500 paintings, coming from the Musei Civici storage area, are presented in a spectacular exhibition; an innovative exploration of the cultural heritage preserved by the institution. 146 the artists involved – the oldest born in 1874, the youngest in 1986 – on a path that connects the evolution of art and painting from the thirties to the present day.
For further information: musei.re/tuttoquadra
The excavation in the square – One house, one street, one town
Archaeological exhibition. On display are archaeological Roman and Medieval finds that have been discovered during restoration and renewal interventions of public areas – piazza della Vittoria – and remarkable private buildings – Palazzo Busetti, Palazzo del Carbone, via Guido Riccio da Fogliano, via Filippo Re – in the last five years in Reggio Emilia.
On display are also precious finds – the Roman-Barbaric Treasure – found in the 1950s.
For further information: events/loscavoinpiazza
New appointment for the project dedicated to the contemporary works of the Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia from the twentieth century to today that accompanies the reflection on the reallocation of the artistic collections on the second floor of the Palazzo dei Musei.
On May 4, open its doors the second part of the exhibition project, Tutto Tondo, dedicated to the heritage of sculptures and installations: 90 artists and 203 works coming from deposits not visible to the public.
The new path is located in the Portico dei Marmi – an ancient collection of memories of the city sculpture from the Romans to the Renaissance – its natural development site, in an unprecedented dimension of confrontation and dialogue that spark new suggestions and interpretations.
For further information: exhibition/tutto-tondo
The master of surrealism Joan Miró is arriving in Bologna, in the rooms of Palazzo Albergati.
The painter, sculptor and ceramist Joan Miró – one of the most important Spanish artists ever – is revealed in the exhibition MIRÓ! Sogno e colore (Mirò! Dream and colour) featuring over 130 works among oil paintings, drawings and sculptures.
The exceptional loans of the Pilar and Joan Mirò Foundation in Majorca are the undisputed protagonists of this exhibition, which is produced and organized by Arthemisia, with the support of Comune di Bologna.
The exhibition MIRÓ! Sogno e colore presents a transgressive, nonconformist and wild artist, as well as a Mirò more contemplative and poetic, who creates a universal, unique and personal language in order to escape from banality and conventionalism.
Mirò’s inner world, his way of thinking, the strong attachment to his roots and identity, the continuous search for the new, all of the above is on show starting in April in Bologna.
For further information: Events/miròdreamandcolour
“It starts with the firing” is the new site-specific project by Elisabetta Benassi for Collezione Maramotti.
The exhibition starts out in the city: five sentences printed on posters posted on the outskirts and on buses that cross the historic center of Reggio. They’re in English, they’re talking about bricks. From the outside to the inside, the posters accompany us in the exhibition space. Benassi’s works relate “objects” belonging to the site’s history – the first Max Mara factory, now the home of the Collection – with other appearances that are tied to a larger event, creating a series of “stages” in a path that can be freely composed by the spectator. Each room presents a work surviving the disappearance of the context that originally hosted her. The instability, the puzzles that these works propose, however, have nothing to do with vague; Instead, they point to something that is too familiar to us: the loss of confidence in the promises of technology, the posthumous world that comes after failures of both ideologies and their supposed remedies, abandonment to the dispersing forces, shrinking them, memories and communities .
The exhibition is presented at the European Photography Festival 2017.
For more information: elisabettabenassi/it-starts-with-the-firing
In the prestigious framework of Salone dei Giganti at Palazzo Bentivoglio, the great exhibition back in Gualtieri, initiated by Fondazione Museo Antonio Ligabue and Comune di Gualtieri.
50 Ligabue works of art and 120 Zavattini paintings are put together with an enriched documented heritage of both. These works are the proof of the magnificence of two great artists from the 20th Century, both coming from the lands of Po River. Ligabue and Zavattini are obsessed with eyes, with expressions. Ligabue sees himself like a tiger while Zavattini examine his face with intensity: it is not a coincidence that the self-portrait is the artistic expression that both prefer.
For further information: http://turismo.comune.re.it/en/gualtieri/obsession-of-the-look-zavattini-meets-ligabue
On the stage with a concert played with a bass tip with Emilia Belfiore and Claudia della Gatta – respectively violinist and cellist – Carmen Consoli embraces the acoustic guitar to propose a project of great intensity.
For further information: http://www.iteatri.re.it/Sezione
Fiorella Mannoia doubles in Reggio Emilia, thanks to the incredible success of “Combattente Tour”. After the sold out in April, the singer will be at the Valli Theater on December 20, during “Leggera”.
For further information: http://www.iteatri.re.it/Sezione
Postnaturalia is a complex sculptural installation made by the Czech sculptor Krištof Kintera, born in 1973 in Prague where he lives and works.
The title of the exhibition speaks for itself: the scenario in which our daily experience is inscribed as both individuals and a community does not belong to the natural world any longer. In the so-called “copper age”, based on the transmission of energy and information, nature is compared by Kintera to a huge nervous system; for this reason as well, his project is grafted in different spaces of the Collection as a living organism would do.
For further information: collezionemaramotti/postnaturalia
The Festival promoted by Fondazione Palazzo Magnani and the Municipality of Reggio Emilia will open on May 5th – 6th – 7th. Exhibitions will be accessible to public until July 9th.
The event attracts photographers, intellectuals, artists, philosophers and writers from all over the world, creating a meeting place where they can exchange ideas. Fotografia Europea gives the opportunity, through the image, to see the world as never seen before. The festival takes place in different locations of the city, both public and private, formal and informal, and it consists of a central core of exhibitions among which new ad hoc commissioned productions, related to a specific theme identified every year by the Scientific Committee. The exhibitions are accompanied by a rich program of events, conferences, screenings, workshops taking place in the best locations of the city: Chiostri di San Domenico, Chiostri di San Pietro, Palazzo Magnani, Palazzo Casotti, Palazzo dei Musei, Palazzo da Mosto, Galleria Parmeggiani e Spazio Gerra.
For further information: fotografiaeuropea.it/en/
