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Spoleto House of Architecture– Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts
28 April 2018, h 17 – 15 July 2018
Fridays-Saturdays-Sundays 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
Opening: 28 April at 17.00
The Spoleto House of Architecture presents the exhibition LE SUPERUTOPIE toyscapes at Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, featuring works by Anna Riciputo and the video performance (H)EART((H)QUAKE by Coletivo Barragem (Nivaldo Godoy and Panais Bouki).
Le Superutopie by Anna la Touche Riciputo are a synthesis of a way of looking at the built space through the Toyscapes, toy-landscapes that take shape of landscapes-borders of the utopian subconscious composed by fragments of architecture, art and costumes.
Astounding pop scenarios that are the result of a precise, formal analysis: the architect gathers the richness of the urban landscape, selects the city’s icons, pivots of history, and recomposes them in a contemporary stratigraphy.
The stratigrapy thus assumes the double meaning of a replacement of the work in a new landscape, and of direct, momentous fusion where parts of contemporary architecture blend with fragments of historical architectures.
The video performance (H)EART((H)quake by Coletivo Barragem (Nivaldo Godoy and Panais Bouki), picks up Anna Riciputo’s pop heritage and mixes the authors’ point of view on Spoleto in video sequences, recomposing the historical signs of the city mixed with Festival-Of-Two-World’s icons, all-the -while letting the post-earthquake temporary facilities surface.
The exhibition will be introduced with the catalogue published by ADD-art Edizioni, featuring collaborations bycoordinator of Casa dell’Architettura, architect Fabio Fabiani, director of Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive Spoleto, Gianluca Marziani, Addart curator Alessia Vergari, journalist Andrea Tomasini and the very illustrious architect Adolfo Natalini.
Information:
fb OFARCH Officina d’Architettura
The Municipality of Spoleto, in collaboration with Consorzio Francesco’s Ways, join the event VIVI LA VIA, which will take place along the Via di Francesco / St. Francis Way on 25, 26 and 27 May.
The event aims at giving value to the culture of walking and pilgrimage, with due regard for those who choose to embark on the journey, in harmony with the environment and the territory, and thanks to the active involvement of associations and local communities who live along the way.
Sunday, May 27, in Spoleto, you can participate in 3 different types of routes, to be faced on foot (in collaboration with the CAI Spoleto), by mountain bike (in collaboration with MTB Club) and horseback (in collaboration with Natura a Cavallo, Horse Centre Somma and Spoleto Country Club).
The event will be a special opportunity to discover the St. Francis Way and the places linked to the Saint in the stretch of the route on Spoleto’s territory, but will also offer musical and gastronomic events.
Participation is free of charge upon reservation.
Walking Itinerary
We will follow with possible variations the CAI ring path n. 1 that, starting from the Basilica of San Pietro and passing by the Church of San Giuliano, reaches Monteluco along the west side of the mountain. Return to Spoleto along the so-called “corta” (shortcut).
Altitude difference: about 500 m.
Mountain bike Itinerary
We will start from the Basilica of San Pietro and, after the Church of San Giuliano, we will reach the path for the Sasso Forato and we will reach Monteluco after passing through the hamlet of Le Aie. Return to Spoleto through Hotel del Matto, Valcieca and Giro dei Condotti.
Altitude difference: about 600 m.
Itinerary on horseback
From the SS Flaminia, South of Spoleto, we will take the Strada dei Patricani, CAI path n. 6, pass through the hamlet of I Camini and then reach Monteluco. Return to Spoleto along the “corta” (shortcut).
Altitude difference: about 500 m.
PROGRAMME
8.30 Gathering of participants at Piazzale Roma (Spoleto SUD exit)
9.00 Departure for Monteluco
12.00 Arrival in Monteluco
Medieval music with the Aegletes
13.00 Snack* or Lunch**
Possibility of guided tours of the Convent of St Francis accompanied by the friars
16.00 Departure for Spoleto
Snack: cured meat and cheese or sandwiches by Piero Quaglietti ‘s Chioschetto (variable price)
Lunch: full meal by Ferretti and Paradiso restaurants (€ 15, limited places, upon reservation).
FREE EVENT
Booking required before 18.00 on Saturday 26 May
We recommend technical clothing and a minimum of athletic preparation.
