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 26 October to Thursday 1 November.
From October 29th to November 8th, the “Focus on Contemporary Italian Art” section of the permanent collection of MAMbo remains closed to the public, for installation work.
Museums open Thursday, November 1, with public holidays.
IN EVIDENCE
Friday 26 October
6 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
On the occasion of Gender Bender
“I am Mare”
Inauguration of the exhibition by Cristina Portolano, organized by Canicola Associazione.
Free entry
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org
Tuesday, October 30th
6.30 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
“Meeting with Shirin Neshat”
Following, at 8.15 pm, in the Scorers Room of the Cinema Lumiere (via Azzo Gardino 65), “Looking for Oum Kulthum” (Germany-Austria-Italy-Morocco / 2017) by Shirin Neshat, in collaboration with Shoja Azari (90 ‘ ). Original version with Italian subtitles. Introduced by Shirin Neshat.
Admission to the meeting: free
Admission to the screening: € 6.00 full price / € 4.50 reduced (holders of the MAMbo ticket for the meeting with the artist)
Info: www.mambo-bologna.org – www.cinetecadibologna.it
FOR CHILDREN
Saturday 27 October
10.30 am: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the review The Best of
“Variations” (III 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
3.30 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“Tutti in onda” Visit and workshop for children from 5 to 11 years dedicated to the exhibition “Hokusai Hiroshige, Beyond the Wave”, by the Educational Services Institution Bologna Museums.
While the adults visit the exhibition or take part in the conference, the little ones have fun with the museum operators, discovering new images every time, hunting for details and details that are always different to be captured and reworked in the laboratory, creating artefacts to take home. and collect.
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)
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“The curious science” Laboratory for kids from 6 to 10 years.
Games and experiments to understand simple scientific principles in a curious journey of discovery and deepening of some laws of physics, mechanics and optics.
The boys, protagonists in first person as small scientists, will witness some spectacular experiments, renamed with funny and amusing names: “the stack with the hands”, “the diver”, “the dance of the forced”.
Through these and other unusual experiences, the course aims to provide information and curiosity about the world around us, involving children in the activity with simple tests and stimulating in them the desire to know and understand.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (by 1pm on Friday October 26th).
Admission: € 5.00 (free for an adult escort)
Sunday, October 28th
4 pm: Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
Within the Festival of History
“Electricity: the energy of the future” Guided tour-workshop for families (children aged 8 years).
The activity is designed for adults and children and is dedicated to the first generator of electric current: the pile, invented by Alessandro Volta in 1799. Visitors can embark on a journey to learn about the history and use of some electric machines. Along the halls of the museum it will be possible to operate a Wimshurst stack and machine model, use the Leyden bottle, operate the Ruhmkorff spool and engage in the transmission of an instant message with the telegraph. As equipment, adults and children, like the travelers of the past, will have luggages and maps to orient themselves and to carry out small experiments in order to better understand the power and versatility electricity undisputed protagonist of our times.
Reservations required at 051 6356611 (by 1pm on Friday October 26th).
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
THE OTHER APPOINTMENTS
Saturday 27 October
2.30 pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
On the occasion of the Illustrated War exhibition, a lived war. The Great War in Bologna between history and memory
“Memories of the Great War – Bologna, Italy, Europe” Guided tour with Mirtide Gavelli, Museo Civico del Risorgimento.
At the center of the grandiose Cloister VI is the Ossuary Monument of the Fallen of the Great War, the Bolognese memorial of the tragic conflict. The visit will proceed in the adjacent cloisters, to admire other works – rhetorical or moving – dedicated by families to their children who fell for their country. Free visit, no reservation is required.
Meeting at the main entrance (Church courtyard).
Free entry
4 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
Within the cycle The Floating World of Hokusai and Hiroshige: traveling between past and future
” Space and time in the Hokusai and Hiroshige silographies”
Conference by Rossella Menegazzo, University of Milan.
The cycle “The Floating world of Hokusai and Hiroshige: traveling between past and future” offers five meetings to learn about the “floating world” and the mastery of Hokusai and Hiroshige and their profound impact on Japanese culture and the art of the West .
Admission: free subject to availability
5 pm: Villa delle Rose – via Zaragoza 228/230
“Mariella Simoni, 1975 – 2018”
Guided tour of the exhibition with Lorenzo Balbi, Head of the Modern and Contemporary Art Institution Bologna Museums.
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
“1968 (almost) forgotten: jazz and black music”
Musical narration by Stefano Zenni. With the participation of Mauro Campobasso, guitar and electronics.
