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 20 to Thursday 26 July.
IN EVIDENCE
Tuesday, July 24th
9pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of (s) Nodi: where the music crosses and in the context of Bologna Estate
“Mirra / Kone duo”
With Pasquale Mirra, vibraphone; Kalifa Kone, balafon, n’goni, percussion.
The tradition of Mali and Central-West Africa intersects with the music of research, including improvisation and timbre experimentation, in the unpublished and dreamlike duo of Pasquale Mirra, considered one of the most interesting vibfonists of the international music scene, and Kalifa Kone, talented Maliano multi-instrumentalist, who boasts collaborations with the likes of Salif Keita and the undisputed master of the tamani Baba Sissoko.
Tickets can be booked (with payment on the day of the event) from the website www.museibologna.it/musica.
Admission: 10 euros. For holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museum Card 8 euros
9pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
Within the Certosa review of Bologna. Summer calendar and Bologna Estate
“ANIMENUDE – human too human first part”
Reflections on the transience of life in the classics of Italian literature. From Leopardi to Pirandello and Fo, stories of kings, jesters, shepherds and soldiers, all too human in the face of death. The new show by Alessandro Tampieri, in an evocative nocturnal journey between art and theater.
By Rimachèride.
Reservations required at 338 9300148 or at.teatro@gmail.com.
Meeting 30 minutes before the start at the main entrance of the Certosa (Church courtyard).
All holders of the Card Musei Metropolitani Bologna will receive a free gift at the entrance.
Admission: 10 euros (for each paying entrance two euros will be donated for the development of the Certosa)
9.30pm: Piazza Maggiore
Within the framework of the Pillole review from museums and Bologna Estate
“Beyond the sarcophagus: the Egyptian collection of Bologna”
A ten minute meeting with Daniela Picchi, Museo Civico Archeologico.
The Egyptian section of the Archaeological Museum of Bologna, which includes about 3500 objects, is one of the most significant in Italy and in Europe. The objects that compose it tell the Egyptian history from its origins to the Roman era, illustrating some fundamental aspects of the Pharaonic society, such as writing, funerary worship and magic. Precisely for this wealth of his the museum has always attracted scholars and curious from all over the world … even from the cinema!
Free entry
Thursday, July 26th
9.30pm: Piazza Maggiore
Within the framework of the Pillole review from museums and Bologna Estate
“La Bussola d’Oro: wandering educational paths”
A ten minute meeting with Veronica Ceruti, Educational Services institution Bologna Museums.
The “Bussola d’Oro” is a project aimed at bringing adolescents closer to the places of culture and art, through workshops and activities ranging from literature to illustration, from poetry to comics, from visual and performing arts to music and music. I sing.
The aim is to grasp the interests and enhance the talents of adolescents, by acquiring new skills and increasing their confidence in their abilities to combat discomfort, early school leaving and negative social dynamics that can involve groups of teenagers in the streets and streets. .
Free entry
FOR CHILDREN
“Summer at the museum 2018. The summer camps of the Bologna Museums Institution”
From 11 June to 14 September the summer camps of the Bologna Museums Institution offer children and young people a unique opportunity to live an experience in contact with the rich cultural heritage of our city.
Two modules, distinguished by age groups: “Art is a natural right, a ‘snail’s pace’ summer”, for children aged 5 to 11 (11 June-14 September); “That’s Summer, I’m with the artist” for children aged 11 to 16 (June 25-29 and August 27-31).
The theme of the week from the 23rd to the 27th of July is “What air pulls? Right to smell”.
A week dedicated to the right to smell, where perfumes, scents (and even stinks) will open the doors to our memories and to suggestions of distant worlds in time and space. The works of artists and writers from all over the world will allow us to recognize the “invisible architectures” created by the relationship between environment and smell and to reflect on smell as a key to access to memory but also as a tool for exploring reality. These issues will be explored also thanks to a special visit to the Manifattura delle Arti, to Casa Morandi and to an engaging city itinerary.
For information and registration:
MAMbo Educational Department: tel. 051 6496628 (Tuesday and Thursday, from 10 am to 5 pm) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it.
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Friday 20 July
5 pm: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6 / La QUADRERIA. Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili – via Marsala 7
For the exhibition A zonzo for museums: paths between civic heritage and ancient works of art
“Guided tour of the Municipal Art Collections and the QUADRERIA Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili”
Guided tour with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Untitled s.r.l., ASTER s.r.l. and Tecnoscience.