For info and reservations:
Itineraries on foot and in mtb
IAT SPOLETO
Tel 0743 218620
info@iat.spoleto.pg.it
Itinerary on horseback
NATURA A CAVALLO
Sergio Parmegiani Palmieri
Tel 335 6041439
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Sunday at Casa Menotti
Concert Season Program
www.casamenotti.it
April 8 Duo Chaminade – Women in music
April 15 Quartetto Talenti d’Arte – Opera arias and more
April 22 Musical Metamorphosis – Between music and dance
29 April Duo Metro Foti – Homage to Liszt
May 6th Cast Jazz Quartet – Jazzing
May 13 Duo Bottini D’Antò – Operetta mon amour
May 20 Trio Concentus – From Beethoven to Piazzolla
May 27 Duo Oliva Zampini – Bolling Jazz
June 3 Young Concertists
Concert starts: 5.00 pm – followed by cocktails with the artists
Subscription: € 75
For info, costs and reservations on individual concerts contact staff@musemedierranee.it – 347 0718564 – 0743 46620
www.musemediterranee.it – www.casamenotti.it
La Tana del Ludo centre for children and families organizes workshops addressed to children from five to ten years old.
The workshops, entitled Discovering Nature are held every Wednesday until 27 June, from 16.30 to 18.30, at Il Carillon nursery school, in Viale Martiri della Resistenza.
It is a path of discovery of the environment that includes excursions in the little “didactic wood”, the garden surrounding the school, for the collection of aromatic herbs and wild herbs. These experiences will then be graphically re-elaborated and become the common thread of narratives and stories. The workshop is free of charge and open to all children from 5 to 10 years old.
Information: ph. 0743 218732 or 331 1812016
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Spoleto in Fiore is an exhibition of fruit plants, garden plants, garden furniture, flowers, organic and typical products, organized by the Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti” with the patronage of the Municipality of Spoleto, the Umbria Region and Unpli Umbria.
The event will take place in the historical centre of the town from Friday 1 to Sunday 3 June 2018 and will involve Piazza Pianciani, Corso Mazzini, Largo Ferrer, Piazza della Libertà, Via Brignone and Piazza Fontana.
The event’s poster has been created in collaboration with the students of the Liceo Artistico Leoncillo Leonardi of Spoleto.
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Second cycle of conferences Recounting History, a project in collaboration with GraficArte Severini and Astra Onlus.
At each meeting, participants will receive didactic kits and an ebook will be created, featuring last year’s conferences’ contents.
On the occasion of the conference, admission to the Museum is free. All conferences are in Italian.
Future meetings:
Friday 1 June
TOMBS FROM THE VALNERINA AT THE SPOLETO ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
Chiara Procacci – Archaeologist
Maria Angela Turchetti – Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Museo Archeologico Nazionale e Teatro Romano di Spoleto
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, the event by Sistema Museo, waits for you on Friday 1 June 2018 at 19.30 with a city trekking dedicated to The Magic of Sunset. An expert guide will lead the visit around the fortress that will allow for admiring Spoleto’s famous monuments from a different perspective.
The appointment is at 19.30 by the Casa Romana (Via di Visiale).
The stroll will be followed by an aperitive, thanks to the collaboration with Con Spoleto – the Spoleto hotel managers’ association.
Participation fee
Guided visit – Full € 7,00
Guided visit – Reductions € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00
Reservation is strongly encouraged, deadline on Friday at 13.00:
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434
After last year’s success, DEGUSTO festival returns on 2nd and 3rd June 2018: a two-day event dedicated to wine and food enthusiasts, focused on local produce and wine: tastings, cooking shows, artisanal ice cream workshops etc.
But also food design, workshops for children, DJs and live music.
All in the splendid setting of the San Nicolò Monumental Complex.
Further info and programme: www.degustospoleto.it
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Associazione Culturale “L’Orfeo” di Spoleto
XXVI CONCERT SEASON – CONCERT #334
curated by Fabrizio Ammetto
Spoleto, Rocca Albornoziana – Saturday June 2, 2018, h. 21
L’InCanto della Rocca
Grand Choral Concert at the Rocca Albornoziana
On the occasion of the 75th birthday of Master Valentino Miserachs Grau.
Organist, composer and choir director, former Dean of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome, Master of the Liberian Musical Chapel (Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore – Rome)
Choirs: “Laudesi Umbri” from Spoleto and Porziuncula choir
Organist: Angelo Silvio Rosati
Director: Valentino Miserachs Grau
Choral pieces by V. Miserachs Grau
Free entry
The Fair of St. Anthony returns in viale Trento e Trieste on Sunday 3 June, from 8 to 22. 50 stands will be present, showing a wide range of products.
Sunday 3 June 2018, Sistema Museo, in collaboration with the Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto and Associazione culturale P.A.M., presents Corteous Dancing – Workshop of Renaissance Dance led by Enrica Sabatini.
The experience starts at the Rocca Albornoz at 15.30 with Stories of Love and Weapons, a special guided visit at the Camera Pinta.
A workshop of Renaissance dance will follow at ore 16.00, led by dancer and musician Enrica Sabatini, to experience ancient coreographies narrated in important Renaissance treatises, a dive into the past to understand the present.
