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 19 to Thursday 25 October.
IN EVIDENCE
Friday 19th October
5.30 pm: Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
“Illustrated war, lived war: the Great War in Bologna between history and memory”
Inauguration of the exhibition, realized on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Entrance to the inauguration: free
Thursday 25 October
10.30 am: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
“Voices and sounds, pencils and brushes”
Study day on “The musical portraiture” and then, at 5.45 pm, presentation of the new catalog “The portraits of the Museum of Music in Bologna by Father Martini at the Music High School”, Florence, Leo S. Olschki, 2018.
Free entry
FOR CHILDREN
Saturday 20 October
10.30 am: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the review The Best of
“Variations” (II meeting)
Attention and composition practices in three meetings, for children from 3 to 5 years. With Alice Ruggero and Gaia Germanà by Associazione QB Quanto Basta.
Discovering the infinite possibilities of movement, in space, through sounds.
Two dancers will lead children and parents in a dance of attention, experimenting with the body, composing, observing, playing with the repetition and variation of music and body.
The presence of the same parent is required in all the meetings. The use of non-slip socks is recommended.
Reservations required online only on www.museibologna.it/musica .
Confirmation or cancellation is required by the Thursday before the laboratory date.
Admission: € 5.00 per participant
4.30 pm : On the occasion of the review The Best of
“Theater of shadows”
Laboratory for children from 6 to 8 years. With Agnese Baruzzi.
Inspired by the “split” of the 18th century Teatro Comunale di Bologna exhibited in the Museum, children and parents will build and realize together a small theater of shadows to take home and to animate with their favorite characters.
Reservations required online only on www.museibologna.it/musica .
Confirmation or cancellation is required by the Thursday before the laboratory date.
Admission: € 5.00 per participant
Sunday, October 21st
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
Within the Festival of History
“Water: a special substance!”
Treasure hunt-workshop for children aged 6 and families.
A treasure hunt among the museum’s collections following the traces of water and its many uses over time as a precious source of energy and an important means of communication.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (before 13.00 on Friday 19th October).
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Friday 19th October
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 the QUADRERIA Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili”
Guided tour with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
The exhibition “A zonzo for the museums”, realized by the Civic Museums of Ancient Art in collaboration with the QUADRERIA. Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili proposes a series of guided tours involving works in the collections of the Museo Civico Medievale, the Municipal Art Collections, the Davia Bargellini Museum and the QUADRERIA. Palazzo Rossi Poggi Marsili, owned by the ASP Città di Bologna.
Guided tours take place until December 21st, the third Friday of each month at 5pm.
Free entry
Saturday 20 October
10 am: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
Within the Festival of History
“The stones of the Certosa di Bologna”
Guided tour organized by the Associazione Amici della Certosa, in collaboration with the Museo Civico del Risorgimento.
A walk through the cloisters and galleries to discover some beauties, accompanied by the geologist Piero Cavarocchi. Discovering the green Alpi marble, the yellow Siena, the white of Carrara, the porphyry, the sandstone and many other stones that decorate the monuments of the Certosa. To understand and better understand the works that the Associazione Amici della Certosa takes care of through the “Experimental dusting laboratory”.
Meeting at the Info Point.
Free entry
5 pm: Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Mariella Simoni, 1975 – 2018”
Guided tour of the exhibition by the MAMbo Educational Department.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: € 4.00 + show ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced). For the holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 for the guided tour (free admission exhibition)
5 pm : Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the #novecento review
“I’ll give it to you in ’68: Frank Zappa and the children of flowers”
Musical narration by Giordano Montecchi, musicologist and music critic.
Live music with Trio Galactus: Giorgio Casadei, electric guitar; Alessio Alberghini, saxophones, flute; Simone Pederzoli, trombone.
There are several time zones and several mental fuses of difference between ’68 here, on the old side of the Atlantic, and America; between Berkeley and the “Summer of Love” on one side, and on the other, the students who from Paris turned upside-down half of Europe (the other half had other thoughts, between gimkane to dodge the tanks and assorted Politburo). So, that hurricane Frank began to swirl in California and arrive in Europe in ’67 and then in ’68, right in the years of the most thunderous protest, it could be a very interesting event for quantum physics. But the way the author of Flower Punk judged, and commented musically for his part, the most colorful and festive aspects of the youth protest, hippies and related, has a sour taste, almost like a radical philosopher who pities the illusions of those young men .
