservators and Order of Architects of Bologna.
Opening hours: Saturday and Sunday 15-17.
At 15 hours on Saturday and Sunday you can join a guided tour by the education department MAMbo (by appointment, tel. 051 6496611).
Info: http://agenda.comune.bologna.it/cultura/
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 big issues that can be addressed, including through cross paths at various locations.
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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