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.
The exhibition “Giancarlo Fabbi” has been extended to 2 September 2018. The silence of painting “in progress at Casa Morandi, with normal opening until July 1st and visits only by reservation from July 6th to September 2nd.
IN EVIDENCE
Friday, June 22nd
9.30 pm: Museum of Textile and Upholstery “Vittorio Zironi” – via di Casaglia 3
In the context of Opentour
“Reverb”
Inauguration of the exhibition created in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, curated by Vanna Romualdi.
The chromatic intervention of Valentina Fanton on the shutters of the north facade of Villa Spada dialogues with the sound installation in the music system of the museum of Laura Giovannardi and Simona Paladino.
Entrance to the inauguration: free.
Wednesday 27 June
10-24 am: 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
“Extraordinary opening of the Museum for the Memory of Ustica”
On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the massacre, the Museum for the Memory of Ustica can be visited from 10 to 24.
At 9.30 pm, in the Parco della Zucca, in front of the museum, the cycle of shows “Around the Museum for the Memory of Ustica” opens with “In front of the eyes of others”, a dance show by and with Virgilio Sieni.
Museum entrance: free
Entrance show: free offer
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). For children between 5 and 11 years of age, the theme of the week from 25 to 29 June is “Darsi to scrub, right to get dirty”.
A week dedicated to the right to get dirty, to have fun touching the art with your hand, leave our mark on the world and unveil the hidden universes inside the spots.
The liberating practice of “paciugare”, the manipulation of the material and the randomness of the pastrocchiare as a creative occasion: these are the themes that we will deepen from day to day, also through special visits to MAMbo and the Talon Park.
For children aged 11 to 16, the week from 25 to 29 June includes “Practice Sousvelliance”, workshop with Irene Fenara. A week to investigate the research and the poetry of Irene Fenara “from within”.
The artist’s imagery is rebuilt from “Self portrait from surveillance camera”, the work specifically produced for the exhibition “That’s IT!”, To continue with listening to his favorite music, watching films from her most beloved and the reading of passages from books he considers to be unmissable. The exploration of his creative suggestions is deepened by a special guided tour of his atelier. The boys interact with Irene Fenara in unprecedented workshop activities to discover the meaning of the English-speaking term “sousveilliance” (“sub-surveillance”), coined to designate the registration of an event from the point of view of those involved.
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, June 22nd
4.30 – 5.30 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123/6 pm: Museum of Peasant Civilization – via Sammarina 35 (San Marino di Bentivoglio)
Within the framework of Bologna Estate
“Steam: the ‘new’ energy!”
Route for families (recommended age of children: from 6 years).
The activity is designed for adults and children and is dedicated to the steam engine, the most important technological innovation of the eighteenth century, invented by James Watt since 1765.
Visitors can embark on a journey through the centuries to learn about the history and use of thermal machines. Like the travelers of the past, they will have luggages and maps to orient themselves and to carry out small experiments so as to better understand the power and the versatility of the thermal energy and the genius of the steam engine that will make it undisputed protagonist of the Industrial Revolution.
Following the participants will be able to reach (on a dedicated shuttle) the Museum of San Marino Civilization of Bentivoglio to take part in the historical re-enactment “La campagna a vapore” at 18.00, during which you can watch the reproduction of abandoned but full works. of charm: the sawdust of the trunks and the ginning of the corn that document a fundamental passage in the history of agriculture, the advent of the steam engine.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (within 13 hours of Thursday 21 June).
Maximum number of participants: 30.
Free entry
Saturday 23 June
4.30 – 5.30 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123/6 pm: Museum of Peasant Civilization – via Sammarina 35 (San Marino di Bentivoglio)
Within the framework of Bologna Estate
“Discovering thermal machines!”
Laboratory-guided tour for families (recommended age of children: from 8 years).
A deepening on the use of steam as a source of energy, which exploiting models, experiments and tests will reconstruct the evolution of thermal machines: from eolipila and from the temple of Erone (scientist lived in the first century AD), to the machines designed by Thomas Savery and Thomas Newcomen in 18th-century England, until the invention of Watt’s steam engine, with all the consequent implications in the economic, social and historical fields.
Following the participants will be able to reach (on a dedicated shuttle) the Museum of San Marino Civilization of Bentivoglio to attend at 6.00 pm the historical re-enactment “the steam campaign” during which you can watch the reproduction of works, now abandoned but full of charm: the carving, the kneading, the hackling and the operation of the dewatering that document a fundamental passage in the history of agriculture, the advent of the steam engine.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 13.00 on Friday 22 June).
Maximum number of participants: 30.
Free entry
Sunday, June 24th
10.30-13 and 15-17.30: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
Within the Wunderkammer review. The museum of wonders and of Bologna Estate
“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)
3.30 – 4.30 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123 / 17.00: Museum of Peasant Civilization – via Sammarina 35 (San Marino di Bentivoglio). On the occasion of the steam campaign “The train has whistled”
A journey through the collections of the Museum of Industrial Heritage to deepen, taking inspiration from literary texts and musical pieces, the history of social, urban, economic transformations, resulting from the introduction of the steam engine, which they modified, during the nineteenth century , both the appearance of the city and the habits and ways of life of the Bolognese.
