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 12 to Thursday 18 October.
IN EVIDENCE
Friday 12 October
Archaeological Civic Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
The exhibition “HOKUSAI HIROSHIGE: Oltre l’onda, Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston”, opens at the Museo Civico Archeologico. On display are the works of the two greatest masters of the “Floating World”: Katsushika Hokusai and Utagawa Hiroshige.
6 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“VHS + Video / animation / television and / or independence / technical training / production control 1995/2000”
Opening of the exhibition.
The exhibition, born from an idea by Saul Saguatti (Basmati Film) and Lucio Apolito (Opificio Ciclope) with the curation of Silvia Grandi, is configured as a device of audio-visual pulsations that arise from the hybridization of different languages and practices of video communication experimented in Italy between 1995 and 2000.
Entrance to the inauguration: free
Saturday 13 October
6 pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“It’s here – Social pattern design on seating”
Inauguration of the exhibition, curated by Vanna Romualdi with the coordination of Laura Giovannardi, realized by the students of the Course of Decoration for the Architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
Entrance to the inauguration: free
FOR CHILDREN
Saturday 13 October
10 am and 11.15 am: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the review The Best of
“Mamamusica III” (IV and last 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. 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: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the review The Best of
“Variazioni” (I meeting) Attention and composition practices in three meetings, for children from 3 to 5 years. With Alice Ruggero and Gaia Germanà by Associazione QB Quanto Basta.
Discovering the infinite possibilities of movement, in space, through sounds.
Two dancers will lead children and parents in a dance of attention, experimenting with the body, composing, observing, playing with the repetition and variation of music and body.
The presence of the same parent is required in all the meetings. The use of non-slip socks is recommended.
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
Sunday, October 14th
10.30-12.30: Piazza Maggiore
In the context of Il circo in Piazza and Energie Diffuse – Emilia-Romagna, a heritage of culture and humanity
“Museums in the square”
Laboratory for families by the MAMbo Educational Department in collaboration with Senza titolo. A unique opportunity to learn about the educational activities of city museums and play with art in the charming circus tent.
Mandatory reservation tel. 051 6496627 (Wednesday 10-17 and Thursday 13-17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Free entry
3.30 pm: Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44 / Museum of Music – Strada Maggiore 34
In the context of Il circo in Piazza and Energie Diffuse – Emilia-Romagna, a heritage of culture and humanity
“The circus and similar for children”
Free entry
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Friday 12 October
9.30 am: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
Within the sphere of Energie Diffuse – Emilia-Romagna, a heritage of cultures and humanity
“Certainly CER”
Conference organized by the Emiliano Romagnolo Channel.
The Emiliano Romagnolo Canal ensures water supply in an area of over 3,000 square kilometers, characterized by the presence of a hydro-sanitary agriculture and widespread civil and industrial settlements. Deriving water from the Po, in the province of Ferrara, and transporting it for 135 km to the Province of Rimini, it was fundamental for the development and transformation of the economy.
Enrico Pasquali has documented its construction since the 50s, through unforgettable photographs of men at work.
At the end of the conference, guided tour of the exhibition “The Emilian Romagnolo Channel in the eyes of Enrico Pasquali”, in progress at the museum until 25 November 2018.
Free entry
Saturday 13 October
10 am: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“Ernesto Maserati: designer and car manufacturer”
Conference by Alfieri Maserati.
Opening of the works by Maura Grandi, Head of the Museum of Industrial Heritage; Carlo Cavicchi, Director of External Relations of “4 wheels”; Alfieri Maserati.
Followed by: Alfieri Maserati, “Ernesto Maserati: designer and builder of Maserati from 1932 to 1947 and of the OSCA-Maserati from 1947 to the end of the 1960s”; Alessandro Silva, “Ernesto Maserati: his 4cl from before the war to the post-war period”; Gianni Torelli, “The refinement of the mechanics of Ernesto Maserati”.
The screening of documentary films from 1932 to 1946 will follow.
Free entry
10 am-6.30pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna and Morandi Museum – via Don Minzoni 14 / Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
Within the sphere of Energie Diffuse – Emilia-Romagna, a heritage of cultures and humanity
“AMACI Contemporary Day”
MAMbo adheres to the fourteenth day of Contemporary Art promoted by AMACI – Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums.
An exhibition by Marcello Maloberti spread throughout the country, free entry to permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, free mediation activities animate the MAMbo offices, Villa delle Rose and Museo Morandi on the day dedicated to the promotion of Italian contemporary art.
