The exhibition The Hidden Theatre. A story in images is a collection of unpublished photographs dating back to the years of the discovery of the Roman Theatre of Spoleto and its unearthing, from 1938 to 1960.

The exhibition, promoted by the Polo Museale dell’Umbria – Museo Archeologico e Teatro Romano di Spoleto, in collaboration with Astra onlus and the Archivio di Stato di Perugia, section of Spoleto, shows photographs coming from the Accademia Etrusca di Cortona and from the archive of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale dell’Umbria. The exhibition reveals unpublished aspects of the discovery of the Roman theatre and the transformation of the complex of S.Agata from a judicial prison (1867-1957) to a museum.

The history of the monastery of S. Agata – already known thanks to the research of G. Curti, S. Di Sante Coaccioli, S. Gubbiotti, resulting in the 2011 documented book “The Roman Theatre and the former monastery of S.Agata. Chronicle of its transformations” – is now enriched by photographs taken by the then inspector archaeologist Umberto Ciotti, who documented every step of the demolition and excavation work.

Polo Museale dell’Umbria
Piazza Giordano Bruno 10 – Perugia – tel. 075 5759612
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto
Via Sant’Agata 18A – tel. 0743 223277

The opening of the exhibition Ossa, featuring works by Alberto Emiliano Durante, will take place on Sunday, September 16 at 18, at the ADD-art gallery in Spoleto.

Ossa is a project on which the artist has worked for more than a year and which will be shared with the public for the first time. A research on ‘primitive’ materials, marble, wood and iron, which have always shaped idols, warriors and temples: archetypes that Durante explores in a contemporary key.

The value of the archetype and testimony of Durante’s works is confirmed by the genesis of the project: “While I was crossing the woods of Calcata I found numerous broken bones of animals. Looking at the white bones that emerged among the vegetation and trees, I perceived their purity and value as archetypes. It seemed that they were there to witness the passage of a past life, of an event that had taken place. The end and the beginning of a new path”. Ossa (Bones) is therefore the title chosen for this project, because it refers to the load-bearing structure of the individual, to what remains even beyond life, but also and above all to one of the first materials manipulated by Man for ritual and artistic purposes.

This new creative rite, primitive but permeated by a completely contemporary creativity, lives again today in the premises of ADD-art and will remain open until November 30.

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Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, from 27 October 2018 to 24 February 2019
Toru Hamada and Angelo Dozio
Opening: Saturday, October 27 at 12:00

TORU HAMADA – Anthological

The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani and Italo Bergantini, and organized in collaboration with Romberg Contemporanea. After the placement in June, during the Festival dei Due Mondi, of one of his sculptures in Carrara marble in front of the Teatro Nuovo, today comes a large exhibition that tells us about his poetic and inspired painting … The life of Toru Hamada resembles the processing cycle of his art. First of all, one feels the atavistic bond with Japan, ascribable to a state of being that favours atmospheric silence, the firmness of the gaze, the discipline between body and spirit. At the same time, one feels the second homeland in Europe, first in Pietrasanta and then in the French countryside of Saint-Lubin-de-la-Haye, two places of solid culture that have welcomed both the man and the artist. Asia and Europe, two continents that today sum up in this Umbrian experience, in the heart of a Spoleto that has always conceived harmony between distant worlds.

ANGELO DOZIO – The discipline of constant doubt

Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive’s historical investigation continues among Italian artists who deserve a more exhaustive evaluation of their work over ten years. After Gianfranco Chiavacci, Gastone Biggi, Salvatore Emblema and Giuseppe Biasio, it is now the turn of Angelo Dozio with an anthological exhibition set up between the white rooms of the Piano Mostre and the noble furnishings of the Piano Nobile.
The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani: “Reinterpreting the cycles of a long career, Angelo Dozio highlights a consistent value in the theme of transcendence. Technological intuition, the link with town planning and architecture, the implicit presence of sound, the clairvoyance of digital language are present, but in the end there’s a metaphysical suspension that emerges and surpasses the rest, an iconographic system that returns to the lines of the sacred cross, the curves of the Greek and Roman capitals, to the Florentine two-tone marble, to the plan of churches and basilicas, to the design of ideal cities… Dozio’s geometry goes beyond history and climbs into the values of the Absolute, where only painting can get, where design incorporates morality, where Beauty thinks beyond worldly contingencies.”