Following the participants will be able to reach (on a dedicated shuttle) the Museum of San Marino Civilization of Bentivoglio to attend the conference at 5 pm The steam campaign, with historians and experts of the sector, on the issues of the farmer and the work of the machines in campaign, which will follow the historical re-enactment with the commissioning of agricultural machinery.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 13.00 on Friday 22 June).
Free entry
4 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“Guided tour of the permanent MAMbo collection”
A guided tour of the permanent collection to get closer to the history of Italian art, from the mid-fifties to today, through the activities of the former Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna and subsequent acquisitions of MAMbo.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Tuesday and Thursday from 9 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 (free museum entrance)
Tuesday, June 26th
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 Untitled s.r.l. and ASTER s.r.l.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
7 pm (replica at 9 pm): Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
As part of the Soqquadro Italian Days in Bologna and Bologna Estate
“Y-Together”
Concert on the historical piano Camille Pleyel 1844 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the death of Gioachino Rossini. With Cosmo Nocenzi, piano.
“Y-Insieme” is born to explore the various aspects of the female world with which man comes into contact. Each piece tells a peculiar aspect of this relationship: Laura, the mother and the root, Sofia the purity and the spirituality, Giorgia the opposites and the contrast, Aleida the fragility and the paternity, Amber love and complementarity.
Cosmo Nocenzi is considered among the most interesting and eclectic pianists in today’s musical scene. He was born in Genzano di Roma and graduated in piano, old ordering with honors, honors and special mention.
In 2012 he was awarded the Mancini Prize and the Regione Lazio Prize for the best piano diploma of the year 2010/2011 and in 2014 he obtained the Master’s degree in Piano – music from the 20th century to today with honors. He currently plays an intense concert activity both as a soloist, proposing his original compositions, and in different ensembles, interpreting the music of Shostakovic, Beethoven, Schubert and others. From 2017 he joined the Italian Soqquadro ensemble participating as a soloist in the Schubert-Nobody’s room project.
You can book the ticket (with payment on the day of the event) on the website www.museibologna.it/musica.
Admission: € 10,00 full / € 8.00 reduced (under 18 years, university students with card and holders of Card Musei Metropolitani Bologna)
Wednesday 27 June
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 “FAMILY PORTRAITS: Characters, Objects, Stories of the Civic Museum between Bologna, Italy, 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, June 27th meeting with Giacomo Nerozzi, scientific coordinator of the University Library of Bologna, on the theme “A library for the city and for the University: from Marsili to the twenty first century”.
Admission: reduced museum ticket (€ 3.00) + € 4.00 for a guided tour while seats last. For the holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 for the guided tour (free museum entrance)
8.30pm: Piazza Nettuno / Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
In the context of the review C’era una volta … and of Bologna Estate
“Once upon a time … Cardinal Davia”
The review “Once upon a time …” proposes three artistic-cultural itineraries.
Starting from Piazza del Nettuno a promenade accompanied by some figures in historical costume of the Cultural Association 8cento. Halfway through the group will meet the historical character protagonist of the evening that will lead the participants on the site of the event where there will be a show and a guided tour.
Program of the evening:
– 8.30 pm: departure from Piazza del Nettuno with the Ilaria Negretti guide
– 8.45 pm: meeting with Cardinal Davia under the Two Towers
– 9.15 pm: admission to the Davia Bargellini Museum
– 9.30pm: show, guided tour and conclusion around 10.30pm
Free entry
8.30pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
Within the Certosa review of Bologna. Summer calendar and Bologna Estate
“The skull and the butterfly – arcane and mysterious symbols of the Charterhouse”
Nothing is left to chance in Certosa: even the smallest leaf has its own precise meaning. A walk through twisted snakes, griffins, hourglasses and sphinxes. Organized by Associazione Cultural Didasco.
Reservations required at 348 1431230 (afternoon-evening).
Meeting at the main entrance of the Certosa (Church courtyard).
Initiative addressed to the members of the Cultural Association Didasco, with the possibility of joining the time of the visit. Membership fee € 10.00 (first visit as a gift).
All holders of the Card Musei Metropolitani Bologna will receive a free gift at the entrance.
Admission: € 10.00 (for each paying entrance two euros will be donated for the development of the Certosa)
Thursday, June 28th
5.30 pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“German guests: Goldschmiede und Bildhauer”
Guided tour of the exhibition curated by Paolo Cova, RTI Untitled and ASTER S.r.l.
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 Münster 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: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
As part of the review I fabolosi ’80 and Bologna Estate
“Meeting with Giuseppe De Mattia”
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 am-5pm) or 051 6496611 (Saturday and Sunday, 11.30am-5pm) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it.
