Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June to 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June at 17.00
The Attolico Collection, the result of decades of acquisitions of works first by Tommaso Lucherini (1891-1967) and then by his daughter Bianca Attolico (1931-2020), consists of approximately 500 works including sculptures and paintings ranging from artists of the 1920s (de Chirico, Balla, Sironi, Pirandello, Morandi, Mafai) to Neoavantgarde artists (Schifano, Pascali, De Dominicis, Manzoni, Mattiacci, Boetti, Mauri), Arte Povera (Calzolari, Kounellis), up to conceptual artists (Kosuth, LeWitt, Agnetti, Mochetti), exponents of the San Lorenzo School (Ceccobelli, Bianchi, Dessì, Nunzio, Gallo) or protagonists of our days (Kentridge, Sierra, Vezzoli, Muniz, Cattelan, Beecroft), just to name a few.
Already temporarily exhibited in public spaces in the past, following the formalisation of a loan agreement between the Municipality of Spoleto and Elena and Lorenzo Attolico (Bianca’s children and current managers of the collection, Elena also being the President of the Friends of Palazzo Collicola), part of the collection will now be housed in Palazzo Collicola in some rooms along the route of the ‘G. Carandente’ Gallery of Modern Art in Spoleto.
For its inauguration, a nucleus of works by important Italian artists not present in the museum’s permanent collection was selected, in agreement with the museum’s Director, Marco Tonelli, and thanks to the critical apparatus by Lorenzo Fiorucci and Davide Silvioli, tracing a synthetic and illustrative path of Italian art from the mid-1950s to the present day. By means of works by 11 artists (Burri, Castellani, Manzoni, Alviani, Agnetti, De Dominicis, Kounellis, Schifano, Vezzoli, Campanini and Arienti), the intention was to construct, without obviously philological aims but as exemplary cases, a path of modernity, innovation and experimentation that constituted the best Italian research in the artistic sphere, almost as if to form a multiform but equally eccentric and visionary gaze on the part of artists who are historicised or, as they are still living, undoubtedly destined to be so.
Of each of the selected artists, works have been chosen that can represent them in an unambiguous way, that is, according to those formal and linguistic traits that have distinguished their poetics despite the different styles, materials and periods in the course of their activity.
A true collection within a collection, therefore, that ideally covers, with works created between 1965 and 2002, the physiological “lacks” of the Gallery of Modern Art of Spoleto and that at the same time allows us to review works by protagonists of modern and contemporary Italian art, placed in a historical continuity and comparison with the works in the permanent collection of Spoleto, including Leoncillo, Pascali, Ceroli, Accardi, Griffa, Lo Savio, Mochetti, LeWitt, Calder, Pepper, Moore, Caro, David Smith.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Palazzo Collicola – Spoleto
25 June– 25 September 2022
a project by
Studio Eliseo Mattiacci
curated by
Riccardo Tonti Bandini
Sculptor Eliseo Mattiacci‘s archive and inspirations take shape in an exhibition and in the digital spaces of Instagram in the EMLibrary (Eliseo Mattiacci Library) project, developed by Studio Eliseo Mattiacci and exhibited at the Carandente Library.
Each section in the exhibition delves into a theme, entrusted to a different author who conveys the free associations between books and the sculptor’s work. Short teaser videos made by Marco Morici, with sound composed by Edoardo Rossano, summarize the iconographic kaleidoscope of each core. The “bibliography,” usually relegated to a background appendix, becomes the primary tool for investigating the work. Each theme, in addition to the books, carries with it a core of documents, notes, and images found within the books and “adjacent” to the theme. Generally, the critic is invited to write about a work or exhibition, and then the artist’s iconographic references are traced back. In this project the sense is reversed, the books become the window through which to look at the work.
Opening times:
from Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
curated by Marco Tonelli
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June – 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June at 17.00
Since the 1980s, Fabrizio Plessi has been experimentally and pioneeringly anticipating uses of the digital set design now widespread, and has created numerous electronic sets for television, theatre, contemporary dance or as stand-alone shows, including those of the trilogy of choreographer and director Frédéric Flamand’s The Fall of Icarus (1989), Titanic (1992) and Ex machina (1994), as well as Pirandello’s Dress the Undressed (2010), Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (2006) and Fenix DNA installed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice (2017).
The exhibition at Palazzo Collicola, realised in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (which first exhibited the electronic scenes of the trilogy at the Magazzini del Sale in March 2022), presents a digital reconstruction of the 6 most engaging and innovative electronic sets among the many realised in Plessi’s career, through films, photos, projects, drawings and notes by the artist, which projected onto as many reconstructions of monumental wooden and digital books flow like pages of memories and fantastic tales.
If the trilogy choreographed by Flamand metaphorically expresses the tensions, anxieties and catastrophes of contemporaneity, increasingly dependent on media and digital instrumentation, the theatre of Pirandello (transmitted on stage, together with the actors by monitor images) and Shakespeare (with costumes and high-speed helmets) has been revisited by Plessi with highly innovative and futuristic scenic installations, triggering suggestions that make them true works of total art, following the idea that the artist has been experimenting with since 1987 with the large installation Roma presented at Documenta in Kassel. It is Fenix DNA, an immersive work, dedicated to the rebirth of the Phoenix, that ideally closes the circle, staging the same primary and natural elements of the artist’s poetics, including fire, water and lightning. The large digital pages projected on monumental wooden books, with more than two hundred images inside them, immersed in the darkness of the rooms on the ground floor of Palazzo Collicola, in their flowing as if moved by the wind, give a sense of the design of the theatre works, revealing the very workshop of the artist’s creativity in its phases of gestation, inspiration, euphoria, fantasy and visionary spirit, demonstrating that the creative principle of the artist is still the sign that the hand traces on the sheet of paper.
Almost as if to tell us that at bottom the most intimate structure of Plessi’s work communicates and romantically stages, as in a dream that has never been interrupted, his instinctive passion for theatricality and the spectacular magic of art.
The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona and “Amici di Palazzo Collicola” association.
Opening hours Palazzo Collicola:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Curated by Flavia Mastrella and Marco Tonelli
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June – 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June 5 pm
A habitat of interactive sculptures, a documentary exhibition, an evolutionary path, a stage set, videos and photographs: this is Euforia Carogna, a project specifically conceived for the spaces of Palazzo Collicola and realised also thanks to the contribution of the Festival dei Due Mondi, in which Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella will take part with the performance Porte.
An exhibition with two artists/performers/writers/directors whose language moves between desecration and criticism, word and neurosis, form and experimentation, hybridising sound, noise, object, body in a continuous metamorphosis often taken to the limits of ‘cruelty’. As they themselves wrote for the occasion: “Having thirty-five years of work behind us and knowing that there will probably not be another thirty-five ahead of us would throw anyone into despair. But since it is us, we accept the verdict of time trusting to disprove it, because to experience freedom without the need to idealise it, is an opportunity that does not fear the uncertainty of the future’.
Euforia Carogna is in itself a ‘monstrum’ exhibition, that is to say a prodigy, which announces itself right from the museum’s entrance staircase and swaggering into the austere and noble spaces of Palazzo Collicola and its collection of paintings, mirrors, tapestries, wall paintings and antique furnishings, where history observes contemporaneity through the severe or passionate gazes of cardinals, saints, madonnas, martyrs, hanging on the walls of the Hall of Honour, the Chapel and all the 15 rooms in which the exhibition winds its way, culminating in a large installation, threadlike and transparent, suspended along the Painted Gallery.
The exhibition itself presents itself as one big performance, in which cycles of stage sculptures used in Fotofinish, blow-ups taken from some theatrical performances, books on wheels and handmade, Pictures of Light, Stage Paintings, Juggling Cards, Faces…Goths, musical instruments, fabric sculptures on mirrored sheets animate the space like fragile and impertinent intruders, while in some rooms videos, film fragments, theatrical actions and voices such as The Cry of the Centaur are projected. A sort of vain party of works and images, costumes and small habitats, inviting the spectator to participate, to touch, to play the creative and uninhibited game to which Rezza gives voice and body and Mastrella support and structure. Perfect balance between order and chaos, rigour and improvisation, RezzaMastrella’s habitat and stage machine are capable of invading space and being invaded by the audience, of soliciting and being solicited by our reactions. Inside the museum of Palazzo Collicola, their works thus take on the features of a true form of autonomous life, a pulsating organ, a creative anarchy planned down to the smallest detail.
The exhibition was also made possible thanks to the contribution of the Festival dei Due Mondi and the Sardegna Film Commission.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
A selection of Italian illustration in 100 works
and 20 artist’s books
Tricromia editions
Saturday 9 July 6 pm
presentation of the book La Cosa Rossa with the artist Manù Fiori
and art historian Maura Picciau
in collaboration with the handmade concept store A mano armata
Spoleto / Via del Mercato 19
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
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“Post-atomic BESTIARY”
Census of ancient and contemporary Bestiaries in the Spoleto area
Exhibition of “post-atomic” books and works by Studio ’87
Palazzo Mauri. Until 31 August 2022
free entrance
Mondays from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Some seventy appointments in less than two months including theatre, music, readings and art: this is the new programme of events that we have put together with the city’s associations and cultural institutions. It is a series of proposals that, in addition to accompanying us until September, aim to involve the historic centre of Spoleto with its theatres, museums and the beauty of its scenic spaces, the ideal setting for concerts, theatrical performances and, more generally, the cultural initiatives on the programme, but also the villages of our vast, marvellous territory so that participation in the various appointments can also be an opportunity to discover enchanting, if sometimes lesser-known, places and spaces.
The programme brings together the artistic proposals of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, La Mama Umbria, and our city library with those of the Festival delle Regioni, the Italian Federation of Amateur Theatre, and the Spoleto Back Beat, Opera Prima, Spoleto Social Sport and Amici delle Miniere associations, in addition to the theatrical and musical events that we will host at Spazio Collicola.
‘Accade d’estate a Spoleto’ thus gives a coherent image of the city’s cultural activism, with productions and artistic proposals capable of enhancing the programme of events scheduled over the next two months. The hope, as always, is to succeed in arousing interest and curiosity, a desire to share and participate in the events.
Mayor Andrea Sisti Councillor Danilo Chiodetti
ACCADE D’ESTATE A SPOLETO | PROGRAMME (PDF – ITA)
JULY 2022
Tuesday 12 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS AT THE PARK
by the city libraries
Wednesday 13 at 18.30
San Brizio
LEZIONI DI STRADA 1
Tommaso Giartosio on the theme MEMORIA E OBLIO (in collaboration with Pro Loco San Brizio)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific consulting by Lorenzo Pavolini
Thursday 14 at 21
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerts by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 15 at 21.15
Spazio Collicola
UNA FINESTRA SUL MONDO: SPOLETO CON SABOR A SALSA COLOMBIANA
curated by the Embassy of Colombia
Friday 15 to Sunday 24
SPOLETO ‘N FUN
Spoleto city stadium | The biggest aquapark in central Italy
Info www.spoletonfun.it | info@spoletonfun.it
Friday 15 to Wednesday 27
TERRITORI E VITIGNI AUTOCTONI: IL TREBBIANO SPOLETINO
Chiostro di San Nicolò and Palazzo Leti Sansi
by Umbria Wine Club
Saturday 16 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 1: AlloK! di Pallotto
Sorrisi Festival di Fontemaggiore
Sunday 17 at 19
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerts by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Tuesday 19 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS AT THE PARK
by the city libraries
Thursday 21 at 18.30
Beroide – green area
PAESI IN VERSI
by the city libraries
Thursday 21 at 19
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerti del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 22 at 18.30
Casina dell’Ippocastano
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 2: ANOUK
COMPAGNIA TPO a coproduction TEATRO METASTASIO DI PRATO
La Mama Umbria International
Saturday 23 at 21.30
Spazio Collicola
LA CITTÀ IDEALE
Meeting with Luigi Lo Cascio and Desideria Rayner
curated by Graziella Bildesheim
Sunday 24 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 3 : FUNGHI IN CITTÀ MARCOVALDO Compagnia Arterie Teatro
Figuratevi in…Valnerina – TIEFFEU
Sunday 24 at 18
Santa Maria Reggiana
Presentation of a book by Vincenzo Santoro
IL TARANTISMO MEDITERRANEO
following at 21
TARANTA CHE PASSIONE featuring MALICANTI in concert
organised by Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Monday 25 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – Meeting radio theatre
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Tuesday 26 at 17
Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci”
BORN TO READ
by the City Libraries
Tuesday 26 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – by OAMI Spoleto
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Tuesday 26 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
1861 – LA BRUTALE VERITA regia di Michele Carilli
Calabria – Compagnia CarMa
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Wednesday 27 at 18
Cinema Sala Pegasus
TEATRAPERITIVO – Pomeriggio con il Monologo
FESTA DEL TEATRO a cura di Fita Umbria
Wednesday 27 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
CARA MOGLIA directors Mario Pupillo and Emiliano Giancristofaro
Abruzzo – Compagnia Amici della ribalta
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Wednesday 27 at 21
Spazio Collicola
CARTOLINE DA QUI
RACCONTI QUASI METROPOLITANI
by Saverio Mariani
La MaMa RE_MAIN
Libro d’ingresso 2022
Ticket 8,00 €
Thursday 28 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – Accademia Barbanera book presentation, readings and music
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Thursday 28 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
SONO PERSONE Vlora 1001, director Nico Sciacqua
PUGLIA – Company VENTISETTEUNDICISETTANTANOVE
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Friday 29 at 18
Chiostro di San Nicolò
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI – Conference on local languages
by FITA Italy
Friday 29 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare
director Pino Costalunga
Veneto – Compagnia Teatro Immagine
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Saturday 30 at 21
Teatro Caio Melisso
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Gala evening featuring Teatro lirico sperimentale
AUGUST
Tuesday 2 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 2 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
THE BLUE BAND in concert
Wednesday 3 at 21
Spazio Collicola
QUINTORIGO & GINO CASTALDO “MINGUS 100: LA STORIA DI UN MITO”
“La Voce della Terra 2022”
by Visioninmusica
Thursday 4 at 18.30
LEZIONI DI STRADA 3 – Lorenzo Pavolini sul tema del RACCONTO DELLA NATURA (in collaborazione con la Pro Loco di Monteluco)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific advice by Lorenzo Pavolini in collaboration with Antonella Manni
Thursday 4 at 21
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
CONCERTS by TEATRO LIRICO SPERIMENTALE
Friday 5 at 21
Spazio Collicola
Docufilm presentation
LETTERS TO FRANCESCA – VINCENZO MARIA RIPPO
director STEFANO ALLEVA
by Associazione Spoleto Back Beat and Associazione Culturale Opera Prima Vincenzo Maria Rippo
Saturday 6 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artists in downtown Spoleto
by La Mama Umbria
Saturday 6 at 21
Spazio Collicola
ANDREA SCANZI & GIANLUCA DI FEBO
“E TI VENGO A CERCARE”
by Athanor Eventi
Info www.ticketitalia.com | Tel. 0743 222889
Sunday 7 to Monday 15
FERRAGOSTO SPOLETINO
organised by Proloco di Spoleto ‘A. Busetti’
Info www.prolocospoleto.it
Sunday 7 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artists in downtown Spoleto
by La Mama Umbria
Tuesday 9 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Wednesday 10 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
UNA FINESTRA SUL MONDO:
GOD’S FOOL Progetto performativo di Martha Clarke
A cura de La Mama Umbria
Thursday 11 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 4: CAROSELLO – Teatro Due Mondi
Sorrisi Festival di Fontemaggiore
Thursday 11 at 20.30
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 12 at 18.00
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 12 at 20.00
Fattoria Sociale (Loc. Protte 27- Spoleto)
LUPUS IN FABULA. STORIE DI LUNA PIENA
spettacolo (e cena al chiaro di luna)
regia L. G. Santiago
A seguire esibizione di Martha Clarke
La MaMa RE_MAIN
Libro d’ingresso 2022
Costo euro 20,00 (inclusa cena)
Saturday 13 at 12 and 20.30
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Saturday 13 at 21
Piazza di Rapicciano
L’ANGELO AZZURRO
Musiche di Piazzolla e Puccini
Concerto di Umbria Ensemble
Suoni di boschi e d’abbazie
Saturday 13 at 21
Morgnano Mines’ Museum – Pozzo Orlando
LEZIONI DI STRADA 2 – Angelo Ferracuti on the topic of WORKERS’ CULTURES (in collaboration with Associazione Amici delle Miniere)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific advice by Lorenzo Pavolini in collaboration with Antonella Manni
Thursday 18 at 21
Spazio Collicola
DANIELE DI BONAVENTURA in
GAROFANI ROSSI
Omaggio a Gian Carlo Menotti
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Saturday 20 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Saturday 20 at 19
Roof Garden – Piazza Campello
CONCERTO AL TRAMONTO
di Umbria Ensemble
Sunday 21 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Sunday 21 at 21
LA RELIGIONE DEL MIO TEMPO
Spazio Collicola
lettura scenica di Pier Paolo Pasolini interpretata da Pierpaolo Capovilla
Monday 22 at 21
Spazio Collicola
THE SMOOTHERS IN CONCERT
Tuesday 23 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Friday 26 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 5: CENERENTOLA
Compagnia Granteatro di Bari
Saturday 27 at 6.15
Rocca Albornoz
CONCERTO ALL’ALBA di UmbriaEnsemble
Suoni di boschi e d’abbazie
Saturday 27 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Saturday 27 at 18.30
Recinto funerario di Cortaccione
CONCERTO DI EGIDIO FLAMINI
Green Music Festival
Sunday 28 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Sunday 28 at 21
Spazio Collicola
ECHOES SUSTAIN ABLE feat. ROBERTO ZECHINI
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Monday 29 at 21
Terzo San Severo – green area
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 30 at 17
Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci”
BORN TO READ
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 30 at 21
Spazio Collicola
SIMONE LOCARNI TRIO feat. YURI GOUBOLEV & FABRIZIO SFERRA
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
(Premio Fondazione Giulio Loreti a Simone Locarni come miglior talento jazz europeo 2022) in collaborazione con SPOLETO EUROPE JAZZ AWARD
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
SEPTEMBER
Saturday 3 at 18.30
CONCERT by QUINTETTO ITALIANO DI CLARINETTI SOLITAIRE ENSEMBLE
Spazio Collicola
Sunday 4 at 10
Roof Garden – Piazza Campello
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Thursday 8 at 21
Spazio Collicola
TEKNA feat GREG BURKE, JOE REHMER, JOHN B. ARNOLD special guest FABIO RECCHIA
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
organised by Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
A selection of Italian illustration in 100 works
and 20 artist’s books
Tricromia editions
Saturday 9 July 6 pm
presentation of the book La Cosa Rossa with the artist Manù Fiori
and art historian Maura Picciau
in collaboration with the handmade concept store A mano armata
Spoleto / Via del Mercato 19
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620
Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
cinemasalafrau@gmail.com
Ph. 0743/522177
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“Post-atomic BESTIARY”
Census of ancient and contemporary Bestiaries in the Spoleto area
Exhibition of “post-atomic” books and works by Studio ’87
Palazzo Mauri. Until 31 August 2022
free entrance
Mondays from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Some seventy appointments in less than two months including theatre, music, readings and art: this is the new programme of events that we have put together with the city’s associations and cultural institutions. It is a series of proposals that, in addition to accompanying us until September, aim to involve the historic centre of Spoleto with its theatres, museums and the beauty of its scenic spaces, the ideal setting for concerts, theatrical performances and, more generally, the cultural initiatives on the programme, but also the villages of our vast, marvellous territory so that participation in the various appointments can also be an opportunity to discover enchanting, if sometimes lesser-known, places and spaces.