PALACE COLLICOLA ARTI VISIVE
Piazza Collicola, 1 Spoleto
Exhibition info: www.palazzocollicola.it
https://www.facebook.com/PALAZZOCOLLICOLA

Palazzo Collicola Contacts: info@palazzocollicola.it
Museum System Contacts: ufficiostampa@sistemamuseo.it

1-25 November 2018
OPEN FRANTOI in Spoleto
Tastings, visits to oil mills, themed conferences, walks, animations
www.frantoiaperti.net

SAPOR D’OLIO

Piazza del Mercato, Via Saffi, Ex Monte di Pietà | November 1-4
24th Wild Mushrooms and Herbs Market Exhibition
Exhibition of wild edible herbs, exhibition of mycology, tasting of bruschetta, roast chestnuts of Valdarena and mulled wine, themed conferences, games and activities for children, impromptu painting.
Curated by the Pro Loco of Spoleto

From Thursday 1 to Sunday 4 November
Via A. Saffi – Gazebo Pro Loco | 11-18 h
Bruschette with new olive oil

Thursday 1 November
Brunch and music among the olive trees in special places in Umbria
Location Eggi – Courtyard of the Church of San Michele Arcangelo
Jazz and Blues music with Mad Groove
Cost € 20 for info www.frantoiaperti.net tel +393426215432

Saturday 3 November
“Il Poggiolo” Monini olive oil mill
Visit to the Oil Mill and Oil Tasting
Shuttle service from Piazza Libertà at 11.00 a.m. and 3.00 p.m.

Sunday 4t November
2nd Walk Between Olive Groves
from Eggi to Poreta
Reservations: IAT Spoleto – 0743 218620 – info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

Via A. Saffi – Gazebo Pro Loco, 11.00 a.m.
Guided olive oil tasting with expert Gianluca Vinti
Reservations: IAT Spoleto Office 0743 218620 – info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

Friday 23 November
Palazzo Mauri – Caffè Letterario (Municipal Library), 5 p.m.
Panunto and magnamacco in the village of Cuccagna
Novels about oil and olive trees. Followed by bread and oil for children

Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 November
Sostruzioni Sillane – Vicolo Leoncilli (from Via Saffi), 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
#CHIAVEUMBRA – Contemporary Art Installation by artist Benedetta Galli.

Saturday 24 November
Palazzo Mauri – Literary Café (Municipal Library), 11.00 a.m.
Food is your child’s best friend
Food education and tastings in collaboration with Consorzio ABN

Sunday 25th November
Casa Romana, 3.30 p.m.
Cibus, veste, ludi: customs and traditions in Roman times
Activities for children from 4 to 14 years and their parents

Organized by the Municipality of Spoleto
For further information call 0743 218620
info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

The screening of “Amahl and the Night Visitors”, the one-act opera by Gian Carlo Menotti specifically composed for the U.S. TV; a film festival dedicated to the great women of history and the seventh art with guests such as Barbora Bobuľová, “Spoleto … in corto”, a festival of animated movies starring Simone Massi, Julia Gromskaya and Francesco Filippi; a celebration of Leoncillo, a leading figure in 20th century art, who was born in Spoleto, in the fiftieth anniversary of his death; concerts by Cristiana Pegoraro, Edoardo Riganti Fulginei and UmbriaEnsemble, dance shows, theatre, exhibitions, cribs and markets, and then, sporting events along the former railway Spoleto-Norcia, a women’s volleyball tournament and a day dedicated to the achievements of Spoleto’s athletes, animations for children, Christmas trees set up in the main squares and a New Year’s Eve show with music by famous composer Mogol with fireworks display: there are more than forty events that make up the program of Spoleto d’Inverno 2018-2019, most of which in the period from December 6, 2018 until January 14, 2019, the day of San Ponziano, patron saint of the city.