1968 was one of those rare historical moments in which profound social transformations took place in harmony with musical changes. While it is an obvious phenomenon for rock, not so much can be said for jazz, which in 1968 instead experienced a phase of profound crisis and transformation.
The revolutionary seasons of jazz will be the same, even in Europe, while the general public follows the words of “black” pride of soul. A contradiction within the African-American culture that is another of the singularities of the 1968 musical.
Tickets can be booked (with payment on the day of the event) from the website www.museibologna.it/musica .
Admission: € 5.00
Sunday, October 28th
10 am: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
“Marathon in Certosa: Bolognese art from 1801 to today”
Crossing the cloisters you can retrace the fundamental stages of the Bolognese art through the great masters, from 1801 to today. From Neoclassicism to Verism, from Liberty through the twentieth century Classicism, to abstract forms. Guided tour of about 3 hours. Organized by Associazione Cultural Didasco.
Reservations required at 348 1431230 (afternoon-evening).
Meeting at the main entrance of the Certosa (Church courtyard).
Admission: € 10.00 (for each paying entrance two euros will be donated for the development of the Certosa)
10 am-6pm: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34 / Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
Within the Festival of History
“Treasure Hunt: Discovering Bologna is a game”
The second edition of the historical and digital “Hunting Treasure” of the city arrives in Bologna. The historic center of Bologna will be populated by “hunters of beauty” engaged in a thrilling mission on the Utopic app. Between 10 and 18, with an autonomous start and duration of about an hour and a half, players will cross the secret city between monuments and museums hunting for clues and curiosities.
Starting at 10 am from Piazza Maggiore it will be possible to start the hunt. This is where the hunters will find the Utopic welcome point and can unlock the first round. After reaching the first stage and resolving the first riddle, they will receive the next clue directly on the Utopic app and can continue the game. At the end of the last test the score obtained will be displayed and the general classification will promote those who have solved all the tests without errors.
The route, concentrated in the historic center, is done on foot independently and is suitable for all ages.
Admission: € 8.00 (free museum ticket, prior recognition of members)
10.30 am: Davia Bargellini Museum – Strada Maggiore 44
Within the Festival of History
“Vicissitudes of an illustrious Bolognese family: the Bargellini”
Guided tour with Ilaria Negretti, RTI Senza Titolo Srl, ASTER Srl and Tecnoscienza.
Free entry
10.30-13 and 15-17.30: Music Museum – Strada Maggiore 34
On the occasion of the #novecento review
“Music to see … on Sunday”
Guided tours “open demand” to the collections of the museum with Giuseppe Ayroldi Sagarriga, Museum of Music.
Mozart was wrong with his homework? Is the perfect keyboard insuonable? Wagner was from Bologna? In Respighi’s orchestra was a turntable?
Do not you know? Then you can not miss the special ” extended release” Sunday tours in which the museum staff will be at your disposal to answer these questions and all those that jump in mind on the collections on display: a guided tour (but not too much) through six centuries of music history talking about books, paintings, instruments starting from Palazzo Sanguinetti, the splendid seat of the museum.
Admission: museum ticket (€ 5.00 full price / € 3.00 reduced)
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 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)
4pm: Inzaghi Civic Art Gallery – via Mentana 32 (Budrio)
Within the Festival of History
“Tullo Golfarelli (1852-1928) – The sculptor of the workers”
Presentation of the third volume of the “Bolognese Sculptors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century” (edited by Minerva) edited by the Museo Civico del Risorgimento in Bologna. With Silvia Bartoli and Lorenza Servetti.
Protagonist of the Bolognese sculpture, Tullo Golfarelli was close to the progressive circles and the cenacles of Carducci and Pascoli. Among the most famous works, the smith Simoli alla Certosa, one of the reliefs of Montagnola, the Monument to Filopanti of Budrio.
Free entry
4.30pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4
Within the Festival of History
“Designing the Middle Ages” Conference by Riccardo Merlo.
Free entry
4.30 pm: Archaeological Museum – via dell’Archiginnasio 2
“Journey to Japan”
Guided tour of the exhibition “Hokusai Hiroshige, Beyond the Wave”, organized by the Educational Services Institution Bologna Museums.
While the adults visit the exhibition or take part in the conference, the little ones have fun with the museum operators, discovering new images every time, hunting for details and details that are always different to be captured and reworked in the laboratory, creating artefacts to take home. and collect.
