The International Tricolor Games were born in 1997 to celebrate the first adoption of Italian National flag: “Il Tricolore”. An amateur sporting event addressed to young athletes between 13 and 17 years old from all over the world, in particular to twin cities with many towns of the province of Reggio Emilia. The numbers of the 6th edition hosted in Reggio Emilia from July 7th to 13th are: 3000 young athletes, 400 races in 50 sports facilities, over 30 sports disciplines and 1000 foreign athletes from 30 cities worldwide. The International Tricolor Game event was developed within the European project Exposport, financed by Erasmus + Programme of the European Union.

Exposport wants to promote volunteering sport, gender equality and social inclusion as vehicles to support friendship, solidarity between peoples and the knowledge of new and different cultures, as well as principles such as the important role of respect for different cultures, human rights and access to sport for everyone. It aims to demonstrate the positive effects a person can benefit from as an individual and as part of a community, making sport and physical activity part of his or her daily life to share with others.

Exposport can count on the strong and positive experience of the previous editions of the International Tricolor Games. The first edition took place in 1997 when the Bicentenary of the Italian Tricolor flag – born in Reggio Emilia – was celebrated. At the last edition of 2015, more than 600 young international athletes from 15 countries took part and over 2,000 young people came from other Italian cities.

Sports Disciplines are: sport climbing, athletics, baseball, beach volley, bowls game, soccer, futsal, cycling, cricket, horse riding, golf, field hockey, judo, swimming, synchronized swimming, basketball, handball, water polo, volleyball, sport fishing, boxing, rugby, chess, fencing, taekwondo, tennis, table tennis, rifle shooting, skeet shooting, archery.

Paralympic Sports are athletics, fencing, horse riding, climbing, judo, swimming, archery, sitting volley.

For further information: www.giochideltricolore.it

Emma Hart, winner of the sixth edition of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women, presents her new large artwork Mamma Mia! at Collezione Maramotti, where it will enter its permanent collection, after being shown at Whitechapel Gallery, London. The artist’s installation at the Collection shows some interesting variations compared to the London’s exhibition, based on the specific features of the site.

The installation consists of a family of large ceramic heads, suggesting a dialogue with one other. Each sculpture is jug-like in shape: the spout mimics a nose and the opening a mouth. Produced by the artist in Faenza alongside ceramic artisans, each sculpture is glazed incorporating motifs, such as the speech bubble. The interior space of the heads is filled with vivid patterns, designed and hand-painted by Hart after researching the designs and practice of the Italian tradition of maiolica.
Mamma Mia! also represents the culmination of an investigation into pattern: visual patterns, and patterns of psychological behaviour, how to design then rupture these and the ruminations in between. The space between viewer and object is key, as ever in Hart’s work, and is charged with the artist’s particularly personal take on her experiences in Italy: the heat, light and colour, language and family dynamics in an unfamiliar setting.

Mamma Mia! will be also on show at Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in spring 2018.

For further information: collezionemaramotti.org/en/exhibition-detail/-/emma-hart—mamma-mia

Luisa Rabbia’s exhibition, Love, features a corpus of ten artworks realized between 2009 and 2017, all acquired by the Collezione Maramotti, which has been following the artist’s research for several years.

Love includes works on paper and on canvas representing a significant transition in the artist’s work from drawing to painting an artist’s book, and an important site-specific work realized directly on the walls of the Collezione during Rabbia’s residence. The title of the exhibition is taken from a large painting exhibited here for the first time, which is a part of the trilogy Love-Birth-Death, her latest major project.

For further information: collezionemaramotti.org/en/exhibition-detail/luisa-rabbia-love

Magritte’s Le Chateau de Pyrenees (The Castle of the Pyrenees) 1959, the famous Gioconda L.H.O.O.Q. (1919/1964) by Duchamp and Salvador Dalì’s Surrealist Essay (1934): these are some of the over two hundred works coming from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Curated by Adina Kamien-Kazhdan and David Rockefeller, “Duchamp, Magritte, Dalì. I Rivoluzionaridel ‘900” is an extraordinary exhibition dedicated to the artists who revolutionised the 20th century art: Duchamp, Magritte, Dalì, Ernst, Tanguy, Man Ray, Picabia, Pollock and many others, all together to let people know about a period of great and bright creativity.