The programme brings together the artistic proposals of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, La Mama Umbria, and our city library with those of the Festival delle Regioni, the Italian Federation of Amateur Theatre, and the Spoleto Back Beat, Opera Prima, Spoleto Social Sport and Amici delle Miniere associations, in addition to the theatrical and musical events that we will host at Spazio Collicola.
‘Accade d’estate a Spoleto’ thus gives a coherent image of the city’s cultural activism, with productions and artistic proposals capable of enhancing the programme of events scheduled over the next two months. The hope, as always, is to succeed in arousing interest and curiosity, a desire to share and participate in the events.
Mayor Andrea Sisti Councillor Danilo Chiodetti
ACCADE D’ESTATE A SPOLETO | PROGRAMME (PDF – ITA)
JULY 2022
Tuesday 12 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS AT THE PARK
by the city libraries
Wednesday 13 at 18.30
San Brizio
LEZIONI DI STRADA 1
Tommaso Giartosio on the theme MEMORIA E OBLIO (in collaboration with Pro Loco San Brizio)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific consulting by Lorenzo Pavolini
Thursday 14 at 21
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerts by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 15 at 21.15
Spazio Collicola
UNA FINESTRA SUL MONDO: SPOLETO CON SABOR A SALSA COLOMBIANA
curated by the Embassy of Colombia
Friday 15 to Sunday 24
SPOLETO ‘N FUN
Spoleto city stadium | The biggest aquapark in central Italy
Info www.spoletonfun.it | info@spoletonfun.it
Friday 15 to Wednesday 27
TERRITORI E VITIGNI AUTOCTONI: IL TREBBIANO SPOLETINO
Chiostro di San Nicolò and Palazzo Leti Sansi
by Umbria Wine Club
Saturday 16 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 1: AlloK! di Pallotto
Sorrisi Festival di Fontemaggiore
Sunday 17 at 19
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerts by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Tuesday 19 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS AT THE PARK
by the city libraries
Thursday 21 at 18.30
Beroide – green area
PAESI IN VERSI
by the city libraries
Thursday 21 at 19
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerti del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 22 at 18.30
Casina dell’Ippocastano
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 2: ANOUK
COMPAGNIA TPO a coproduction TEATRO METASTASIO DI PRATO
La Mama Umbria International
Saturday 23 at 21.30
Spazio Collicola
LA CITTÀ IDEALE
Meeting with Luigi Lo Cascio and Desideria Rayner
curated by Graziella Bildesheim
Sunday 24 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 3 : FUNGHI IN CITTÀ MARCOVALDO Compagnia Arterie Teatro
Figuratevi in…Valnerina – TIEFFEU
Sunday 24 at 18
Santa Maria Reggiana
Presentation of a book by Vincenzo Santoro
IL TARANTISMO MEDITERRANEO
following at 21
TARANTA CHE PASSIONE featuring MALICANTI in concert
organised by Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Monday 25 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – Meeting radio theatre
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Tuesday 26 at 17
Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci”
BORN TO READ
by the City Libraries
Tuesday 26 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – by OAMI Spoleto
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Tuesday 26 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
1861 – LA BRUTALE VERITA regia di Michele Carilli
Calabria – Compagnia CarMa
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Wednesday 27 at 18
Cinema Sala Pegasus
TEATRAPERITIVO – Pomeriggio con il Monologo
FESTA DEL TEATRO a cura di Fita Umbria
Wednesday 27 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
CARA MOGLIA directors Mario Pupillo and Emiliano Giancristofaro
Abruzzo – Compagnia Amici della ribalta
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Wednesday 27 at 21
Spazio Collicola
CARTOLINE DA QUI
RACCONTI QUASI METROPOLITANI
by Saverio Mariani
La MaMa RE_MAIN
Libro d’ingresso 2022
Ticket 8,00 €
Thursday 28 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – Accademia Barbanera book presentation, readings and music
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Thursday 28 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
SONO PERSONE Vlora 1001, director Nico Sciacqua
PUGLIA – Company VENTISETTEUNDICISETTANTANOVE
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Friday 29 at 18
Chiostro di San Nicolò
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI – Conference on local languages
by FITA Italy
Friday 29 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare
director Pino Costalunga
Veneto – Compagnia Teatro Immagine
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Saturday 30 at 21
Teatro Caio Melisso
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Gala evening featuring Teatro lirico sperimentale
AUGUST
Tuesday 2 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 2 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
THE BLUE BAND in concert
Wednesday 3 at 21
Spazio Collicola
QUINTORIGO & GINO CASTALDO “MINGUS 100: LA STORIA DI UN MITO”
“La Voce della Terra 2022”
by Visioninmusica
Thursday 4 at 18.30
LEZIONI DI STRADA 3 – Lorenzo Pavolini sul tema del RACCONTO DELLA NATURA (in collaborazione con la Pro Loco di Monteluco)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific advice by Lorenzo Pavolini in collaboration with Antonella Manni
Thursday 4 at 21
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
CONCERTS by TEATRO LIRICO SPERIMENTALE
Friday 5 at 21
Spazio Collicola
Docufilm presentation
LETTERS TO FRANCESCA – VINCENZO MARIA RIPPO
director STEFANO ALLEVA
by Associazione Spoleto Back Beat and Associazione Culturale Opera Prima Vincenzo Maria Rippo
Saturday 6 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artists in downtown Spoleto
by La Mama Umbria
Saturday 6 at 21
Spazio Collicola
ANDREA SCANZI & GIANLUCA DI FEBO
“E TI VENGO A CERCARE”
by Athanor Eventi
Info www.ticketitalia.com | Tel. 0743 222889
Sunday 7 to Monday 15
FERRAGOSTO SPOLETINO
organised by Proloco di Spoleto ‘A. Busetti’
Info www.prolocospoleto.it
Sunday 7 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artists in downtown Spoleto
by La Mama Umbria
Tuesday 9 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Wednesday 10 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
UNA FINESTRA SUL MONDO:
GOD’S FOOL Progetto performativo di Martha Clarke
A cura de La Mama Umbria
Thursday 11 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 4: CAROSELLO – Teatro Due Mondi
Sorrisi Festival di Fontemaggiore
Thursday 11 at 20.30
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 12 at 18.00
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 12 at 20.00
Fattoria Sociale (Loc. Protte 27- Spoleto)
LUPUS IN FABULA. STORIE DI LUNA PIENA
spettacolo (e cena al chiaro di luna)
regia L. G. Santiago
A seguire esibizione di Martha Clarke
La MaMa RE_MAIN
Libro d’ingresso 2022
Costo euro 20,00 (inclusa cena)
Saturday 13 at 12 and 20.30
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Saturday 13 at 21
Piazza di Rapicciano
L’ANGELO AZZURRO
Musiche di Piazzolla e Puccini
Concerto di Umbria Ensemble
Suoni di boschi e d’abbazie
Saturday 13 at 21
Morgnano Mines’ Museum – Pozzo Orlando
LEZIONI DI STRADA 2 – Angelo Ferracuti on the topic of WORKERS’ CULTURES (in collaboration with Associazione Amici delle Miniere)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific advice by Lorenzo Pavolini in collaboration with Antonella Manni
Thursday 18 at 21
Spazio Collicola
DANIELE DI BONAVENTURA in
GAROFANI ROSSI
Omaggio a Gian Carlo Menotti
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Saturday 20 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Saturday 20 at 19
Roof Garden – Piazza Campello
CONCERTO AL TRAMONTO
di Umbria Ensemble
Sunday 21 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Sunday 21 at 21
LA RELIGIONE DEL MIO TEMPO
Spazio Collicola
lettura scenica di Pier Paolo Pasolini interpretata da Pierpaolo Capovilla
Monday 22 at 21
Spazio Collicola
THE SMOOTHERS IN CONCERT
Tuesday 23 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Friday 26 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 5: CENERENTOLA
Compagnia Granteatro di Bari
Saturday 27 at 6.15
Rocca Albornoz
CONCERTO ALL’ALBA di UmbriaEnsemble
Suoni di boschi e d’abbazie
Saturday 27 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Saturday 27 at 18.30
Recinto funerario di Cortaccione
CONCERTO DI EGIDIO FLAMINI
Green Music Festival
Sunday 28 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Sunday 28 at 21
Spazio Collicola
ECHOES SUSTAIN ABLE feat. ROBERTO ZECHINI
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Monday 29 at 21
Terzo San Severo – green area
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 30 at 17
Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci”
BORN TO READ
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 30 at 21
Spazio Collicola
SIMONE LOCARNI TRIO feat. YURI GOUBOLEV & FABRIZIO SFERRA
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
(Premio Fondazione Giulio Loreti a Simone Locarni come miglior talento jazz europeo 2022) in collaborazione con SPOLETO EUROPE JAZZ AWARD
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
SEPTEMBER
Saturday 3 at 18.30
CONCERT by QUINTETTO ITALIANO DI CLARINETTI SOLITAIRE ENSEMBLE
Spazio Collicola
Sunday 4 at 10
Roof Garden – Piazza Campello
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Thursday 8 at 21
Spazio Collicola
TEKNA feat GREG BURKE, JOE REHMER, JOHN B. ARNOLD special guest FABIO RECCHIA
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
organised by Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June to 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June at 17.00
The Attolico Collection, the result of decades of acquisitions of works first by Tommaso Lucherini (1891-1967) and then by his daughter Bianca Attolico (1931-2020), consists of approximately 500 works including sculptures and paintings ranging from artists of the 1920s (de Chirico, Balla, Sironi, Pirandello, Morandi, Mafai) to Neoavantgarde artists (Schifano, Pascali, De Dominicis, Manzoni, Mattiacci, Boetti, Mauri), Arte Povera (Calzolari, Kounellis), up to conceptual artists (Kosuth, LeWitt, Agnetti, Mochetti), exponents of the San Lorenzo School (Ceccobelli, Bianchi, Dessì, Nunzio, Gallo) or protagonists of our days (Kentridge, Sierra, Vezzoli, Muniz, Cattelan, Beecroft), just to name a few.
Already temporarily exhibited in public spaces in the past, following the formalisation of a loan agreement between the Municipality of Spoleto and Elena and Lorenzo Attolico (Bianca’s children and current managers of the collection, Elena also being the President of the Friends of Palazzo Collicola), part of the collection will now be housed in Palazzo Collicola in some rooms along the route of the ‘G. Carandente’ Gallery of Modern Art in Spoleto.
For its inauguration, a nucleus of works by important Italian artists not present in the museum’s permanent collection was selected, in agreement with the museum’s Director, Marco Tonelli, and thanks to the critical apparatus by Lorenzo Fiorucci and Davide Silvioli, tracing a synthetic and illustrative path of Italian art from the mid-1950s to the present day. By means of works by 11 artists (Burri, Castellani, Manzoni, Alviani, Agnetti, De Dominicis, Kounellis, Schifano, Vezzoli, Campanini and Arienti), the intention was to construct, without obviously philological aims but as exemplary cases, a path of modernity, innovation and experimentation that constituted the best Italian research in the artistic sphere, almost as if to form a multiform but equally eccentric and visionary gaze on the part of artists who are historicised or, as they are still living, undoubtedly destined to be so.
Of each of the selected artists, works have been chosen that can represent them in an unambiguous way, that is, according to those formal and linguistic traits that have distinguished their poetics despite the different styles, materials and periods in the course of their activity.