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)
Tuesday, October 30th
5 pm: Medieval Museum – via Manzoni 4 (entrance from via Porta di Castello 3)
Within the framework of the Japanese art from 1185 to the dawn of modernity
“The periods Muromachi (1336-1573) and Azuchi-Momoyama (1573-1603)” Conference of Alessandro Guidi.
The Muromachi art, influenced by Zen Buddhism, has left us wonderful examples of temples and gardens, but also masterpieces of Chinese-inspired ink painting. The Azuchi-Momoyama period, an era of great innovations and social changes, produced an art with different and often contrasting aspects, a powerful and sumptuous decorativism with a Zen-inspired simplicity and sobriety.
With this sixth cycle of conferences, the Study Center of Far Eastern Art continues the presentation of the historical development of Japanese art started last 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 31st
7 pm: MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art in Bologna – via Don Minzoni 14
On the occasion of Gender Bender
“Seeking Unicorns in Bologna” Public restitution of the work “Seeking Unicorns” by Chiara Bersani, focused on the body as a perceptive entity; the space and the unpredictable elements that animate it as an attractive pole for our movement in the world; the other from me as a magnet; the revolution in the manipulation of distances between me and the other.
Free entry
Thursday 1 November
5.30 pm: Certosa Cemetery – via della Certosa 18
“Viaggionauta, Freud and the manifest love for Bologna”
An appointment to focus on “Viaggionauta – guide for curious places” (Yume, Turin): a book by Valeria Copperi that also involves Bologna and the relationship that Freud had with the city. A chat between the author and Cecilia Cristiani to find out what the father of psychoanalysis visited in Certosa.
Presentation by Katia Bertacci, president of the Piedmont Publishing Committee and editorial director of the Yume publishing house in Turin. A sensory-meditative break will follow by the Tea Sommelier Stefania Bruno with tasting of the classic Masala Chai tea, as required by the Indian ritual.
Free entry
EXHIBITIONS
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, 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. vv
“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.
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.
“I am Mare” 27 October – 2 December 2018
“Io sono Mare” is the exhibition, created on the occasion of Gender Bender, with tables and original drawings dedicated to the homonymous comic book for children by Cristina Portolano for the Dino Buzzati di Canicola series. A fantastic and evocative journey of a little girl and her friend an anthropomorphic clown fish, an extraordinary adventure, lived between dream and reality, through which to reflect on the themes of identity and self-discovery, on desires and emotions.
Cristina Portolano, illustrator and cartoonist, was born in Naples in 1986. She lives and works in Bologna. She is the author of “Quasi signorina2 (2016, Topipittori) and” I do not know who you are “(2017, Rizzoli Lizzard) She has collaborated on” Goodnight stories for rebel little girls “(2017, Mondadori)
Villa delle Rose – via Saragozza 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 design – with “Mariella Simoni 1975 – 2018 “, shows that, thanks to the curatorial gaze of Barbara Vanderlinden, it rediscovers and re-reads the forty-year journey of an important Italian artist, who made openness to the world and the attitude to nomadism one of her stylistic figures and existential.
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.
Museum of Industrial Heritage – via della Beverara 123
“The Emiliano Romagnolo Channel in the eyes of Enrico Pasquali” , until November 25, 2018
The promise to give the visitor unique and original suggestions of our territory – already enclosed in the title of the exhibition for images “The Emilian Romagnolo Channel in the eyes of Enrico Pasquali” – is largely maintained in the collage of emotions in black and white that the Consortium for the Emiliano Romagnolo Channel (CER) has conceived and organized with the collaboration of numerous partners to enhance not only one of the most important hydraulic works of the country, but to celebrate the industrious man’s activity.
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, exhibition of the sculptor Michele D’Aniello” , until 27 January 2019
The project “Sculpture and Business”, born in 2008 from an idea of the sculptor Michele D’Aniello , today includes about 80 companies, national and international, which in these years, with enthusiasm,they 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, it becomes light, Mario Nanni’s staff”, 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.
The Bologna Museums Institution recounts, through its collections, the entire history of the metropolitan area of Bologna, from the first 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 .
The Card Musei Metropolitani of Bologna is the service activated on the occasion of the IX centenary of the City of Bologna to expand accessibility to the city’s historical and artistic heritage: a subscription that offers unlimited access to permanent collections and reduced price admission to temporary exhibitions of many museums in the city and Metropolitan area. Valid for 12 months and costs 25 euros: all information is available on the cardmuseibologna.it website.
