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 Saturday 22nd to Thursday 27th September.
IN EVIDENCE
Wednesday 26 September
6 pm: Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
On the occasion of the Researchers’ Night
“The 3D model of the Lapidary Cloister of the Basilica of Santo Stefano”
Presentation of the 3D model showing the Lapidary of the Basilica of Santo Stefano as it was presented during the inauguration year (1925), with 64 gravestones bearing the names of the 2,536 fallen of the Municipality of Bologna during the First World War.
Through an immersive journey, navigating in these environments virtually reconstructed, it will be possible, by clicking on the headstones, to enter the portal database www.storiaememoriadibologna.it and learn about the many individual events that are behind the engraved names, passing from family micro-stories and towns to major national and world events.
Speakers Roberto Balzani, University of Bologna; Roberto Grandi, president of the Bologna Museums Institution; Antonella Guidazzoli and Maria Chiara Liguori, Cineca; Otello Sangiorgi and Mirtide Gavelli, Museo Civico del Risorgimento.
Free entry
Info: www.museibologna.it/risorgimento
FOR CHILDREN
Saturday 22 September
10 am and 11.15 am: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the review The Best of
“Mamamusica III” (I meeting) Laboratory in 4 meetings for children from 19 to 36 months and parents.
At 10 am for children from 19 to 24 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
Info: www.museibologna.it/musica
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Saturday 22 September
10.30 am: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
On the occasion of the Franciscan Festival
“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)
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
Sunday, September 23rd
9-12.30 am: Piazza Malpighi / Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
In the context of ViVi il Verde. Discovering the gardens of Emilia-Romagna and Energie Diffuse – Emilia-Romagna a heritage of culture and humanity
“Trekking tree with choir” Discovering the monumental trees of Italy in the center of Bologna enlivened by some chorales of the territory “
Discovering the monumental trees of the center of Bologna, enlivened by some chorales of the territory.
An event designed for lovers of trekking, nature and of music, suitable for everyone.
The list of monumental trees in Italy has just been approved; also in our city there are some giant trees that we will meet in this walk of about 3 km; we will approach them and learn to know their nature, history and their cultural importance.
Some choirs from the Bolognese territory will perform for walkers in different stages of the tour: the choir InGiroNonDaSoli of San Pietro in Casale, the Leone choir of Bologna and the CantER choir of the Employees’ Club of the Emilia-Romagna Region.
The Museo Civico del Risorgimento will be the final stage of the route. In the garden adjacent to the museum there is in fact a gigantic bagolaro (Celtis australis) that towers above the great monumental complex dedicated to Giosue Carducci, the work of Leonardo Bistolfi.
Meeting point for departure in Piazza Malpighi 16 (entrance to Osteria Bartolini); point of arrival at the Museo del Risorgimento, Piazza Carducci 5.
Free entry
Info: www.museibologna.it/risorgimento – ERgiardini@regione.emilia-romagna.it
10.30 am: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
Within the Certosa review of Bologna. Summer calendar and Bologna Estate
“La Certosa di Bologna: an open book on history”
A walk dedicated to those who have never visited the monumental complex, the ABC of our Certosa: from the Etruscan necropolis to the monastery, from the institution of the “modern cemetery” to the most famous masterpieces and many, many curiosities.
Organized by Associazione Cultural Didasco.
Reservations required at 348 1431230 (afternoon-evening).
Meeting at the main entrance of the Certosa (Church courtyard).
Initiative addressed to the members of the Cultural Association Didasco, with the possibility of joining the time of the visit. Membership fee € 10.00 (first visit as a gift).
The event is part of the Week to the Discovery of European cemeteries promoted by ASCE – Association of Significant Cemeteries in Europe.
All holders of the Card Musei Metropolitani Bologna will receive a free gift at the entrance.
Admission: € 10.00 (for each paying entrance two euros will be donated for the development of the Certosa)
Info: www.museibologna.it/risorgimento
11 am: “Vittorio Zironi” Textile and Upholstery Museum – via di Casaglia 3
In the context of ViVi il Verde. Discovering the gardens of Emilia-Romagna and Energie Diffuse – Emilia-Romagna a heritage of culture and humanity
“Weaving gardens at Villa Spada”
Guided tour of the new “floral” itinerary of the museum and the Italian garden surrounding the Villa, created in collaboration with the IBC Emilia-Romagna.