The event is addressed to all, adults and families including children aged > 9 yo.
Participation is subject to reservation, deadline is Sunday 3 June at 13.00.
GUIDED VISIT – Stories of Love and Weapons – h 15.30
30 minutes ca
Admission fee: € 3,00, free for the Young under the age of 14 and for Spoleto Card holders.
Workshop of Renaissance Dance – Corteous Dancing – h 16.00
1 hour ca
Admission fee: € 8,00; € 6,00 for Spoleto Card holders and kids aged 9 to 16, free for younger children till the age of 8.
Information and reservations:
Sistema Museo
Tel. 0743/224952
spoleto@sistemamuseo.it
Spoleto Card | www.spoletocard.it
Sunday at Casa Menotti
Concert Season Program
www.casamenotti.it
April 8 Duo Chaminade – Women in music
April 15 Quartetto Talenti d’Arte – Opera arias and more
April 22 Musical Metamorphosis – Between music and dance
29 April Duo Metro Foti – Homage to Liszt
May 6th Cast Jazz Quartet – Jazzing
May 13 Duo Bottini D’Antò – Operetta mon amour
May 20 Trio Concentus – From Beethoven to Piazzolla
May 27 Duo Oliva Zampini – Bolling Jazz
June 3 Young Concertists
Concert starts: 5.00 pm – followed by cocktails with the artists
Subscription: € 75
For info, costs and reservations on individual concerts contact staff@musemedierranee.it – 347 0718564 – 0743 46620
www.musemediterranee.it – www.casamenotti.it
The Rocca Albornoz – National Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto will host a series of meetings from Friday 27 April through Tuesday 5 June, 2018.
Five lectures by Mariarosaria Salvatore, Fabio Isman, Amedeo Feniello, Chiara Frugoni and Maria Grazia Nico wil focus on history, art history, culture and the Spoletan territory.
The event is organised by Polo museale dell’Umbria, Sistema Museo, Associazione Rocca Albornoziana and ANISA (National association of art history teachers).
Schedule:
27 April at 17.00
Mariarosaria Salvatore
The Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto: hints
11 May at 17.00
Fabio Isman
Presentation of the book Lost art in Italy. Dispersed collections, fleeing masterpieces
17 May at 18.00
Amedeo Feniello
The Middle Ages in “World History of Italy”
25 May at 17.00
Chiara Frugoni
Presentation of the book Life in the Middle Ages. Women, men and, above all, children
5 June at 17.00
Maria Grazia Nico
Cardinal Albornoz and the system of Roccas
Free admission – lectures will be held in Italian
La Tana del Ludo centre for children and families organizes workshops addressed to children from five to ten years old.
The workshops, entitled Discovering Nature are held every Wednesday until 27 June, from 16.30 to 18.30, at Il Carillon nursery school, in Viale Martiri della Resistenza.
It is a path of discovery of the environment that includes excursions in the little “didactic wood”, the garden surrounding the school, for the collection of aromatic herbs and wild herbs. These experiences will then be graphically re-elaborated and become the common thread of narratives and stories. The workshop is free of charge and open to all children from 5 to 10 years old.
Information: ph. 0743 218732 or 331 1812016
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, the event by Sistema Museo, dedicates the meeting of Friday 8 June 2018 to one of Spoleto’s most interesting art chests, the Church of SS John and Paul.
You will find some among the most interesting evidences of local painting inside, including a very rare representation of Thomas Becket’s martyrdom.
The appointment is at 19.30 by the small church in piazzetta San Giovanni e Paolo.
The event will be followed by an aperitive, thanks to Con Spoleto – the Spoleto hotel managers’ association.
Participation fee
Guided visit – Full € 7,00
Guided visit – Reduction € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00
Please reserve within Friday at 13.00:
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434
Feast of the Military Navy
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the extraordinary deeds of Premuda during WWI, Spoleto honours the Feast of the Military Navy. 80 members will be accompanied by Maria Giuseppina Rizzo, granddaughter of hero Luigi Rizzo.
Schedule:
– 10,30 Mass in the church of Santa Rita;
– 11,30 Laurel wreath deposition at the Monumento ai Marinai (via Martiri delle Fosse Ardeatine)
– 12,30 meeting at the restaurant “Sale in zucca”.
By Gruppo ANMI Spoleto
La Tana del Ludo centre for children and families organizes workshops addressed to children from five to ten years old.
The workshops, entitled Discovering Nature are held every Wednesday until 27 June, from 16.30 to 18.30, at Il Carillon nursery school, in Viale Martiri della Resistenza.
