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.
IN EVIDENCE
Sunday 20 January
4.30 pm: Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
“Genovese 18th century cribs from the Museo Giannettino Luxoro “
On the last day of opening, guided tour of the exhibition with Fernando Lanzi, Center for Studies for Popular Culture.
Next to the rich collection of the Davia Bargellini Museum , the exhibition allows the public to admire two groups of nativity scenes dating from the second half to the end of the eighteenth century, from the collections of the Museo Giannettino Luxoro di Genova, representative of the very high executive quality achieved in the production of this particular type of sculpture, generally for domestic use, of small size, but of great value.
Free entry
FOR CHILDREN
Saturday 19th January
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“Communicating at a distance” the aboratory for children aged 8 to 12.
The laboratory therefore wants to retrace the history of the main stages that have led to inventions such as radio, telephone and computer, involving children with games and experiments to turn them into real telecommunications experts!
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (by 1pm on Friday 18th January).
Admission: € 5.00 (free for an adult escort)
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Friday 18 January
5 pm: Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44 / 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 Davia Bargellini Museum and La QUADRERIA” Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili “
Guided tours take place until 20 January, the third Friday of each month except for the month of August, at 5 pm .
Free entry
5.45 pm: Archaeological Museum (Sala del Risorgimento ) – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“About Leonard Cohen …”
An encounter with musical accompaniment together with Silvia Albertazzi, Edoardo Balletta, Luigi Contadini, Elena Lamberti, Francesco Vitucci. With Francesco Benozzo, harp. Modera William Piana, Radio City Fujiko 103.1. The event is organized on the occasion of the publication of the volumes “Leonard Cohen, Manual for living in defeat” ( Paginauno 2018) by Silvia Albertazzi and “Leonard Cohen, as a little bird on word threads” (Castel Negrino 2018) by Elena Lamberti.
Admission: free subject to availability
Saturday 19th January
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 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
Under the cycle A foreign gaze on Egypt
“Egypt in Rome: the culture of the land of the Nile through the eyes of the Romans”
Conference of Nicola Barbagli, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
The cycle “A foreign gaze on Egypt” proposes four meetings to get to know ancient Egypt through the eyes of the foreign peoples who conquered it.
Admission: free subject to availability
4.00 pm and 5.30 pm replication: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
“Bodies and looks”
Performance of the Theater-History Association.
Design and direction by Tanino De Rosa. Dramaturgy by Enrico Saccà. Artistic direction and collaboration with Silva Stagni’s texts.
With Silvia Bruni, Luca Comastri, Alessandra Cortesi, Sonila Kaceli , Luca Mazzamurro and the participation of Silvia Battistini, conservator of the Communal Collections of Art.
The fire, the plague, love and water are the themes and the energies that move this staging, symbolically crossing the history of our city and the paths of the museum.
Reservations required at tel. 051 2193933 (Monday 9-13, Tuesday and Thursday 12-16) or musarteanticascuole@comune.bologna.it (by 12 noon on Friday 18 January).
Max 25 people to reply.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
Sunday 20 January
10.30 am: Municipal Art Collections, Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
For the East and Exoticism cycle
“A normal exoticism: porcelains from the East”
With Renata Ferlini (in collaboration with the RestauriAmo Association ).
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
11 am: Museum for the Memory of Ustica – via di Saliceto 3/22
“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 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Museum entrance: free
Guided tour: € 4.00. For holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00
11 am: Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
“Illustrated war, lived war: the Great War in Bologna between history and memory”
Guided tour of the exhibition.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“Enter the furnace and find … the brick!”
Animated route for families.
The brick industry has a very long tradition in Bologna. The city architecture bears evident traces both in the construction materials and in the decorative inserts of churches and buildings in the historic center. The development of the city outside the ancient fourteenth-century walls – between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries – took place concurrently with the birth of numerous modern furnaces along the Navile canal.
The proposed route is based around the history of the Galotti furnace of Battiferro (built in 1887 and now the museum’s headquarters), the technology of the plants, the innovation consisting of continuous cooking in the Hoffmann oven and the brick processing cycle. The latter followed precise rules and rituals: from the choice of the clay, to its aeration, to the dough, to the drying process that precedes cooking and took place on the first and second floors of the kiln.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (by 1pm on Friday 18th January).
