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 2 to Thursday 8 November.
Sunday, November 4, as every first Sunday of the month, free entry to the permanent collections of all the Bologna Museums.
IN EVIDENCE
Saturday 3rd November
5 pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the #novecento / Jazz Insight review
“Jazz ’68 between commitment and new frontiers”
Musical narration with Emiliano Pintori, piano. In collaboration with Bologna Jazz Festival.
“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.
The first event proposes a meeting not dedicated to a musician, but to what was happening in jazz at that time: the murder of Martin Luther King aroused immediate reactions and all the African American artists in that decade used their music as an extraordinary vehicle of Community self-determination and claim for civil rights.
These are the years of the New Thing, of the creation of new identity and radical aesthetics, but also of the electric breakthrough of Miles Davis, who since 1968 has embarked on a path that will define the music of the following decade, introducing new protagonists as “Chick” Korea and shortly after Keith Jarrett.
Tickets can be booked (with payment on the day of the event) from the website www.museibologna.it/musica .
Admission: € 5.00
Thursday 8 November
6 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
Within the Festival of History
“Back to the Future: from outdoor schools to new educational experiences in nature”
Inauguration of the exhibition curated by Mirella D’Ascenzo and Mino Petazzini, realized in collaboration with Bologna Museums and Municipality of Bologna – Education, Education and New Generations Sector.
Entrance to the inauguration: free
FOR CHILDREN
Saturday 3rd November
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“La Fata Elettricità” Workshop for children from 8 to 12 years.
At the end of the nineteenth century the phenomenon of “popular physics” spread in Europe and America, showing the curiosity of the scientific world to the general public, then perceived as invisible and mysterious and which aroused surprise and wonder. It is in this context that the electric phenomenon assumed the curious name of “fairy electricity”.
Drawing inspiration from this historical popularization tradition, the museum has decided to retrace with small checks and games (such as “forced dance”, “the electric pendulum” and “the pile with the hands”) the most significant stages of the discoveries related to electricity: from Talete di Mileto’s experiments on static electricity to the construction of the first electrostatic machines capable of producing sparks, to the invention of the Volta pile in 1799 and to Faraday’s experiments on electromagnetic induction.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 1pm on Friday 2nd November).
Admission: € 5.00 (free for an adult escort)
Sunday 4 November
4 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
Within the cycle At the museum for games
“Walking with the demons in ancient Egypt” Workshop for children from 8 to 11 years, by the archaeologists of the Aster society.
Dressed as demons, with the help of masks created by the children for the occasion, we will visit the Egyptian section of the museum, together with the operator a trip to the Egyptian afterlife.
Reservations required from the Monday before the initiative, exclusively online, on the website of the museum to the events page ( www.museibologna.it/archeologico/eventi ), selecting the desired event and clicking on “SUBSCRIBE HERE”.
Admission: € 5.00 per child (free for an adult guide) subject to availability (max 20)
4 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“Sunday at the museum: the body of emotions” Workshop for children from 4 to 7 years.
Butterflies in the stomach, lump in the throat, heartbeat, poisoned tooth or head in the clouds … A path to refine the knowledge of their sensitivity and discover that every emotion makes its way into us in a different way, also in relation to others. The exhibition “Io sono Mare” becomes the starting point for a workshop to make visible the “emotional path” of the different moods within our body.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: € 5.00 per participant
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Friday 2 November
MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
On the occasion of Gender Bender
6.30 pm: “Dance to meet you. Warm up with Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold”
“Warm up” means to warm up. “Dance to meet you”, organized by BlaubArt for Gender Bender, is a moment in which to prepare visually and physically for the shows, experimenting short choreographic pills with the artists before the staging. A small group of spectators will be able to try some simple dance steps with Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold, author of Dans, for Satan. A way to get to know, get to know each other and test yourself.
Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold is a Norwegian dancer and choreographer who lives in Denmark. As a dancer she worked with companies and choreographers from all over Europe: Tina Tarpgaard, Ted Stoffer, David Zambrano, Edhem Jesenkovic, Kitt Johnson, Wim Vandekeybus / Ultima Vez and Andreas Constantinou. She is the author of numerous solo works, presented in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Holland.
Free entry
7 pm: “Dans, for Satan by Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold”
National premiere of the performance of Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold, artist selected among the 20 best new European talents in 2018 by Aerowaves. With the support of Dansekunst i Grenland.
Movements without music, a liter of milk, a sausage, and a woman looking for affection and acceptance. Until bitter, sarcastic awareness that, in order to find our place in society, we are constantly willing to prostitute ourselves and our values.