It is a path of discovery of the environment that includes excursions in the little “didactic wood”, the garden surrounding the school, for the collection of aromatic herbs and wild herbs. These experiences will then be graphically re-elaborated and become the common thread of narratives and stories. The workshop is free of charge and open to all children from 5 to 10 years old.
Information: ph. 0743 218732 or 331 1812016
The 54th Race of the Vaporetti, a race at breakneck speed through upper Spoleto, will take place from June 15th to June 17th 2018.
Vaporetti are small carts on iron wheels, with a team of two, a pusher and a driver. The name comes from a steam-engine coach, the ‘vaporiera’, that from 1902 to 1909 used to serve the Spoleto-Norcia route, the first in Italy.
The race, which takes place along the streets that cross the historic city centre, has established itself as a successful local tradition, attracting every year an increasing number of spoletini and visitors.
Programme:
9 June – Piazza Garibaldi (presentation of participating crews and selection of Miss Vaporetto contestants)
15 June – city circuit (tests at night)
16 June – city circuit (tests and race in the afternoon and evening)
17 June – city circuit (race)
Organization: Associazione Corsa dei Vaporetti di Spoleto ASD, in collaboration with AVIS Spoleto.
Info: www.vaporettispoleto.it
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Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, the event by Sistema Museo, waits for you on Friday 15 June 2018 at 19.30 at Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive with an appointment dedicated to the Gallery at the Piano Nobile, one of Palazzo Collicola’s most charming spaces.
The 18th-century-old temperas that decorate the walls will be under the lens, to try and interpret the complex iconographic programme that inspired its realization.
The visit will be followed by an aperitive, thanks to the collaboration with Con Spoleto – the Spoleto hotel managers’ association.
Participation fee
Guided visit – Full € 7,00
Guided visit – Discounts € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00
Please reserve within Friday at 13.00:
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434
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La Tana del Ludo centre for children and families organizes workshops addressed to children from five to ten years old.
The workshops, entitled Discovering Nature are held every Wednesday until 27 June, from 16.30 to 18.30, at Il Carillon nursery school, in Viale Martiri della Resistenza.
It is a path of discovery of the environment that includes excursions in the little “didactic wood”, the garden surrounding the school, for the collection of aromatic herbs and wild herbs. These experiences will then be graphically re-elaborated and become the common thread of narratives and stories. The workshop is free of charge and open to all children from 5 to 10 years old.
Information: ph. 0743 218732 or 331 1812016
San Brizio, June 22 – July 1, 2018
32nd Sagra of Gnocchi, Pork and Trebbiano spoletino wine
In Italy, a sagra is a local festival, very often dedicated to some specific local food.
Usually, the festival’s tavern opens for dinner and events such as folk music shows are scheduled in the evening.
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, the event by Sistema Museo, waits for you on Friday 15 June 2018 at 19.30 at Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive with an appointment dedicated to the extraordinary book patrimony kept inside the Giovanni Carandente’s book collection. A unique opportunity to admire precious catalogues bearing the signatures of some of the greatest artists of the twentieth century including Henry Moore, Andy Wharol, Alexander Calder and many others.
The visit will be followed by an aperitive, thanks to the collaboration with Con Spoleto – the Spoleto hotel managers’ association.
Participation fee
Guided visit – Full € 7,00
Guided visit – Discounts € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00
Please reserve within Friday at 13.00:
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434
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A great century for a great exhibition in Umbria.
Masterpieces of the 14th century. The worksite of Giotto, Spoleto and the Apennines, curated by Vittoria Garibaldi and Alessandro Delpriori, will be held from 24 June to 4 November 2018 in the towns of Trevi, Montefalco, Spoleto and Scheggino.
The exhibition boasts an exhibition of about 70 gold-bottomed paintings on wood, polychrome wooden sculptures and miniatures, which tell the environmental wonder of the central Apennines and the historical, artistic, civil and socio-religious civilization in Italy in the early fourteenth century.
There are four exhibition venues: in Trevi the Museum of St. Francis; in Spoleto the Diocesan Museum – Basilica of St. Euphemia and the National Museum of the Duchy; in Montefalco the Museum Complex of St. Francis. At the Spazio Arte Valcasana in Scheggino it will be possible to experience a choral, exciting overview of the churches, hermitages and abbeys in Umbria, Marche, Abruzzo and Lazio where the artists influenced by Giotto worked between the end of the thirteenth century and the beginning of the fourteenth century, connected through organized itineraries that will allow you to discover enchanting places and works of art.
The exhibition, organized by Civita Mostre and Sistema Museo, is promoted by the municipalities of Trevi, Montefalco, Spoleto and Scheggino, the Polo Museale Umbria, the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Umbria, Umbria Region, The Archdiocese of Spoleto-Norcia and the Associazione Rocca Albornoziana of Spoleto, with the contribution of Gal Valle Umbra and Sibillini, ATI 3 Umbria, VUS COM Spa, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Spoleto.