For the first time, the great annual event dedicated to the art of our time introduces a novelty in its format involving an internationally renowned Italian artist not only for the conception of the guide image but also as the protagonist of an exhibition spread across the National territory. For 2018 the choice of the directors of the associated museums fell on Marcello Maloberti who, for this occasion, created the work “Medusa”. From 13 to 28 October, in addition to the permanent collection, MAMbo exhibits the work “Tagadà” (2007, courtesy Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan).
There are many mediation activities proposed by the MAMbo Educational Department, all free of charge and without a reservation obligation, until all available seats are exhausted.
From 3 to 6.30 pm the operators are available to the public for the mediation of the “That’s IT!” Exhibition, while at 4 pm there is a guided tour of the permanent collections of MAMbo and Museo Morandi, with a focus on the exhibition project “VHS +” set up in the MAMbo Project Room.
A guided tour is also scheduled at 5 pm at Villa delle Rose for the exhibition “Mariella Simoni 1975 – 2018”. The special workshop “Future is …: points of view on tomorrow” is held for the youngest audience, aged 5 to 11, at 4 pm.
Free entry
10 am-6.30pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
Within the context of the AMACI Contemporary Day
“INTO THE WILD. Paths in the Outsider and Contemporary Art”
The event confirms the interest that for about a decade the working group that is part of the teaching of Psychology of the University of Bologna reserves to the border areas of the artistic exercise, that territory in its time mirror of the ” wild values ”by Jean Dubuffet, which today is often identified with the” Outsider Art “formula. The conference intends to offer an opportunity for dialogue on the current status and future prospects of the Irregular Art, providing for the intervention of Italian and foreign speakers. Through the word of specialists in the field – art historians and specialized curators, directors of sector museums and anthropologists – aspects related to dissemination will be touched, now also entrusted to the web and video, museum conservation and market dynamics.
The event, curated by Stefano Ferrari, Cristina Principal, Carole Tansella and Sara Ugolini, is promoted by the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna and supported by the Emilia-Romagna Section of the IAAP – International Association for Art and Psychology.
Free entry
5 pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the #novecento review
“Everyone involved? Rock, songs and rebellions”
Musical narration by Luca Marconi. Live music with Flexus: Gianluca Magnani (vocals, guitars), Daniele Brignone (bass), Enrico Sartori (drums).
As Fabrizio De André sang in 1973, in the Parisian May everyone was “involved”. And the music was no less: from the chronicle of the revolts of the “street fighting men” and the protest songs to the alternative thought expressed by the singer-songwriters (Dylan in mind), the sound gestures of Jimi Hendrix and other rock icons that symbolized the rebellion youth, up to the “power to imagination” of Pink Floyd and underground groups.
Tickets can be booked (with payment on the day of the event) from the website www.museibologna.it/musica .
Admission: € 5.00
Sunday, October 14th
10 am: Certosa Cemetery – via della Caertosa 18
“Underground Certosa: unusual path between unexplored cloisters and hidden corners”
Starting from the Cloister VI we will go to discover the less known and less frequented places of the Certosa, showing you galleries, underground and suggestive corners, between the whiteness of the marble, the richness of the bronze, the color of the mosaic, in a journey to discover the Monumental Cemetery more … unusual.
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
Within the sphere of Energie Diffuse – Emilia-Romagna, a heritage of cultures and humanity
“The legacy of Pietro Canonici: stories from the University”
Guided tour with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Starting from the tombstone of Pietro Canonici and his legacy will be illustrated the links between the University of Bologna and the Bentivoglio family.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
10.30-13 and 15-17.30: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
“Music to see … on Sunday”
That is: everything you wanted to know about music (but you never dared to ask).
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)
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 form 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
4 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“That’s IT! On the latest generation of artists in Italy and one meter eighty from the border”
Guided tour of the exhibition by the MAMbo Educational Department.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Tuesday and Thursday from 9 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: € 4.00 + show ticket (€ 6.00 full price / € 4.00 reduced). For the holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 for the guided tour + € 3.00 for admission to the exhibition
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
On the occasion of the Open Day of cultural institutions and Energie Diffuse
“Silk working in Bologna between the 14th and 18th centuries”
Guided tour.
For about four centuries (between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries), Bologna has distinguished itself as one of the European capitals in the production of silk veil: a luxury product widely marketed throughout Europe and often reproduced in western iconography.
The primacy of the city derives from the high technological quality of the production process, achieved thanks to an extraordinary machine, called “filatoglio” or a Bolognese silk mill, of which in the Museum there is a model working in 1: 2 scale, which represented the more advanced technology of the Modern Age until the advent of the First Industrial Revolution.
