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 11th to Thursday 17th January.
IN EVIDENCE
Saturday 12 January
4 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
Under the cycle A foreign gaze on Egypt
“Egypt in the imagination of the Greeks from Homer to Pausanias” Conference by Christian Greco, director of the Egyptian Museum, Turin.
Egypt is present in the Greek world (in its imaginary and in its reality) since the dawn: the voices of Greek poets, historians and philosophers return, to those who today want to investigate the relationship between the two cultures, a variety of images that testifies the importance and complexity that the land of the Nile had in Greek thought. We can try to highlight some aspects of the Greek view of the Egyptian world, highlighting the change in perspective from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period. We move from a mythical vision (Egypt, land of wonders, riches and heroes) to a focus on organizational models and social political structures (Egypt as an institutional model) to end with an approach that has its emblem in Alexandria. Egypt and in the culture that developed there from the 3rd century BC
The cycle “A foreign gaze on Egypt” proposes four meetings to get to know ancient Egypt through the eyes of the foreign peoples who conquered it.
Next meetings: 19 January and 9 February.
Admission: free subject to availability
Wednesday 16 January
6 pm: Palazzo d’Accursio (Sala Farnese) – Piazza Maggiore 6
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Massimo Kaufmann, A Thousand Fiate”
Inauguration of the exhibition by Giusi Affronti in collaboration with DO UT DO and Art Defender .
Free entry
Thursday 17 January
Porta San Donato – Piazza di Porta San Donato
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Patrick Tuttofuoco, ZERO ( Weak Fist)”
During the day, lighting of the light installation by Denise Tamborrino (Emilia-Romagna Museum Pole), Silvia Fanti and Daniele Gasparinetti (XING) and Leonardo Regano .
Promoted by Polo Museale of Emilia-Romagna in collaboration with the Municipality of Rimini, Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, Italian Institute of Culture of Berlin.
Entrance: work visible 24 hours a day
FOR CHILDREN
Saturday 12 January
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“Science in the kitchen” Laboratory for children and teenagers from 6 to 10 years.
Turning your kitchen into a laboratory is easy: just drop by the greengrocer or the market! Experiments and simple tests with some foods used daily, will transform the participants into small scientists able to perform experiments of high science.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (by 1pm on Friday 11th January).
Admission: € 5.00 (free for an adult escort)
Sunday, January 13th
10.30 am: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“Arabescando” Laboratory for children aged 4 to 7 with Angela Lezzi, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Reservations required at tel. 051 2193933 (Monday 9-13, Tuesday and Thursday 12-16) or musarteanticascuole@comune.bologna.it (by 12 noon on Friday 11 January).
Admission: € 5.00
4.30pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“This Sunday I’m going to Japan” Visit and workshop for children aged 5 to 11 and parents together, dedicated to the exhibition ” Hokusai Hiroshige . Beyond the wave “, by the Educational Services Institution Bologna Musei.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Duration: 2 hours. The activity starts with a minimum of 6 children.
Admission: € 5.00 per child + exhibition ticket (free for children under 6, reduced from 6 to 17 years and family)
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Friday 11 January
5.30 pm: Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
For the Palazzo Davia Bargellini cycle : a rediscovered dwelling
Guided tour of the palace and 17th century paintings, recently restored and re-located in the main floor hall. With Giacomo Alberto Calogero, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
The Palazzo Davia Bargellini, one of the most significant examples of Bolognese Baroque architecture, has returned to its splendor thanks to a complete restoration performed by the Opera Pia Da Via Bargellini Foundation, owner of the entire building. On the occasion of the planning of the recent restorations on the main floor of the building, it emerged that the adaptation of the building for school purposes had involved important modifications to the distribution structure of the rooms. Eliminated numerous superstructures, the living room overlooking Piazza Aldrovandi has returned to light.
Free entry
Saturday 12 January
10.30 am: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“The soul and the body: Images of the sacred and the profane between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age”
Guided tour of the exhibition with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Untitled Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
4.30 pm: Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
Under Andar for cribs
“Genovese 18th century cribs from the Museo Giannettino Luxoro “
Guided tour of the exhibition with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Free entry
Sunday, January 13th
10.30 am: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
For the East and Exoticism cycle
“The faces of the Buddha from the lost Indian Museum of Bologna”
Guided tour of the exhibition with Paolo Cova, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
4.30 pm: On the occasion of the Franciscan Festival
“Praise for every hour: Franciscan chorales from the Basilica of San Francesco”
Guided tour of the exhibition with Massimo Medica, responsible for the Civic Museums of Ancient Art.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“When food traveled on the Navile” Guided tour.