The success, in the green heart of Italy, of Giotto’s revolutionary lesson and of the amazing virtuosity of the Sienese leaders Pietro Lorenzetti and Simone Martini, will be told in the exhibition through a constellation of artists, often anonymous, who became interpreters of the deepest and truest soul of the Apennines, interpreting emotions of faith and sweetness, painted with an intense pictorial language, and a surprising technical teaching. It will be possible to see wonderful masterpieces preserved in museums and collections of great prestige, such as the Cini Foundation in Venice, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan, the Alana Collection in Newark (USA).
Visitors to these exhibitions will experience the privilege of admiring works made visible for the first time to the general public. We remember the two amazing raredos exhibited in the representative apartment of His Holiness the Pope, both coming from Montefalco, restored for the occasion by the masterful laboratories of the Vatican Museums; or the extraordinary reunion of the Triptych with the Coronation of the Virgin by the Master of Cesi and the Crucifix with Christus triumphans, both created for the monastery of Santa Maria della Stella in Spoleto, now preserved in the Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris and the Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto. For the first time, since the beginning of the nineteenth century, they will come back together.
Visiting the exhibition sites, and the places in the territory, it will be possible to enter a medieval artist’s workshop, to understand the virtuous and feverish commitment in realizing gold funds, sculptures, miniatures, goldsmiths, frescoes, in a kaleidoscope of refined and original personalities who lived their point of reference in one of the artistic capitals of medieval Italy, the ducal city of Spoleto: the Master of Le Palazze the Master of St. Alò, the Master of San Felice di Giano, the Master of Cesi, the Master of San Ponziano, the Master of the Cross of Trevi, the Master of the Cross of Visso, the Master of Fossa.
An exhibition to get to know and be amazed.
The scientific committee of the exhibition is composed of: Lucia Arbace, Guido Cornini, Andrea De Marchi, Giovanni Luca Delogu, Marica Mercalli, Stefania Nardicchi, Antonio Paolucci, Marco Pierini, Mario Scalini, Lisa Zanni.
THE EXHIBITION VENUES IN SPOLETO
Diocesan Museum and Basilica of St. Euphemia
The Diocesan Museum of Spoleto preserves many works that testify the art of painting and wood carving in this area from the half of the thirteenth century until the fifties of the following century. The exhibition section, which features masterpieces by the Master of Cesi and the Master of San Felice di Giano, is the completion of the exhibition in the church of San Francesco in Trevi. Of particular importance are the Triptych with the Coronation of the Virgin by the Master of Cesi from the Marmottan Monet Museum in Paris and the Antependium by the Master of San Felice di Giano from the National Gallery of Umbria. It will be possible to investigate in detail the relationship between wood carving and polychromy, so important for the 13th century Spoleto, in order to relate sculptors and painters who could be in the same workshop, if not match even in the same person.
Exhibition official website: www.capolavorideltrecento.it
La Tana del Ludo centre for children and families organizes workshops addressed to children from five to ten years old.
The workshops, entitled Discovering Nature are held every Wednesday until 27 June, from 16.30 to 18.30, at Il Carillon nursery school, in Viale Martiri della Resistenza.
It is a path of discovery of the environment that includes excursions in the little “didactic wood”, the garden surrounding the school, for the collection of aromatic herbs and wild herbs. These experiences will then be graphically re-elaborated and become the common thread of narratives and stories. The workshop is free of charge and open to all children from 5 to 10 years old.
Information: ph. 0743 218732 or 331 1812016
Thursday 28 June at 12 at the Museo nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto – Rocca Albornoz, the Caratteri di testa installation by Giacomo Ramaccini will be inaugurated.
The works aims at investigating the circularity of the route from the symbol of reality to the reality of the symbol.
Ramaccini (Spoleto 1989) graduated in Scenography at the Accademia di Belle Arti “Pietro Vannucci” in Perugia. Caratteri di testa was first presented at Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive in Spoleto, in the frame of Aeroporto di Spoleto. Nuove rotte artistiche con libere destinazioni.
Director Paola Mercurelli Salari will introduce the installation at the presence of the artist.