In the museum the main stages of production will be rebuilt: from the breeding of the bachi in the countryside to the sale of the “cocoon” of the cocoons, describing the complex operations of reeling and twisting of the silk thread in the mill up to the processing on domestic looms specially prepared for the veil.
The history of this product will be the guiding thread to reconstruct the events of a now vanished Bologna, where water was the dominant element as a source of energy and a way of communication.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (by 13.00 on Friday 12 October).
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
4.30 pm: Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
Within the sphere of Energie Diffuse – Emilia-Romagna, a heritage of cultures and humanity
“‘The chaste painter’: Marcantonio Franceschini”
Guided tour with Giacomo Alberto Calogero, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
The course includes an analysis of some of the works of the famous Bolognese painter.
Free entry
Tuesday 16 October
3pm: Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
“Remembering a friend: research, teaching and ‘public history’: the work of Fiorenza Tarozzi”
A meeting in memory of Fiorenza Tarozzi. Coordinates Angelo Varni.
Interventions by: Alberto Preti, “The sense of the day”; Roberto Balzani, “The nineteenth century ‘contemporary’ of Fiorenza”; Mirtide Gavelli and Otello Sangiorgi, “The long and intense collaboration with the Museum of the Risorgimento”; Luisa Avellini and Lilla Maria Crisafulli, “University work”; Paolo Sorcinelli, “The profession, friendship and social history”; Dianella Gagliani, Elda Guerra, “Rebels, supporters, builders: the women he loved to tell the story”; Eloisa Betti, Simona Salustri, “Learning the trade”; Anna Salfi, “The history of work”; Gianni Sofri, “Master and friend”.
An event realized by the Civic Museum of the Risorgimento and the Institute for the History of the Italian Risorgimento – Bologna Committee, with the participation of the Department of History, Culture and Civilization of the University of Bologna.
Free entry
Thursday 18 October
11 am: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“ARIMNESTOS: Researches of Mediterranean Proto-history 1/2018”
Presentation of the first issue of “ARIMNESTOS, Researches of Protostoria Mediterranea”, new scientific journal of the Civic Archaeological Museum of Verucchio.
The magazine is available online open access, a fundamental tool for disseminating the Museum’s research activity, enriched by contributions from other contexts.
Presents Patrizia von Eles, editor of the magazine.
Elena Rodriguez, director of the Civic Archaeological Museum of Verucchio will be present.
Free entry
7 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
As part of the review The fabulous ’80
“1981. Margherita Moscardini”
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 at 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
9pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
“Zanardi: bread, alphabet and socialism”
Itinerant show.
The drastic awakening of Bologna in the early twentieth century called “sleeping beauty over a heap of dung” thanks to the work of the Mayor Francesco Zanardi and his junta, which began the radical reforms on July 15, 1914, affecting the spirit of the city.
By and with Simona Sagone, actress-singer. Accompaniment to the accordion by Salvatore Panu.
Reservations required at 333 4774139 or info@youkali.it .
Meeting at 8.30 pm at the main entrance in via della Certosa 18 (Church courtyard).
Admission: € 10.00 (for each paying entrance 2 euros will be donated to the valorisation of the Certosa)
EXHIBITIONS
Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“HOKUSAI HIROSHIGE: Beyond the Wave: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
12 October 2018 – 3 March 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”
October 14th – December 9th 2018
On the occasion of the Giornata del Contemporaneo, promoted by AMACI, the Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna presents “It is here” Social pattern design on seating “, a research project dedicated to living, created by the students of the Decoration Course for Architecture of the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts.
Starting from the story of words, images and sounds of the boys of the social cooperatives La Fraternità e Arca di Noè, the students realized the textile patterns, printed on fine series fabric at the company Dino Zoli Textile, for Jointly, an original collection of chairs . The archive of the signs and the oral heritage collected during the meetings, have been graphically re-elaborated by the students in the 29 textile prints from the new narrations.
“IS HERE”, the phrase printed on one of the sessions on show, symbolically presents the relationship fruit of the mixture of different identities, made of desires, emotions and memories that have inspired the path of work. And it is starting from here that the students Bingjie An, Xi Chen, Hanssen Diaz, Arianna Fiorentino, Xue, Jiang Samira Khajavi, Ghazaleh Kohandel, Debora Lake, Weiguo Lai, Ruobi Li, Baoyi Liu, Ruiqi Ma, Elora Ndini, Ailar Noori, Sara Ruggeri, Yuxiang Wang, Ning Yu, Luo Zhang, Liyuan Zheng, Yianxi Zhou have developed their experimentation, made of that initial encounter experience combined with personal research languages.
Promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts and the Civic Museums of Ancient Art, the project, sponsored by the Dino Zoli Foundation of Forlì, is supported by Dino Zoli Textile of Forlì and the Progetto Recooper in collaboration with the social cooperatives La Fraternità e Arca di Noah of Bologna for the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
The exhibition, curated by Vanna Romualdi with the coordination of Laura Giovannardi, is part of the cultural project “Heritage, resources for public space, tools for contemporary artistic research” promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“VHS + Video / animation / television and / or independence / technical training / production control 1995/2000”
13 October 2018 – 17 February 2019
In the exhibition space of the Project Room, dedicated to the rediscovery of some of the most stimulating and innovative artistic episodes originating in the Bologna and regional artistic field, MAMbo presents “VHS +”.
The exhibition project, born from an idea by Saul Saguatti (Basmati Film) and Lucio Apolito (Opificio Ciclope) with the curation of Silvia Grandi and realized in collaboration with the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna, is configured as a audio-visual pulsations that arise from the hybridization of different languages, formats and practices of video communication experimented in Italy between 1995 and 2000, telling the electronic dream of a season between analog and digital.
The production of the period exerted from the individual self-direction to extend to a collective dimension, constituting independent media-cultural research groups that become real brands, such as Opificio Ciclope, Fluid Video Crew, Ogino Knauss, Otolab and Sun Wu Kung of which the exhibition documents the peculiar expressive approaches. In a world still without bulletin boards, chat rooms, social media and YouTube, these pioneering workshops have materially built projection screens in their respective residences – Link Project in Bologna, Forte Prenestino in Rome, CPA ExLonginotti in Florence, Garigliano and Pergola in Milan – developing creative forges tuned in with the most advanced contemporary experiments in Europe.
“VHS +” finds an extension on-line at www.vhsplus.it , where archival and in-depth material can be consulted.
The exhibition avails itself of the technical sponsorship of Eurovideo that has granted the instrumental supplies for the preparation of the audio-video system.
“That’s IT! On the latest generation of artists in Italy and one meter eighty from the border” , until 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.
Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Mariella Simoni, 1975 – 2018” , until 11 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 aprile 21 maggio 1978), rassegna con la quale l’allora direttore della GAM Franco Solmi creò un “gemellaggio” in occasione della grande mostra su più sedi “Metafisica del Quotidiano” (giugno – settembre 1978), ospitandone anche la documentazione nel catalogo dell’esposizione.
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. .
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“Lauds for every hour The Franciscan chorales from the Basilica of San Francesco” , until March 17, 2019
The exhibition, realized in the context of the Franciscan Festival, presents a varied selection of the various liturgical cycles, made between the 13th and 15th centuries for the Bolognese Basilica of San Francesco, which are currently part of the rich collection of illuminated codices of the Medieval Civic Museum from Bologna. Among these we note the series of precious Franciscan grades richly illuminated by the so-called Master of the Bible of Gerona, the absolute protagonist of the Bolognese book decoration of the late thirteenth century. Next to this is also the slightly later series of antiphonaries, also widely decorated, partly inspired by the oldest experiences of Giotto assisiate, evidently filtered into the city through the same order of the minor friars. To these first series of choruses others followed during the fifteenth century,when the friars minor entrusted themselves to various miners coordinated by the Bolognese Giovanni di Antonio, to decorate around 1440-50 some of their liturgical books, also presented during the exhibition.
Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“The Emiliano Romagnolo Canal in the gaze of Enrico Pasquali” , until November 25, 2018
The promise to give the visitor unique and original suggestions of our territory – already included in the title of the exhibition for images ” Emiliano Romagnolo Channel in the eyes of Enrico Pasquali “- is widely maintained in the collage of emotions in black and white that the Consortium for the Emiliano Romagnolo Channel (CER) has conceived and organized with the collaboration of numerous partners to enhance not only one of the hydraulic works most important in the country, but to celebrate the activity of the hardworking man.
The exhibition gives to our present the relevance of the Channel for the agri-food economies of part of Emilia and much of Romagna. At the same time it makes us jump backwards, in a composite universe made of essential, raw, real, almost documentary, represented by the master of neorealism of Castel Guelfo, born in that slice of land washed by the Sillaro often referred to as the watershed of border between Emilia and Romagna, which started the “profession” of photographer in Medicine.
The exhibition will show a significant selection of Enrico Pasquali’s works from the 50s-60s and a video with a rich series of oral testimonies and interviews with workers, technicians, designers and executives, protagonists of the start-up of the works of the Emiliano Romagnolo Canal , recently created by Sonia Lenzi, directed by Enza Negroni.
“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.
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 .
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