A true collection within a collection, therefore, that ideally covers, with works created between 1965 and 2002, the physiological “lacks” of the Gallery of Modern Art of Spoleto and that at the same time allows us to review works by protagonists of modern and contemporary Italian art, placed in a historical continuity and comparison with the works in the permanent collection of Spoleto, including Leoncillo, Pascali, Ceroli, Accardi, Griffa, Lo Savio, Mochetti, LeWitt, Calder, Pepper, Moore, Caro, David Smith.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Palazzo Collicola – Spoleto
25 June– 25 September 2022
a project by
Studio Eliseo Mattiacci
curated by
Riccardo Tonti Bandini
Sculptor Eliseo Mattiacci‘s archive and inspirations take shape in an exhibition and in the digital spaces of Instagram in the EMLibrary (Eliseo Mattiacci Library) project, developed by Studio Eliseo Mattiacci and exhibited at the Carandente Library.
Each section in the exhibition delves into a theme, entrusted to a different author who conveys the free associations between books and the sculptor’s work. Short teaser videos made by Marco Morici, with sound composed by Edoardo Rossano, summarize the iconographic kaleidoscope of each core. The “bibliography,” usually relegated to a background appendix, becomes the primary tool for investigating the work. Each theme, in addition to the books, carries with it a core of documents, notes, and images found within the books and “adjacent” to the theme. Generally, the critic is invited to write about a work or exhibition, and then the artist’s iconographic references are traced back. In this project the sense is reversed, the books become the window through which to look at the work.
Opening times:
from Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Friday 24 June – Saturday 16 July 2022
POLID’ARTE GALLERY
Via del Duomo, 27 – Piazza della Signoria, 5
by Annamaria Polidori
with the collaboration of Sandro Costanzi
and the friendly participation of Antonella Manni
From Friday 24 June to Saturday 16 July 2022, on the occasion of the sixty-fifth edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi, eleven artists of different nationalities, linked by artistic or personal affinity, will meet in Spoleto in the spaces of the Polid arte Gallery for the exhibition Exposed to fortuitous consequences under the patronage of the Municipality of Spoleto: works by Alì Assaf, Myriam Laplante, Virginia Ryan, Georgina Spengler, Franco Troiani, Jeffrey Isaac, Nyla Van Ingen, Gianluca Esposito, Olmo Amato and Marina Haas, Serafino Amato (coordinator).
Vernissage: Friday 24 June, 17:30
Opening: Wednesday to Sunday: 10 am – 1 pm; 4:30 pm – 8 pm
Finissage: Saturday 16 July, 17:30
Free admission
Presentation
Dreams often take the form of hallucination or bizarre representation.
One of my recurring dreams, please do not elaborate, is to find myself in front of a table full of diners but lacking clothing in the part hidden by the table. Half-dressed or half naked. The thing in the dream produces extreme embarrassment for me. But isn’t this what has happened in recent years in remote meetings? Remote: a word that in Italian expresses a remoteness beyond distance.
The improbable, what seemed to belong to the sphere of the dream, has become reality. The dream has been downgraded to possibility, fortuitous chance, reducing its consequences to the unconscious level. Because, the unimaginable, when it becomes repetitive, loses depth.
To see the works, it seems that where the dream does not reach, imagination and a spirit of rebellion develops in the artist. After all, rebellion is something organic, something that every artist has experienced. Even simply by hiding the same rebellion behind sanitizers, ginger, or good luck charms.
In these last years, every form of survival-related alchemy has been experimented with. And, among the alchemies that enable survival and especially the descent of ideas, not species, is the work of art.
For each artist, in his or her own way, reinterprets his or her dreams, nightmares, in a key of acceptability. We are all, as the title of the exhibition says, “exposed” to fortuitous not just randomness but consequences.
Because a few meters of distance, a few coincidences, still make and will forever make a difference. (S.A)
curated by Marco Tonelli
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June – 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June at 17.00
Since the 1980s, Fabrizio Plessi has been experimentally and pioneeringly anticipating uses of the digital set design now widespread, and has created numerous electronic sets for television, theatre, contemporary dance or as stand-alone shows, including those of the trilogy of choreographer and director Frédéric Flamand’s The Fall of Icarus (1989), Titanic (1992) and Ex machina (1994), as well as Pirandello’s Dress the Undressed (2010), Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (2006) and Fenix DNA installed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice (2017).
The exhibition at Palazzo Collicola, realised in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (which first exhibited the electronic scenes of the trilogy at the Magazzini del Sale in March 2022), presents a digital reconstruction of the 6 most engaging and innovative electronic sets among the many realised in Plessi’s career, through films, photos, projects, drawings and notes by the artist, which projected onto as many reconstructions of monumental wooden and digital books flow like pages of memories and fantastic tales.
If the trilogy choreographed by Flamand metaphorically expresses the tensions, anxieties and catastrophes of contemporaneity, increasingly dependent on media and digital instrumentation, the theatre of Pirandello (transmitted on stage, together with the actors by monitor images) and Shakespeare (with costumes and high-speed helmets) has been revisited by Plessi with highly innovative and futuristic scenic installations, triggering suggestions that make them true works of total art, following the idea that the artist has been experimenting with since 1987 with the large installation Roma presented at Documenta in Kassel. It is Fenix DNA, an immersive work, dedicated to the rebirth of the Phoenix, that ideally closes the circle, staging the same primary and natural elements of the artist’s poetics, including fire, water and lightning. The large digital pages projected on monumental wooden books, with more than two hundred images inside them, immersed in the darkness of the rooms on the ground floor of Palazzo Collicola, in their flowing as if moved by the wind, give a sense of the design of the theatre works, revealing the very workshop of the artist’s creativity in its phases of gestation, inspiration, euphoria, fantasy and visionary spirit, demonstrating that the creative principle of the artist is still the sign that the hand traces on the sheet of paper.
Almost as if to tell us that at bottom the most intimate structure of Plessi’s work communicates and romantically stages, as in a dream that has never been interrupted, his instinctive passion for theatricality and the spectacular magic of art.
The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona and “Amici di Palazzo Collicola” association.
Opening hours Palazzo Collicola:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Curated by Flavia Mastrella and Marco Tonelli
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June – 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June 5 pm
A habitat of interactive sculptures, a documentary exhibition, an evolutionary path, a stage set, videos and photographs: this is Euforia Carogna, a project specifically conceived for the spaces of Palazzo Collicola and realised also thanks to the contribution of the Festival dei Due Mondi, in which Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella will take part with the performance Porte.
An exhibition with two artists/performers/writers/directors whose language moves between desecration and criticism, word and neurosis, form and experimentation, hybridising sound, noise, object, body in a continuous metamorphosis often taken to the limits of ‘cruelty’. As they themselves wrote for the occasion: “Having thirty-five years of work behind us and knowing that there will probably not be another thirty-five ahead of us would throw anyone into despair. But since it is us, we accept the verdict of time trusting to disprove it, because to experience freedom without the need to idealise it, is an opportunity that does not fear the uncertainty of the future’.
Euforia Carogna is in itself a ‘monstrum’ exhibition, that is to say a prodigy, which announces itself right from the museum’s entrance staircase and swaggering into the austere and noble spaces of Palazzo Collicola and its collection of paintings, mirrors, tapestries, wall paintings and antique furnishings, where history observes contemporaneity through the severe or passionate gazes of cardinals, saints, madonnas, martyrs, hanging on the walls of the Hall of Honour, the Chapel and all the 15 rooms in which the exhibition winds its way, culminating in a large installation, threadlike and transparent, suspended along the Painted Gallery.
The exhibition itself presents itself as one big performance, in which cycles of stage sculptures used in Fotofinish, blow-ups taken from some theatrical performances, books on wheels and handmade, Pictures of Light, Stage Paintings, Juggling Cards, Faces…Goths, musical instruments, fabric sculptures on mirrored sheets animate the space like fragile and impertinent intruders, while in some rooms videos, film fragments, theatrical actions and voices such as The Cry of the Centaur are projected. A sort of vain party of works and images, costumes and small habitats, inviting the spectator to participate, to touch, to play the creative and uninhibited game to which Rezza gives voice and body and Mastrella support and structure. Perfect balance between order and chaos, rigour and improvisation, RezzaMastrella’s habitat and stage machine are capable of invading space and being invaded by the audience, of soliciting and being solicited by our reactions. Inside the museum of Palazzo Collicola, their works thus take on the features of a true form of autonomous life, a pulsating organ, a creative anarchy planned down to the smallest detail.
The exhibition was also made possible thanks to the contribution of the Festival dei Due Mondi and the Sardegna Film Commission.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
A selection of Italian illustration in 100 works
and 20 artist’s books
Tricromia editions
Saturday 9 July 6 pm
presentation of the book La Cosa Rossa with the artist Manù Fiori
and art historian Maura Picciau
in collaboration with the handmade concept store A mano armata
Spoleto / Via del Mercato 19
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
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Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
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“Post-atomic BESTIARY”
Census of ancient and contemporary Bestiaries in the Spoleto area
Exhibition of “post-atomic” books and works by Studio ’87
Palazzo Mauri. Until 31 August 2022
free entrance
Mondays from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Some seventy appointments in less than two months including theatre, music, readings and art: this is the new programme of events that we have put together with the city’s associations and cultural institutions. It is a series of proposals that, in addition to accompanying us until September, aim to involve the historic centre of Spoleto with its theatres, museums and the beauty of its scenic spaces, the ideal setting for concerts, theatrical performances and, more generally, the cultural initiatives on the programme, but also the villages of our vast, marvellous territory so that participation in the various appointments can also be an opportunity to discover enchanting, if sometimes lesser-known, places and spaces.
The programme brings together the artistic proposals of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, La Mama Umbria, and our city library with those of the Festival delle Regioni, the Italian Federation of Amateur Theatre, and the Spoleto Back Beat, Opera Prima, Spoleto Social Sport and Amici delle Miniere associations, in addition to the theatrical and musical events that we will host at Spazio Collicola.
‘Accade d’estate a Spoleto’ thus gives a coherent image of the city’s cultural activism, with productions and artistic proposals capable of enhancing the programme of events scheduled over the next two months. The hope, as always, is to succeed in arousing interest and curiosity, a desire to share and participate in the events.
Mayor Andrea Sisti Councillor Danilo Chiodetti
ACCADE D’ESTATE A SPOLETO | PROGRAMME (PDF – ITA)
JULY 2022
Tuesday 12 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS AT THE PARK
by the city libraries
Wednesday 13 at 18.30
San Brizio
LEZIONI DI STRADA 1
Tommaso Giartosio on the theme MEMORIA E OBLIO (in collaboration with Pro Loco San Brizio)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific consulting by Lorenzo Pavolini
Thursday 14 at 21
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerts by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 15 at 21.15
Spazio Collicola
UNA FINESTRA SUL MONDO: SPOLETO CON SABOR A SALSA COLOMBIANA
curated by the Embassy of Colombia
Friday 15 to Sunday 24
SPOLETO ‘N FUN
Spoleto city stadium | The biggest aquapark in central Italy
Info www.spoletonfun.it | info@spoletonfun.it
Friday 15 to Wednesday 27
TERRITORI E VITIGNI AUTOCTONI: IL TREBBIANO SPOLETINO
Chiostro di San Nicolò and Palazzo Leti Sansi
by Umbria Wine Club
Saturday 16 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 1: AlloK! di Pallotto
Sorrisi Festival di Fontemaggiore
Sunday 17 at 19
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerts by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Tuesday 19 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS AT THE PARK
by the city libraries
Thursday 21 at 18.30
Beroide – green area
PAESI IN VERSI
by the city libraries
Thursday 21 at 19
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerti del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 22 at 18.30
Casina dell’Ippocastano
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 2: ANOUK
COMPAGNIA TPO a coproduction TEATRO METASTASIO DI PRATO
La Mama Umbria International
Saturday 23 at 21.30
Spazio Collicola
LA CITTÀ IDEALE
Meeting with Luigi Lo Cascio and Desideria Rayner
curated by Graziella Bildesheim
Sunday 24 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 3 : FUNGHI IN CITTÀ MARCOVALDO Compagnia Arterie Teatro
Figuratevi in…Valnerina – TIEFFEU
Sunday 24 at 18
Santa Maria Reggiana
Presentation of a book by Vincenzo Santoro
IL TARANTISMO MEDITERRANEO
following at 21
TARANTA CHE PASSIONE featuring MALICANTI in concert
organised by Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Monday 25 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – Meeting radio theatre
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Tuesday 26 at 17
Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci”
BORN TO READ
by the City Libraries
Tuesday 26 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – by OAMI Spoleto
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Tuesday 26 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
1861 – LA BRUTALE VERITA regia di Michele Carilli
Calabria – Compagnia CarMa
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Wednesday 27 at 18
Cinema Sala Pegasus
TEATRAPERITIVO – Pomeriggio con il Monologo
FESTA DEL TEATRO a cura di Fita Umbria
Wednesday 27 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
CARA MOGLIA directors Mario Pupillo and Emiliano Giancristofaro
Abruzzo – Compagnia Amici della ribalta
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Wednesday 27 at 21
Spazio Collicola
CARTOLINE DA QUI
RACCONTI QUASI METROPOLITANI
by Saverio Mariani
La MaMa RE_MAIN
Libro d’ingresso 2022
Ticket 8,00 €
Thursday 28 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – Accademia Barbanera book presentation, readings and music
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Thursday 28 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
SONO PERSONE Vlora 1001, director Nico Sciacqua
PUGLIA – Company VENTISETTEUNDICISETTANTANOVE
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Friday 29 at 18
Chiostro di San Nicolò
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI – Conference on local languages
by FITA Italy
Friday 29 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare
director Pino Costalunga
Veneto – Compagnia Teatro Immagine
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Saturday 30 at 21
Teatro Caio Melisso
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Gala evening featuring Teatro lirico sperimentale
AUGUST
Tuesday 2 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 2 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
THE BLUE BAND in concert
Wednesday 3 at 21
Spazio Collicola
QUINTORIGO & GINO CASTALDO “MINGUS 100: LA STORIA DI UN MITO”
“La Voce della Terra 2022”
by Visioninmusica
Thursday 4 at 18.30
LEZIONI DI STRADA 3 – Lorenzo Pavolini sul tema del RACCONTO DELLA NATURA (in collaborazione con la Pro Loco di Monteluco)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific advice by Lorenzo Pavolini in collaboration with Antonella Manni
Thursday 4 at 21
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
CONCERTS by TEATRO LIRICO SPERIMENTALE
Friday 5 at 21
Spazio Collicola
Docufilm presentation
LETTERS TO FRANCESCA – VINCENZO MARIA RIPPO
director STEFANO ALLEVA
by Associazione Spoleto Back Beat and Associazione Culturale Opera Prima Vincenzo Maria Rippo
Saturday 6 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artists in downtown Spoleto
by La Mama Umbria
Saturday 6 at 21
Spazio Collicola
ANDREA SCANZI & GIANLUCA DI FEBO
“E TI VENGO A CERCARE”
by Athanor Eventi
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Sunday 7 to Monday 15
FERRAGOSTO SPOLETINO
organised by Proloco di Spoleto ‘A. Busetti’
Info www.prolocospoleto.it
Sunday 7 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artists in downtown Spoleto
by La Mama Umbria
Tuesday 9 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Wednesday 10 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
UNA FINESTRA SUL MONDO:
GOD’S FOOL Progetto performativo di Martha Clarke
A cura de La Mama Umbria
Thursday 11 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 4: CAROSELLO – Teatro Due Mondi
Sorrisi Festival di Fontemaggiore
Thursday 11 at 20.30
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 12 at 18.00
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 12 at 20.00
Fattoria Sociale (Loc. Protte 27- Spoleto)
LUPUS IN FABULA. STORIE DI LUNA PIENA
spettacolo (e cena al chiaro di luna)
regia L. G. Santiago
A seguire esibizione di Martha Clarke
La MaMa RE_MAIN
Libro d’ingresso 2022
Costo euro 20,00 (inclusa cena)
Saturday 13 at 12 and 20.30
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Saturday 13 at 21
Piazza di Rapicciano
L’ANGELO AZZURRO
Musiche di Piazzolla e Puccini
Concerto di Umbria Ensemble
Suoni di boschi e d’abbazie
Saturday 13 at 21
Morgnano Mines’ Museum – Pozzo Orlando
LEZIONI DI STRADA 2 – Angelo Ferracuti on the topic of WORKERS’ CULTURES (in collaboration with Associazione Amici delle Miniere)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific advice by Lorenzo Pavolini in collaboration with Antonella Manni
Thursday 18 at 21
Spazio Collicola
DANIELE DI BONAVENTURA in
GAROFANI ROSSI
Omaggio a Gian Carlo Menotti
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Saturday 20 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Saturday 20 at 19
Roof Garden – Piazza Campello
CONCERTO AL TRAMONTO
di Umbria Ensemble
Sunday 21 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Sunday 21 at 21
LA RELIGIONE DEL MIO TEMPO
Spazio Collicola
lettura scenica di Pier Paolo Pasolini interpretata da Pierpaolo Capovilla
Monday 22 at 21
Spazio Collicola
THE SMOOTHERS IN CONCERT
Tuesday 23 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Friday 26 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 5: CENERENTOLA
Compagnia Granteatro di Bari
Saturday 27 at 6.15
Rocca Albornoz
CONCERTO ALL’ALBA di UmbriaEnsemble
Suoni di boschi e d’abbazie
Saturday 27 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Saturday 27 at 18.30
Recinto funerario di Cortaccione
CONCERTO DI EGIDIO FLAMINI
Green Music Festival
Sunday 28 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Sunday 28 at 21
Spazio Collicola
ECHOES SUSTAIN ABLE feat. ROBERTO ZECHINI
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Monday 29 at 21
Terzo San Severo – green area
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 30 at 17
Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci”
BORN TO READ
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 30 at 21
Spazio Collicola
SIMONE LOCARNI TRIO feat. YURI GOUBOLEV & FABRIZIO SFERRA
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
(Premio Fondazione Giulio Loreti a Simone Locarni come miglior talento jazz europeo 2022) in collaborazione con SPOLETO EUROPE JAZZ AWARD
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
SEPTEMBER
Saturday 3 at 18.30
CONCERT by QUINTETTO ITALIANO DI CLARINETTI SOLITAIRE ENSEMBLE
Spazio Collicola
Sunday 4 at 10
Roof Garden – Piazza Campello
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Thursday 8 at 21
Spazio Collicola
TEKNA feat GREG BURKE, JOE REHMER, JOHN B. ARNOLD special guest FABIO RECCHIA
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
organised by Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June to 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June at 17.00
The Attolico Collection, the result of decades of acquisitions of works first by Tommaso Lucherini (1891-1967) and then by his daughter Bianca Attolico (1931-2020), consists of approximately 500 works including sculptures and paintings ranging from artists of the 1920s (de Chirico, Balla, Sironi, Pirandello, Morandi, Mafai) to Neoavantgarde artists (Schifano, Pascali, De Dominicis, Manzoni, Mattiacci, Boetti, Mauri), Arte Povera (Calzolari, Kounellis), up to conceptual artists (Kosuth, LeWitt, Agnetti, Mochetti), exponents of the San Lorenzo School (Ceccobelli, Bianchi, Dessì, Nunzio, Gallo) or protagonists of our days (Kentridge, Sierra, Vezzoli, Muniz, Cattelan, Beecroft), just to name a few.