It may seem strange, but with Zappa nothing is as it seems.
Tickets can be booked (with payment on the day of the event) from the website www.museibologna.it/musica
Admission: € 5.00
17.00 : Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“Sculpture and Business, exhibition of the sculptor Michele D’Aniello”
Inauguration of the exhibition, on the occasion of the 5th edition of “Sculpture and Business”.
Ingersso all’inugurazioen: free
Sunday, October 21st
10.30 am: Municipal Art Collections , Palazzo d’Accursio – Piazza Maggiore 6
Within the Festival of History
“Traveling Madonnas”
Guided tour with Antonella Mampieri.
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)
2.30-18.30pm: Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Cultural mediation at the exhibition” Mariella Simoni. 1975 – 2018 “”
An operator of the MAMbo Educational Department is present every Sunday from 14.30 to 18.30 to form information and insights on the works and the artist.
Admission: show ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced). For holders of the Musei Metropolitani Card, free entry
4.30pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
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 Paolo Cova, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
Tuesday 23 October
5 pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
Within the framework of the Japanese art from 1185 to the dawn of modernity
“The Kamakura period (1185-1333)”
Alessandro Guidi conference.
With the establishment of the first military government in 1185 the era of the samurai begins for Japan and opens a period of great splendor for Buddhist art, with numerous masterpieces in all the arts, but especially in wood sculpture. Very interesting, in this era, also the illustrated scrolls of sacred and profane subject.
With this sixth cycle of conferences, the Study Center of Eastern-Eastern Art continues the presentation of the historical development of Japanese art begun the past year: this year will be addressed the period from the seizure of power of the samurai class in 1185 , until the fall of the military government in 1867.
Free entry
Wednesday, October 24th
17-19.30 hours: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
Within the review The Music Market
“Making music: the author, the artist and the producer between copyright and related rights”
Workshop conducted by Raffaella Pellegrino, a lawyer specializing in copyright and intellectual property law.
“Il Mercato della Musica” is a series of meetings to talk about the musical enterprise by UNESCO City of Music and Communication. The contracts for the transfer of copyrights, the relationship with the SIAE and other collecting societies, the news from the European Union for the protection and recognition of the rights of authors.
Admission: free subject to availability
Thursday 25 October
6.30 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
Presentation of the book “So near, so far”
The photographic volume “So near, so far” (Danilo Montanari Editore, 2018), realized thanks to the fundamental contribution of the Ceremonial of the Presidency of the Emilia-Romagna Region, collects a wide selection of the images, exhibited on the occasion of Fotografia Europea 2016 to the Collection Maramotti, of the Reggio Emilia photographer Paolo Simonazzi, images that refer to his many projects realized over the years in Emilia-Romagna with exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
His gaze is at the same time affectionate and ironic with photographs transiting from more rarefied and suspended visions to images that speak of everyday relationships set in those places of the province dear to the author where the real confuses imperceptibly with the surreal. A journey that crosses the Via Emilia from the river to the sea, touching real, remembered and imagined places.
Speakers: Paolo Simonazzi, photographer and author of “So near, so far”; Claudio Cumani, journalist of Il Resto del Carlino; Gianmaria Manghi, Undersecretary of the Presidency of the Emilia-Romagna Region.
Free entry
7 pm : Within the I fabulous ’80 review
“1982. Riccardo Benassi”
By popular demand, MAMbo re-proposes the Thursday appointment dedicated to ten works, ten artists, ten years: thirty minutes to tell a work of the exhibition “That’s IT!”.
Ten engrossing meetings to relive the atmosphere of the fabulous’ 80s. Each appointment will be 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.
And if you keep the admission ticket, at the following appointments you pay only the cost of the guided tour.
Reservations required at 051 6496627 (Wednesday from 10 to 17 and Thursday from 13 to 17) or mamboedu@comune.bologna.it .
Admission: € 4.00 per person per visit + reduced admission € 4.00 (adults). For holders of the Bologna Metropolitan Museums Card € 3.00 per visit per person + admission € 3.00
EXHIBITIONS
Museum of the Risorgimento – Piazza Carducci 5
“Illustrated war, lived war: the Great War in Bologna between history and memory”
20 October 2018 – 27 January 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, curated 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 that is still little known and in some cases completely unpublished.