With Ramona Loffredo, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, and Giancarlo Benevolo, curator of the museum.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
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
16-18.30: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
On the occasion of the Researchers’ Night
“Science Invaders: Researchers Invade MAMbo”
Researchers at the Society project had already explored MAMbo’s rooms last year, and they had a great time.
It will have been that pleasant sense of wonder that one feels wandering in an unknown, alien territory, where not everything is understood immediately and to the end. Accustomed to tackling things they do not understand, the researchers have carefully observed, and are willing to listen to the exotic language of artistic expression. With a certain surprise, they have discovered they understand some sound and have caught unexpected connections with the themes of their scientific research.
The experiment was so interesting that this year they decided to come back, to discover new works and proposing new topics.
Once again, they will accompany visitors on an unusual guided tour that will mix looks and interests, getting lost in that space that separates and unites science and art.
Reservations required while places last at 051 6496611.
Free entry
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
Wednesday 26 September
8.30pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
Within the Certosa review of Bologna. Summer calendar and Bologna Estate
“The skull and the butterfly – arcane and mysterious symbols of the Charterhouse”
Nothing is left to chance in Certosa: even the smallest leaf has its own precise meaning. A walk through twisted snakes, griffins, hourglasses and sphinxes.
Organized by Associazione Cultural Didasco.
Reservations required at 348 1431230 (afternoon-evening).
Meeting at the main entrance of the Certosa (Church courtyard).
Initiative addressed to the members of the Cultural Association Didasco, with the possibility of joining the time of the visit. Membership fee € 10.00 (first visit as a gift).
All holders of the Card Musei Metropolitani Bologna will receive a free gift at the entrance.
Admission: € 10.00 (for each paying entrance two euros will be donated for the development of the Certosa)
Info: www.museibologna.it/risorgimento
EXHIBITIONS
Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau – Constitution Square 11
“Listen, it becomes light, Mario Nanni’s staff” , until September 30th
In synergy with the Emilia-Romagna Region and with the collaboration of the Bologna Museums Institution, Bologna Design Week invited Mario Nanni to present his work in a site-specific exhibition inside the Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau, an architectural unicum gate of the event at the Bologna exhibition center hosting CERSAIE 2018.
The history of architecture and light have always been worth one another, united by the time and technology of the moment. The pavilion designed by Le Corbusier in 1925 is a masterful example of the use of natural light as a building material, to design geometries, curves, spatial inventions and colored volumes. While the first artificial light, the newly invented incandescent bulb, was still seen with a certain diffidence, the Swiss master inserted it with courage in his architecture in a functional and essential way, showing clearly the technique of realization.
The pavilion – faithfully rebuilt in Bologna in 1977 and recently restored – is reinterpreted by Mario Nanni, extraordinary interpreter of light, until September 30th through the lighting of his works.
Info: www.bolognadesignweek.com
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“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
“The magic world, Gianni Del Bue”, until September 30th 2018
The Civic Museums of Ancient Art present the personal exhibition “The magic world” of the contemporary artist Gianni Del Bue set up in the Lapidary of the Medieval Civic Museum.
The exhibition, born from an idea by Graziano Campanini, hosts over 30 works that interact with the museum’s collection. Del Bue, who had already paid homage to his exhibitions of Renaissance capitals such as Florence, Urbino and Mantua, now entertains with Bologna and its history. Thecontact with the city takes place right through the Medieval Civic Museum, an authoritative casket of an art with a strong impact on the cosmic, on nature, on the sacred and on the imaginary.
The magical daily of Del Bue’s works recalls the same magic everyday of all the works in the museum’s collection: spears, shields, bronzes, all of which are common objects of the period, as well as the subjects present in the works of Del Bue, they hold a magical and seductive charm.