Already temporarily exhibited in public spaces in the past, following the formalisation of a loan agreement between the Municipality of Spoleto and Elena and Lorenzo Attolico (Bianca’s children and current managers of the collection, Elena also being the President of the Friends of Palazzo Collicola), part of the collection will now be housed in Palazzo Collicola in some rooms along the route of the ‘G. Carandente’ Gallery of Modern Art in Spoleto.
For its inauguration, a nucleus of works by important Italian artists not present in the museum’s permanent collection was selected, in agreement with the museum’s Director, Marco Tonelli, and thanks to the critical apparatus by Lorenzo Fiorucci and Davide Silvioli, tracing a synthetic and illustrative path of Italian art from the mid-1950s to the present day. By means of works by 11 artists (Burri, Castellani, Manzoni, Alviani, Agnetti, De Dominicis, Kounellis, Schifano, Vezzoli, Campanini and Arienti), the intention was to construct, without obviously philological aims but as exemplary cases, a path of modernity, innovation and experimentation that constituted the best Italian research in the artistic sphere, almost as if to form a multiform but equally eccentric and visionary gaze on the part of artists who are historicised or, as they are still living, undoubtedly destined to be so.
Of each of the selected artists, works have been chosen that can represent them in an unambiguous way, that is, according to those formal and linguistic traits that have distinguished their poetics despite the different styles, materials and periods in the course of their activity.
A true collection within a collection, therefore, that ideally covers, with works created between 1965 and 2002, the physiological “lacks” of the Gallery of Modern Art of Spoleto and that at the same time allows us to review works by protagonists of modern and contemporary Italian art, placed in a historical continuity and comparison with the works in the permanent collection of Spoleto, including Leoncillo, Pascali, Ceroli, Accardi, Griffa, Lo Savio, Mochetti, LeWitt, Calder, Pepper, Moore, Caro, David Smith.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Palazzo Collicola – Spoleto
25 June– 25 September 2022
a project by
Studio Eliseo Mattiacci
curated by
Riccardo Tonti Bandini
Sculptor Eliseo Mattiacci‘s archive and inspirations take shape in an exhibition and in the digital spaces of Instagram in the EMLibrary (Eliseo Mattiacci Library) project, developed by Studio Eliseo Mattiacci and exhibited at the Carandente Library.
Each section in the exhibition delves into a theme, entrusted to a different author who conveys the free associations between books and the sculptor’s work. Short teaser videos made by Marco Morici, with sound composed by Edoardo Rossano, summarize the iconographic kaleidoscope of each core. The “bibliography,” usually relegated to a background appendix, becomes the primary tool for investigating the work. Each theme, in addition to the books, carries with it a core of documents, notes, and images found within the books and “adjacent” to the theme. Generally, the critic is invited to write about a work or exhibition, and then the artist’s iconographic references are traced back. In this project the sense is reversed, the books become the window through which to look at the work.
Opening times:
from Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Friday 24 June – Saturday 16 July 2022
POLID’ARTE GALLERY
Via del Duomo, 27 – Piazza della Signoria, 5
by Annamaria Polidori
with the collaboration of Sandro Costanzi
and the friendly participation of Antonella Manni
From Friday 24 June to Saturday 16 July 2022, on the occasion of the sixty-fifth edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi, eleven artists of different nationalities, linked by artistic or personal affinity, will meet in Spoleto in the spaces of the Polid arte Gallery for the exhibition Exposed to fortuitous consequences under the patronage of the Municipality of Spoleto: works by Alì Assaf, Myriam Laplante, Virginia Ryan, Georgina Spengler, Franco Troiani, Jeffrey Isaac, Nyla Van Ingen, Gianluca Esposito, Olmo Amato and Marina Haas, Serafino Amato (coordinator).
Vernissage: Friday 24 June, 17:30
Opening: Wednesday to Sunday: 10 am – 1 pm; 4:30 pm – 8 pm
Finissage: Saturday 16 July, 17:30
Free admission
Presentation
Dreams often take the form of hallucination or bizarre representation.
One of my recurring dreams, please do not elaborate, is to find myself in front of a table full of diners but lacking clothing in the part hidden by the table. Half-dressed or half naked. The thing in the dream produces extreme embarrassment for me. But isn’t this what has happened in recent years in remote meetings? Remote: a word that in Italian expresses a remoteness beyond distance.
The improbable, what seemed to belong to the sphere of the dream, has become reality. The dream has been downgraded to possibility, fortuitous chance, reducing its consequences to the unconscious level. Because, the unimaginable, when it becomes repetitive, loses depth.
To see the works, it seems that where the dream does not reach, imagination and a spirit of rebellion develops in the artist. After all, rebellion is something organic, something that every artist has experienced. Even simply by hiding the same rebellion behind sanitizers, ginger, or good luck charms.
In these last years, every form of survival-related alchemy has been experimented with. And, among the alchemies that enable survival and especially the descent of ideas, not species, is the work of art.
For each artist, in his or her own way, reinterprets his or her dreams, nightmares, in a key of acceptability. We are all, as the title of the exhibition says, “exposed” to fortuitous not just randomness but consequences.
Because a few meters of distance, a few coincidences, still make and will forever make a difference. (S.A)
curated by Marco Tonelli
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June – 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June at 17.00
Since the 1980s, Fabrizio Plessi has been experimentally and pioneeringly anticipating uses of the digital set design now widespread, and has created numerous electronic sets for television, theatre, contemporary dance or as stand-alone shows, including those of the trilogy of choreographer and director Frédéric Flamand’s The Fall of Icarus (1989), Titanic (1992) and Ex machina (1994), as well as Pirandello’s Dress the Undressed (2010), Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (2006) and Fenix DNA installed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice (2017).
The exhibition at Palazzo Collicola, realised in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (which first exhibited the electronic scenes of the trilogy at the Magazzini del Sale in March 2022), presents a digital reconstruction of the 6 most engaging and innovative electronic sets among the many realised in Plessi’s career, through films, photos, projects, drawings and notes by the artist, which projected onto as many reconstructions of monumental wooden and digital books flow like pages of memories and fantastic tales.
If the trilogy choreographed by Flamand metaphorically expresses the tensions, anxieties and catastrophes of contemporaneity, increasingly dependent on media and digital instrumentation, the theatre of Pirandello (transmitted on stage, together with the actors by monitor images) and Shakespeare (with costumes and high-speed helmets) has been revisited by Plessi with highly innovative and futuristic scenic installations, triggering suggestions that make them true works of total art, following the idea that the artist has been experimenting with since 1987 with the large installation Roma presented at Documenta in Kassel. It is Fenix DNA, an immersive work, dedicated to the rebirth of the Phoenix, that ideally closes the circle, staging the same primary and natural elements of the artist’s poetics, including fire, water and lightning. The large digital pages projected on monumental wooden books, with more than two hundred images inside them, immersed in the darkness of the rooms on the ground floor of Palazzo Collicola, in their flowing as if moved by the wind, give a sense of the design of the theatre works, revealing the very workshop of the artist’s creativity in its phases of gestation, inspiration, euphoria, fantasy and visionary spirit, demonstrating that the creative principle of the artist is still the sign that the hand traces on the sheet of paper.
Almost as if to tell us that at bottom the most intimate structure of Plessi’s work communicates and romantically stages, as in a dream that has never been interrupted, his instinctive passion for theatricality and the spectacular magic of art.
The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona and “Amici di Palazzo Collicola” association.
Opening hours Palazzo Collicola:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Curated by Flavia Mastrella and Marco Tonelli
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June – 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June 5 pm
A habitat of interactive sculptures, a documentary exhibition, an evolutionary path, a stage set, videos and photographs: this is Euforia Carogna, a project specifically conceived for the spaces of Palazzo Collicola and realised also thanks to the contribution of the Festival dei Due Mondi, in which Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella will take part with the performance Porte.
An exhibition with two artists/performers/writers/directors whose language moves between desecration and criticism, word and neurosis, form and experimentation, hybridising sound, noise, object, body in a continuous metamorphosis often taken to the limits of ‘cruelty’. As they themselves wrote for the occasion: “Having thirty-five years of work behind us and knowing that there will probably not be another thirty-five ahead of us would throw anyone into despair. But since it is us, we accept the verdict of time trusting to disprove it, because to experience freedom without the need to idealise it, is an opportunity that does not fear the uncertainty of the future’.
Euforia Carogna is in itself a ‘monstrum’ exhibition, that is to say a prodigy, which announces itself right from the museum’s entrance staircase and swaggering into the austere and noble spaces of Palazzo Collicola and its collection of paintings, mirrors, tapestries, wall paintings and antique furnishings, where history observes contemporaneity through the severe or passionate gazes of cardinals, saints, madonnas, martyrs, hanging on the walls of the Hall of Honour, the Chapel and all the 15 rooms in which the exhibition winds its way, culminating in a large installation, threadlike and transparent, suspended along the Painted Gallery.
The exhibition itself presents itself as one big performance, in which cycles of stage sculptures used in Fotofinish, blow-ups taken from some theatrical performances, books on wheels and handmade, Pictures of Light, Stage Paintings, Juggling Cards, Faces…Goths, musical instruments, fabric sculptures on mirrored sheets animate the space like fragile and impertinent intruders, while in some rooms videos, film fragments, theatrical actions and voices such as The Cry of the Centaur are projected. A sort of vain party of works and images, costumes and small habitats, inviting the spectator to participate, to touch, to play the creative and uninhibited game to which Rezza gives voice and body and Mastrella support and structure. Perfect balance between order and chaos, rigour and improvisation, RezzaMastrella’s habitat and stage machine are capable of invading space and being invaded by the audience, of soliciting and being solicited by our reactions. Inside the museum of Palazzo Collicola, their works thus take on the features of a true form of autonomous life, a pulsating organ, a creative anarchy planned down to the smallest detail.
The exhibition was also made possible thanks to the contribution of the Festival dei Due Mondi and the Sardegna Film Commission.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
A selection of Italian illustration in 100 works
and 20 artist’s books
Tricromia editions
Saturday 9 July 6 pm
presentation of the book La Cosa Rossa with the artist Manù Fiori
and art historian Maura Picciau
in collaboration with the handmade concept store A mano armata
Spoleto / Via del Mercato 19
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
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Vicolo San Filippo 16
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“Post-atomic BESTIARY”
Census of ancient and contemporary Bestiaries in the Spoleto area
Exhibition of “post-atomic” books and works by Studio ’87
Palazzo Mauri. Until 31 August 2022
free entrance
Mondays from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Some seventy appointments in less than two months including theatre, music, readings and art: this is the new programme of events that we have put together with the city’s associations and cultural institutions. It is a series of proposals that, in addition to accompanying us until September, aim to involve the historic centre of Spoleto with its theatres, museums and the beauty of its scenic spaces, the ideal setting for concerts, theatrical performances and, more generally, the cultural initiatives on the programme, but also the villages of our vast, marvellous territory so that participation in the various appointments can also be an opportunity to discover enchanting, if sometimes lesser-known, places and spaces.
The programme brings together the artistic proposals of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, La Mama Umbria, and our city library with those of the Festival delle Regioni, the Italian Federation of Amateur Theatre, and the Spoleto Back Beat, Opera Prima, Spoleto Social Sport and Amici delle Miniere associations, in addition to the theatrical and musical events that we will host at Spazio Collicola.
‘Accade d’estate a Spoleto’ thus gives a coherent image of the city’s cultural activism, with productions and artistic proposals capable of enhancing the programme of events scheduled over the next two months. The hope, as always, is to succeed in arousing interest and curiosity, a desire to share and participate in the events.