EVENTS SCHEDULE

Thursday 6 and Friday 7 December | Monumental complex of San Nicolò
SPOLETO IN CORTO
short films and music videos | 1st edition of “Spoleto Short Contest” | school project “Tutto o quasi sul fumetto” (Everything or almost everything about comics)
Organized by Association TEUDE in collaboration with the National Association “100 autori”

7-8-9 / 14-15-16 December | largo Moneta – giardini di viale Trento e Trieste
UN NAT@LE CHE SIA TALE
h 15.00-19.00 on 7 and 14 December – h 10.00-19.00 on 8,9,15 and 16 December
Volunteer and solidarity Christmas market
Organized by Association InSiemeVola

Saturday 8 December | 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. | viale Trento e Trieste
FIERA DELL’IMMACOLATA – traditional fair

Saturday, December 8th, 12 a.m., Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
BIOGRAFIA PLURALE – VIRGINIA RYAN: ARTE, AFRICA E ALTROVE
book presentation
Organized by Galleria Officina d’Arte & Tessuti

Saturday, 8 December, 5 p.m., Teatro Nuovo “G.C. Menotti”
CONCERT OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
concert on the occasion of the Grand Gala of Avis with music from famous soundtracks directed by Maestro Angelo Silvio Rosati
Organized by the City of Spoleto Band

From Saturday 8 December to Monday 14 January | square next to via Fratelli Cervi
FROZEN PARK – ice rink
3.00-7.30 p.m. and 9.00-12.00 p.m. weekdays, holidays and holidays all day

Sunday 9 December | 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. | historic centre
ANTIQUES’ MARKET
monthly market with special section “Christmas from schools”

Sunday 9 December | 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. | Palatenda via Pasquale Laureti
CHRISTMAS DOG EXHIBITION
dog exhibition with dog race, 2nd edition, with the participation of “guests” from the Municipal Kennel to promote their adoption
Organized by Arci Caccia Umbria, Spoleto district

Sunday 9 December | 9 a.m.
2nd PHOTOGRAPHIC WALK ON THE FORMER RAILWAY SPOLETO-NORCIA
guided walk to Caprareccia with Santa Claus and the Dotto train
Organized by the Italian Red Cross, local committee of Spoleto.
In case of bad weather the event will be held on 16|12

From Monday 10 to Saturday 15 December | Sala Pegasus and Sala Frau
SPOLETO FILM FESTIVAL – “PRIMO PIANO : PIANETA DONNA”
“From women in history to women in movies.”
Competitive festival of debut works by Italian and foreign authors, curated by the Cultural Association AmaRcorD.

Monday 10 December 6 p.m. | Sala Frau | Festival opening and screenings
From 10 to 14 December 6 p.m. and 9.30 p.m. | screening of movies and short films in competition. With the participation of directors and actors.

Friday 14 6 p.m. | Scheggino, multipurpose room | film screening.

Saturday 15 10 a.m. | Municipal Library “G. Carducci” at Palazzo Mauri | round table “From
women in history to women in the history of cinema”.

Saturday 15 9 p.m. | Hotel Albornoz | red carpet and gala dinner with awards ceremony for the winning films

Saturday 15 December | 5 p.m. | Teatro Nuovo “G. C. Menotti”
IN…CANTO DI EMOZIONI
Christmas concert
Organized by the Municipal School of Music and Dance “Alessandro Onofri”

Sunday 16 December | 11 a.m. | Sala Pegasus
CONCERT IN HONOR OF DEBUSSY
concert by Galleria Officina d’Arte & Tessuti

Sunday 16 December | 11 a.m. | Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
FAMIGLIE AD ARTE – CHRISTMAS EDITION
Games, riddles and workshops to stimulate creativity
In balance with Alexander
Organized by Sistema Museo

Sunday, 16 December | 4.30 p.m. | Teatro Nuovo “G.C. Menotti”
LA BOTTEGA DEI GIOCATTOLI (THE TOY SHOP)
Theatrical performance included in the review “La Domenica dei Sogni”

