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 23rd to Thursday 29th November .

IN EVIDENCE

Friday 23 November

5.30 pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“The faces of the Buddha from the lost Indian Museum of Bologna”
Inauguration of the exhibition promoted by the Civic Museums of Ancient Art and curated by Luca Villa.
Entrance to the inauguration: free

Thursday 29 November

6 pm: Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Dina Danish & Jean-Baptiste Maitre, Whatever They Do May It All Turn Out Wrong”
Inauguration of the exhibition, curated by Giulia Pezzoli.
MAMbo has a “place of retreat” for young Italian and international artists. The ROSE project involves the Sandra Natali Artists Residence, a place to stay and work to create new works, and the Villa delle Rose exhibition center.
In March 2018 the tender was presented, which offered young artists the opportunity to live in Bologna and create a site-specific exhibition. Dina Danish & Jean-Baptiste Maitre are the first artists selected for the 2018-2019 edition and their exhibition project is entitled “Whatever They Do May It All Turn Out Wrong”.
Free entry

FOR CHILDREN

Saturday November 24th

10 am and 11.15 am: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the review The Best of
“Mamamusica IV” (III meeting)
Laboratory in 4 meetings for children from 0 to 36 months and parents.
At 10 am for children from 0 to 18 months; at 11.15 for children from 25 to 36 months.
A project of the Music Museum in collaboration with Associazione Musica e Nuvole. With Chiara Bartolotta, Luca Bernard, Linda Tesauro.
A special, exciting and inclusive musical space for adults and children where attention is focused exclusively on sounds. Songs and rhythms coming from very different repertoires, a 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

10.30 am: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“Transform me”
Workshop for children from 5 to 9 years, on the occasion of the exhibition “Io sono Mare”, with the author Cristina Portolano.
What would my classmate want to turn into? Do you want special features? And why? Empathy is tested in this laboratory. Cristina Portolano, along with the children and girls involved, will try to put ourselves in the other’s shoes to transform it, giving it the form it could take if it really could be transformed. It will be a child who would like to be a child? What if it was a courgette? A flower or a cloud? Maybe a robot?
During the workshop you will face the study of a fictional character and then create a microstoria where children and girls will identify with the character they created. The book Io sono Mare published by Canicola Edizioni will act as a compass during the workshop.
Reservations required at bbbragazzi@bilbolbul.net or 051 233401 (max 20 children).
Free entry

4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“From the bean to the bread”
Laboratory for children from 4 to 6 years.
Bread has long been the food base of man. To produce it, over the centuries, increasingly complex technologies and more efficient energies have been used. From the Middle Ages onwards, the use of grain mills powered by huge wheels driven by the power of water from natural courses or canals has been established in Italy, as was the case in Bologna. Heavy stone mills provided, finally, to crush and pulverize the grain, turning it into very light flour.
The workshop begins by showing children – with games and manipulations – the main stages of the cultivation of wheat (from sowing to harvest) and those related to its subsequent transformation into flour.
The big wheels of moving mills, the team play of the seasons, drawings and simple puzzles will help the little ones understand how the wheat becomes, finally, bread.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (within 13 hours of Friday 23 November).
Admission: € 5.00 (free for an adult escort)

Sunday 25 November

4.30 pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the review The Best of
“Who wants to be a costume designer?” (II and last meeting)
Laboratory in two meetings for children from 7 to 9 years. With Giulia Sassi, in collaboration with Associazione Senza Titolo.
A path to get closer to the world of the Opera and get to know the many professional figures who work behind the scenes of the great theaters. Visiting the Museum you will know the stories and the protagonists of famous opera performances, you will browse through sketches and maquette of theaters, we will deepen fashions and customs of different eras. In the laboratory, children and parents together can use a costume designer’s table to design a stage dress and to make a magnificent accessory inspired by their costume.
Reservations required online only on www.museibologna.it/musica .
Confirmation or cancellation is required by the Thursday before the laboratory date.
Admission: € 5.00 per participant

4.30 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“This Sunday I’m going to Japan”
Visit and workshop for children from 5 to 11 years and parents together, dedicated to the exhibition “Hokusai Hiroshige, Beyond the Wave”, organized by the Educational Services Institution Bologna Museums.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Duration: 2 hours. The activity starts with a minimum of 6 children.
Admission: € 5.00 per child + exhibition ticket (free for children under 6, reduced from 6 to 17 years and family)

THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS

Saturday November 24th

10.30 am: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“The faces of the Buddha from the lost Indian Museum of Bologna”
Guided tour of the exhibition with Luca Villa, curator.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)

3 pm: Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau – Constitution Square 11
“PHOENIX: The Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau between reconnaissance and restoration”
Opening of the exhibition, curated by Maria Beatrice Bettazzi, Jacopo Gresleri, Paolo Lipparini with the high consultancy of Giuliano Gresleri, and guided tour organized by the MAMbo Educational Department.
For the guided tour, reservations required at 051 6496611 (by 13.00 on Friday 23 November).
Free entry

3pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
Within BilBOlbul
“Amandine Meyer, Blind Moscow”
Inauguration of the exhibition, realized in collaboration with Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati.
The author will be present.
Entering Amandine Meyer’s exhibition means stepping into her lustful and pop garden, inhabited by perturbing and colorful little girls, faceless children, carnivorous plants and awkward little animals. And once inside, being entangled in the seductive universe of Meyer is a moment: pastel colors, elegant decorations, a bit ‘kitschy aesthetics of his characters invite you to look with children’s eyes, to stop asking questions, let go and play. In fact, between dice, pawns and boxes to jump, the show itself becomes a game.
Amandine Meyer, French illustrator and cartoonist, is an artist still unknown in Italy; his works – whether made of paper, glass, ceramics or one of the many materials he uses to create – are a pleasure for the eyes and a provocation for the mind.
Entrance to the inauguration: free

4 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
Under the cycle A foreign gaze on Egypt
“Assyrian eyes on Egypt: admiration, conflict, conquest, revolts”
Conference of Giovanni Battista Lanfranchi, formerly University of Padua.
The cycle “A foreign gaze on Egypt” proposes four meetings to get to know ancient Egypt through the eyes of the foreign peoples who conquered it.
Admission: free subject to availability

4.00 pm and 5.30 pm replication: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“Bodies and looks”
Performance of the Theater-History Association.
Design and direction by Tanino De Rosa. Dramaturgy by Enrico Saccà. Artistic direction and collaboration with Silva Stagni’s texts.
With Silvia Bruni, Luca Comastri, Alessandra Cortesi, Sonila Kaceli, Luca Mazzamurro and the participation of Silvia Battistini, conservator of the Communal Collections of Art.
The fire, the plague, love and water are the themes and the energies that move this staging, symbolically crossing the history of our city and the paths of the museum.
The artists who created the event, looking for beauty even in its darkest sides, however, ask for something more to the spectators present: to observe cuts, limited glimpses, small signs, crossings, to hear sounds, often distant, fleeting, of to confuse the works exhibited with the actors of the show, exposed themselves, to approach bodies and shadows according to a partial but transversal design that runs through small fragments along the entire museum.
Reservations required at tel. 051 2193933 (Monday 9-13, Tuesday and Thursday 12-16) or musarteanticascuole@comune.bologna.it (by 12 noon on Friday 23 November).
Max 25 people to reply.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)

5 pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the #novecento / Jazz Insight review
“Chet”
Dedicated to Chet Baker (1929-1988). Musical narration with Emiliano Pintori, piano.
Special guest Tom Kirkpatrick, trumpet and Luca Pisani, double bass.
Could not miss the dedication to one of the icons of jazz, Chet Baker, long resident in Italy and also in Bologna (a star dedicated to him was placed along the path of jazz), has represented as few others the emblem of self-destructive and romantic jazz player, excellent performer of sweet and poignant ballads, but at the same time protagonist of a discontinuous career and of an adventurous and dissolute life.
“Jazz Insight”, or five protagonists of American and African-American music, of which this year important anniversaries are recounted, told from the inside, that is from the perspective of a jazz musician, Emiliano Pintori, in the company of the piano and its “guests” surprise.
Tickets can be booked (with payment on the day of the event) from the website www.museibologna.it/musica .
Admission: € 5.00

Sunday 25 November

10.30-13 and 15-17.30: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the #novecento review
“Music to see … on Sunday”
Guided tours “open demand” to the collections of the museum with Giuseppe Ayroldi Sagarriga, Museum of Music.
Mozart was wrong with his homework? Is the perfect keyboard insuonable? Wagner was from Bologna? In Respighi’s orchestra was a turntable?
Do not you know? Then you can not miss the special “extended release” Sunday tours in which the museum staff will be at your disposal to answer these questions and all those that jump in mind on the collections on display: a guided tour (but not too much) through six centuries of music history talking about books, paintings, instruments starting from Palazzo Sanguinetti, the splendid seat of the museum.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)