Bologna boasts a long tradition in the culinary field: there are numerous delicacies that have earned it the nickname of “fat”. With a virtual tour through the testimonies of foreign travelers who have described in their journals the city and its most typical products, we will reconstruct the recipes and production techniques that have made these dishes famous in the world. This is the case of mortadella, a luxurious product of excellence between the 16th and 18th centuries, which for a long time has been celebrated and even spied across Europe. The Navile allowed the transport of this and many other products from the port of the city to Venice and the international market.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (by 1pm on Friday 11th January).
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
4 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“Guided tour of the Morandi Museum, the Collection”
The exhibition traces the different phases of the artistic story of Giorgio Morandi, also proposing combinations between his works and those of other contemporary authors. The path, recently renewed, also includes a section specifically dedicated to engraving.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: € 4.00 + museum ticket (€ 6.00 full price / € 4.00 reduced). For the holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 for the guided tour (free museum entrance)
Thursday 17 January
5 pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
On the occasion of the exhibition The faces of the Buddha from the lost Indian Museum in Bologna
“From Sanchi al Gandhāra, a brief itinerary in the Buddhist art of ancient India”
Conference of Giovanni Verardi .
Free entry
5 pm: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“The soul and the body: Images of the sacred and the profane between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age”
Guided tour of the exhibition with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Untitled Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
EXHIBITIONS
Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
“Genovese 18th century cribs from the Museo Giannettino Luxoro ” , until 20 January 2019
As is now the case for over ten years on the occasion of the Christmas holidays, the Civic Museums of Ancient Art, in collaboration with the Study Center for Popular Culture of Bologna, promote at the Davia Bargellini Museum an exhibition event dedicated to traditional crib art , as a moment of approach and collective celebration of the representation of the Nativity.
In the context of this awaited appointment there is the exhibition “Genoese 18th century nativity scenes from the Museo Giannettino Luxoro “organized with the Civic Museums of Genoa, edited by Mark Gregory D’Apuzzo, Simonetta Maione and Giulio Sommariva, with the contribution of Fernando and Gioia Lanzi.
The initiative is part of the series of exhibitions that confronts nativity scenes in different regional areas, to document the extraordinary diffusion of this specific type of artistic production in Italy. After the strong Neapolitan tradition, which, through the “Scarabattola” of the Gianfranco Bordoni Collection, was the theme of the 2008 exhibition, this year the great school of Genoa, a city that since the first half of the 16th century has been the object of attention it has established itself as one of the most active centers in the production of nativity figures, alongside Naples and Bologna.
Free entry
Casa Morandi – via Fondazza 36
“Umberto Bonfini, a doctor in Grizzana, from medicine to photography” , until February 3, 2019
The door of Casa Morandi opens to the meeting with the photography of Umberto Bonfini for the exhibition project curated by Claudio Spottl . A dialogue between the atmospheric atmosphere of the house-atelier in which Giorgio Morandi lived and worked for long decades until his death and a selection of images taken from the photographic archive left by Umberto Bonfini , a doctor led to Grizzana, who re-establishes a closeness between two figures united by a friendly acquaintance and an affinity of thought.
Born in Pisa in 1918, Umberto Bonfini arrived in Grizzana at the end of the forties to practice his profession as a surgeon. In the country of the Apennines of Bologna he met Giorgio Morandi, and later became a great admirer. Later he moved to Lagaro, a small town adjacent to Grizzana, where he continued to practice as a doctor and remained until his death on 10 August 1980.
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“The faces of the Buddha from the lost Indian Museum of Bologna” , until April 28, 2019
The exhibition, curated by Luca Villa, recomposes for the first time a large part of the collections that belonged to the Museo Indiano of Bologna, now divided and preserved in three different locations: the same Medieval Civic Museum, the Museum of Palazzo Poggi in Bologna and the Museum of Anthropology of the University of Padua.
The exhibition allows you to rediscover a significant heritage of objects and photographs that illustrate archeology and Asian Buddhist art at the time when the Indian Museum, also known as the Museum of Indology and Museum of Indian East Ethnography, remained open since 1907 to 1935.