Thursday, 20 December | 4 p.m. | Town Hall
SPOLETO CELEBRATES LEONCILLO
celebration of the great artist from Spoleto on the fiftieth anniversary of his death

Sunday, 23 December | 3.30 p.m. | Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
FAMIGLIE AD ARTE – CHRISTMAS EDITION
Games, riddles and workshops to stimulate creativity
A Calder Christmas
by Sistema Museo

Sunday, 23 December | 9 p.m. | Teatro Nuovo “G.C. Menotti”.
CHRISTMAS GREETINGS CONCERT
concert by A. Cicillini, C. Rossi, L. Ranieri, M. C. Berioli with the participation of C. Pegoraro and the “Octava Aurea” children’s choir.
Organized by UmbriaEnsemble

Free admission upon reservation (no seat assignment):
IAT Spoleto – Largo Ferrer 6 | 0743 218620 | info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

Wednesday, 26 December | 6:30 p.m. | Teatro Caio Melisso “Spazio Carla Fendi”
AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS
screening of the one-act opera by G. C. Menotti directed by Thomas Schippers
Afterwards: Amahl and Spoleto conversation with Umberto de Augustinis, Giorgio Ferrara, Alessio Vlad and Andrea Tomasini
Special event organized by the Festival Foundation

Thursday 27 December | 4 p.m. | Complesso Monumentale San Nicolò
DAY OF SPOLETO’S GREATEST ATHLETES
Spoleto awards its athletes for their achievements in domestic and international competitions

from Thursday 27 to Saturday 29 December | communal sports areas |
2018 “CITY OF SPOLETO” NATIONAL CHRISTMAS TOURNAMENT
volleyball tournament between women’s national teams under 12-13-14-16-18
Organized by A.S.D. Volley Spoleto

Saturday 29 December | 4 p.m. | Villa Redenta – Sala Monterosso
BETWEEN SKY AND EARTH
Children’s Choir of Spoleto and Valnerina
Organized by Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “A. Belli”

Saturday, 29 December | 9 p.m. | Teatro Nuovo “G.C. Menotti”
LET’S SAY GOODBYE TO 2018 WITH ROSSINI AND VIVALDI
Concert with music from Vivaldi to Rossini on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Gioacchino Rossini’s death with Cristiana Pegoraro at the piano and the Rome Chamber Ensemble directed by Lorenzo Porzio.

Free admission upon reservation (no seat assignment):
IAT Spoleto – Largo Ferrer 6 | 0743 218620 | info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

Sunday 30 December | 3.30 p.m. | Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
FAMIGLIE AD ARTE – CHRISTMAS EDITION
Games, riddles and workshops to stimulate creativity
Sandy’s joys
Organized by Sistema Museo

Sunday 30 December | 5 p.m. | Complesso Monumentale San Nicolò
THE MUSIC OF THE BARBERINI
concert with Lucia Napoli, mezzo-soprano and Francesco Cera, harpsichord
Organized by Accademia degli Ottusi

Monday 31 December | Piazza Garibaldi
NEW YEAR’S EVE SHOW
10.30 p.m. Sardinia Rock presents “The great successes of Mogol”
At Midnight: fireworks display

From Thursday, January 3 to Saturday, January 5 | Teatro Nuovo “G. C. Menotti”
DANCE ACROSS UMBRIA – INTERNATIONAL DANCE COMPETITION
3 January Hip Hop, 4 and 5 January Classic-Modern-Contemporary
Organized by CSEN Umbria

Saturday 5 January | 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. | Piazza Garibaldi
EPIPHANY FAIR

Sunday 6 January | 3 p.m. | Piazzale Auditorium della Stella
FEAST OF THE BEFANA
animation for children with arrival of the Befana
Organized by the Italian Red Cross, local committee of Spoleto

Sunday 6 January | 3.30 p.m. | Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
FAMIGLIE AD ARTE – CHRISTMAS EDITION
Games, riddles and workshops to stimulate creativity
Color Workshop: Red!
Organized by Sistema Museo

Sunday, 6 January, 5 p.m., Teatro Caio Melisso “Spazio Carla Fendi”
EPIPHANY CONCERT
Epiphany concert with Edoardo Riganti Fulginei at the piano