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 by Giacomo Alberto Calogero, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)

11 am: Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
“Illustrated war, lived war: the Great War in Bologna between history and memory”
Guided tour of the exhibition.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)

11 am: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
“So happy grafting: with Shakespeare, Tasso and Voltaire”
For the review “Rossini, Opere, Lettere” – meetings organized by the GB Martini Music Conservatory – a conference with Piero Mioli, musicologist, as part of “The tenant of Strada Maggiore and Piazza Rossini – the maestro in Bologna in 150th from the disappearance “.
Admission: free subject to availability

3 pm: Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau – Constitution Square 11
“PHOENIX: The Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau between reconnaissance and restoration”
Guided tour of the exhibition by the MAMbo Educational Department.
Reservations required at 051 6496611 (within 13 hours of Friday, November 23).
Free entry

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)

4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
On the occasion of Open Factory
“Stories of companies in Bologna in the twentieth century”
Guided tour.
Between the nineteenth and twentieth century Bologna experienced a slow and profound industrial metamorphosis, becoming a center of excellence in the mechanical first, electromechanical and mechatronic sectors. The productive fabric has gradually been configured as a system of small and medium-sized enterprises capable of producing competitive products on the large international market. This development has been made possible thanks to the presence of “Institutions” (technical education models, banks, associations of entrepreneurs and producers, planning and territorial governance bodies) that have acted in synergy for local development. The work carried out by the Aldini Valeriani Institution of the Municipality of Bologna was decisive: from the first half of the nineteenth century until the 1960s, it practiced advanced technical training, following the example of the European ones, to artisans, workers of various level, future entrepreneurial classes, which have re-launched the city’s economy weakened by the Second World War.
The protagonists of these events will be remembered during the visit to the museum: from ACMA, the parent company of the packaging sector with the legendary figure of Brutus Carpigiani, head of the technical department then – in turn – an established entrepreneur in the ice cream machines sector, GD of Ariosto Seragnoli; from leading companies in the mechanical sector such as Calzoni and Technofrigo or Maccaferri up to the glorious names of Ducati and Maserati.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (within 13 hours of Friday 23 November).
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)

Thursday 29 November

5 pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
“Gioachino in Bologna: half a century of society and citizen culture coexisted with Rossini and his music”
Presentation of the book by Jadranka Bentini and Piero Mioli (Bologna, Pendragon Press, 2018), as part of “The tenant of Strada Maggiore and Piazza Rossini – the master in Bologna in 150th from the disappearance”.
Conversano with the curators Giuseppina La Face Bianconi and Guido Mascagni.
«That prism of the city: with its 150 ° to remember, Rossini (1792-1868) was a very noble excuse to know better the personality of Bologna, the lateral endings of its beautiful turreted root, more clearly the different sectors of its history and culture. Although sometimes intermittent with Naples and Paris, the presence of Gioachino in flesh and bone coincided with the first half of the nineteenth century, a period of ancien régime tightened between the Napoleonic adventure and the Risorgimento adventure and for this reason often considered waiting, of calm, of silence. And with that, there were no poets and painters? Did not foreign visitors pass? Did not represent comedies and melodramas? Did not you converse in circles, in living rooms, in cafes? And above all, was it not taught and learned in the first authentically public music institute of the peninsula?
At the Liceo Filarmonico Rossini was first a student, not irreproachable indeed, and then a consultant, at least for this purpose, an enlightened and beneficial finalmentee. The teacher and the school deal with the book for a long time, while it also deals with letters and arts, with news and society, with musicians and higher figures like Haydn, Stendhal, Leopardi, Bacchelli and Verdi (of which he publishes an unpublished letter).
In short, if in this demanding Rossini year that has seen work in many squares of Italy, each on its own, Bologna really has woken up, you just have to recognize that the helmet of Scipio has girdled his head only thanks to his good Conservatory “. (Piero Mioli)
Admission: free subject to availability

7 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
As part of the review The fabulous ’80
“1986. The Cool Couple”
By popular demand, MAMbo re-proposes the Thursday appointment dedicated to ten works, ten artists, ten years: thirty minutes to tell a work of the exhibition “That’s IT!”.
Ten engrossing meetings to relive the atmosphere of the fabulous’ 80s. Each appointment will be dedicated to an artist present in the exhibition whose year of birth becomes a pretext to retrace or learn about the events, the images, the protagonists, the fashions, the HIT of the period. Whoever was there will remember him, who was not there … he will find out.
For children 12 and older and adults. By the MAMbo Educational Department.
And if you keep the admission ticket, at the following appointments you pay only the cost of the guided tour.
Reservations required by 13.00 to 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: € 4.00 per person per visit + reduced admission € 4.00 (adults). For holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 per visit per person + admission € 3.00

EXHIBITIONS

Casa Morandi – via Fondazza 36
“Umberto Bonfini, a doctor in Grizzana, from medicine to photography”, until January 6, 2019

The door of Casa Morandi opens to the meeting with the photography of Umberto Bonfini for the exhibition project 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.

Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“The faces of the Buddha from the lost Indian Museum of Bologna”
24 November 2018 – 28 April 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 to rediscover an important heritage of objects and photographs that illustrate the archeology and the Asian Buddhist art at the time when the Indian Museum, also known as the Museum of Indology and Museum of East Indian 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 in order to illustrate 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 exhibition, of which we have traced thanks to the museum plan, kept in the Bologna Municipal Historical Archive, included many depictions 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.

“It’s here – Social pattern design on seating”, until December 9, 2018

On the occasion of the Giornata del Contemporaneo, promoted by AMACI, the Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna presents “It is here” Social pattern design on seating “, a research project dedicated to living, created by the students of the Decoration Course for Architecture of the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts.
Starting from the story of words, images and sounds of the boys of the social cooperatives La Fraternità e Arca di Noè, the students realized the textile patterns, printed on fine series fabric at the company Dino Zoli Textile, for Jointly, an original collection of chairs . The archive of the signs and the oral heritage collected during the meetings, have been graphically re-elaborated by the students in the 29 textile prints from the new narrations.
“IS HERE”, the phrase printed on one of the sessions on show, symbolically presents the relationship fruit of the mixture of different identities, made of desires, emotions and memories that have inspired the path of work. And it is starting from here that the students Bingjie An, Xi Chen, Hanssen Diaz, Arianna Fiorentino, Xue, Jiang Samira Khajavi, Ghazaleh Kohandel, Debora Lake, Weiguo Lai, Ruobi Li, Baoyi Liu, Ruiqi Ma, Elora Ndini, Ailar Noori, Sara Ruggeri, Yuxiang Wang, Ning Yu, Luo Zhang, Liyuan Zheng, Yianxi Zhou have developed their experimentation, made of that initial encounter experience combined with personal research languages.
Promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts and the Civic Museums of Ancient Art, the project, sponsored by the Dino Zoli Foundation of Forlì, is supported by Dino Zoli Textile of Forlì and the Progetto Recooper in collaboration with the social cooperatives La Fraternità e Arca di Noah of Bologna for the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
The exhibition, curated by Vanna Romualdi with the coordination of Laura Giovannardi, is part of the cultural project “Heritage, resources for public space, tools for contemporary artistic research” promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.

“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.

Museum of Music – Strada Maggiore 34
“Amandine Meyer, Blind Moscow”
25 November – 16 December 2018

The exhibition, organized as part of BilBOlbul in collaboration with Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati, is dedicated to Amandine Meyer, illustrator and French cartoonist.
Entering Amandine Meyer’s exhibition means stepping into her lustful and pop garden, inhabited by perturbing and colorful little girls, faceless children, carnivorous plants and awkward little animals. And once inside, being entangled in the seductive universe of Meyer is a moment: pastel colors, elegant decorations, a bit ‘kitschy aesthetics of his characters invite you to look with children’s eyes, to stop asking questions, let go and play. In fact, between dice, pawns and boxes to jump, the show itself becomes a game.
Amandine Meyer is an artist still unknown in Italy; his works – whether made of paper, glass, ceramics or one of the many materials he uses to create – are a pleasure for the eyes and a provocation for the mind.

Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau – Constitution Square 11
“PHOENIX: The Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau between reconnaissance and restoration”
24 November 2018 – 6 January 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 that architect Le Corbusier had proposed to Paris in 1925 on the occasion of the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs and Industriels Modernes, then demolished at the end of the event.
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 LeCorbusier dedicated particular attention, in a vision of chromatic and functional space in constant relationship between interior and exterior.
On display 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 – General Directorate for the Land and Environment Management 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 of Modern Art of Bologna and under the patronage of Fondation Le Corbusier, National Council of Architects, Planners and Landscape Architects and Conservators and Order of Architects of Bologna.
Opening hours: Saturday and Sunday 15-17.
it is possible to take part in a guided tour organized by the MAMbo Educational Department (by reservation, phone 051 6496611).

Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“The soul and the body, Images of the sacred and the profane between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age”, until 24 February 2019

The Civic Museums of Ancient Art are continuing their efforts to promote the Municipal Art Collections in conjunction with the restoration work on the Palazzo d’Accursio roof, which will be completed in spring 2019, promoting a new exhibition that will revisits the extensive permanent heritage in the light of a new thematic criterion.
After a first reorganization focused on the birth of modern taste between the 18th and 19th centuries, the new arrangement of the exhibition itinerary proposes a fundamental theme in Western figurative culture, the representation of the divine and the human figure, investigating the iconographic evolution between the XIII and the eighteenth century.
The exhibition, curated by Silvia Battistini and Massimo Medica, recomposes some of the museum’s most important historical-artistic works – including the rich collection of Primitive sculptures and medieval paintings; the precious tables of Francesco Francia, Amico Aspertini, Luca Signorelli and the paintings by Prospero Fontana, Ludovico Carracci, Michele Desubleo, Guido Cagnacci, Donato Creti, Gaetano Gandolfi, Pelagio Palagi – ordered according to two lines of reading that alternate in the exhibition rooms narrating on the one hand, the essence of the divine, on the other, life and daily feelings.
Visitors can thus understand how even the most famous religious and secular representations have not remained the same over the centuries, but have accompanied the renewal of artistic language, reverberating the debate on the representation of the human body in changing the social climate and European religious.
If the Middle Ages use the representation of the body to give an identity to the religious dimension in its different manifestations (Eternal Father, Christ, the Virgin, the saints), in the Renaissance the body represented in a naturalistic way becomes fundamental to give a face to holiness and facilitate the dissemination of Catholic doctrine.

Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
“Illustrated war, lived war: the Great War in Bologna between history and memory”, until January 27, 2019

A hundred years after the end of the First World War, the exhibition presents the results of the project “The Great War in Bologna between History and Memory” “Aimed at the implementation of the portal www.storiaememoriadibologna.it to create and make accessible, in a unitary form, a collective, citizen and national memory on 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 landscape illustrations and views of Japan, the variety of seasonal and atmospheric elements – snows, rains, mists,moonlight – which Hiroshige was able to describe making them perceive in an almost sensorial way earned him the title of “master of rain and snow”.

MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“Back to the Future – From outdoor schools to new educational experiences in nature”, until 9 December 2018

MAMbo dedicates to a very topical subject – ‘open – the exhibition “Back to the future – from outdoor schools to new educational experiences in nature”, curated by Mirella D’Ascenzo and Mino Petazzini. The outdoor schools, born for the care of children frail and frail, were in fact also a forge of innovative pedagogical and educational experiments, thanks to the daily contact with the natural environment and a new relationship between indoor and outdoor.
Through original documents, photographs, objects and videos the exhibition traces some fundamental stages of the relationship between education and nature from the 1700s to today, focusing on outdoor schools since the early twentieth century – Bologna was then a significant and original stage – up to the most recent educational experiences in nature, of which Bologna is still a place of interesting experimentation.
The initiative is promoted by the Bologna University Institution and Education, Education and New Generation Area of ​​the Municipality of Bologna in collaboration with the Fondazione Villa Ghigi and the University of Bologna. The exhibition also takes place within the framework of a broader project entitled The backstage of the museum: to create and make an exhibition live, organized by MAMbo in collaboration with Oficina Impresa Sociale, which won the tender “Take part! and creative thinking “conceived by the Directorate General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, with the aim of promoting the cultural inclusion of young people in areas characterized by situations of economic and social marginality.

“VHS + Video / animation / television and / or independence / technical training / production control 1995/2000”, until 17 February 2019

In the exhibition space of the Project Room, dedicated to the rediscovery of some of the most stimulating and innovative artistic episodes originated in artistic and bolognese field, the MAMbo presents “VHS +”.
The exhibition project, born from an idea by Saul Saguatti (Basmati Film) and Lucio Apolito (Opificio Ciclope) with the curation of Silvia Grandi and realized in collaboration with the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna, is configured as a 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 materially built projection screens in their respective residences – Link Project in Bologna, Forte Prenestino in Rome, CPA ExLonginotti in Florence, Garigliano and Pergola in Milan – developing creative forges tuned in with the most advanced contemporary experiments in Europe.
“VHS +” finds an extension on-line at www.vhsplus.it , in which archival and in-depth material can be consulted.
The exhibition avails itself of the technical sponsorship of Eurovideo that has granted the instrumental supplies for the preparation of the audio-video system.