As part of the sixty-first edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi, Thursday, June 28, 2018, from 9:30 am, the headquarters of the local Section of the State Archives (Largo Ermini) will host the opening of an exhibition, the presentation of a book and a conference on the theme: Spoleto 1959. The Second Festival of Two Worlds. The initiative takes place in collaboration with Umbria’s Order of Journalists and under the patronage of the Municipality of Spoleto, the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, the Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Rocca Albornoz – Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto and Amici di Spoleto association. Institutional greetings will be given by Luigi Rambotti, Director of the State Archives of Perugia, Umberto De Augustinis, Mayor of Spoleto and President of the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, and Giorgio Ferrara, Artistic Director of the Festival of Two Words. Roberto Conticelli, President of Umbria’s Order of Journalists, Paola Mercurelli Salari, Director of Rocca Albornoz-Museo del Ducato di Spoleto (Polo Museale dell’Umbria) and Rosaria Mencarelli, Collegio dei garanti Fondazione Polo del ‘900 (Turin) and Director of the Abruzzo ABAP Superintendence will also give a speech.
The exhibition Spoleto 1959, the second Festival of Two Worlds, organized by the Spoleto Section of the State Archives, features original photographs, archival documents, articles released on the other side of the Atlantic, in Italy and in other European countries. The exhibition will be open until September 20, 2018.
Through a conference, a book and an exhibition, extraordinary moments in the history of the city will be retraced in order to reread the origins of the event, understand today’s heritage and trace future scenarios.
As part of the sixty-first edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi, Thursday, June 28, 2018, from 9:30 am, the headquarters of the local Section of the State Archives (Largo Ermini) will host the opening of an exhibition, the presentation of a book and a conference on the theme: Spoleto 1959. The Second Festival of Two Worlds. The initiative takes place in collaboration with Umbria’s Order of Journalists and under the patronage of the Municipality of Spoleto, the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, the Polo Museale dell’Umbria, Rocca Albornoz – Museum of the Duchy of Spoleto and Amici di Spoleto association. Institutional greetings will be given by Luigi Rambotti, Director of the State Archives of Perugia, Umberto De Augustinis, Mayor of Spoleto and President of the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, and Giorgio Ferrara, Artistic Director of the Festival of Two Words. Roberto Conticelli, President of Umbria’s Order of Journalists, Paola Mercurelli Salari, Director of Rocca Albornoz-Museo del Ducato di Spoleto (Polo Museale dell’Umbria) and Rosaria Mencarelli, Collegio dei garanti Fondazione Polo del ‘900 (Turin) and Director of the Abruzzo ABAP Superintendence will also give a speech.
In continuity with the publication of the volume Spoleto 1958. Alle radici della storia, il primo Festival dei Due Mondi, published in 2017 on the occasion of the sixtieth edition of the Festival of Two Worlds and with the exhibition dedicated to the first year of the Festival, the Spoleto Section of the State Archives has continued the research on the origins of the event that has marked Spoleto’s history and Italian cultural life.
Through a conference, a book and an exhibition, extraordinary moments in the history of the city will be retraced in order to reread the origins of the event, understand today’s heritage and trace future scenarios.
This year marks the 61st edition of the festival founded by M° Gian Carlo Menotti and directed by Giorgio Ferrara.
From June 29th to July 15th, 2018 Spoleto will turn into a great stage, featuring opera, music, theatre and dance, exhibitions, cinema and meetings with internationally-known artists.
Here’s the Festival’s promo video:
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On the occasion of the 61st Festival of the 2 Worlds, the Town Hall houses the exhibition Olympic Torches | Inlays of Sport and History of Cycling and Boxing.
THE CONI FOR THE FESTIVAL.
Scheduled events:
June 29 – July 15
Palazzo Comunale (Town Hall) | Chapel of San Ponziano, Sala Spagna and Sala dei Duchi
Exhibition Olympic Torches. Inlays of Sport and History of Cycling and Boxing
Literary lounge
Exhibition opening hours: from Monday to Friday from 4.00 p.m. to 9.00 p.m.
on Saturdays and Sundays from 10.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. and from 4.00 p.m. to midnight
July 7
Palazzo Comunale (Town Hall) | Sala dei Duchi
19.30 Sports literary lounge
Celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Olympic Games in Mexico City
Conversations with national and international sports personalities: Italian Olympic medals in Mexico City
July 14
Palazzo Comunale | Sala dei Duchi
19.30 Sports literary lounge
Cycling and the history of Gino Bartali
Conversations with national and international sports personalities.
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SPOLETO, STAGE OF EMOTIONS
City Trekking
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura # 247 Roman House _ Via Visiale
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, the event by Sistema Museo, waits for you on Friday 29 June 2018 at 19.30 at the Roman Housewith an city trekking entitled Spoleto, Stage of emotions.
An expert guide will accompany you on a walk through the historic center of the city to discover the fascinating locations that are the backdrop to the Festival of Two Worlds. An alternative way to discover the beauties of the city and to breathe the sparkling climate that you breathe during the event.
The visit will be followed by an aperitive, thanks to the collaboration with Con Spoleto – the Spoleto hotel managers’ association.
Meet at 19.30 at the Roman House.