Free admission upon reservation (no seat assignment):
IAT Spoleto – Largo Ferrer 6 | 0743 218620 | info@iat.spoleto.pg.it

Sunday 13 January | 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. | historic centre
ANTIQUES’ MARKET
monthly market of handicrafts and antiques

Sunday, 13 January | 4.30 p.m. | Teatro Nuovo “G.C. Menotti”
L’ISOLA CHE NON C’È…ADESSO C’È
theatrical performance included in the review “La Domenica dei Sogni”

Sunday 20 January | 8 a.m. – 8 p.m. | viale Trento e Trieste
SAN PONZIANO FAIR
fair on the occasion of Spoleto’s Patron Saint

OTHER EVENTS

Saturday 8 and Sunday 9, Saturday 15 and Sunday 16, Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 December | 4.00-6.00 p.m.
CHRISTMAS JOURNEY
Santa’s sleigh stops in Spoleto from the Immaculate Conception untill Christmas
animation, workshops, sweets, songs,
music and dancing in the town center

Saturday 8 and Sunday 9, Saturday 15 and Sunday 16, Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 December | 4.00-6.00 p.m.
DOTTO TRAIN
the little train will take you through the streets of the historic centre

Saturday 15 and Sunday 16, Saturday 22, Sunday 23 and Monday 24 December
ZAMPOGNA PLAYERS
duo with ciaramella e zampogna in traditional costumes, through the squares and streets of the historic center

Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 December
“G. Fantini” BRASS GROUP
squares and streets of the historic center

EXHIBITIONS

TORU HAMADA AND ANGEL DOZIO
27 October 2018 – 24 February 2019
Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
by Gianluca Marziani and Italo Bergantini

ALPHABETS
7 December 2018 – 7 April 2019

7 December 11.00 a.m. Rocca Albornoz, Spoleto / 4 p.m. Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio
8 December 12.00 a.m. Tempietto del Clitunno, Campello sul Clitunno
Project by Studio A’87, Viaindustriae, Polo Museale dell’Umbria | curated by Emanuele De Donno,
Giuliano Macchia, Franco Troiani

FIBER ART BIENNIAL
8 December 2018 – 16 January 2019
Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, Textile and Costume Museum, Officina d’Arte e Tessuti
by Giuseppina Caldarola in collaboration with Gianluca Marziani

PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION DEDICATED TO ANNA MAGNANI
10-15 December 2018
Ex-Monte di Pietà (Via Saffi)
curated by AmaRcorD Ass. Culturale, as part of the Spoleto Film Festival “Pianeta Donna”

REUSE AND RECOVERY OF THE ANCIENT IN THE SPOLETO AREA IN LOMBARD AGE
14 December 2018 – 6 October 2019
National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto, Spoleto
Temple of Clitunno, Campello sul Clitunno
by Associazione Italia Langobardorum and Polo Museale dell’Umbria

EXEMPLA 1.0
8 December 2018 – 14 January 2019
Urban Center, Corso Mazzini – ADD-art Gallery, via Palazzo dei Duchi
by cultural association Ofarch, Galleria ADD-art and Andrea Tomasini

CRIBS

SPOLETO, THE CITY IN A CRIB – 9th edition
14 December 2018 – 14 January 2019
historic centre
by Spoleto’s Pro Loco “A. Busetti”

THE CRIB AT THE STATION
8 December 2018 – 14 January 2019
Spoleto railway station | exhibition by Mauro Scarabottini
Holidays and holidays’ eves 2.00-8.00 p.m., weekdays 5.00-8.00 p.m.

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Tenth edition of Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia, an initiative organized by MIBAC – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Studio A’87 and Viaindustriae, with the coordination of Paola Mercurelli Salari, Emanuele De Donno and Franco Troiani, with the aim of encouraging a comparison between many contemporary artists with different styles.

Following the theme chosen for this year, ALFABETI (Alphabets), three exhibitions have been set up at Rocca Albornoz in Spoleto, Palazzo Ducale in Gubbio and Tempietto del Clitunno in Campello sul Clitunno, inspired by writing in all its semantic and symbolic variations, offering different artistic languages and tools (ranging from artist’s books to serial or multiple works and video installations).