Mayor Andrea Sisti Councillor Danilo Chiodetti
ACCADE D’ESTATE A SPOLETO | PROGRAMME (PDF – ITA)
JULY 2022
Tuesday 12 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS AT THE PARK
by the city libraries
Wednesday 13 at 18.30
San Brizio
LEZIONI DI STRADA 1
Tommaso Giartosio on the theme MEMORIA E OBLIO (in collaboration with Pro Loco San Brizio)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific consulting by Lorenzo Pavolini
Thursday 14 at 21
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerts by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 15 at 21.15
Spazio Collicola
UNA FINESTRA SUL MONDO: SPOLETO CON SABOR A SALSA COLOMBIANA
curated by the Embassy of Colombia
Friday 15 to Sunday 24
SPOLETO ‘N FUN
Spoleto city stadium | The biggest aquapark in central Italy
Info www.spoletonfun.it | info@spoletonfun.it
Friday 15 to Wednesday 27
TERRITORI E VITIGNI AUTOCTONI: IL TREBBIANO SPOLETINO
Chiostro di San Nicolò and Palazzo Leti Sansi
by Umbria Wine Club
Saturday 16 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 1: AlloK! di Pallotto
Sorrisi Festival di Fontemaggiore
Sunday 17 at 19
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerts by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Tuesday 19 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS AT THE PARK
by the city libraries
Thursday 21 at 18.30
Beroide – green area
PAESI IN VERSI
by the city libraries
Thursday 21 at 19
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerti del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 22 at 18.30
Casina dell’Ippocastano
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 2: ANOUK
COMPAGNIA TPO a coproduction TEATRO METASTASIO DI PRATO
La Mama Umbria International
Saturday 23 at 21.30
Spazio Collicola
LA CITTÀ IDEALE
Meeting with Luigi Lo Cascio and Desideria Rayner
curated by Graziella Bildesheim
Sunday 24 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 3 : FUNGHI IN CITTÀ MARCOVALDO Compagnia Arterie Teatro
Figuratevi in…Valnerina – TIEFFEU
Sunday 24 at 18
Santa Maria Reggiana
Presentation of a book by Vincenzo Santoro
IL TARANTISMO MEDITERRANEO
following at 21
TARANTA CHE PASSIONE featuring MALICANTI in concert
organised by Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Monday 25 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – Meeting radio theatre
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Tuesday 26 at 17
Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci”
BORN TO READ
by the City Libraries
Tuesday 26 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – by OAMI Spoleto
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Tuesday 26 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
1861 – LA BRUTALE VERITA regia di Michele Carilli
Calabria – Compagnia CarMa
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Wednesday 27 at 18
Cinema Sala Pegasus
TEATRAPERITIVO – Pomeriggio con il Monologo
FESTA DEL TEATRO a cura di Fita Umbria
Wednesday 27 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
CARA MOGLIA directors Mario Pupillo and Emiliano Giancristofaro
Abruzzo – Compagnia Amici della ribalta
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Wednesday 27 at 21
Spazio Collicola
CARTOLINE DA QUI
RACCONTI QUASI METROPOLITANI
by Saverio Mariani
La MaMa RE_MAIN
Libro d’ingresso 2022
Ticket 8,00 €
Thursday 28 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – Accademia Barbanera book presentation, readings and music
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Thursday 28 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
SONO PERSONE Vlora 1001, director Nico Sciacqua
PUGLIA – Company VENTISETTEUNDICISETTANTANOVE
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Friday 29 at 18
Chiostro di San Nicolò
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI – Conference on local languages
by FITA Italy
Friday 29 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare
director Pino Costalunga
Veneto – Compagnia Teatro Immagine
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Saturday 30 at 21
Teatro Caio Melisso
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Gala evening featuring Teatro lirico sperimentale
AUGUST
Tuesday 2 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 2 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
THE BLUE BAND in concert
Wednesday 3 at 21
Spazio Collicola
QUINTORIGO & GINO CASTALDO “MINGUS 100: LA STORIA DI UN MITO”
“La Voce della Terra 2022”
by Visioninmusica
Thursday 4 at 18.30
LEZIONI DI STRADA 3 – Lorenzo Pavolini sul tema del RACCONTO DELLA NATURA (in collaborazione con la Pro Loco di Monteluco)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific advice by Lorenzo Pavolini in collaboration with Antonella Manni
Thursday 4 at 21
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
CONCERTS by TEATRO LIRICO SPERIMENTALE
Friday 5 at 21
Spazio Collicola
Docufilm presentation
LETTERS TO FRANCESCA – VINCENZO MARIA RIPPO
director STEFANO ALLEVA
by Associazione Spoleto Back Beat and Associazione Culturale Opera Prima Vincenzo Maria Rippo
Saturday 6 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artists in downtown Spoleto
by La Mama Umbria
Saturday 6 at 21
Spazio Collicola
ANDREA SCANZI & GIANLUCA DI FEBO
“E TI VENGO A CERCARE”
by Athanor Eventi
Info www.ticketitalia.com | Tel. 0743 222889
Sunday 7 to Monday 15
FERRAGOSTO SPOLETINO
organised by Proloco di Spoleto ‘A. Busetti’
Info www.prolocospoleto.it
Sunday 7 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artists in downtown Spoleto
by La Mama Umbria
Tuesday 9 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Wednesday 10 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
UNA FINESTRA SUL MONDO:
GOD’S FOOL Progetto performativo di Martha Clarke
A cura de La Mama Umbria
Thursday 11 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 4: CAROSELLO – Teatro Due Mondi
Sorrisi Festival di Fontemaggiore
Thursday 11 at 20.30
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 12 at 18.00
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 12 at 20.00
Fattoria Sociale (Loc. Protte 27- Spoleto)
LUPUS IN FABULA. STORIE DI LUNA PIENA
spettacolo (e cena al chiaro di luna)
regia L. G. Santiago
A seguire esibizione di Martha Clarke
La MaMa RE_MAIN
Libro d’ingresso 2022
Costo euro 20,00 (inclusa cena)
Saturday 13 at 12 and 20.30
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Saturday 13 at 21
Piazza di Rapicciano
L’ANGELO AZZURRO
Musiche di Piazzolla e Puccini
Concerto di Umbria Ensemble
Suoni di boschi e d’abbazie
Saturday 13 at 21
Morgnano Mines’ Museum – Pozzo Orlando
LEZIONI DI STRADA 2 – Angelo Ferracuti on the topic of WORKERS’ CULTURES (in collaboration with Associazione Amici delle Miniere)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific advice by Lorenzo Pavolini in collaboration with Antonella Manni
Thursday 18 at 21
Spazio Collicola
DANIELE DI BONAVENTURA in
GAROFANI ROSSI
Omaggio a Gian Carlo Menotti
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Saturday 20 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Saturday 20 at 19
Roof Garden – Piazza Campello
CONCERTO AL TRAMONTO
di Umbria Ensemble
Sunday 21 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Sunday 21 at 21
LA RELIGIONE DEL MIO TEMPO
Spazio Collicola
lettura scenica di Pier Paolo Pasolini interpretata da Pierpaolo Capovilla
Monday 22 at 21
Spazio Collicola
THE SMOOTHERS IN CONCERT
Tuesday 23 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Friday 26 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 5: CENERENTOLA
Compagnia Granteatro di Bari
Saturday 27 at 6.15
Rocca Albornoz
CONCERTO ALL’ALBA di UmbriaEnsemble
Suoni di boschi e d’abbazie
Saturday 27 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Saturday 27 at 18.30
Recinto funerario di Cortaccione
CONCERTO DI EGIDIO FLAMINI
Green Music Festival
Sunday 28 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Sunday 28 at 21
Spazio Collicola
ECHOES SUSTAIN ABLE feat. ROBERTO ZECHINI
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Monday 29 at 21
Terzo San Severo – green area
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 30 at 17
Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci”
BORN TO READ
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 30 at 21
Spazio Collicola
SIMONE LOCARNI TRIO feat. YURI GOUBOLEV & FABRIZIO SFERRA
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
(Premio Fondazione Giulio Loreti a Simone Locarni come miglior talento jazz europeo 2022) in collaborazione con SPOLETO EUROPE JAZZ AWARD
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
SEPTEMBER
Saturday 3 at 18.30
CONCERT by QUINTETTO ITALIANO DI CLARINETTI SOLITAIRE ENSEMBLE
Spazio Collicola
Sunday 4 at 10
Roof Garden – Piazza Campello
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Thursday 8 at 21
Spazio Collicola
TEKNA feat GREG BURKE, JOE REHMER, JOHN B. ARNOLD special guest FABIO RECCHIA
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
organised by Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June to 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June at 17.00
The Attolico Collection, the result of decades of acquisitions of works first by Tommaso Lucherini (1891-1967) and then by his daughter Bianca Attolico (1931-2020), consists of approximately 500 works including sculptures and paintings ranging from artists of the 1920s (de Chirico, Balla, Sironi, Pirandello, Morandi, Mafai) to Neoavantgarde artists (Schifano, Pascali, De Dominicis, Manzoni, Mattiacci, Boetti, Mauri), Arte Povera (Calzolari, Kounellis), up to conceptual artists (Kosuth, LeWitt, Agnetti, Mochetti), exponents of the San Lorenzo School (Ceccobelli, Bianchi, Dessì, Nunzio, Gallo) or protagonists of our days (Kentridge, Sierra, Vezzoli, Muniz, Cattelan, Beecroft), just to name a few.
Already temporarily exhibited in public spaces in the past, following the formalisation of a loan agreement between the Municipality of Spoleto and Elena and Lorenzo Attolico (Bianca’s children and current managers of the collection, Elena also being the President of the Friends of Palazzo Collicola), part of the collection will now be housed in Palazzo Collicola in some rooms along the route of the ‘G. Carandente’ Gallery of Modern Art in Spoleto.
For its inauguration, a nucleus of works by important Italian artists not present in the museum’s permanent collection was selected, in agreement with the museum’s Director, Marco Tonelli, and thanks to the critical apparatus by Lorenzo Fiorucci and Davide Silvioli, tracing a synthetic and illustrative path of Italian art from the mid-1950s to the present day. By means of works by 11 artists (Burri, Castellani, Manzoni, Alviani, Agnetti, De Dominicis, Kounellis, Schifano, Vezzoli, Campanini and Arienti), the intention was to construct, without obviously philological aims but as exemplary cases, a path of modernity, innovation and experimentation that constituted the best Italian research in the artistic sphere, almost as if to form a multiform but equally eccentric and visionary gaze on the part of artists who are historicised or, as they are still living, undoubtedly destined to be so.
Of each of the selected artists, works have been chosen that can represent them in an unambiguous way, that is, according to those formal and linguistic traits that have distinguished their poetics despite the different styles, materials and periods in the course of their activity.
A true collection within a collection, therefore, that ideally covers, with works created between 1965 and 2002, the physiological “lacks” of the Gallery of Modern Art of Spoleto and that at the same time allows us to review works by protagonists of modern and contemporary Italian art, placed in a historical continuity and comparison with the works in the permanent collection of Spoleto, including Leoncillo, Pascali, Ceroli, Accardi, Griffa, Lo Savio, Mochetti, LeWitt, Calder, Pepper, Moore, Caro, David Smith.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Palazzo Collicola – Spoleto
25 June– 25 September 2022
a project by
Studio Eliseo Mattiacci
curated by
Riccardo Tonti Bandini
Sculptor Eliseo Mattiacci‘s archive and inspirations take shape in an exhibition and in the digital spaces of Instagram in the EMLibrary (Eliseo Mattiacci Library) project, developed by Studio Eliseo Mattiacci and exhibited at the Carandente Library.
Each section in the exhibition delves into a theme, entrusted to a different author who conveys the free associations between books and the sculptor’s work. Short teaser videos made by Marco Morici, with sound composed by Edoardo Rossano, summarize the iconographic kaleidoscope of each core. The “bibliography,” usually relegated to a background appendix, becomes the primary tool for investigating the work. Each theme, in addition to the books, carries with it a core of documents, notes, and images found within the books and “adjacent” to the theme. Generally, the critic is invited to write about a work or exhibition, and then the artist’s iconographic references are traced back. In this project the sense is reversed, the books become the window through which to look at the work.
Opening times:
from Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Friday 24 June – Saturday 16 July 2022
POLID’ARTE GALLERY
Via del Duomo, 27 – Piazza della Signoria, 5
by Annamaria Polidori
with the collaboration of Sandro Costanzi
and the friendly participation of Antonella Manni
From Friday 24 June to Saturday 16 July 2022, on the occasion of the sixty-fifth edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi, eleven artists of different nationalities, linked by artistic or personal affinity, will meet in Spoleto in the spaces of the Polid arte Gallery for the exhibition Exposed to fortuitous consequences under the patronage of the Municipality of Spoleto: works by Alì Assaf, Myriam Laplante, Virginia Ryan, Georgina Spengler, Franco Troiani, Jeffrey Isaac, Nyla Van Ingen, Gianluca Esposito, Olmo Amato and Marina Haas, Serafino Amato (coordinator).
Vernissage: Friday 24 June, 17:30
Opening: Wednesday to Sunday: 10 am – 1 pm; 4:30 pm – 8 pm
Finissage: Saturday 16 July, 17:30
Free admission
Presentation
Dreams often take the form of hallucination or bizarre representation.
One of my recurring dreams, please do not elaborate, is to find myself in front of a table full of diners but lacking clothing in the part hidden by the table. Half-dressed or half naked. The thing in the dream produces extreme embarrassment for me. But isn’t this what has happened in recent years in remote meetings? Remote: a word that in Italian expresses a remoteness beyond distance.
The improbable, what seemed to belong to the sphere of the dream, has become reality. The dream has been downgraded to possibility, fortuitous chance, reducing its consequences to the unconscious level. Because, the unimaginable, when it becomes repetitive, loses depth.
To see the works, it seems that where the dream does not reach, imagination and a spirit of rebellion develops in the artist. After all, rebellion is something organic, something that every artist has experienced. Even simply by hiding the same rebellion behind sanitizers, ginger, or good luck charms.
In these last years, every form of survival-related alchemy has been experimented with. And, among the alchemies that enable survival and especially the descent of ideas, not species, is the work of art.
For each artist, in his or her own way, reinterprets his or her dreams, nightmares, in a key of acceptability. We are all, as the title of the exhibition says, “exposed” to fortuitous not just randomness but consequences.
Because a few meters of distance, a few coincidences, still make and will forever make a difference. (S.A)
curated by Marco Tonelli
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June – 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June at 17.00
Since the 1980s, Fabrizio Plessi has been experimentally and pioneeringly anticipating uses of the digital set design now widespread, and has created numerous electronic sets for television, theatre, contemporary dance or as stand-alone shows, including those of the trilogy of choreographer and director Frédéric Flamand’s The Fall of Icarus (1989), Titanic (1992) and Ex machina (1994), as well as Pirandello’s Dress the Undressed (2010), Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (2006) and Fenix DNA installed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice (2017).
The exhibition at Palazzo Collicola, realised in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (which first exhibited the electronic scenes of the trilogy at the Magazzini del Sale in March 2022), presents a digital reconstruction of the 6 most engaging and innovative electronic sets among the many realised in Plessi’s career, through films, photos, projects, drawings and notes by the artist, which projected onto as many reconstructions of monumental wooden and digital books flow like pages of memories and fantastic tales.
If the trilogy choreographed by Flamand metaphorically expresses the tensions, anxieties and catastrophes of contemporaneity, increasingly dependent on media and digital instrumentation, the theatre of Pirandello (transmitted on stage, together with the actors by monitor images) and Shakespeare (with costumes and high-speed helmets) has been revisited by Plessi with highly innovative and futuristic scenic installations, triggering suggestions that make them true works of total art, following the idea that the artist has been experimenting with since 1987 with the large installation Roma presented at Documenta in Kassel. It is Fenix DNA, an immersive work, dedicated to the rebirth of the Phoenix, that ideally closes the circle, staging the same primary and natural elements of the artist’s poetics, including fire, water and lightning. The large digital pages projected on monumental wooden books, with more than two hundred images inside them, immersed in the darkness of the rooms on the ground floor of Palazzo Collicola, in their flowing as if moved by the wind, give a sense of the design of the theatre works, revealing the very workshop of the artist’s creativity in its phases of gestation, inspiration, euphoria, fantasy and visionary spirit, demonstrating that the creative principle of the artist is still the sign that the hand traces on the sheet of paper.
Almost as if to tell us that at bottom the most intimate structure of Plessi’s work communicates and romantically stages, as in a dream that has never been interrupted, his instinctive passion for theatricality and the spectacular magic of art.