The exhibition “A zonzo for the museums”, realized by the Civic Museums of Ancient Art in collaboration with the QUADRERIA. Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili proposes a series of guided tours involving works in the collections of the Museo Civico Medievale, the Municipal Art Collections, the Davia Bargellini Museum and the QUADRERIA. Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili, owned by the ASP Città di Bologna.
Guided tours are held until 21 December, the third Friday of each month except for the month of August, at 5 pm.
Admission: ticket for the Municipal Art Collections (€ 5 full / € 3 reduced)
Sunday, July 22nd
4 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“That’s IT! On the last 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 + show ticket (€ 6 full / € 4 reduced). For the holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3 for the guided tour + € 3 for admission to the exhibition
Tuesday, July 24th
8 pm: Museum for the Memory of Ustica – via di Saliceto 3/22
On the occasion of the exhibition Around the Museum for the Memory of Ustica and Bologna Estate
“Guided visit to the Museum for the Memory of Ustica”
A visit to the place that the French artist Christian Boltanski created for the city in memory of the victims of the tragedy of Ustica. An opportunity to reflect on the memory and identity of each of us, retracing the events of our contemporary history.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Tuesday and Thursday from 9 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it.
For the occasion, the museum is open extraordinarily from 20 to 24.
At 9.30 pm, in the Parco della Zucca, in front of the museum, “In front of the eyes of the others” is staged, the dance performance of and with Virgilio Sieni di and with Virgilio Sieni, canceled on 27 June due to bad weather.
The show was created at the invitation of the Parenti Association of Victims of the Ustica Massacre in 2012 as a denunciation and memory of the tragedy of Ustica. Then Virgilio Sieni had created dances in memory, improvised duets with some partisans and family members of the victims.
Starting from the emotional experience of 2012, it is now re-proposed with the participation of young boys and girls to whom the Association has decided to dedicate the celebrations of the XXXVIII anniversary. A choreographic score, a kind of flow of consciousness capable of becoming action and transforming itself into a dance, on the guitar notes, live, by Roberto Cecchetto.
The structure of the work is articulated in a passage from hand to hand that takes place between Virgilio Sieni and the guests, fully involved in adjacent dances, in contact, as continuous resonances from within, plots that from time to time are made up of people. Sitting, on stage, on a row of sits, each one is invited by the choreographer to confront him, who guides their movements in a fluid and continuous gesture.
“In front of the eyes of others” is inspired by the text of Susan Sontag “Before the pain of others” and reflects on the sense of sharing their inner tension, not to cancel it, but to make it, perhaps, more tolerable, trying through participation to make sense of the experience of pain.
Museum entrance: free
Guided tour: € 4
Entrance show: free offer
Wednesday, July 25th
5 pm: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“Creti, Canova, Hayez: The birth of modern taste between ‘700 and’ 800 in the Municipal Art Collections”
Guided tour of the exhibition with Paolo Cova, RTI Senza Titolo s.r.l., ASTER s.r.l. and Tecnoscience.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5 full / € 3 reduced)
6 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
Within the framework of Bologna Estate
“Portraits of an extended family: meetings and narratives on show”
On the occasion of the exhibition “PORTRAITS OF FAMILY: Characters, Objects, Stories of the Civic Museum between Bologna, Italy and Europe”, open until August 19, 2018, the museum proposes a calendar of unusual encounters that allow one to look at the archeology from a different point of view.
16 two-part 45-minute meetings, from April 11th to August 1st, every Wednesday except bank holidays at 6pm.
Wednesday, July 25th meeting with Anna Manfron, director of the Bologna Library Institution, on the theme “Family portraits and book and card shelves”.
Admission: reduced museum ticket (€ 3) + € 4 for a guided tour while seats last. For the holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3 for the guided tour (free museum entrance)
19-21: Villa Ghigi – via San Mamolo 105
As part of the Rosso di sera exhibition, Bologna is unveiled and Bologna Estate
“Villa Ghigi, between Art and Nature”
A walk at sunset to discover the fascinating bond that unites Art and Nature, the flora and fauna of the beautiful park and the artistic experiences of the protagonists of Land Art. At the end of the path, a laboratory proposal to inspire and involve participants.
Reservations required at 051 6496628 or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it.
Meeting at the Norma Mascellani Garden, via San Mamolo.
Minimum 9 participants.