The opening of the event will take place on Friday, December 7 at 11 am at the Rocca Albornoz in Spoleto.
At 4 p.m. on the same day, the exhibition will also be inaugurated and presented at the Palazzo Ducale in Gubbio.

Finally, on Saturday 8 December, at 11 a.m., installation and performance at the Tempietto di Campello sul Clitunno.

Participating artists:
Andrea Abbatangelo, Affiliati Peducci Savini, Vincenzo Agnetti, Doug Aitken, Getulio Alviani, Marco Baldicchi, Nanni Balestrini, Fiona Banner, Toni Bellucci, Mirella Bentivoglio, Gianni Bertini, Joseph Beuys, Valentino Biagioli, Irma Blank, Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Mario Boldrini, Stefano Bonacci, Stanley Brown, Tiziano Campi, Sauro Cardinali, Francesco Carone, Nicola Carrino, Guglielmo Achille Cavellini, Umberto Cavenago, Bruno Ceccobelli, Banu Cenettoglu, Mario Ceroli, Giuseppe Chiari, Claudio Costa, Gino De Dominicis, Mario Diacono, Corrado D’Ottavi, Arthur Duff, Alberto Faietti, Giulia Filippi, Tommaso Faraci, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Jeff Gibbons, Gilbert & George, Giuliano Giuman, Dan Graham, Aldo Grazzi, Giorgio Griffa, Nedda Guidi, Richard Hamilton, Dick Higgins, Douglas Huebler, Allan Kaprow, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Jeffrey Isaac, Myriam Laplante, Ketty La Rocca, Sol LeWitt, Sean Lynch, Stelio Maria Martini, Mario Merz, Afranio Metelli, Eugenio Miccini, Jonathan Monk, Miriam Montani, Maurizio Nannucci, Hermann Nitsch, Nuvolo, Olaf Nicolai, Luca Maria Patella, Giulio Paolini, Anne & Patrick Poirier, Ugo Piccioni, Cesare Pietroiusti, Lamberto Pignotti, Luca Pucci, Umberto Raponi, Giacomo Silva + Floriana Onidi, Gianni Emilio Simonetti, Slavs and Tatars, Daniel Spoerri, Nello Teodori, Luciano Tittarelli, Tommaso Tozzi, David Tremlett, Franco Troiani, Franco Vaccari, Ben Vautier, Claudio Verna, Cesare Viel, Emilio Villa, Lawrence Weiner, Stephen Willats, Alberto Zanmatti.

EXEMPLA, OBJECTS AND THINGSITIES, IS A WIDESPREAD EXHIBITION OF THINGS MADE BY ARTISANS

inauguration 8 December
18:00 ADD-art contemporary art gallery, Via Palazzo dei Duchi 6
19:30 Urban Center Spoleto, Corso Giuseppe Mazzini 58

ORGANIZATION
ADD-art, OFARCH Officina d’Architettura, Andrea Tomasini
with the collaboration of Viaindustriae, Spoleto Municipal Library and the support of Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts

ARTS AND CRAFTS
Silvia Beccaria, Auro and Celso Ceccobelli, EL gioielli, Guido Lilli, Giuliana Nagni, Piloh, David Pompili, Vagamé

WHAT
Exempla is an exhibition and a narration of the different possible variants of the discourse on things and objects in everyday life, made by creators who design them and whose uniqueness lies in the gestures of the hands with which they are made. Exempla exhibits artifacts – things produced by craftsmen – capable of maintaining their functional value without losing the beauty and identity most typically related to the unique work. Exempla will show these artifacts/manufactures and will organize meetings with the artists invited to exhibit, seminars on the system of things and objects, book presentations, readings of poets and collective public readings to mark the plural nature of things and highlight the resonances that live in them.
Exempla is an exhibition of savoir-faire and faire-savoir, the beauty of small things in everyday life.