On the walls of the exhibition hall a selection of recently restored national loan propaganda posters recall what our ancestors could see on the walls of Bologna and other Italian and European cities: a massive, multifaceted, capillary propaganda, because every citizen without distinction of age and social condition, it felt “internal front” and behaved as such, contributing, according to its possibilities, to the final victory.
In the windows there are documents and original relics related to the city of Bologna, normally not visible to the public, that the implementation of the portal has allowed to know and contextualize, reproducing the images and telling the story. These include documents and photographs from public and private archives, including those donated by the families of Nazario Sauro and other heroes of the war; memories of the “Pantheon of the famous Fallen” created inside the Laura Bassi school during the years of the conflict; documents of the Office for news to the families of the military, the great first Bolognese experience then national women’s voluntary service; the numerous portraits of the fallen during the works.
Through a QR code, with a smartphone you can also access all the news and insights contained in the portal: the room has in fact free wireless access and the portal itself is viewable from all devices. The strongly educational and popular value of the project that is addressed not only to a young audience is evidenced by the presence of a totem in the exhibition that allows you to explore the virtual 3D reconstruction of the grandiose Lapidary of the Basilica of Santo Stefano, as presented in year of inauguration (1925): with the names of the 2,536 fallen of the city of Bologna recorded in the 64 tombstones placed inside the cloister.
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, edited by Rossella Menegazzo with Sarah E. Thompson, is a MondoMostre Skira production with Ales SpA Arte Lavoro and Servizi 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.
The thirties of the nineteenth century marked the pinnacle of ukiyoe production known as “images of the Floating World”. At that time the most important silicon series were made by the masters who confirmed – a few decades later with the opening of the country – as the greatest names of Japanese art in the West.
Hokusai immediately emerged from the outset, an artist and personality out of line who was able to represent the places and faces with force, drama and conciseness, as well as the character and beliefs of the society of his time. He is considered one of the finest representatives of the ukiyoe pictorial vein. In his paintings on roll, but above all through his polychrome silographies, the artist knew how to interpret the world in which he lived, with free and fast lines, a skilful use of color and in particular of the Prussian blue, recently imported in Japan, drawing inspiration from both traditional indigenous painting and western art techniques.
Younger than about twenty years compared to Hokusai, Hiroshige became a famous name of ukiyoe painting shortly after the release of the master “Thirty-six views of Mount Fuji” thanks to a series, in the same horizontal format, which illustrated the great way that connected Edo (the ancient name of Tokyo) to Kyoto. These were the “Fifty-three post stations of the Tōkaidō”, known as “Hōeidō Tōkaidō” from the name of the publisher who launched the success of Hiroshige. Since then the artist worked repeatedly on this same subject, producing dozens of different series until the fifties. The quality of the landscape and views of Japan, the variety of seasonal and atmospheric elements – snows, rains, fog, moonlight – that Hiroshige was able to describe making them almost sensually perceived earned him the title of “master of rain and snow”.
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“It’s here – Social pattern design on seating” , until December 9, 2018
On the occasion of the Giornata del Contemporaneo, promoted by AMACI, the Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna presents “It is here” Social pattern design on seating “, a research project dedicated to living, created by the students of the Decoration Course for Architecture of the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts.
Starting from the story of words, images and sounds of the boys of the social cooperatives La Fraternità e Arca di Noè, the students realized the textile patterns, printed on fine series fabric at the company Dino Zoli Textile, for Jointly, an original collection of chairs . The archive of the signs and the oral heritage collected during the meetings, have been graphically re-elaborated by the students in the 29 textile prints from the new narrations.
“IS HERE”, the phrase printed on one of the sessions on show, symbolically presents the relationship fruit of the mixture of different identities, made of desires, emotions and memories that have inspired the path of work. And it is starting from here that the students Bingjie An, Xi Chen, Hanssen Diaz, Arianna Fiorentino, Xue, Jiang Samira Khajavi, Ghazaleh Kohandel, Debora Lake, Weiguo Lai, Ruobi Li, Baoyi Liu, Ruiqi Ma, Elora Ndini, Ailar Noori, Sara Ruggeri, Yuxiang Wang, Ning Yu, Luo Zhang, Liyuan Zheng, Yianxi Zhou have developed their experimentation, made of that initial encounter experience combined with personal research languages.
Promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts and the Civic Museums of Ancient Art, the project, sponsored by the Dino Zoli Foundation of Forlì, is supported by Dino Zoli Textile of Forlì and the Progetto Recooper in collaboration with the social cooperatives La Fraternità e Arca di Noah of Bologna for the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
The exhibition, curated by Vanna Romualdi with the coordination of Laura Giovannardi, is part of the cultural project “Heritage, resources for public space, tools for contemporary artistic research” promoted by the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.
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 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.
The production of the period exerted from the individual self-direction to extend to a collective dimension, constituting independent media-cultural research groups that become real brands, such as Opificio Ciclope, Fluid Video Crew, Ogino Knauss, Otolab and Sun Wu Kung of which the exhibition documents the peculiar expressive approaches. In a world still without bulletin boards, chat rooms, social media and YouTube, these pioneering workshops have materially built projection screens in their respective residences – Link Project in Bologna, Forte Prenestino in Rome, CPA ExLonginotti in Florence, Garigliano and Pergola in Milan – developing creative forges tuned in with the most advanced contemporary experiments in Europe.
“VHS +” finds an extension on-line at www.vhsplus.it , where archival and in-depth material can be consulted.
The exhibition avails itself of the technical sponsorship of Eurovideo that has granted the instrumental supplies for the preparation of the audio-video system.
“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.
Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Mariella Simoni, 1975 – 2018” , until 11 November 2018
Villa delle Rose continues its exhibition program – from 2018 based on a positioning and an international project – with “Mariella Simoni, 1975 – 2018”, shows that, thanks to the curatorial gaze of Barbara Vanderlinden, it rediscovers and re-reads the forty-year path of an important Italian artist, who made the opening to the world and the attitude to nomadism one of its stylistic and existential figures.
More than twenty works are visible covering a period of time between the beginnings of the seventies up to the most recent developments and ranging between the different techniques with which Mariella Simoni has been compared: installation, painting, drawing, ceramics, interventions with botanical elements or with glass. Some important works that have been part of seminal exhibitions for the development of his artistic path, have been rebuilt and made visible again after forty years at Villa delle Rose, for example “Cinque stanze” – installation made in 1978 in his apartment in Via Crivelli in Milan, a few steps from the Galleria Luigi De Ambrogi – or “Chair”, exhibited in “At the height of the heart”, at the Karen Gallery and Jean Bernier of Athens in 1980.
In this period, in 1978, we find a point of contact with the Gallery of Modern Art of Bologna, of which the MAMbo has collected the legacy: Mariella Simoni participates, with the intervention “Sciarada”, to “Cara morte” ( Gavirate, Varese, 30 April 21 May 1978), a review with which the then Director of GAM Franco Solmi created a “twinning” on the occasion of the great exhibition on several venues “Metafisica del Quotidiano” (June – September 1978), also hosting the documentation in the exhibition catalog.
The peculiar nature of Mariella Simoni’s work makes it difficult to make a selection among her works: on the one hand a wide range of expressive registers, on the other a relatively small range of recurring themes, on which she often returns, facing them from different angles and using of different media. Starting from these assumptions, Barbara Vanderlinden’s curatorial intent was not so much to construct a retrospective representative of the artist’s main works and to propose a homogeneous corpus of works, as to bring to light hidden connections, generating new and unprecedented perspectives. .
Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
“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.
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.
“Sculpture and Business: solo exhibition of the sculptor Michele D’Aniello”
20 October 2018 – 27 January 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 – Piazza della Costituzione 11
“Listen, the light comes in. Staff of Mario Nanni” , until 28 October 2018
In synergy with the Emilia-Romagna Region and with the collaboration of the Bologna Museums Institution, Bologna Design Week invited Mario Nanni to present his work in a site-specific exhibition inside the Pavilion de l’Esprit Nouveau.
The history of architecture and light have always been worth one another, united by the time and technology of the moment. The pavilion designed by Le Corbusier in 1925 is a masterful example of the use of natural light as a building material, to design geometries, curves, spatial inventions and colored volumes. While the first artificial light, the newly invented incandescent bulb, was still seen with a certain diffidence, the Swiss master inserted it with courage in his architecture in a functional and essential way, showing clearly the technique of realization.
The pavilion – faithfully rebuilt in Bologna in 1977 and recently restored – is reinterpreted by Mario Nanni, extraordinary interpreter of light, through the lighting of his works.
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