Admission per participant: € 8
8 pm: Museum for the Memory of Ustica – via di Saliceto 3/22
On the occasion of the exhibition Around the Museum for the Memory of Ustica and Bologna Estate
“Guided visit to the Museum for the Memory of Ustica”
A visit to the place that the French artist Christian Boltanski created for the city in memory of the victims of the tragedy of Ustica. An opportunity to reflect on the memory and identity of each of us, retracing the events of our contemporary history.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Tuesday and Thursday from 9 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it.
For the occasion, the museum is open extraordinarily from 20 to 24.
At 9 pm, in the Parco della Zucca, in front of the museum, “Lo stesso cielo”, an installation by the Antonello Ghezzi collective.
At 21.30 musical happening – concert, with Giovanni Dal Monte, Bleedingblackwood, Martina Bertoni.
The event “The same sky” is a work made of other works that runs along temporal and spatial threads. Time and space chase each other in the 3 connotations of past, present and future: a mirror that has always been a past date, which has marked many people: June 27, 1980 at 8:59 pm.
The present is knotted in the live streaming broadcast by the Radiotelescope, a star falls and in real live people will hear it, in the musical union that will naturally evoke our momentum towards the future, with our desires and our hopes. The space is ambiguous and precise, it is a mirror, in which we find our presence of human beings and it is a starry sky. The same sky as the title of the initiative. This sky itself is the sky in which a plane fell a long time ago, in which fall the falling stars to which we sigh, the sky that looks at us all, without distinction or boundaries, and that will look at us in years.
Museum entrance: free
Guided tour: € 4
Entrance show: free offer
8pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
In the context of the Un etto exhibition in Bologna
“Bread and pasta in Bologna: from wheat mills to modern technologies”
Guided tour created in collaboration with Vitruvio.
Since the fifteenth century in Bologna the entire production of flour was concentrated in the Canale delle Moline. Heavy millstones were spinning moves by large, flat-bladed wheels that exploited the power of water from the Rhine. The flour, available throughout the city, was thus primarily transformable into bread and pasta. Subsequently, between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, the processes of mechanization of the production of these foods optimize and speed up the consolidated procedures. However, it will be with the company Zamboni & Troncon, founded in 1906, that the production of automatic machines for the processing of filled pasta will be established in Bologna. In particular, the tortellini machine, which will get the gold medal at the “Premio Umberto I” in 1912. As the sales catalogs declared, it was a machine with truly “special” mechanics with automatisms of such precision to reproduce the action of hands.
The initiative ends at Battiferro, where you can continue the evening in the cool and in company with the show “Moline: what’s under the dungeons?” of the comic duo Marco Dondarini and Davide Dalfiume.
Guided tour entrance: museum ticket (€ 5 full / € 3 reduced)
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 (first visit as a gift).
All holders of the Card Musei Metropolitani Bologna will receive a free gift at the entrance.
Admission: € 10 (for each paying entrance two euros will be donated for the development of the Certosa)
Thursday, July 26th
5.30 pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“German guests: Goldschmiede und Bildhauer”
Guided tour of the exhibition by Paolo Cova, RTI Senza Titolo s.r.l., ASTER s.r.l. and Tecnoscience.
For several years the Civic Museums of Ancient Art have proposed the “Guests” initiative, during which they are temporarily shown to the public works that are the result of exchanges activated during the exhibition of works from their collections at other Italian and foreign museums.
On this occasion they are objects that come from two German museums: a precious bust reliquary of the head of St. Paul from the Museum of the Cathedral of Muenster and a Renaissance wooden sculpture depicting the “Christ the Savior” from the Maximilianmuseum of Ausburg.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
19-21: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
Screening of the video “Rosanna Chiessi, THE LAST INTERVIEW, from the beginning to Shimamoto”
While in the MAMbo Project Room, the exhibition “Rosanna Chiessi, Pari & Dispari” is under way, until 16 September, an unpublished interview by Rosanna Chiessi in January 2016, two months before her disappearance, is projected. , entitled “Rosanna Chiessi, THE LAST INTERVIEW, from the beginning of Shimamoto” by Kerstin Petrick and Enrico Magnani.
Free entry
7.30 pm: as part of the I fabulous ’80 and Bologna Estate exhibitions
“1984. Giulio Delvè”
10 works, 10 artists, 10 years: forty-five minutes to tell a work of the exhibition “That’s IT!”. Ten engrossing meetings to relive the atmosphere of the fabulous’ 80s.
Each event is 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.