The Indian Museum, housed in the Palazzo dell’Archiginnasio in the rooms now used by the Library, was originally designed to house the conspicuous collection of objects, photographs and manuscripts acquired by Francesco Lorenzo Pullè (1850-1934), professor of Indo-European Philology and Sanskrit from the 1899 at the Royal University of Bologna, during a trip in 1902 in Vietnam, Ceylon, India and Pakistan on the occasion of his participation in the International Congress of Orientalists in Hanoi.
“Praise for every hour: the Franciscan chorales from the Basilica of San Francesco” , until March 17, 2019
The exhibition, realized in the context of the Franciscan Festival, presents a varied selection of the various liturgical cycles, realized between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries for the Bolognese Basilica of San Francesco, which are currently part of the rich collection of illuminated codes 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.
Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“The soul and the body: Images of the sacred and the profane between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age” , until 24 February 2019
The Civic Museums of Ancient Art are continuing their efforts to enhance the Municipal Art Collections in conjunction with the restoration work on the Palazzo d’Accursio roof, which will be completed in spring 2019, promoting a new exhibition that will revisits the extensive permanent heritage in the light of a new thematic criterion.
After a first reorganization focused on the birth of modern taste between the 18th and 19th centuries, the new arrangement of the exhibition itinerary proposes a fundamental theme in the Western figurative culture, the representation of the divine and the human figure, investigating the iconographic evolution between the XIII and the eighteenth century.
Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
“Illustrated war, lived war: the Great War in Bologna between history and memory” , until January 27, 2019
A hundred years after the end of the First World War, the exhibition presents the results of the project “The Great War in Bologna between History and Memory” aimed at the implementation of the portal www.storiaememoriadibologna.it to create and make accessible, in a unified form, a collective memory, city and national events related to the first world war, with particular reference to the memory of the fallen Bolognese.
The initiative, by Mirtide Gavelli and Roberto Martorelli, intends to act as a moment of knowledge and promotion of the work of digitizing documentary and memorial sources of different nature carried out between 2015 and 2018, through the exposure to the public of some of the most important documents belonging to a heritage still little known and in some cases completely unprecedented.
Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“HOKUSAI HIROSHIGE: Beyond the Wave: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston” , until March 3, 2019
The Archaeological Civic Museum houses the works of the two greatest Masters of the “Floating World”: Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858).
The exhibition exhibits, for the first time in Italy, an extraordinary selection of about 150 works from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
The project, divided into 6 thematic sections, curated by Rossella Menegazzo with Sarah E. Thompson, is a MondoMostre production Skira with Ales SpA Art Work and Services 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.
MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“VHS + Video / animation / television and / or independence / technical training / production control 1995/2000” , until 17 February 2019
In the exhibition space of the Project Room, dedicated to the rediscovery of some of the most stimulating and innovative artistic episodes originating in the Bologna and regional artistic field, MAMbo presents “VHS +”.
Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“Sculpture and Business, exhibition of the sculptor Michele D’Aniello” , until January 27, 2019
The project “Sculpture and Business”, born in 2008 from an idea of the sculptor Michele D’Aniello, includes today about 80 companies, national and international, which in these years, with enthusiasm, have welcomed and joined the positive and innovative project of contemporary art.
What the exhibition presents is the value of beauty and ingenuity, tenacity and courage; it is the history of values and its motto is summarized in these few words: “The shape of Values, the Values of Form”, which has always been the guiding thread of Sculpture and Business and of all the art of D’Aniello.
“Sculpture and Business” takes place under the patronage of the Emilia-Romagna Region, the Municipality of Bologna, the Municipality of Pianoro and Unindustria Bologna.
Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau – Constitution Square 11
“PHOENIX: The Pavilion of the Esprit Nouveau between reconnaissance and restoration” , until January 13, 2019
A year after its reopening to the public after the restoration work financed by the Emilia-Romagna Region and the Municipality of Bologna, the Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau hosts the exhibition “PHOENIX: The Pavilion of the Esprit Nouveau between reconstruction and restoration” curated by Maria Beatrice Bettazzi , Jacopo Gresleri and Paolo Lipparini with the high consultancy of Giuliano Gresleri .
The exhibition, designed by architect Jacopo Gresleri , offers the viewer the opportunity to retrace the history of building the building, a replica – faithful in every detail – of the prototype housing unit that architect Le Corbusier had proposed to Paris in 1925 on the occasion of the Exposition desArts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes , then demolished at the conclusion of the event.
Inside the Pavilion are exposed the projects, drawings, images and testimonies that document the process of realization of what is the only work of the Swiss-French master present in Italy, from the ideation and study to the various stages of work.