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
“German guests, Goldschmiede und Bildhauer” , until 30 September 2018
Since 1996 the Civic Museums of Ancient Art in Bologna have promoted the cycle of “Guests” initiatives, in which works are temporarily exhibited that may arouse public interest due to the singularity of their history or of what they represent, but also for the their rarity, or for the search for their proper attribution or for a particular link with the artistic heritage or the art history of the city and its territory. Often these loans are real exchanges, activated during exhibitions at other Italian and international institutions. In fact, the importance of the work lent requires a temporary replacement, thus allowing to receive and exhibit for a limited period of time the illustrious “guests”, placed in dialogue with the heritage preserved in the Civic Museums of Ancient Art.
In the context of this enhancement and cultural and scientific collaboration with international museum institutions, the exhibition “German guests, Goldschmiede und Bildhauer” presents two objects of the highest quality that come from German museums: a precious reliquary bust of the head of San Paolo del 15th century from the Museum of the Cathedral of Münster and a Renaissance wooden sculpture depicting Christ the Savior, the work of Gregor Erhart, from the Maximilianmuseum of Augsburg (Augsburg).
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“That’s IT! On the latest generation of artists in Italy and one meter eighty from the border”, until November 11, 2018
MAMbo opens the exhibition program 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.
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“The Emiliano Romagnolo Channel in the eyes of Enrico Pasquali”, until 25 November 2018
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 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.
Info: www.museibologna.it/patrimonioindustriale
“Moto Bolognesi CM thirty years memorable 1929-1959”, until October 14th 2018
The exhibition focuses on the golden period for Bologna in the motorcycle production sector: in the 1920s and 1950s, the Bologna area is in fact a center of national importance in this area, thanks to an unparalleled concentration of small and medium-sized manufacturing companies. of finished bikes (over 70 active with alternating fortunes in those years) and an even greater number able to supply everything needed to assemble any motorcycle.
In those same years the adventurous story of the CM is situated, not unlike that of many Bologna companies.
The exhibition presents 15 motorcycles from the 1930s and 50s, among the most important models made by CM and among the most significant examples present in the collections of Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna. A rich array of photographic images and catalogs, largely unpublished, is visible in three screen projections and on screen.
Info: www.museibologna.it/patrimonioindustriale
Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“Creti, Canova, Hayez. The birth of modern taste between ‘700 and’ 800 in the Communal Collections of Art “, until October 7, 2018
With the exhibition “Creti, Canova, Hayez. The birth of modern taste between ‘700 and’ 800 in the Municipal Art Collections “, the museum presents a redefined visit path in conjunction with the restoration of a part of the Palazzo d’Accursio roof.
Organized by the Civic Museums of Ancient Art with the curatorship of Silvia Battistini and Massimo Medica, the exhibition allows you to admire over 150 works ordered according to numerous unpublished combinations, thanks to the presentation of some works usually kept in storage – it is the case of pastels and paintings by Angelo Crescimbeni, Sebastiano Gamma and Coriolano Vighi – and loans from other civic museums such as the Museo Civico Archeologico, the Museo Civico Medievale and the MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna.
The exhibition focuses on the recursive revival of models from previous eras by the artists who worked during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, comparing styles and iconographies of important authors not only from Bologna. The resulting synthesis laid the foundations of contemporary taste, creating the theoretical and aesthetic assumptions also for the avant-gardes of the early twentieth century.
Faced with the closure of seven rooms in this phase of construction – the Galleria Vidoniana, rooms 8, 9 and 10 of the Pinacoteca, room 11 in the Rusconi wing, rooms 19 and 20 dedicated to Pelagio Palagi – the exhibition itinerary of the exhibition it winds through the magnificent room 17 (known as Sala Urbana), the rooms 14-16 (ala Rusconi), 18 and 23-25.
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
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.
Info: www.museibologna.it .
The Card Musei Metropolitani of Bologna is the service activated on the occasion of the IX centenary of the Municipality of Bologna to expand accessibility to the city’s historical and artistic heritage: a season ticket offering unlimited access to permanent collections and reduced price admission to temporary exhibitions of many museums in the city and the metropolitan area . Valid for 12 months and costs 25 euros: all information is available on the cardmuseibologna.it website.
