An exhibition proposal for comparison with the works of the other civic art gallery, the Gallery of Anna and Luigi Parmeggiani.

We do not want to legitimize the hypothesis of a synthesis between the two collections, which was however strongly advocated in the sixties and periodically re-emerging in the city’s debate. Nothing is common between the two art galleries of the city, distant for history, collecting events, patrimonial consistency. The one, the Gallery dedicated to Antonio Fontanesi, preserves the artistic heritage linked to the city, the result of numerous episodes of commissions, donations, acquisitions closely linked to Reggio Emilia and the territory; the other, the gallery inaugurated by Luigi Parmeggiani in 1934, is the result of his acrobatic attendance of the European artistic-antiquarian world of the late nineteenth century, between excellences and consolidated values, equivocal reappropriations and uninhibited reconstructions, today legitimized by the passing of the centuries.

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