“Before making the piece, I spent some time reflecting on what it means being a woman today in Scandinavia. I realized I have the freedom to do whatever I want, because my action is liberated. At the same time, I perceive that this freedom, under certain circumstances, is obscured by the feeling that my body is a good whose value is established by men, or by my interactions with men. This dualism ignited my curiosity and my imagination. “(Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold)
Admission: on payment (tickets on sale at the museum ticket office from one hour before the start of the show)
9pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
“Dark Charterhouse”
Night appointment with Barbara Baraldi, author of “Osservatore oscuro” (Giunti ed.). A thriller that opens in the cemetery of Bologna, in front of one of its most famous monuments. A noir path and a literary re-enactment of the Certosa as a place for memories, affections and a criminal scene.With Caterina Veddovi and Luca Favoni, viola da gamba. Readings by Andrea Spicciarelli and Roberto Martorelli, Museo Civico del Risorgimento.
Reservations required at 051 225583 (Monday-Friday, 9 am- 1pm ) – museorisorgimento@comune.bologna.it .
Dress code dark / elegant mandatory.
Meeting at 8.30 pm at the main entrance of the Certosa (Church courtyard).
Free entry
Saturday 3rd November
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)
9pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
On the occasion of Gender Bender
“Dans, for Satan by Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold”
National premiere of the performance of Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold, artist selected among the 20 best new European talents in 2018 by Aerowaves. With the support of Dansekunst i Grenland.
Movements without music, a liter of milk, a sausage, and a woman looking for affection and acceptance. Until bitter, sarcastic awareness that, in order to find our place in society, we are constantly willing to prostitute ourselves and our values.
“Before making the piece, I spent some time reflecting on what it means being a woman today in Scandinavia. I realized I have the freedom to do whatever I want, because my action is liberated. At the same time, I perceive that this freedom, under certain circumstances, is obscured by the feeling that my body is a good whose value is established by men, or by my interactions with men. This dualism ignited my curiosity and my imagination. “(Hilde Ingeborg Sandvold)
Admission: on payment (tickets on sale at the museum ticket office from one hour before the start of the show)
Sunday 4 November
10 am: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
“Certosa criminale: stories of crimes and passions”
A path dedicated to the darkest and most mysterious side of the city. Heinous murders, public scandals, political exiles, reports of common crime.
Organized by Associazione Cultural Didasco.
Reservations required at 348 1431230 (afternoon-evening).
Meeting at the main entrance of the Certosa (Church courtyard).
Admission: € 10.00 (for each paying entrance two euros will be donated for the development of the Certosa)
10.30 am: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
For the cycle Il filo d’Arianna: textile collections at the Civic Museums of Ancient Art
“Treasures in the drawers” guided tour by Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: free (it is not necessary to pay the admission ticket to the museum as the first Sunday of the month)
12-16: “Cultural mediation at the Medieval Civic Museum”
On the first Sunday of the month the Medieval Civic Museum offers a free service of cultural mediation: a museum educator is present in the exhibition rooms, available to the public. Curated by Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: free (it is not necessary to pay the admission ticket to the museum as the first Sunday of the month)
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.
The exhibition is dedicated to the collective, national and national memory on the events related to the first World Conflict, with particular reference to the fallen Bolognese. On display are posters and rare documents dedicated to national loans, many of which are made by leading artists such as Duilio Cambellotti and Achille Luciano Mauzan.
Admission: free (it is not necessary to pay the admission ticket to the museum as the first Sunday of the month)
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
MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
3.30-6.30pm: “VHS + Special Archive Open 2018. Video in the Kantiere From the Videogame to Pratello TV: the analog video and the radical Bolognese scene at the beginning of the Nineties”
On Sunday 4 November, the first of four afternoons dedicated to special screenings will be held during the “VHS +” exhibition, which will run until 17 February.
During the first appointment curated by Diego Cavallotti and Lino Greco in the context of “Open Archive”, video material of Home Movies – National Archive of Family Films is made visible, which counts about 400 among VHS, Video8 and other formats of the late Eighties – early ninety.
The program includes, in addition to two videogames of the DAMS occupied (already shown during the 2016 edition of “Open Archive”), an unpublished: the “Cassettone” by PratelloTV, a collection of the best of the famous neighborhood TV that broadcast between 27 and on 31 May 1992.
Admission: free (it is not necessary to pay the admission ticket to the museum as the first Sunday of the month)
4 pm: “Guided tour of the permanent MAMbo collection”
A guided tour of the permanent collection to get closer to the history of Italian art, from the mid-fifties to today, through the activities of the former Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna and subsequent acquisitions of MAMbo.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: € 4.00 (it is not necessary to pay the admission ticket to the museum as the first Sunday of the month). For holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“The machines for food” guided tour.
Between the nineteenth and twentieth century the processes of industrialization change the eating habits of the Bolognese, while new technologies allow the diffusion of products previously reserved only for a close circle. This is the case of mortadella, which for centuries has been a luxury product, which – thanks to various patented innovations – is processed and packaged at low cost and shipped in large quantities abroad. Other companies in the city receive the technological innovations, such as the Zamboni, which since 1910 has been manufacturing pasta machines capable of producing and packaging local delicacies such as tortellini. In the same years the Majani, one of the first companies in Bologna to buy a steam engine, invented the delicious “FIAT” cremino. In 1927 ACMA produces the first machine to batch and pack hydroline, while Bruto Carpigiani, later, designs an innovative ice cream machine that imposes the company on the international market.