Participation fee
Guided visit – Full € 7,00
Guided visit – Discounts € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive – € 5,00
Please reserve within Friday at 13.00:
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434
The opening of Andrea Pacanowski’s exhibition, will take place on SATURDAY 30 JUNE at 12.00 at Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts. The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani and included in the Festival Of Two Worlds’ official programme.
The Press Conference will be at 11.00 at the Piano Nobile’s gallery.
Who has not tried, at least once, a puzzle of hundreds of pieces? You will remember the images that usually make up the mosaic: long field landscapes and panoramic visions are generally the winners, with a higher share for unspoiled natures, cultural spots and human crowds. The puzzle inadvertently encloses the sense of today’s image: the disintegration of an order to be reassembled looks like the transitions between analog and digital, the transfers between device and print, the links between high and low definition… the analogical nature of the puzzle touches the close-up and depths of field, the tonal stirrups between areas of color, up to integrating the glitch (the error of position of the dowel) as a further exploratory possibility.
Andrea Pacanowski brings to Spoleto fifteen photographic works. All’infuori di me (Outside Of Me) gathers human masses, bodies in military order, people in uniform, ritual groups. They are collective patterns that come, in particular, from the religious assembly outside, from the places of aggregation of the most widespread monotheistic cults. The photos enclose pieces of humanity in a geographical frame that plays with pictorial abstraction and iconography of the web, creating an aesthetic short circuit of high workmanship, maintaining the purity of analog as a camouflage potential (simulating digital techniques through analog talent is a key step in contemporary photography). Those bodies concern the anxieties of our time, the boundaries of freedom, the need for spiritual guidance, the search for sharing, themes by the historical importance and political significance which are central in such a narcissistic era, narrated by Pacanowski with aesthetic ability and conceptual intelligence.
A photograph with a pictorial result, modulated by rhythms and grids, where colour becomes plastic structure, where rhythm compresses the internal dynamism of the image. Through the optical ambiguity of the puzzle, Pacanowski challenges the audience to the mobile vision back and forth, to define the focus, to dissolve the retinal ambiguities that the images contain. The works are photographic puzzles that break a number of certainties on the uses and abuses of digital. According to the author, each shot is a unique journey by the analogical sense, a slow immersion that requires technical knowledge, invention, the overturning of apparently immobile rules. The final image is the result of shots, combinations, stage lights and other tricks that Pacanowsky has refined in the context of Fashion, his original profession, a space of technical growth but also of robotic, emotionless perfectionism. Pacanowski felt the limit of the set and post-production, of digital as a glossy dictatorship: here he challanges the electronic staging, preferring the slow codes of an interior habitus, where the photographed skin turns into a complex geography where colours and tonalities define the invisible, where scratches and signs amplify the iconographic energy. His actions are sound trails that map out sinuous harmonies, localize details, expand emotional signals behind a body. Photography here takes the slow rhythm of the brush, revealing a metaphysical quality that leads us into a mysterious, ascetic, fatally spiritual ritual.
The Spoleto exhibition thus enters into the heart of the monotheistic cults: Christianity, Judaism, Islam. A photographic journey that tells the spontaneous methods of the great gatherings, according to an approach that captures the gravitational balances, the chromatic scales, the syncretic rhythms, the collective harmonies. An analysis to show the ethical value of each religion, the possible coexistence of diversity, the importance of dialogue as a cornerstone of a universal refounding. Pacanowski’s photography reaffirms all this, and does so with an aesthetic energy that breaks the judgment, cancelling the terms of superiority and inferiority, the dangerous personalisms, the extremist obsessions. Here we speak of harmony and freedom, of men and women who walk on the same planet, breathing the same oxygen, pursuing the same dreams, in search of that indestructible thing that everywhere is called Love.
It is photography that takes up its analogic essence, but with the best that printing and media can offer. It is not a return to the origins but the origin of a possible continuity, it is the resistance of the human factor that orchestrates fragments of universal beauty. A beauty that speaks to us of religions and syncretism, that enters the warm heart of the planet through a door of liberation of contents. Andrea Pacanowski invites us inside his rhythmic weavings, inside the multiplications of every single diversity, inside the chromatic noise of a vision that involves each of us. Because, as the title says, outside of me there are always all the others.
The exhibition ends on Sunday 7 October 2018
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EUGENE LEMAY – GHOST WITNESS SHADOW
curated by Gianluca Marziani
The opening of EUGENE LEMAY exhibition, is scheduled for SATURDAY 30 JUNE at 12:00 in Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, Spoleto. The exhibition is curated by Gianluca Marziani and included in the Festival of Two Worlds’ official programme.
The Press Conference is scheduled for 11:00 at the Piano Nobile.