The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona and “Amici di Palazzo Collicola” association.
Opening hours Palazzo Collicola:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Curated by Flavia Mastrella and Marco Tonelli
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June – 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June 5 pm
A habitat of interactive sculptures, a documentary exhibition, an evolutionary path, a stage set, videos and photographs: this is Euforia Carogna, a project specifically conceived for the spaces of Palazzo Collicola and realised also thanks to the contribution of the Festival dei Due Mondi, in which Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella will take part with the performance Porte.
An exhibition with two artists/performers/writers/directors whose language moves between desecration and criticism, word and neurosis, form and experimentation, hybridising sound, noise, object, body in a continuous metamorphosis often taken to the limits of ‘cruelty’. As they themselves wrote for the occasion: “Having thirty-five years of work behind us and knowing that there will probably not be another thirty-five ahead of us would throw anyone into despair. But since it is us, we accept the verdict of time trusting to disprove it, because to experience freedom without the need to idealise it, is an opportunity that does not fear the uncertainty of the future’.
Euforia Carogna is in itself a ‘monstrum’ exhibition, that is to say a prodigy, which announces itself right from the museum’s entrance staircase and swaggering into the austere and noble spaces of Palazzo Collicola and its collection of paintings, mirrors, tapestries, wall paintings and antique furnishings, where history observes contemporaneity through the severe or passionate gazes of cardinals, saints, madonnas, martyrs, hanging on the walls of the Hall of Honour, the Chapel and all the 15 rooms in which the exhibition winds its way, culminating in a large installation, threadlike and transparent, suspended along the Painted Gallery.
The exhibition itself presents itself as one big performance, in which cycles of stage sculptures used in Fotofinish, blow-ups taken from some theatrical performances, books on wheels and handmade, Pictures of Light, Stage Paintings, Juggling Cards, Faces…Goths, musical instruments, fabric sculptures on mirrored sheets animate the space like fragile and impertinent intruders, while in some rooms videos, film fragments, theatrical actions and voices such as The Cry of the Centaur are projected. A sort of vain party of works and images, costumes and small habitats, inviting the spectator to participate, to touch, to play the creative and uninhibited game to which Rezza gives voice and body and Mastrella support and structure. Perfect balance between order and chaos, rigour and improvisation, RezzaMastrella’s habitat and stage machine are capable of invading space and being invaded by the audience, of soliciting and being solicited by our reactions. Inside the museum of Palazzo Collicola, their works thus take on the features of a true form of autonomous life, a pulsating organ, a creative anarchy planned down to the smallest detail.
The exhibition was also made possible thanks to the contribution of the Festival dei Due Mondi and the Sardegna Film Commission.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
A selection of Italian illustration in 100 works
and 20 artist’s books
Tricromia editions
Saturday 9 July 6 pm
presentation of the book La Cosa Rossa with the artist Manù Fiori
and art historian Maura Picciau
in collaboration with the handmade concept store A mano armata
Spoleto / Via del Mercato 19
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
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“Post-atomic BESTIARY”
Census of ancient and contemporary Bestiaries in the Spoleto area
Exhibition of “post-atomic” books and works by Studio ’87
Palazzo Mauri. Until 31 August 2022
free entrance
Mondays from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Thursday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Some seventy appointments in less than two months including theatre, music, readings and art: this is the new programme of events that we have put together with the city’s associations and cultural institutions. It is a series of proposals that, in addition to accompanying us until September, aim to involve the historic centre of Spoleto with its theatres, museums and the beauty of its scenic spaces, the ideal setting for concerts, theatrical performances and, more generally, the cultural initiatives on the programme, but also the villages of our vast, marvellous territory so that participation in the various appointments can also be an opportunity to discover enchanting, if sometimes lesser-known, places and spaces.
The programme brings together the artistic proposals of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, La Mama Umbria, and our city library with those of the Festival delle Regioni, the Italian Federation of Amateur Theatre, and the Spoleto Back Beat, Opera Prima, Spoleto Social Sport and Amici delle Miniere associations, in addition to the theatrical and musical events that we will host at Spazio Collicola.
‘Accade d’estate a Spoleto’ thus gives a coherent image of the city’s cultural activism, with productions and artistic proposals capable of enhancing the programme of events scheduled over the next two months. The hope, as always, is to succeed in arousing interest and curiosity, a desire to share and participate in the events.
Mayor Andrea Sisti Councillor Danilo Chiodetti
ACCADE D’ESTATE A SPOLETO | PROGRAMME (PDF – ITA)
JULY 2022
Tuesday 12 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS AT THE PARK
by the city libraries
Wednesday 13 at 18.30
San Brizio
LEZIONI DI STRADA 1
Tommaso Giartosio on the theme MEMORIA E OBLIO (in collaboration with Pro Loco San Brizio)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific consulting by Lorenzo Pavolini
Thursday 14 at 21
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerts by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 15 at 21.15
Spazio Collicola
UNA FINESTRA SUL MONDO: SPOLETO CON SABOR A SALSA COLOMBIANA
curated by the Embassy of Colombia
Friday 15 to Sunday 24
SPOLETO ‘N FUN
Spoleto city stadium | The biggest aquapark in central Italy
Info www.spoletonfun.it | info@spoletonfun.it
Friday 15 to Wednesday 27
TERRITORI E VITIGNI AUTOCTONI: IL TREBBIANO SPOLETINO
Chiostro di San Nicolò and Palazzo Leti Sansi
by Umbria Wine Club
Saturday 16 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 1: AlloK! di Pallotto
Sorrisi Festival di Fontemaggiore
Sunday 17 at 19
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerts by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Tuesday 19 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS AT THE PARK
by the city libraries
Thursday 21 at 18.30
Beroide – green area
PAESI IN VERSI
by the city libraries
Thursday 21 at 19
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerti del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 22 at 18.30
Casina dell’Ippocastano
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 2: ANOUK
COMPAGNIA TPO a coproduction TEATRO METASTASIO DI PRATO
La Mama Umbria International
Saturday 23 at 21.30
Spazio Collicola
LA CITTÀ IDEALE
Meeting with Luigi Lo Cascio and Desideria Rayner
curated by Graziella Bildesheim
Sunday 24 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 3 : FUNGHI IN CITTÀ MARCOVALDO Compagnia Arterie Teatro
Figuratevi in…Valnerina – TIEFFEU
Sunday 24 at 18
Santa Maria Reggiana
Presentation of a book by Vincenzo Santoro
IL TARANTISMO MEDITERRANEO
following at 21
TARANTA CHE PASSIONE featuring MALICANTI in concert
organised by Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Monday 25 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – Meeting radio theatre
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Tuesday 26 at 17
Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci”
BORN TO READ
by the City Libraries
Tuesday 26 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – by OAMI Spoleto
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Tuesday 26 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
1861 – LA BRUTALE VERITA regia di Michele Carilli
Calabria – Compagnia CarMa
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Wednesday 27 at 18
Cinema Sala Pegasus
TEATRAPERITIVO – Pomeriggio con il Monologo
FESTA DEL TEATRO a cura di Fita Umbria
Wednesday 27 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
CARA MOGLIA directors Mario Pupillo and Emiliano Giancristofaro
Abruzzo – Compagnia Amici della ribalta
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Wednesday 27 at 21
Spazio Collicola
CARTOLINE DA QUI
RACCONTI QUASI METROPOLITANI
by Saverio Mariani
La MaMa RE_MAIN
Libro d’ingresso 2022
Ticket 8,00 €
Thursday 28 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – Accademia Barbanera book presentation, readings and music
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Thursday 28 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
SONO PERSONE Vlora 1001, director Nico Sciacqua
PUGLIA – Company VENTISETTEUNDICISETTANTANOVE
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Friday 29 at 18
Chiostro di San Nicolò
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI – Conference on local languages
by FITA Italy
Friday 29 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare
director Pino Costalunga
Veneto – Compagnia Teatro Immagine
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Saturday 30 at 21
Teatro Caio Melisso
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Gala evening featuring Teatro lirico sperimentale
AUGUST
Tuesday 2 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 2 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
THE BLUE BAND in concert
Wednesday 3 at 21
Spazio Collicola
QUINTORIGO & GINO CASTALDO “MINGUS 100: LA STORIA DI UN MITO”
“La Voce della Terra 2022”
by Visioninmusica
Thursday 4 at 18.30
LEZIONI DI STRADA 3 – Lorenzo Pavolini sul tema del RACCONTO DELLA NATURA (in collaborazione con la Pro Loco di Monteluco)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific advice by Lorenzo Pavolini in collaboration with Antonella Manni
Thursday 4 at 21
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
CONCERTS by TEATRO LIRICO SPERIMENTALE
Friday 5 at 21
Spazio Collicola
Docufilm presentation
LETTERS TO FRANCESCA – VINCENZO MARIA RIPPO
director STEFANO ALLEVA
by Associazione Spoleto Back Beat and Associazione Culturale Opera Prima Vincenzo Maria Rippo
Saturday 6 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artists in downtown Spoleto
by La Mama Umbria
Saturday 6 at 21
Spazio Collicola
ANDREA SCANZI & GIANLUCA DI FEBO
“E TI VENGO A CERCARE”
by Athanor Eventi
Info www.ticketitalia.com | Tel. 0743 222889
Sunday 7 to Monday 15
FERRAGOSTO SPOLETINO
organised by Proloco di Spoleto ‘A. Busetti’
Info www.prolocospoleto.it
Sunday 7 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artists in downtown Spoleto
by La Mama Umbria
Tuesday 9 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Wednesday 10 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
UNA FINESTRA SUL MONDO:
GOD’S FOOL Progetto performativo di Martha Clarke
A cura de La Mama Umbria
Thursday 11 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 4: CAROSELLO – Teatro Due Mondi
Sorrisi Festival di Fontemaggiore
Thursday 11 at 20.30
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 12 at 18.00
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 12 at 20.00
Fattoria Sociale (Loc. Protte 27- Spoleto)
LUPUS IN FABULA. STORIE DI LUNA PIENA
spettacolo (e cena al chiaro di luna)
regia L. G. Santiago
A seguire esibizione di Martha Clarke
La MaMa RE_MAIN
Libro d’ingresso 2022
Costo euro 20,00 (inclusa cena)
Saturday 13 at 12 and 20.30
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Saturday 13 at 21
Piazza di Rapicciano
L’ANGELO AZZURRO
Musiche di Piazzolla e Puccini
Concerto di Umbria Ensemble
Suoni di boschi e d’abbazie
Saturday 13 at 21
Morgnano Mines’ Museum – Pozzo Orlando
LEZIONI DI STRADA 2 – Angelo Ferracuti on the topic of WORKERS’ CULTURES (in collaboration with Associazione Amici delle Miniere)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific advice by Lorenzo Pavolini in collaboration with Antonella Manni
Thursday 18 at 21
Spazio Collicola
DANIELE DI BONAVENTURA in
GAROFANI ROSSI
Omaggio a Gian Carlo Menotti
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Saturday 20 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Saturday 20 at 19
Roof Garden – Piazza Campello
CONCERTO AL TRAMONTO
di Umbria Ensemble
Sunday 21 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Sunday 21 at 21
LA RELIGIONE DEL MIO TEMPO
Spazio Collicola
lettura scenica di Pier Paolo Pasolini interpretata da Pierpaolo Capovilla
Monday 22 at 21
Spazio Collicola
THE SMOOTHERS IN CONCERT
Tuesday 23 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Friday 26 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 5: CENERENTOLA
Compagnia Granteatro di Bari
Saturday 27 at 6.15
Rocca Albornoz
CONCERTO ALL’ALBA di UmbriaEnsemble
Suoni di boschi e d’abbazie
Saturday 27 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Saturday 27 at 18.30
Recinto funerario di Cortaccione
CONCERTO DI EGIDIO FLAMINI
Green Music Festival
Sunday 28 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Sunday 28 at 21
Spazio Collicola
ECHOES SUSTAIN ABLE feat. ROBERTO ZECHINI
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Monday 29 at 21
Terzo San Severo – green area
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 30 at 17
Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci”
BORN TO READ
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 30 at 21
Spazio Collicola
SIMONE LOCARNI TRIO feat. YURI GOUBOLEV & FABRIZIO SFERRA
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
(Premio Fondazione Giulio Loreti a Simone Locarni come miglior talento jazz europeo 2022) in collaborazione con SPOLETO EUROPE JAZZ AWARD
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
SEPTEMBER
Saturday 3 at 18.30
CONCERT by QUINTETTO ITALIANO DI CLARINETTI SOLITAIRE ENSEMBLE
Spazio Collicola
Sunday 4 at 10
Roof Garden – Piazza Campello
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Thursday 8 at 21
Spazio Collicola
TEKNA feat GREG BURKE, JOE REHMER, JOHN B. ARNOLD special guest FABIO RECCHIA
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
organised by Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June to 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June at 17.00
The Attolico Collection, the result of decades of acquisitions of works first by Tommaso Lucherini (1891-1967) and then by his daughter Bianca Attolico (1931-2020), consists of approximately 500 works including sculptures and paintings ranging from artists of the 1920s (de Chirico, Balla, Sironi, Pirandello, Morandi, Mafai) to Neoavantgarde artists (Schifano, Pascali, De Dominicis, Manzoni, Mattiacci, Boetti, Mauri), Arte Povera (Calzolari, Kounellis), up to conceptual artists (Kosuth, LeWitt, Agnetti, Mochetti), exponents of the San Lorenzo School (Ceccobelli, Bianchi, Dessì, Nunzio, Gallo) or protagonists of our days (Kentridge, Sierra, Vezzoli, Muniz, Cattelan, Beecroft), just to name a few.
Already temporarily exhibited in public spaces in the past, following the formalisation of a loan agreement between the Municipality of Spoleto and Elena and Lorenzo Attolico (Bianca’s children and current managers of the collection, Elena also being the President of the Friends of Palazzo Collicola), part of the collection will now be housed in Palazzo Collicola in some rooms along the route of the ‘G. Carandente’ Gallery of Modern Art in Spoleto.
For its inauguration, a nucleus of works by important Italian artists not present in the museum’s permanent collection was selected, in agreement with the museum’s Director, Marco Tonelli, and thanks to the critical apparatus by Lorenzo Fiorucci and Davide Silvioli, tracing a synthetic and illustrative path of Italian art from the mid-1950s to the present day. By means of works by 11 artists (Burri, Castellani, Manzoni, Alviani, Agnetti, De Dominicis, Kounellis, Schifano, Vezzoli, Campanini and Arienti), the intention was to construct, without obviously philological aims but as exemplary cases, a path of modernity, innovation and experimentation that constituted the best Italian research in the artistic sphere, almost as if to form a multiform but equally eccentric and visionary gaze on the part of artists who are historicised or, as they are still living, undoubtedly destined to be so.
Of each of the selected artists, works have been chosen that can represent them in an unambiguous way, that is, according to those formal and linguistic traits that have distinguished their poetics despite the different styles, materials and periods in the course of their activity.
A true collection within a collection, therefore, that ideally covers, with works created between 1965 and 2002, the physiological “lacks” of the Gallery of Modern Art of Spoleto and that at the same time allows us to review works by protagonists of modern and contemporary Italian art, placed in a historical continuity and comparison with the works in the permanent collection of Spoleto, including Leoncillo, Pascali, Ceroli, Accardi, Griffa, Lo Savio, Mochetti, LeWitt, Calder, Pepper, Moore, Caro, David Smith.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Palazzo Collicola – Spoleto
25 June– 25 September 2022
a project by
Studio Eliseo Mattiacci
curated by
Riccardo Tonti Bandini
Sculptor Eliseo Mattiacci‘s archive and inspirations take shape in an exhibition and in the digital spaces of Instagram in the EMLibrary (Eliseo Mattiacci Library) project, developed by Studio Eliseo Mattiacci and exhibited at the Carandente Library.