Info and reservations: tel. 051 6496627 (Tuesday and Thursday, 9-17) or 051 6496611 (Saturday and Sunday, 11.30-17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it.
Admission: € 4 per person per visit + reduced admission fee € 4 (adults). For holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3 per visit per person + admission € 3 exhibition
9pm: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6 / Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
Within the Certosa review of Bologna. Summer calendar and Bologna Estate
“Faces, stories and works of Bologna – Guarding history, renewing memory”
In the rooms where today are the Communal Collections of Art, from which the city government was exercised for years, we will go to the discovery of works that for a certain period were kept at the Certosa di Bologna. Aboard the City Red Bus will continue to the cemetery, with a nocturnal journey through art and memory.
Organized by the Bologna Museums and City Red Bus Institution.
Meeting at the entrance of Palazzo d’Accursio.
Reservations required at http://cityredbus.com/shop/.
Minimum 15 participants.
The route is activated only if the minimum number of participants is reached.
Participant admission: € 13 (including bus transport, guided tours, entrance fees). For the owners of the Bologna Metropolitan Museum Card € 10
EXHIBITIONS
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“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. The contact 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.
“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).
“Vittorio Zironi” Fabric and Tapestry Museum – via di Casaglia 3
“Riverberi”, until 22 July 2018
The project “Riverberi”, curated by Vanna Romualdi, which sees the collaboration of the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and the Civic Museums of Ancient Art, is the first exhibition of a series of interventions dedicated to the heritage that involves students of the two-year course of Decoration for architecture and former students of the Academy.
On the occasion of Opentour 2018, in assonance with the intervention of Yanxi Zhou in the Academy’s underground exhibition spaces, Valentina Fanton’s chromatic intervention on the shutters of the north facade of Villa Spada dialogues with the sound installation in the museum’s music system by Laura Giovannardi and Simona Paladino.
In the project the various intervention practices are grafted onto the site as evidence of an urban heritage that confirms the presence of a moving community structure in the city. In a process of reappropriation that sees the spaces incorporated in different forms of appaesamento, the interventions connect new pre-existing signs and memories, visual and sound traces, personal and collective. As a living organism, architecture reverberates colors, sounds and words.
Riverberi is part of the cultural project “Heritage, resources for public space, tools for contemporary artistic research” to which they collaborated: Giancarlo Benevolo, Maria Rita Bentini, Manuela Farinelli, Marina Gasparini, Paola Goretti, Gabriele Lamberti, Claudia Losi, Eva Marisaldi , Francesca Pasini, Renata Pompas, Fabiano Petricone, Mili Romano, Uliana Zanetti.
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.
“Rosanna Chiessi, Pari & Dispari”, until September 16th 2018
The MAMbo continues in the exhibition program of the Project Room space, dedicated to a recognition of the most significant protagonists and events for the artistic history of the territory, presenting a focus dedicated to Rosanna Chiessi, curated by Lorenzo Balbi and organized in collaboration with the Pari & Dispari Historical Archive – Rosanna Chiessi and Reggio Emilia Library Panizzi Library.
The exhibition intends to pay homage, with renewed attention, to an extraordinary protagonist of Italian and international art, whose name is a fundamental commitment to the knowledge and diffusion of some of the most influential avant-gardes of the late twentieth century: Italian conceptual area, visual poetry , Viennese action, Fluxus and Gutai movements, performative art. The project therefore allows us to rediscover its intense adventure – for the first time in a museum context after its disappearance in 2016 – through some of the most relevant testimonies of its activity that, in the seventies, transformed Reggio Emilia and Cavriago into a crossroads of artistic currents of exceptional importance.
In his stay always faithful to the dimension of an art produced for research and not for market profitability, Rosanna Chiessi’s profile escapes attempts at univocal connotation for the vital multiplicity of roles crossed in forty years of passion for art contemporary: gallery owner, publisher, pioneer promoter and animator of events that have become epochal, collector, patron and talent discoverer.
The exhibition set up at MAMbo is conceived as a biographical portrait that takes shape from the combination of composite materials and places in dialogue with each other by association, to tell the poetics and the main events supported and promoted by her. You can find works created by the artists with whom Chiessi tightened the bonds of friendship and deeper understanding, many of which dedicated to her in the title, as in the case of the portrait of Anne Tardos “Sunset for Rosanna” which opens the exhibition itinerary ; symbolic objects, such as the large work table that stood out in his home-studio in Cavriago and the double key designed as a Pari & Dispari logo; iconic finds of charismatic artists such as the jacket designed by Joseph Beuys and a pair of shoes by Shozo Shimamoto.