The Piano Nobile at Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive opens its 18th-century wings to host a new artist’s project, designed in a “sartorial” way on the domestic model of the rooms. The approach with Eugene Lemay follows the usual rules of a soft, inclusive insertion, re-created with camouflage ways that blend into the ancient without substantial changes.
Integration is the right word to capture the embrace between the nature of a noble apartment and the electrical energy of a contemporary artist. On the one hand the opulent splendour of the place, on the other the metaphorical power of Lemay, his social criticism, the monolithic harshness of the works. The apparent contrast is thus transformed into a fluid integration: now the never-aggressive fullness of the place, now the expressive essence of an art that attacks the eye, loading the rooms with an invisible, yet dense magnetism.
American Eugene Lemay (1960, Grand Rapids, MI) returns to Italy after his personal exhibition in Rome at the MACRO Mattatoio (curated by Micol Di Veroli, February – April 2015). Dimensions of Dialogue was the title of that exhibition, a phrase that well encapsulates Lemay’s ethical conscience, the political and militant nature of his work. The works at Palazzo Collicola are the stations of a journey in the pain of war, in the hypocrisy of politics, in the phobia and terror that blinds, in the wounds of the flesh and those of the heart. The American artist knows the noise of bombs, the screech of lethal weapons, the smell of pouring blood. At age 13 he moved from Michigan to Israel, passing his adolescence in a kibbutz, then becoming a voluntary soldier who took up arms and fought for Israel. A very hard experience that marked his life as an American Jew, shaping his talent as if it were a storm that shapes a mountain. There are normal lives that sometimes create extraordinary tales. And then there are extraordinary lives, without safe harbors, that are sublimated in universal works, destined for the Esperanto of the eye, to the collective dimension of natural values. Eugene Lemay enters the extraordinary of a nomadic existence, culturally fertile, impressive for its events and consequences. A life inside life, so involving that it becomes an artistic thrust, so as to produce consequences in the form of works and visual messages.
Gianluca Marziani: “I am struck by the double soul of some of the works, the ability they have to mould themselves on the individual habitats. When I saw the installations in the gigantic studio in New Jersey, I thought they breathed in silence, in a neutral environment that accepted them without conflict. Once set up in Spoleto, something completely changed in them, now they began a phase of faster breathing, as if they felt an anomalous place and tried to adapt to a habitat full of memories …”.
Phantoms, witnesses, shadows… it is them who guide us ideally along the stations of the Piano Nobile, we feel them inside the paintings, beyond the frames, among the false bombs of an installation, inside the pictorial impasto, in the monochrome backgrounds of the surfaces… Lemay crosses the evil of humanity with the metaphorical pace of art, avoiding the blackmail of realism, preferring the suspended pace of allegorical rites, of archetypal figures, of the dissolving black, of the clouding grey. Through digital elaboration and manual execution, bodies and faces are recreated that seem to have been born from plasticine, wool, steam, snow, cream… they are shadows of flesh, solid ghosts, silent witnesses of the evil suffered… Arctic and nebulous bodies, similar to white bears that embrace, bend, suffer, fall, stand up… Bodies of soldiers that could become everything we would have liked them to be… Bodies that are philosophical archetypes between Plato and Nietzsche, sometimes black like shadows in the darkness of the cave, like soldiers under a starless sky… Bodies that embody pain and the desire for rebirth, divided between a necessary evil and an even more necessary good… bodies that are ghosts on their way through the world, slow but elephantine in the heavy pace that tramples on wounded lands… bodies that seem solid shadows, eyewitnesses of collective pain… bodies that seek the light of the night, the stars of the day, the distant horizon of the events.
Gianluca Marziani: “Godot arrived among us together with the silent witnesses of Lemay. Samuel Beckett’s mysterious figure arrives among the living, blurs into the crowd of ghosts and mute shadows. He doesn’t introduce himself to anyone but we understand that he is Godot, archetype among the archetypes, witness and judge who guides humans to the edge of the abyss, stopping just before the fall. In front of the emptiness he sums up the evil in an instant, caressing the suffering Earth, asking ourselves which side we want to go to… Because evil has reached its peak and beyond that peak the black hole begins, the antimatter of existence, the end of the last Endgame. Godot accompanies us on the abyss and lets us look at the infinite emptiness but also at the light behind our backs, at the possibility of a new journey, of a plausible rebirth. The choice between the black hole and the light, between a long farewell and a long love is up to all of us…”
The exhibition ends on Sunday 7 October 2018
Info: www.palazzocollicola.it https://www.facebook.com/PALAZZOCOLLICOLA
Palazzo Collicola: info@palazzocollicola.it
Sistema Museo: ufficiostampa@sistemamuseo.it