Each section in the exhibition delves into a theme, entrusted to a different author who conveys the free associations between books and the sculptor’s work. Short teaser videos made by Marco Morici, with sound composed by Edoardo Rossano, summarize the iconographic kaleidoscope of each core. The “bibliography,” usually relegated to a background appendix, becomes the primary tool for investigating the work. Each theme, in addition to the books, carries with it a core of documents, notes, and images found within the books and “adjacent” to the theme. Generally, the critic is invited to write about a work or exhibition, and then the artist’s iconographic references are traced back. In this project the sense is reversed, the books become the window through which to look at the work.
Opening times:
from Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Friday 24 June – Saturday 16 July 2022
POLID’ARTE GALLERY
Via del Duomo, 27 – Piazza della Signoria, 5
by Annamaria Polidori
with the collaboration of Sandro Costanzi
and the friendly participation of Antonella Manni
From Friday 24 June to Saturday 16 July 2022, on the occasion of the sixty-fifth edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi, eleven artists of different nationalities, linked by artistic or personal affinity, will meet in Spoleto in the spaces of the Polid arte Gallery for the exhibition Exposed to fortuitous consequences under the patronage of the Municipality of Spoleto: works by Alì Assaf, Myriam Laplante, Virginia Ryan, Georgina Spengler, Franco Troiani, Jeffrey Isaac, Nyla Van Ingen, Gianluca Esposito, Olmo Amato and Marina Haas, Serafino Amato (coordinator).
Vernissage: Friday 24 June, 17:30
Opening: Wednesday to Sunday: 10 am – 1 pm; 4:30 pm – 8 pm
Finissage: Saturday 16 July, 17:30
Free admission
Presentation
Dreams often take the form of hallucination or bizarre representation.
One of my recurring dreams, please do not elaborate, is to find myself in front of a table full of diners but lacking clothing in the part hidden by the table. Half-dressed or half naked. The thing in the dream produces extreme embarrassment for me. But isn’t this what has happened in recent years in remote meetings? Remote: a word that in Italian expresses a remoteness beyond distance.
The improbable, what seemed to belong to the sphere of the dream, has become reality. The dream has been downgraded to possibility, fortuitous chance, reducing its consequences to the unconscious level. Because, the unimaginable, when it becomes repetitive, loses depth.
To see the works, it seems that where the dream does not reach, imagination and a spirit of rebellion develops in the artist. After all, rebellion is something organic, something that every artist has experienced. Even simply by hiding the same rebellion behind sanitizers, ginger, or good luck charms.
In these last years, every form of survival-related alchemy has been experimented with. And, among the alchemies that enable survival and especially the descent of ideas, not species, is the work of art.
For each artist, in his or her own way, reinterprets his or her dreams, nightmares, in a key of acceptability. We are all, as the title of the exhibition says, “exposed” to fortuitous not just randomness but consequences.
Because a few meters of distance, a few coincidences, still make and will forever make a difference. (S.A)
curated by Marco Tonelli
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June – 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June at 17.00
Since the 1980s, Fabrizio Plessi has been experimentally and pioneeringly anticipating uses of the digital set design now widespread, and has created numerous electronic sets for television, theatre, contemporary dance or as stand-alone shows, including those of the trilogy of choreographer and director Frédéric Flamand’s The Fall of Icarus (1989), Titanic (1992) and Ex machina (1994), as well as Pirandello’s Dress the Undressed (2010), Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (2006) and Fenix DNA installed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice (2017).
The exhibition at Palazzo Collicola, realised in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (which first exhibited the electronic scenes of the trilogy at the Magazzini del Sale in March 2022), presents a digital reconstruction of the 6 most engaging and innovative electronic sets among the many realised in Plessi’s career, through films, photos, projects, drawings and notes by the artist, which projected onto as many reconstructions of monumental wooden and digital books flow like pages of memories and fantastic tales.
If the trilogy choreographed by Flamand metaphorically expresses the tensions, anxieties and catastrophes of contemporaneity, increasingly dependent on media and digital instrumentation, the theatre of Pirandello (transmitted on stage, together with the actors by monitor images) and Shakespeare (with costumes and high-speed helmets) has been revisited by Plessi with highly innovative and futuristic scenic installations, triggering suggestions that make them true works of total art, following the idea that the artist has been experimenting with since 1987 with the large installation Roma presented at Documenta in Kassel. It is Fenix DNA, an immersive work, dedicated to the rebirth of the Phoenix, that ideally closes the circle, staging the same primary and natural elements of the artist’s poetics, including fire, water and lightning. The large digital pages projected on monumental wooden books, with more than two hundred images inside them, immersed in the darkness of the rooms on the ground floor of Palazzo Collicola, in their flowing as if moved by the wind, give a sense of the design of the theatre works, revealing the very workshop of the artist’s creativity in its phases of gestation, inspiration, euphoria, fantasy and visionary spirit, demonstrating that the creative principle of the artist is still the sign that the hand traces on the sheet of paper.
Almost as if to tell us that at bottom the most intimate structure of Plessi’s work communicates and romantically stages, as in a dream that has never been interrupted, his instinctive passion for theatricality and the spectacular magic of art.
The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona and “Amici di Palazzo Collicola” association.
Opening hours Palazzo Collicola:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Curated by Flavia Mastrella and Marco Tonelli
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June – 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June 5 pm
A habitat of interactive sculptures, a documentary exhibition, an evolutionary path, a stage set, videos and photographs: this is Euforia Carogna, a project specifically conceived for the spaces of Palazzo Collicola and realised also thanks to the contribution of the Festival dei Due Mondi, in which Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella will take part with the performance Porte.
An exhibition with two artists/performers/writers/directors whose language moves between desecration and criticism, word and neurosis, form and experimentation, hybridising sound, noise, object, body in a continuous metamorphosis often taken to the limits of ‘cruelty’. As they themselves wrote for the occasion: “Having thirty-five years of work behind us and knowing that there will probably not be another thirty-five ahead of us would throw anyone into despair. But since it is us, we accept the verdict of time trusting to disprove it, because to experience freedom without the need to idealise it, is an opportunity that does not fear the uncertainty of the future’.
Euforia Carogna is in itself a ‘monstrum’ exhibition, that is to say a prodigy, which announces itself right from the museum’s entrance staircase and swaggering into the austere and noble spaces of Palazzo Collicola and its collection of paintings, mirrors, tapestries, wall paintings and antique furnishings, where history observes contemporaneity through the severe or passionate gazes of cardinals, saints, madonnas, martyrs, hanging on the walls of the Hall of Honour, the Chapel and all the 15 rooms in which the exhibition winds its way, culminating in a large installation, threadlike and transparent, suspended along the Painted Gallery.
The exhibition itself presents itself as one big performance, in which cycles of stage sculptures used in Fotofinish, blow-ups taken from some theatrical performances, books on wheels and handmade, Pictures of Light, Stage Paintings, Juggling Cards, Faces…Goths, musical instruments, fabric sculptures on mirrored sheets animate the space like fragile and impertinent intruders, while in some rooms videos, film fragments, theatrical actions and voices such as The Cry of the Centaur are projected. A sort of vain party of works and images, costumes and small habitats, inviting the spectator to participate, to touch, to play the creative and uninhibited game to which Rezza gives voice and body and Mastrella support and structure. Perfect balance between order and chaos, rigour and improvisation, RezzaMastrella’s habitat and stage machine are capable of invading space and being invaded by the audience, of soliciting and being solicited by our reactions. Inside the museum of Palazzo Collicola, their works thus take on the features of a true form of autonomous life, a pulsating organ, a creative anarchy planned down to the smallest detail.
The exhibition was also made possible thanks to the contribution of the Festival dei Due Mondi and the Sardegna Film Commission.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
A selection of Italian illustration in 100 works
and 20 artist’s books
Tricromia editions
Saturday 9 July 6 pm
presentation of the book La Cosa Rossa with the artist Manù Fiori
and art historian Maura Picciau
in collaboration with the handmade concept store A mano armata
Spoleto / Via del Mercato 19
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
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The Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli” inaugurates a series of seven Concerts of the 76th Debut Course Masterclasses, featuring the young soloists winners of the last two editions of the prestigious European Community Competition.
The first concert, scheduled for Friday 13th May at 4.00 p.m. at Sala Pegasus (in Piazza Giovanni Bovio) will celebrate Maestro Marco Boemi’s masterclass. In addition to the conductor and internationally renowned pianist, the young soloists of the Course will perform music by Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann.
The concert will be dedicated to the late Spiros Argiris, the famous Greek conductor who died prematurely in May 1996. Linked to the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, to Director Claudio Lepore and to Artistic Director Michelangelo Zurletti by a relationship of deep friendship and esteem, Argiris, for several years the Festival dei Due Mondi’s director, has participated for several seasons in the activity of the Lirico Sperimentale, including the specialization courses for orchestral professors, conducting, among other things, an unforgettable production of The Bat by Johann Strauss in 1990, with the little more than twenty-year-old Roberto De Candia and Sonia Ganassi at their debut and, in fact, with a young Marco Boemi as Master Collaborator.
After his death, in memory of the years spent in Spoleto and in virtue of his friendship with the Sperimentale, Mrs. Lena Argiris donated to the Institution the whole collection of Maestro Argiris’ scores and books, which are one of the most important documentary resources of the Sperimentale’s Centro Studi Belli-Argiris (whose inventory can be consulted at the following link https://www.tls-belli.it/centro-studi-archivio-storico/, or directly on site, by appointment, calling +39 0743.221645)
But, also to meet the demands of tourists and enthusiasts, this series of Concerts of the Sperimentale will continue, always at 16.00 and always at Sala Pegasus, on 28th May for Carmela Remigio’s masterclass, on 3rd June for Raffaele Cortesi’s masterclass, on 21st June with the famous baritone Renato Bruson, to continue on 26th June and 3rd July, at Villa Redenta, for Enza Ferrari’s and Roberto De Candia’s masterclasses, and then end on 16th July at the Pegasus with Marina Comparato’s end of masterclass concert.
All the concerts, with arias from the main operas by Giuseppe Verdi, Gioachino Rossini, Giacomo Puccini, Gaetano Donizetti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and others, are designed for a diverse audience, suitable for young people and all those who want to enjoy a pleasant musical interlude in Spoleto, A “fuori opera” (OFF opera) that underlines, today more than ever, the cultural and social value of music and of all artistic forms, towards which the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale has shown interest and propensity for 76 years.
At the piano will be maestros Carolina Benedettini and Minjeong Kim, while the young voices will be: Elena Antonini soprano, Veronica Aracri mezzo-soprano, Sara Cortolezzis soprano, Oronzo D’Urso tenor, Elena Finelli soprano, Inna Kaluhina soprano, Maria Stella Maurizi soprano, Alessia Merepeza soprano, Davide Peroni baritone, Giacomo Pieracci bass, Matteo Lorenzo Pietrapiana baritone, Davide Romeo baritone, Elena Salvatori soprano, Antonia Salzano mezzo-soprano and Roberto Manuel Zangari tenor.
Admission to all seven concerts will be free, subject to availability.
Concerts of the Masterclasses of the 76th Commencement Course
Soloists singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 13th May – Sala Pegasus at 16.00
with M° Marco Boemi
in memory of M° Spiros Argiris
Saturday 28th May – Sala Pegasus at 16.00
with M° Carmela Remigio
Friday 3 June – Sala Pegasus at 16.00
with M° Raffaele Cortesi
Tuesday 21 June – Sala Pegasus at 16.00
with M° Renato Bruson
Sunday 26 June – Villa Redenta, Sala Monterosso at 16.00
with M° Enza Ferrari
Sunday 3 July – Villa Redenta, Sala Monterosso at 16.00
with M° Roberto De Candia
Saturday 16 July – Sala Pegasus at 16.00
with M° Marina Comparato
Information and reservation:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “A. Belli”
Tel. 0743.221645
Sito web: www.tls-belli.it
Email: ufficio.stampa@tls-belli.it segreteria@tls-belli.it
Some seventy appointments in less than two months including theatre, music, readings and art: this is the new programme of events that we have put together with the city’s associations and cultural institutions. It is a series of proposals that, in addition to accompanying us until September, aim to involve the historic centre of Spoleto with its theatres, museums and the beauty of its scenic spaces, the ideal setting for concerts, theatrical performances and, more generally, the cultural initiatives on the programme, but also the villages of our vast, marvellous territory so that participation in the various appointments can also be an opportunity to discover enchanting, if sometimes lesser-known, places and spaces.
The programme brings together the artistic proposals of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, La Mama Umbria, and our city library with those of the Festival delle Regioni, the Italian Federation of Amateur Theatre, and the Spoleto Back Beat, Opera Prima, Spoleto Social Sport and Amici delle Miniere associations, in addition to the theatrical and musical events that we will host at Spazio Collicola.
‘Accade d’estate a Spoleto’ thus gives a coherent image of the city’s cultural activism, with productions and artistic proposals capable of enhancing the programme of events scheduled over the next two months. The hope, as always, is to succeed in arousing interest and curiosity, a desire to share and participate in the events.
