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.
Given the great interest shown for the event “RoBOt 10 – preview”, roBOt Festival in agreement with MAMbo decided to move the evening initially scheduled at the Palazzo Re Enzo museum, which will host it on Saturday, September 15th from 7pm.
Tickets already purchased previously remain valid.
Presenting the evening ticket at the MAMbo ticket office will be possible to visit the “Thats IT!” Exhibition for free on Sunday 16 September.
IN EVIDENCE
Saturday 15 September
5.30 pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“Praise for every hour: Franciscan chorales from the Basilica of San Francesco”
Inauguration of the exhibition, realized within the Franciscan Festival.
The exhibition presents a rich selection of the various liturgical cycles, made 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 Museum.
Entrance to the inauguration: free
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Saturday 15 September
5.30 pm: Museum of the Risorgiment o – Piazza Carducci 5
“The found headstone: restoration of the Kamno stele in Slovenia”
Presentation of the restoration of the Kamno stele (Slovenia) built in 1916 by the soldiers of the Emilia Brigade in memory of fallen comrades.
The restoration was promoted by the Stone Memorials Committee of the Great War, born within the Emilia-Romagna Association at the Fronte, and was realized thanks to funds derived from the sale of three books, published to support the two-year project. has saved an important artifact from neglect and abandonment.
At the end of the presentation, refreshments will be offered to all the participants.
Free entry
Info: www.museibologna.it/risorgimento
8.30pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
Within the Certosa review of Bologna. Summer calendar and Bologna Estate
“ANIMENUDE – red blood women – second part”
Reflections on the transience of life in the classics of Italian literature. From Jacopone from Todi to Manzoni and Verga, stories of mothers, daughters, lovers, women united by a blood-red destiny. 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: € 10.00 (for each paying entrance two euros will be donated for the development of the Certosa)
Info: www.museibologna.it/risorgimento
Sunday, September 16th
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
On the occasion of the Researchers’ Night
“Silk in Bologna: story of an entrepreneurial success” Guided tour.
Since the twelfth century Bologna has equipped itself with a complex artificial hydraulic system composed of locks, channels and keys that distributed water to the network, mainly used as a source of energy for the operation of numerous factories.
Among these stands the “bolognese” silk mill, in the museum there is a working scale model 1: 2, used for the twisting of the silk thread with which you could get the veil, a product that made Bologna famous for over four centuries, widely marketed throughout Europe and often reproduced in western iconography.
The abundance of the water resource, combined with the high technology reached by the silk mills, thus allowed a city, not endowed with significant natural water courses, or an outlet on the sea, to play a leading role in the panorama of European proto-industry and the great international trade until the end of the eighteenth century.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 13.00 on Friday 14 September).
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
Info: www.museibologna.it/patrimonioindustriale
5 pm: 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
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
Tuesday 18 September
9pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
Within the Certosa review of Bologna. Summer calendar and Bologna Estate
“Bologna ’15 -’18 The women’s front: narrative show with five prologue characters and exodus”
A journey along the female internal front in Bologna of ’15 -’18 through all social classes. An itinerant show aimed at narrating the protagonism of women in the political and social life of the country as producers of thought in magazines and newspapers, workers able to claim their rights, trade unionists, “moral entrepreneurs” of the conflict involved in welfare works or tireless researchers of news on the fate of soldiers with whom the families had lost contact.
By and with Simona Sagone, actress and singer. Accompaniment on guitar and percussion by Mirco Mungari. With the participation of Sara Graci, actress.
Organized by Associazione Youkali, in collaboration with AICS Bologna.
Reservations required at 333 4774139 (morning-afternoon) or info@youkali.it .
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: € 10.00 (for each paying entrance two euros will be donated for the development of the Certosa)
Info: www.museibologna.it/risorgimento
Wednesday 19 September
17-18.30 hours: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
On the occasion of the Researchers’ Night
“Science Invaders: Researchers Invade MAMbo”
Researchers at the Society project had already explored MAMbo’s rooms last year, and they had a great time.
It will have been that pleasant sense of wonder that one feels wandering in an unknown, alien territory, where not everything is understood immediately and to the end. Accustomed to tackling things they do not understand, the researchers have carefully observed, and are willing to listen to the exotic language of artistic expression. With a certain surprise, they have discovered they understand some sound and have caught unexpected connections with the themes of their scientific research.
The experiment was so interesting that this year they decided to come back, to discover new works and proposing new topics.
Once again, they will accompany visitors on an unusual guided tour that will mix looks and interests, getting lost in that space that separates and unites science and art.
Reservations required while places last at 051 6496611.
Free entry
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
8.30pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
Within the Certosa review of Bologna. Summer calendar and Bologna Estate
“Why do not you speak: ecstasy and torment in the masterpieces of the Charterhouse”
For over a century and a half the Bolognese have called the best artists to realize their monuments. A nocturnal path between loggias, cloisters and halls to discover delicate neoclassical statues, impressive verist marbles, voluptuous liberty bronzes.
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)
Info: www.museibologna.it/risorgimento
EXHIBITIONS
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“Praise for every hour: Franciscan chorales from the Basilica of San Francesco”
16 September 2018-17 March 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.
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
“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.
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
“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).
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
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.
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
“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 placed 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.
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
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.
Info: www.museibologna.it/patrimonioindustriale
“Moto Bolognesi CM thirty years memorable 1929-1959”, until October 14th 2018
The exhibition focuses on the golden period for Bologna in the motorcycle production sector: in the 1920s and 1950s, the Bologna area is in fact a center of national importance in this area, thanks to an unparalleled concentration of small and medium-sized manufacturing companies. of finished bikes (over 70 active with alternating fortunes in those years) and an even greater number able to supply everything needed to assemble any motorcycle.
In those same years the adventurous story of the CM is situated, not unlike that of many Bologna companies.
The exhibition presents 15 motorcycles from the 1930s and 50s, among the most important models made by CM and among the most significant examples present in the collections of Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto and Emilia-Romagna. A rich array of photographic images and catalogs, largely unpublished, is visible in three screen projections and on screen.
Info: www.museibologna.it/patrimonioindustriale
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 October 7, 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.
Info: www.museibologna.it/arteantica
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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