The years of the economic boom saw the Bolognese industry concentrate on food mechanopackaging, first of all ACMA and GD (sweets and chocolate), Corazza (broth cubes), IMA (tea and herbal teas), which with ever faster, more precise machines and hygienic systems give life to a modern and flexible industrial district, based on continuous technological innovation processes of the machines.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 1pm on Friday 2nd November).
Admission: free (it is not necessary to pay the admission ticket to the museum as the first Sunday of the month)
4.30 pm: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“The City Palace, monument of Bologna”
Guided tour with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
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
“Tony Conrad” screening of “Completely in the Present” by Tyler Hubby (USA 2016, 96 ‘) with Tony Conrad, Moby, Jim O’Rourke, John Cale, Charlemagne Palestine, Tony Oursler.
Tony Conrad, an indispensable figure of the American neo-avant-garde, was, together with John Cale, the pioneer of minimalism. Original member of both the Dream Syndicate of La Monte Young and the Primitives (the pre-Velvet Underground band of Lou Reed) was the author of The Flicker (1966), one of the benchmarks of structuralist cinema.
“Voices from the afterlife” is a film review, 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
Tuesday 6 November
5 pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4 (entrance from via Porta di Castello 3)
Within the framework of the Japanese art from 1185 to the dawn of modernity
“The Edo period (1603-1868)” lecture by Giovanni Peternolli.
The Edo period sees the rise of the chônin class (artisans and merchants), which will be the origin of an extraordinarily vital art, with the simultaneous presence of numerous brilliant artists and innovative pictorial currents, such as the Rinpa decorative one, that of the Literature and that of the ukiyo-e prints, now known internationally.
With this sixth cycle of conferences, the Study Center of Far Eastern Art continues the presentation of the historical development of Japanese art started last year: this year will be addressed the period from the seizure of power of the Samurai class in 1185, until the fall of the military government in 1867.
Free entry
Thursday 8 November
7 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
As part of the review The fabulous ’80
“1983. Giovanni Giaretta”
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
7 pm: “Marcel Broodthaers: Poetics of the Shadow”
Presentation of the volume by Serena Carbone (Mimesis Edizioni).
The author communicates with Cesare Pietroiusti.
Marcel Broodthaers: artist, poet, man of letters, collector, journalist, looking more like a “sociologist than an artist”, places the relationship between art and society, museum and collection, value and status of the work of art at the center of his research . The volume, divided into three parts (“From the word to the object”, “From the object to the décor”, “From the décor to the salle”), deals in a transversal and comparative way the singular path of an artist considered to be one of the most significant of the last century. In just ten years of activity (1964-1975), dada and surrealist poetics will arrive at a new language, post-media, open to the milieu in which the phenomena of reification and fragmentation typical of the advanced capitalist society develop, inaugurating the Critics’ season Institutional. Through literary, poetic and sociological suggestions, the works take shape: from Pense-Bête, to the Musée d’art Moderne-Département des Aigles up to the salles of the décor period, revealing a universe in which the infinite does not live only in writing.
Serena Carbone (1981) deals with history and criticism of contemporary art, with particular regard to the relationship between art, history and society.
PhD in European Cultural Studies with a thesis on Marcel Broodthaers, is part of the scientific committee of NESXTIndependent Art Network. Numerous contributions have appeared in trade magazines. Today he collaborates with Alfabeta2.
Free entry
EXHIBITIONS
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 BolognaAcademy 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.
“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/arteanticaMuseo Museum – via Manzoni 4
“Praise for every hour: the Franciscan chorales from the Basilica of San Francesco”, until March 17, 2019
MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“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 pulsazioni audio-visive che nascono dall’ibridazione di differenti linguaggi, formati e pratiche di comunicazione video sperimentata in Italia tra il 1995 eil 2000, raccontando il sogno elettronico di una stagione in cammino tra l’analogico e il digitale.
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.
“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 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 in” Goodnight stories for rebel little girls “(2017, Mondadori)
Villa delle Rose – via Saragozza 228 / 230
“Mariella Simoni. 1975 – 2018 ” , up to11 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, it rediscovers and re-reads the forty-year path of an important Italian artist, who made the opening to the world and the attitude to nomadism one of its 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 she often returns, facing them from different angles and using of 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. .
Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“The Emiliano Romagnolo Canal in the eyes 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 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 take a leap 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 border divide between Emilia and Romagna , who 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 27 January 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.
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 major themes that can be tackled, even through transversal paths to 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.
The Card Musei Metropolitani of Bologna is the service activated on the occasion of the IX centenary of the City of Bologna to expand accessibility to the city’s historical and artistic heritage: a subscription that offers unlimited access to permanent collections and reduced price admission to temporary exhibitions of many museums in the city and Metropolitan area. Valid for 12 months and costs 25 euros: all information is available on the cardmuseibologna.it website.