The exhibition of Mexican muralists, now known as la exposición pendiente (the pending exhibition), was scheduled to open on September 13, 1973 in Santiago, Chile. It was canceled, however, due to the coup of General Augusto Pinochet, that brought him to power and started his 17-year dictatorship. So the works by three great Mexican muralists José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros were taken on board an Aeroméxico aircraft, together with Allende’s widow and children, and the collection returned to the Mexican museums it had come from. Since then this exhibition became known as “la exposición pendiente”.

The exhibition México “La Mostra Sospesa” – Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros arrives in Bologna to feature sixty-eight works among the most important paintings of great Mexican muralism, recognized as national Mexican heritage and belonging to the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, the Museo Nacional de Arte, and the Museo de Veracruz.

For more information: emiliaromagnaturismo.com/en/events/bologna/bologna/mexico-la-mostra-sospesa

Starting from November 11^th, at Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia a major exhibition on art and music that extends from Kandinsky to Cage will be opened to the public. The project explores ideas of interiority and spirituality as open themes that encompass many influences.

The exhibition goes from the spiritual abstraction of Wassily Kandinsky to the enlightened silence of John Cage and hosts some precious sketches of Richard Wagner, Max Klinger’s “Fantasy of Brahms” and a series of Lubok, popular Russian prints. An important nucleus of some fifty works by Wassily Kandinsky follows: paintings, watercolours and graphic work from museums and private collections. The exhibition concludes with a major tribute to John Cage, musician, thinker, poet and artist, whose principles of inner resonance and whose conception of art as a privileged conduit for universal ideas present similarities, references and correspondences with the Kandinsky’s spirituality.

For further information: palazzomagnani.it/2017/05/kandinsky-cage/

About 700 works from the Csac collection on display at the Abbey of Paradigna. At the CSAC of the Parma University the exhibition Ettore Sottsass will open. Beyond design, sponsored by CSAC with a group of architecture, design and contemporary art historians.

The exhibition features about 700 selected works, on display according to a chronological narration (starting from a childhood drawing from 1922), which point out some visual constant habits of the author. The title of the exhibition itself recalls the usual way of working of Sottsass, that was always beyond his specific activity as a designer towards a wider vision, where drawing is absolutely central as a means of designing but first and above all as a moment of reflection.

For further information: www.emiliaromagnaturismo.com/en/events/parma/parma/ettore-sottsass-oltre-il-design?set_language=en

“Zhdat’ from the Alps to Siberia” in the photographs of Fabio Pasini and “The faces of alienation” of Roberto Sambonet on display in Parma. The Dolomites and Siberia, mountains and an ice desert that seem to annihilate any possible form of rebellion, both physical and intellectual. The project Zhdat’ tells the story of these places through the vision of the photographer Fabio Pasini.

Science, culture and stories of water at the Masone Labyrinth. The project “Siamo Acqua” is under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic and under the High Patronage of the European Parliament.

From time to time, news agencies run a front-page headline: We Are Not Alone In The Universe on some celestial body water has been discovered, and if there’s water, then there is, or could be, life. We are all part of a great pool teeming with life that is the Hydrosphere. We are children of water; we are ourselves water. We are all part of a large bowl teeming with life, which is the hydrosphere.

The Labyrinth of Water 2018 is an ambitious program and as such susceptible to changes and changes.
Franco Maria Ricci and his team, together with the University of Parma, are working on a day full of scientific events and a calendar of conferences, seminars and other initiatives with the valuable and competent help of Luca Mercalli, President of the Meteorological Society Italian and director of the magazine Nimbus.

For further information: www.labirintodacque.it/en/

REVOLUTIONS. Rebellions, changes, utopias.

The new edition of Fotografia Europea is under the aegis of the “revolution of the gaze and vision”, one of the consequences that the birth of photography has determined. “REVOLUTIONS. Rebellions, changes, utopias “is the main theme of the thirteenth edition, curated by the Scientific Committee of the Palazzo Magnani Foundation – composed by Marzia Faietti, Marco Belpoliti, Vanni Codeluppi, Walter Guadagnini, Gerhard Wolf – under the Artistic Direction of Walter Guadagnini.

“The term revolution derives from the Latin revolution, which finds its root in the revolving verb. The common and widespread perception of the term is that, strictly linked to politics, of the violent rupture of a constituted order, in view of a radical change in the status quo.

These moments also bring with them the paradoxical aspect of the term revolution, understood as a moment that abruptly interrupts a process of change taking place […] and therefore has as immediate consequence a halt to evolution […] and not necessarily a progression. But the term revolution belongs to every field of human knowledge and action, to all those fundamental, epochal changes, whose traces persist well beyond the moment of their appearance. ”

For further information: www.fotografiaeuropea.it/en