WHERE
Urban Center Spoleto, ADD-art gallery, Casa dell’Architettura Spoleto and other exhibition spaces in the historic center Spoleto

SPONSORHIP
City of Spoleto, Order of Architects P.P.C. Perugia, F.U.A. Fondazione Umbra per l’architettura

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Emanuele Elisei

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On the occasion of the forty-fifth anniversary of his death, and in conjunction with numerous exhibitions around the world dedicated to him, Spoleto celebrates the genius of the Spanish artist with the exhibition PICASSO. INTIMATE PORTRAIT Photos by Edward Quinn, presenting a large series of shots, some of them unpublished, taken by Edward Quinn (Dublin 1920-Switzerland 1997), the photojournalist who followed Picasso (1881-1973) to the Côte d’Azur and portrayed him, with his permission, for about twenty years.

From December 15, 2018 to March 31, 2019, MAG MetaMorfosi Art Gallery in Palazzo Bufalini in Piazza Duomo will feature about eighty photos (two sizes on display 40×50 and 30×40 cm) that tell the story of an absolutely private Picasso: among his women, lovers and friends, among his children, the result of many passions over the years, among the many friends and acquaintances who populated his canvases as well as the laid tables and the beaches by the sea. As many as 26 of these photos are unpublished and never printed before. The photos come from the Quinn Archive, Zurich, and were selected by the exhibition’s curator, Wolfgang Frei, the photographer’s nephew.

The exhibition, produced and organized by MetaMorfosi under the patronage of the City of Spoleto, is the result of the special friendship that linked Picasso to Edward Quinn, as his nephew explains by reconstructing their first meeting on the Côte d’Azur: “”Lui, il ne me dérange pas”, (“He does not bother me”) says Picasso after having been photographed for the first time during his work on March 23, 1953. So Quinn became one of the few photographers who was allowed to photograph him at work and who was accepted in his private life.

Born in 1920, Quinn moved to Munich in the late 1940s. Probably there has never been a place like the Côte d’Azur of the 1950s and 1960s where so many stars, politicians and artists have lived or spent their holidays. One of the personalities who settled on the Côte d’Azur was Picasso: he already was a star. Quinn managed to take his first photos of Picasso with his two children in 1951. The artist liked the photos and agreed to the request for further shots. Two years later, the first photo shoot took place with Picasso working with ceramics. Quinn did not belong to the breed of the insistent paparazzi, like tabloid photographers. In this he was too much of an Irish gentleman. He soon became a friend of Picasso, as shown by the 1954 dedication to the linocut “Toros en Vallauris”: “Para el amigo Quinn – el buen fotógrafo”.

“Even if Quinn – Frei tells us – was a dear friend, it was almost never possible to make an appointment with Picasso in advance. Often Picasso gave the order not to be disturbed. Almost all visits were unexpected and improvised. However, this was in line with Quinn’s way of working: his shots did not need long technical preparations. He didn’t use the tripod and refused to artificially light the rooms and have Picasso pose for a photo. The aim was to show under what conditions the artist created his works”.

The objective was unconventional, credible, authentic, documentary photography. The photographs on display, many of which have never been published, reveal how the artist was inspired by everyday things and people, but also by the extraordinary things that surrounded him. In this vision of his personality, of the people behind the images, also clichés about reality and opposites become visible: free time alongside work, everyday life in relation to art, Casanova and the family man, the clown and the extrovert joker, but also the very attentive master.

A fascinating intimate portrait of the artist that covers a period of over 20 years and tells an unusual Picasso, authentic and rich in humanity.

A selection of images in the exhibition can be downloaded from the following link:
https://tinyurl.com/Picasso-Spoleto

PICASSO. INTIMATE PORTRAIT
Photos by Edward Quinn

15 December 2018 – 31 March 2019
MAG Palazzo Bufalini Piazza Duomo Spoleto

OPENING TIMES:

Tuesday/Sunday 10.00-18.30
25 December: 10.00-12.30 – 15.30-18.30
31 December: 10.00-18.30
1 January: 12.30-18.30

ENTRANCE: full 5.00 € reduced 3.00 €
INFORMATION: 0743 225302

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