Mayor Andrea Sisti Councillor Danilo Chiodetti
ACCADE D’ESTATE A SPOLETO | PROGRAMME (PDF – ITA)
JULY 2022
Tuesday 12 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS AT THE PARK
by the city libraries
Wednesday 13 at 18.30
San Brizio
LEZIONI DI STRADA 1
Tommaso Giartosio on the theme MEMORIA E OBLIO (in collaboration with Pro Loco San Brizio)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific consulting by Lorenzo Pavolini
Thursday 14 at 21
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerts by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 15 at 21.15
Spazio Collicola
UNA FINESTRA SUL MONDO: SPOLETO CON SABOR A SALSA COLOMBIANA
curated by the Embassy of Colombia
Friday 15 to Sunday 24
SPOLETO ‘N FUN
Spoleto city stadium | The biggest aquapark in central Italy
Info www.spoletonfun.it | info@spoletonfun.it
Friday 15 to Wednesday 27
TERRITORI E VITIGNI AUTOCTONI: IL TREBBIANO SPOLETINO
Chiostro di San Nicolò and Palazzo Leti Sansi
by Umbria Wine Club
Saturday 16 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 1: AlloK! di Pallotto
Sorrisi Festival di Fontemaggiore
Sunday 17 at 19
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerts by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Tuesday 19 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS AT THE PARK
by the city libraries
Thursday 21 at 18.30
Beroide – green area
PAESI IN VERSI
by the city libraries
Thursday 21 at 19
Spazio Collicola
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
Concerti del Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 22 at 18.30
Casina dell’Ippocastano
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 2: ANOUK
COMPAGNIA TPO a coproduction TEATRO METASTASIO DI PRATO
La Mama Umbria International
Saturday 23 at 21.30
Spazio Collicola
LA CITTÀ IDEALE
Meeting with Luigi Lo Cascio and Desideria Rayner
curated by Graziella Bildesheim
Sunday 24 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 3 : FUNGHI IN CITTÀ MARCOVALDO Compagnia Arterie Teatro
Figuratevi in…Valnerina – TIEFFEU
Sunday 24 at 18
Santa Maria Reggiana
Presentation of a book by Vincenzo Santoro
IL TARANTISMO MEDITERRANEO
following at 21
TARANTA CHE PASSIONE featuring MALICANTI in concert
organised by Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Monday 25 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – Meeting radio theatre
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Tuesday 26 at 17
Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci”
BORN TO READ
by the City Libraries
Tuesday 26 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – by OAMI Spoleto
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Tuesday 26 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
1861 – LA BRUTALE VERITA regia di Michele Carilli
Calabria – Compagnia CarMa
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Wednesday 27 at 18
Cinema Sala Pegasus
TEATRAPERITIVO – Pomeriggio con il Monologo
FESTA DEL TEATRO a cura di Fita Umbria
Wednesday 27 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
CARA MOGLIA directors Mario Pupillo and Emiliano Giancristofaro
Abruzzo – Compagnia Amici della ribalta
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Wednesday 27 at 21
Spazio Collicola
CARTOLINE DA QUI
RACCONTI QUASI METROPOLITANI
by Saverio Mariani
La MaMa RE_MAIN
Libro d’ingresso 2022
Ticket 8,00 €
Thursday 28 at 18
Spazio Collicola
TEATRAPERITIVO – Accademia Barbanera book presentation, readings and music
FESTA DEL TEATRO by Fita Umbria
Thursday 28 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
SONO PERSONE Vlora 1001, director Nico Sciacqua
PUGLIA – Company VENTISETTEUNDICISETTANTANOVE
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Friday 29 at 18
Chiostro di San Nicolò
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI – Conference on local languages
by FITA Italy
Friday 29 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE by William Shakespeare
director Pino Costalunga
Veneto – Compagnia Teatro Immagine
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Saturday 30 at 21
Teatro Caio Melisso
FESTIVAL DELLE REGIONI “Languages, traditions and flavours of Italy”
by FITA Italy
Gala evening featuring Teatro lirico sperimentale
AUGUST
Tuesday 2 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 2 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
THE BLUE BAND in concert
Wednesday 3 at 21
Spazio Collicola
QUINTORIGO & GINO CASTALDO “MINGUS 100: LA STORIA DI UN MITO”
“La Voce della Terra 2022”
by Visioninmusica
Thursday 4 at 18.30
LEZIONI DI STRADA 3 – Lorenzo Pavolini sul tema del RACCONTO DELLA NATURA (in collaborazione con la Pro Loco di Monteluco)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific advice by Lorenzo Pavolini in collaboration with Antonella Manni
Thursday 4 at 21
PROGETTO CANTARE L’OPERA
CONCERTS by TEATRO LIRICO SPERIMENTALE
Friday 5 at 21
Spazio Collicola
Docufilm presentation
LETTERS TO FRANCESCA – VINCENZO MARIA RIPPO
director STEFANO ALLEVA
by Associazione Spoleto Back Beat and Associazione Culturale Opera Prima Vincenzo Maria Rippo
Saturday 6 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artists in downtown Spoleto
by La Mama Umbria
Saturday 6 at 21
Spazio Collicola
ANDREA SCANZI & GIANLUCA DI FEBO
“E TI VENGO A CERCARE”
by Athanor Eventi
Info www.ticketitalia.com | Tel. 0743 222889
Sunday 7 to Monday 15
FERRAGOSTO SPOLETINO
organised by Proloco di Spoleto ‘A. Busetti’
Info www.prolocospoleto.it
Sunday 7 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artists in downtown Spoleto
by La Mama Umbria
Tuesday 9 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Wednesday 10 at 21
Chiostro di San Nicolò
UNA FINESTRA SUL MONDO:
GOD’S FOOL Progetto performativo di Martha Clarke
A cura de La Mama Umbria
Thursday 11 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 4: CAROSELLO – Teatro Due Mondi
Sorrisi Festival di Fontemaggiore
Thursday 11 at 20.30
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 12 at 18.00
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Friday 12 at 20.00
Fattoria Sociale (Loc. Protte 27- Spoleto)
LUPUS IN FABULA. STORIE DI LUNA PIENA
spettacolo (e cena al chiaro di luna)
regia L. G. Santiago
A seguire esibizione di Martha Clarke
La MaMa RE_MAIN
Libro d’ingresso 2022
Costo euro 20,00 (inclusa cena)
Saturday 13 at 12 and 20.30
Teatro Caio Melisso
EINE KLEINE MUSIK
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale
Saturday 13 at 21
Piazza di Rapicciano
L’ANGELO AZZURRO
Musiche di Piazzolla e Puccini
Concerto di Umbria Ensemble
Suoni di boschi e d’abbazie
Saturday 13 at 21
Morgnano Mines’ Museum – Pozzo Orlando
LEZIONI DI STRADA 2 – Angelo Ferracuti on the topic of WORKERS’ CULTURES (in collaboration with Associazione Amici delle Miniere)
A project by Serafino Amato, scientific advice by Lorenzo Pavolini in collaboration with Antonella Manni
Thursday 18 at 21
Spazio Collicola
DANIELE DI BONAVENTURA in
GAROFANI ROSSI
Omaggio a Gian Carlo Menotti
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Saturday 20 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Saturday 20 at 19
Roof Garden – Piazza Campello
CONCERTO AL TRAMONTO
di Umbria Ensemble
Sunday 21 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Sunday 21 at 21
LA RELIGIONE DEL MIO TEMPO
Spazio Collicola
lettura scenica di Pier Paolo Pasolini interpretata da Pierpaolo Capovilla
Monday 22 at 21
Spazio Collicola
THE SMOOTHERS IN CONCERT
Tuesday 23 at 18
Parco Chico Mendes
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Friday 26 at 18.30
Spazio Collicola
IL TEATRO INCANTATO 5: CENERENTOLA
Compagnia Granteatro di Bari
Saturday 27 at 6.15
Rocca Albornoz
CONCERTO ALL’ALBA di UmbriaEnsemble
Suoni di boschi e d’abbazie
Saturday 27 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Saturday 27 at 18.30
Recinto funerario di Cortaccione
CONCERTO DI EGIDIO FLAMINI
Green Music Festival
Sunday 28 from 18 to 24
SPOLETO IN PIAZZA
Artisti lungo le vie del centro
a cura de La Mama Umbria
Sunday 28 at 21
Spazio Collicola
ECHOES SUSTAIN ABLE feat. ROBERTO ZECHINI
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Monday 29 at 21
Terzo San Severo – green area
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 30 at 17
Biblioteca Comunale “G. Carducci”
BORN TO READ
curated by the City Libraries
Tuesday 30 at 21
Spazio Collicola
SIMONE LOCARNI TRIO feat. YURI GOUBOLEV & FABRIZIO SFERRA
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
(Premio Fondazione Giulio Loreti a Simone Locarni come miglior talento jazz europeo 2022) in collaborazione con SPOLETO EUROPE JAZZ AWARD
a cura di Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
SEPTEMBER
Saturday 3 at 18.30
CONCERT by QUINTETTO ITALIANO DI CLARINETTI SOLITAIRE ENSEMBLE
Spazio Collicola
Sunday 4 at 10
Roof Garden – Piazza Campello
READINGS BY THE PARK
curated by the City Libraries
Thursday 8 at 21
Spazio Collicola
TEKNA feat GREG BURKE, JOE REHMER, JOHN B. ARNOLD special guest FABIO RECCHIA
COLLICOLA JAZZ CONNECTION 2°ed.
organised by Marco Sarti & Consorzio ZdB
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June to 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June at 17.00
The Attolico Collection, the result of decades of acquisitions of works first by Tommaso Lucherini (1891-1967) and then by his daughter Bianca Attolico (1931-2020), consists of approximately 500 works including sculptures and paintings ranging from artists of the 1920s (de Chirico, Balla, Sironi, Pirandello, Morandi, Mafai) to Neoavantgarde artists (Schifano, Pascali, De Dominicis, Manzoni, Mattiacci, Boetti, Mauri), Arte Povera (Calzolari, Kounellis), up to conceptual artists (Kosuth, LeWitt, Agnetti, Mochetti), exponents of the San Lorenzo School (Ceccobelli, Bianchi, Dessì, Nunzio, Gallo) or protagonists of our days (Kentridge, Sierra, Vezzoli, Muniz, Cattelan, Beecroft), just to name a few.
Already temporarily exhibited in public spaces in the past, following the formalisation of a loan agreement between the Municipality of Spoleto and Elena and Lorenzo Attolico (Bianca’s children and current managers of the collection, Elena also being the President of the Friends of Palazzo Collicola), part of the collection will now be housed in Palazzo Collicola in some rooms along the route of the ‘G. Carandente’ Gallery of Modern Art in Spoleto.
For its inauguration, a nucleus of works by important Italian artists not present in the museum’s permanent collection was selected, in agreement with the museum’s Director, Marco Tonelli, and thanks to the critical apparatus by Lorenzo Fiorucci and Davide Silvioli, tracing a synthetic and illustrative path of Italian art from the mid-1950s to the present day. By means of works by 11 artists (Burri, Castellani, Manzoni, Alviani, Agnetti, De Dominicis, Kounellis, Schifano, Vezzoli, Campanini and Arienti), the intention was to construct, without obviously philological aims but as exemplary cases, a path of modernity, innovation and experimentation that constituted the best Italian research in the artistic sphere, almost as if to form a multiform but equally eccentric and visionary gaze on the part of artists who are historicised or, as they are still living, undoubtedly destined to be so.
Of each of the selected artists, works have been chosen that can represent them in an unambiguous way, that is, according to those formal and linguistic traits that have distinguished their poetics despite the different styles, materials and periods in the course of their activity.
A true collection within a collection, therefore, that ideally covers, with works created between 1965 and 2002, the physiological “lacks” of the Gallery of Modern Art of Spoleto and that at the same time allows us to review works by protagonists of modern and contemporary Italian art, placed in a historical continuity and comparison with the works in the permanent collection of Spoleto, including Leoncillo, Pascali, Ceroli, Accardi, Griffa, Lo Savio, Mochetti, LeWitt, Calder, Pepper, Moore, Caro, David Smith.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Palazzo Collicola – Spoleto
25 June– 25 September 2022
a project by
Studio Eliseo Mattiacci
curated by
Riccardo Tonti Bandini
Sculptor Eliseo Mattiacci‘s archive and inspirations take shape in an exhibition and in the digital spaces of Instagram in the EMLibrary (Eliseo Mattiacci Library) project, developed by Studio Eliseo Mattiacci and exhibited at the Carandente Library.
Each section in the exhibition delves into a theme, entrusted to a different author who conveys the free associations between books and the sculptor’s work. Short teaser videos made by Marco Morici, with sound composed by Edoardo Rossano, summarize the iconographic kaleidoscope of each core. The “bibliography,” usually relegated to a background appendix, becomes the primary tool for investigating the work. Each theme, in addition to the books, carries with it a core of documents, notes, and images found within the books and “adjacent” to the theme. Generally, the critic is invited to write about a work or exhibition, and then the artist’s iconographic references are traced back. In this project the sense is reversed, the books become the window through which to look at the work.
Opening times:
from Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
curated by Marco Tonelli
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June – 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June at 17.00
Since the 1980s, Fabrizio Plessi has been experimentally and pioneeringly anticipating uses of the digital set design now widespread, and has created numerous electronic sets for television, theatre, contemporary dance or as stand-alone shows, including those of the trilogy of choreographer and director Frédéric Flamand’s The Fall of Icarus (1989), Titanic (1992) and Ex machina (1994), as well as Pirandello’s Dress the Undressed (2010), Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (2006) and Fenix DNA installed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice (2017).
The exhibition at Palazzo Collicola, realised in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (which first exhibited the electronic scenes of the trilogy at the Magazzini del Sale in March 2022), presents a digital reconstruction of the 6 most engaging and innovative electronic sets among the many realised in Plessi’s career, through films, photos, projects, drawings and notes by the artist, which projected onto as many reconstructions of monumental wooden and digital books flow like pages of memories and fantastic tales.
If the trilogy choreographed by Flamand metaphorically expresses the tensions, anxieties and catastrophes of contemporaneity, increasingly dependent on media and digital instrumentation, the theatre of Pirandello (transmitted on stage, together with the actors by monitor images) and Shakespeare (with costumes and high-speed helmets) has been revisited by Plessi with highly innovative and futuristic scenic installations, triggering suggestions that make them true works of total art, following the idea that the artist has been experimenting with since 1987 with the large installation Roma presented at Documenta in Kassel. It is Fenix DNA, an immersive work, dedicated to the rebirth of the Phoenix, that ideally closes the circle, staging the same primary and natural elements of the artist’s poetics, including fire, water and lightning. The large digital pages projected on monumental wooden books, with more than two hundred images inside them, immersed in the darkness of the rooms on the ground floor of Palazzo Collicola, in their flowing as if moved by the wind, give a sense of the design of the theatre works, revealing the very workshop of the artist’s creativity in its phases of gestation, inspiration, euphoria, fantasy and visionary spirit, demonstrating that the creative principle of the artist is still the sign that the hand traces on the sheet of paper.
Almost as if to tell us that at bottom the most intimate structure of Plessi’s work communicates and romantically stages, as in a dream that has never been interrupted, his instinctive passion for theatricality and the spectacular magic of art.
The exhibition was made possible thanks to the support of the Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona and “Amici di Palazzo Collicola” association.
Opening hours Palazzo Collicola:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Curated by Flavia Mastrella and Marco Tonelli
Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto
25 June – 25 September 2022
Opening 24 June 5 pm
A habitat of interactive sculptures, a documentary exhibition, an evolutionary path, a stage set, videos and photographs: this is Euforia Carogna, a project specifically conceived for the spaces of Palazzo Collicola and realised also thanks to the contribution of the Festival dei Due Mondi, in which Antonio Rezza and Flavia Mastrella will take part with the performance Porte.
An exhibition with two artists/performers/writers/directors whose language moves between desecration and criticism, word and neurosis, form and experimentation, hybridising sound, noise, object, body in a continuous metamorphosis often taken to the limits of ‘cruelty’. As they themselves wrote for the occasion: “Having thirty-five years of work behind us and knowing that there will probably not be another thirty-five ahead of us would throw anyone into despair. But since it is us, we accept the verdict of time trusting to disprove it, because to experience freedom without the need to idealise it, is an opportunity that does not fear the uncertainty of the future’.
Euforia Carogna is in itself a ‘monstrum’ exhibition, that is to say a prodigy, which announces itself right from the museum’s entrance staircase and swaggering into the austere and noble spaces of Palazzo Collicola and its collection of paintings, mirrors, tapestries, wall paintings and antique furnishings, where history observes contemporaneity through the severe or passionate gazes of cardinals, saints, madonnas, martyrs, hanging on the walls of the Hall of Honour, the Chapel and all the 15 rooms in which the exhibition winds its way, culminating in a large installation, threadlike and transparent, suspended along the Painted Gallery.
The exhibition itself presents itself as one big performance, in which cycles of stage sculptures used in Fotofinish, blow-ups taken from some theatrical performances, books on wheels and handmade, Pictures of Light, Stage Paintings, Juggling Cards, Faces…Goths, musical instruments, fabric sculptures on mirrored sheets animate the space like fragile and impertinent intruders, while in some rooms videos, film fragments, theatrical actions and voices such as The Cry of the Centaur are projected. A sort of vain party of works and images, costumes and small habitats, inviting the spectator to participate, to touch, to play the creative and uninhibited game to which Rezza gives voice and body and Mastrella support and structure. Perfect balance between order and chaos, rigour and improvisation, RezzaMastrella’s habitat and stage machine are capable of invading space and being invaded by the audience, of soliciting and being solicited by our reactions. Inside the museum of Palazzo Collicola, their works thus take on the features of a true form of autonomous life, a pulsating organ, a creative anarchy planned down to the smallest detail.
The exhibition was also made possible thanks to the contribution of the Festival dei Due Mondi and the Sardegna Film Commission.
Opening hours:
Wednesday to Monday 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
A selection of Italian illustration in 100 works
and 20 artist’s books
Tricromia editions
Saturday 9 July 6 pm
presentation of the book La Cosa Rossa with the artist Manù Fiori
and art historian Maura Picciau
in collaboration with the handmade concept store A mano armata
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