“That’s IT! On the latest generation of artists in Italy and one meter eighty from the border”, until January 6, 2019

MAMbo opens the exhibition schedule of its main space – the Sala delle Ciminiere – under the artistic direction of Lorenzo Balbi, with “That’s IT! On the latest generation of artists in Italy and one meter eighty from the border”, an exhibition presenting the works of 56 artists and collectives born from 1980 onwards, exploring different media and languages.
The exhibition, with a clearly generational cut, investigates the most recent developments in art in our country, consistently with a precise positioning on the Italian and international scene that MAMbo has chosen to identify, identifying for each of its exhibition spaces a clear scientific identity . In this context, the museum confirms and develops a vocation that has historically made it a point of reference and privileges, for the exhibitions in the Sala delle Ciminiere, research on new generations, experimental media and emerging names never presented in Italy. Particular attention is also paid to the production of new works, also with a view to increasing the permanent collection: many works on show will in fact be made for the occasion.
“That’s IT!” (IT as the European Union code that identifies the initials of Italy) does not develop, intentionally, around a unitary and monolithic concept, but offers questions and possible readings of the contemporary in an open, dialectical and magmatic perspective. Does it still make sense to define an “Italian” artist today? What contributes to determining the definition of “Italianità”? Does this definition have consequences on the artist’s self-representation? Where and how do we put the geographical and generational border?
In the exhibition you can find some possible clues. Artists born in Italy who work in Italy are included; born in Italy who work abroad; born in Italy who work both in Italy and abroad; born abroad who work in Italy; born abroad who work abroad but who have studied in Italy.
The only limit that has been chosen to establish and maintain rigidly is that of the age registry, to give space and visibility to those who have appeared more recently on the art scene: none of the protagonists of the exhibition was born before 1980.
The exhibition presents an overview of the Millennials generation, the first to experience a continuous adaptation to the frenetic evolution of technologies, constant hyper-interconnection and, on the social level, a growing precariousness of the world of work in a context of economic crisis. A generation that has abandoned the certainties and ideologies of the previous ones in order to adopt expressive modalities that stimulate them to question themselves on the present, to investigate the contemporaneity rather than to provide answers.

“I am Mare”, until 2 December 2018

“Io sono Mare” is the exhibition, created on the occasion of Gender Bender, with tables and original drawings dedicated to the homonymous comic book for children by Cristina Portolano for the Dino Buzzati di Canicola series. A fantastic and evocative journey of a little girl and her friend an anthropomorphic clown fish, an extraordinary adventure, lived between dream and reality, through which to reflect on the themes of identity and self-discovery, on desires and emotions.
Cristina Portolano, illustrator and cartoonist, was born in Naples in 1986. She lives and works in Bologna. She is the author of “Quasi signorina2 (2016, Topipittori) and” I do not know who you are “(2017, Rizzoli Lizzard) She has collaborated on” Goodnight stories for rebel little girls “(2017, Mondadori).

Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“The Emiliano Romagnolo Channel in the gaze of Enrico Pasquali”, until 6 January 2019

The promise to give the visitor unique and original suggestions of our territory – already included in the title of the exhibition for images “The Emiliano Romagnolo Canal in Enrico Pasquali’s gaze “- is largely maintained in the collage of emotions in black and white that the Consortium for the Emiliano Romagnolo Canal (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.

“Sculpture and Business, exhibition of the sculptor Michele D’Aniello”, until January 27, 2019

The project “Sculpture and Business”, born in 2008 from an idea of ​​the sculptor Michele D’Aniello, includes today about 80 companies, national and international, which enthusiastically welcomed and joined the positive and innovative project of contemporary art.
What the exhibition presents is the value of beauty and ingenuity, tenacity and courage; it is the history of values ​​and its motto is summarized in these few words: “The shape of Values, the Values ​​of Form”, which has always been the guiding thread of Sculpture and Business and of all the art of D’Aniello.
“Sculpture and Business” takes place under the patronage of the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Municipality of Bologna, the Municipality of Pianoro and Unindustria Bologna.

The Bologna Museums Institution recounts, through its collections, the entire history of the metropolitan area of ​​Bologna, from the earliest prehistoric settlements to the artistic, economic, scientific and productive dynamics of contemporary society.
A single path widespread in the area,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 .

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