Admission: € 4.00 per person per visit + reduced admission € 4.00 (adults). For holders of the Musei Metropolitani Card Bologna entrance shows € 3.00
9pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
Within the Certosa review of Bologna. Summer calendar and Bologna Estate
“Silence: the stones speak”
On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Hapsburg of Este was killed in Sarajevo and a new, sad chapter in world history began. We remember that day and what it involved for Bologna and for the whole world through the “stones” that were dedicated to children, soldiers, husbands.
Curated by G.A.I.A. Events.
Reservations required at 051 9911923 (Monday-Friday, 10 am-1pm) or info@guidegaiabologna.it.
Meeting 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: € 12.00 (for each paying entrance two euros will be donated for the development of the Certosa)
EXHIBITIONS
“Vittorio Zironi” Fabric and Tapestry Museum – via di Casaglia 3
“Reverb”
23 June-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 last generation of artists in Italy and one meter eighty from the border”
22 June-11 November 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.
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“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).
Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
“A Cemetery that can be called the Museum, Works and Artists of the Certosa di Bologna”, until July 15th 2018
The exhibition aims to reflect on the wealth of the heritage preserved in the rooms and cloisters of the Certosa, on the impressive number of artists who worked there and on how a work was born from a first graphic sign up to the execution as a fresco or sculpture in stucco, marble and bronze.
The Certosa di Bologna was a destination for the entire nineteenth century of international tourism. Among the personalities who admired its grandeur and beauty there was the Russian statesman and historian Alexander Turgenev (1784-1846), who compared the cemetery with the Camposanto of Pisa, defining both “museums”.
On display there are about forty works in addition to a selection of objects and documents donated to the Civic Museum of the Risorgimento from 2009 to today, together with a substantial group of unpublished works from two private collections. The latest donation in order of time is due to the company Imbellone of Bologna, which has delivered the sketch of the monument Degli Esposti (1913 ca.) by Armando Minguzzi, while in the section dedicated to documents stands out a selection of the impressive fund of the company Davide Venturi & Figlio marble workers, donated in 2009 by the heirs to the museum.
Among the architects, sculptors and painters who have marked the face of the cemetery you can admire works by Arrigo Armieri, Enrico Barberi, Alfonso Borghesani, Giacomo De Maria, Roberto Franzoni, Ercole Gasparini, Tullo Golfarelli, Luciano Minguzzi, Silverio Montaguti, Giovanni Putti, Pasquale Rizzoli, Giacomo Savini, Cesarino Vincenzi. It is worth mentioning that Umberto Tirelli, chosen with one of his typical humorous sculptures as the only non-active presence in Certosa, was dedicated to Ercole Drei, who otherwise performed large monumental works placed in the Cloisters VI, X and 1500.
The exhibition is enriched by a photographic exhibition realized by the Visual Arts group of the Friends of the Certosa Association (Lorena Barchetti, Alessandro Chalambalakis, Nadia Carboni, Antonella Di Tillo, Miriam Girard, Sonia Meotti, Feliciano Musolesi, Paolo Vegetti). to promote the monumental site as a cultural asset of primary importance for the city of Bologna, collaborating with the Municipality of Bologna and the Civic Museum of the Risorgimento and actively collecting funds for the construction of projects for the protection, restoration and constant maintenance of the site.
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 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 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.
Museum of Music – Strada Maggiore 34
“When the music is shown, a note at the museum”, until 24 June 2018
The exhibition, curated by Olivia Spatola and organized in collaboration with the Fabbrica Eos gallery in Milan, Musiche Metropolitane and Vittorio Corbisiero Management, presents some works by Francesco Tricarico.
The visionary world of Tricarico finds expression in a complementary interweaving of different artistic forms: musical composition, writing and visual art. Because of this attitude, the Music Museum appears as a natural place in which to stage his works.
The intent of the exhibition is indeed to make the art dialogue with music within the same space that is both physical and metaphorical: the concept of music as an express – written sign, a container of signifiers and meanings that sound even when the instruments are not touched by the musician’s fingers.
The selected works are seven, like the number of musical notes and the halls of the museum in which the artistic path unfolds. And that is how the rooms temporarily abandon their usual numbering to become marked – through the artist’s paintings – by the names of the musical notes: the “Room of the Do”, the “Stanza del Re”, the “Stanza del Mi”, the “Stanza del Fa”, the “Stanza del Sol”, the “Stanza del La” and the “Stanza del Si”. But not only.
In this case, the sign – that is, the relationship between signifier and signified – represented by the denomination of the rooms, also becomes a symbol: that is to say another reality, which goes beyond and recomposes; the expression of the collective unconscious from which emerge processes of transformation between what is known and what is not, involving the viewer.
The “Room of the Do” therefore – in this game between sign and symbol – is not only the room in which Tricarico pays homage to the first musical note, but also to the Do-minus; the “King’s Room” of the King; the “Mi Room of the Mi”; the Fa-Room “Fa-Room”; the Sol-o “Room of the Sol”; the “Stanza del La” of La-voro and the Si-lenzio “Si Room”, which concretely and allegorically closes the exhibition.
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 July 15, 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.
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