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
4.30pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“Journey to Japan”
Guided tour of 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)
Wednesday, January 23rd
17-19.30 hours: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
As part of the review Il Mercato della Musica
“The music industry today: how it works and who works there”
Pierfrancesco Pacoda meets Gianni Sibilla, Director of Master in Music Communication at the Catholic University of Milan.
Managers, record labels, concert organizers, press offices, digital media experts , etc. What are the professional figures, what they do and what strategies they take to bring a musical product to success.
“Il Mercato della Musica” is a series of meetings organized by the Music Office of the Municipality of Bologna in collaboration with Bologna Welcome, with the aim of developing musical entrepreneurship and strengthening managerial and managerial skills.
The whole journey is a journey and a guide within the music market, through the understanding of the professional figures who inhabit such a complex environment and the activities necessary to create and manage a project.
Admission: free subject to availability
Thursday, January 24th
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
“Towards the East: Asian Art in Italy in the Twentieth Century” Conference by Giovanni Peternolli and Luca Villa.
Free entry
EXHIBITIONS
Palazzo d’Accursio (Sala Farnese) – Piazza Maggiore 6
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Massimo Kaufmann, Mille Fiate” , until March 3, 2019
“Mille Fiate” unfolds like an abstract narration along an installation of large canvases set up as theatrical scenes: it is an invitation to perceive the atmospheres of color through an impressive tactile decoration in dialogue with the frescoes of the seventeenth century, work of Carlo’s workshopCignani , which represent episodes of the city’s history.
Accompanied by the suggestions of Epicurean physics, filtered by the reading of Lucrezio’s poem in “De Rerum Natura”, Massimo Kaufmann’s painting investigates the rhythm of chaos in a series of works dedicated to the ” Clinamen “, a Lucretian term that suggests the vagueness of the matter and the imponderability of the case.
Porta San Donato – Piazza di Porta San Donato
On the occasion of ART CITY Bologna
“Patrick Tuttofuoco, ZERO ( Weak Fist)”, until 17 February 2019
“ZERO ( Weak Fist)” is a project by the artist Patrick Tuttofuoco promoted by the Polo Museale of Emilia Romagna in collaboration with the Municipality of Rimini, the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, the Italian Cultural Institute of Berlin and XING , winner of the first edition of the Italiancall Council (2017), a competition conceived by the Directorate General for Contemporary Art and Architecture and Urban Peripheries (DGAAP) of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, to promote Italian contemporary art in the world.
In Bologna, Porta San Donato is the access point to the university district, a point of irradiation of the mediaeval recovery of Roman law throughout Europe: a part of the city crossed by multicultural flows that draw and highlight the international dimension of Bologna and its vocation to inclusion, which this public art intervention intends to underline.
Work visible 24 hours a day.
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.
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 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, for the first time reassembles 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.
“Praise for every hour: the Franciscan chorales from the Basilica of San Francesco” , until March 17, 2019
The exhibition, realized in the context of the Franciscan Festival, presents a varied selection of the various liturgical cycles, made between the 13th and 15th centuries for the Bolognese Basilica of San Francesco, which are currently part of the rich collection of illuminated codices of the Medieval Civic Museum from Bologna. Among these we note the series of precious Franciscan grades richly illuminated by the so-called Master of the Bible of Gerona, the absolute protagonist of the Bolognese book decoration of the late thirteenth century. Next to this is also the slightly later series of antiphonaries, also widely decorated, partly inspired by the oldest experiences of Giotto assisiate, evidently filtered into the city through the same order of the minor friars. These first choral series followed others during the fifteenth century, when the friars minor entrusted themselves to various miners coordinated by the Bolognese Giovanni di Antonio, to decorate around 1440-50 some of their liturgical books, also presented during the exhibition.
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 of 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 +”. The exhibition project, born from an idea by Saul Saguatti (Basmati Film) and Lucio Apolito (Opificio Ciclope) with the curation of Silvia Grandi and realized in collaboration with the Department of Arts of the University of Bologna, is configured as a device of audio-visual pulsations that arise from the hybridization of different languages, formats and practices of video communication experimented in Italy between 1995 and 2000, telling the electronic dream of a season between analog and digital.
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.