And still photographs, multiples, numbered editions and artist’s books, from private collections and from the documentary corpus preserved by the Historical Archives Pari & Dispari – Rosanna Chiessi, who collected and systematized the legacy. A constellation of pieces still today able to transmit the energies of an exceptional season of freedom in which the forms of culture were revolutionized by a disruptive creativity.
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.
“Moto Bolognesi C.M. 30 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 there is the adventurous story of C.M, not unlike that of many companies in Bologna.
The exhibition presents 15 motorcycles from the 1930s and 50s, among the most important models realized by C.M 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 screenings on screen and on screen.
Casa Morandi – via Fondazza 36
“Giancarlo Fabbi. The silence of painting “until September 2, 2018
Read the work of Giorgio Morandi through a few simple objects, a brush, a burin, a tube of color: this is Giancarlo Fabbi’s proposal, author of the ten photographs taken at Casa Morandi, with the curation of Massimo Recalcati.
Giancarlo Fabbi, born in Modena, started from a young age to use self-taught photography, at first out of passion and then increasingly out of necessity, making it a real reason for living.
Starting from 2014, his goal was focused on some objects that belonged to Giorgio Morandi, exhibited together with the photographs, which he approached to create personal still lifes. Fabbi deliberately avoids using the most famous components of Morandi’s compositions such as bottles, shells and flowers to offer a dry and essential vision of the primary and humble elements referable to painting and engraving.
His photographic investigation, in the series on show, is conducted exceptionally in color and in digital, in contrast to his other projects all strictly in black and white, for which he always uses the analogue and natural light “to give reality to what is done “, as he himself declares.
The series of ten photographs aims to encourage a meta-reflection on some fundamental aspects of Morandi’s painting: composition and geometric recomposition, insistence on a few themes, silence, solitude, absence of rhetoric and of any narration.
The choice of the background color that is the backdrop to Fabbi’s compositions, a bright white from which objects emerge in their physicality as shapes that align, intersect or stand out in the center of the photo in a desired aesthetic isolation, highlights the ‘attitude with which the Modena photographer intends the artistic practice: experience on light and shadow, almost mystical research of the essential, extreme reduction of images, intended as fragments of reality capable of preserving moments of eternal poetry, just like painting of Morandi.
At the end of the exhibition, the ten works, thanks to the generosity of the artist, will be donated to the Bologna Museums Institution and will become part of the Morandi Museum’s heritage.
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 9 September 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.
Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“Family portraits. Characters, objects, stories of the Civic Museum between Bologna, Italy and Europe “, until August 19, 2018
It is a choral story that consists of “Family portraits”: not a contemplation of the past in search of their roots but rather a living and current expression of the identity of the museum and the complex nature of the preserved historical heritage.
Along an ideal chronological line from 1522, year of birth of the naturalist and philosopher Ulisse Aldrovandi, one of the greatest representatives of encyclopedic naturalist collecting, to 1944, the year of death of Pericle Ducati, director of the museum that carried out fundamental research on Etruscan civilization, over 350 objects of different types are arranged, selected for their great historical value and the link with the main figures who have contributed to the formation and study of museum collections, one of the most prestigious in Europe.
Eighteen characters are summoned in this ideal gallery of time, the real “family portraits”, which are flanked by the events of archaeological objects, the constitution and arrangement of the museum collections, the history of Bologna and its cultural institutions . Leading the visitor along the path of development of the way of looking at the ancient, from the seventeenth century to the birth of archaeological science and modern structures of enhancement and protection in the twentieth century, it turns out that an apparently sectorial narration allows unexpected openings to historical events – political, cultural, social. A story with many voices that projects the city into an Italian and European landscape as early as the sixteenth century.
Eighteen are also the sections of the exhibition: one for each of the characters re-evoked, whose features are outlined by the pencil and ingenuity of Elena Maria Canè, restorer of the museum, in portraits reproduced on large scenographic panels that mark the exhibition path.
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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 new service activated on the occasion of the IX centenary of the City of Bologna to expand accessibility to the city’s historical and artistic heritage: a season ticket offering unlimited access to permanent collections and admission at reduced prices to temporary exhibitions of many museums of the city and the metropolitan area. Valid for 12 months and costs 25 euros: all information is available on the cardmuseibologna.it website.
