
curated by Marco Tonelli and Bruno Corà
Palazzo Collicola
Almost twenty-five years later, Gianni Asdrubali (Tuscania, 1955) is again a protagonist in Spoleto, with a solo exhibition that takes stock of the work of one of the most interesting contemporary Italian painters, who established himself on the national and international scene as an innovator of abstract, aniconic and gestural research since the 1980s.
The exhibition, curated by Marco Tonelli (Director of Palazzo Collicola) and Bruno Corà (President of the Foundation Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri and member of Palazzo Collicola’s Scientific Committee), is a retrospective of his work through the most representative and enigmatic as well as evocative cycles of paintings such as Aggroblanda, Trigombo, Malumazac, Zeimekke, Azota, Stoide, Azotrumbo, Tromboloide.
Scheduled for 21 March, suspended due to the Covid-19 lockdown, the exhibition vibrantly announces the reopening of Palazzo Collicola and its activities, albeit with many changes in programming due to the pandemic.
The exhibition’s title Surfing with the Alien (one of the most famous tracks by American virtuoso and brilliant guitarist Joe Satriani), means to communicate the unstable balance, dizzy leaps and acrobatics in the void of a dynamic painting that looks like fluctuating in the dimensions of space, each time generating new plots and surprising trajectories.
As Asdrubali himself once wrote: “Surfing is an action generated by absence. But this surfing is not smooth, it is contrastingly bumping, it is running away, going away, to then return and bang into its own beginning, but every time it returns and bumps into itself it deforms and opens the structure, transforming the ‘figure’ of the image, which is never the same. The interaction is the figure of this struggle, of this contrast between surfing and the alien”.
Asdrubali’s figure is an extreme one, an artist whom critic Filiberto Menna listed in the Astrazione povera group, Flavio Caroli in that of Magico primario, and that Giovanni Carandente invited at the Venice Biennale in 1988.
At Palazzo Collicola, the exhibition unfolds through the rooms at the ground floor, which once housed the permanent collection of the Modern Art Gallery (since 2019 rearranged at the museum’s second floor), where two other works by Asdrubali are kept, including a spectacular Tromboloide from 1992. An interactive project, ZUMBER, by the ORAMIDE research group, has been realized on this work and will soon be available on the museum’s website http://www.palazzocollicola.it
The exhibition will be open to the public from 27 June to 13 September 2020, it has been realized with the collaboration of Galleria Giraldi, Galleria A Arte Invernizzi, Galleria Matteo Lampertico, Galleria Consorti. During the exhibition, a catalogue with texts by Marco Tonelli, Bruno Corà and an interview with the artist Davide Silvioli will be published.
Opening times:
June-July: Fri-Sun 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19,00
August-September: Thur 15.30-18.30 | Fri-Sun 10.30-13.00 / 15.30-19,00
Ticket Italia – www.ticketitalia.com – Tel. 0743 222889
A Spoleto: Box 25 – Piazza Vittoria 25 – Tel. 0743 47967
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli”
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it – www.tls-belli.it
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Having the SPOLETO CARD allows for joining the guided visits for free; without the card, the price is € 3.00, plus the museum ticket, where applicable.
Visits are by reservation only and with a limited number of participants..
During the visit, participants must wear a mask, sanitize their hands and maintain social distancing.
Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel e Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it
Ticket Italia – www.ticketitalia.com – Tel. 0743 222889
A Spoleto: Box 25 – Piazza Vittoria 25 – Tel. 0743 47967
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli”
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it – www.tls-belli.it
Ticket Italia – www.ticketitalia.com – Tel. 0743 222889
A Spoleto: Box 25 – Piazza Vittoria 25 – Tel. 0743 47967
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli”
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it – www.tls-belli.it
Having the SPOLETO CARD allows for joining the guided visits for free; without the card, the price is € 3.00, plus the museum ticket, where applicable.
Visits are by reservation only and with a limited number of participants..
During the visit, participants must wear a mask, sanitize their hands and maintain social distancing.
Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel e Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it
Ticket Italia – www.ticketitalia.com – Tel. 0743 222889
A Spoleto: Box 25 – Piazza Vittoria 25 – Tel. 0743 47967
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli”
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it – www.tls-belli.it
Ticket Italia – www.ticketitalia.com – Tel. 0743 222889
A Spoleto: Box 25 – Piazza Vittoria 25 – Tel. 0743 47967
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli”
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it – www.tls-belli.it
Ticket Italia – www.ticketitalia.com – Tel. 0743 222889
A Spoleto: Box 25 – Piazza Vittoria 25 – Tel. 0743 47967
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli”
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it – www.tls-belli.it
Ticket Italia – www.ticketitalia.com – Tel. 0743 222889
A Spoleto: Box 25 – Piazza Vittoria 25 – Tel. 0743 47967
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli”
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it – www.tls-belli.it
Having the SPOLETO CARD allows for joining the guided visits for free; without the card, the price is € 3.00, plus the museum ticket, where applicable.
Visits are by reservation only and with a limited number of participants..
During the visit, participants must wear a mask, sanitize their hands and maintain social distancing.
Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel e Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it
Ticket Italia – www.ticketitalia.com – Tel. 0743 222889
A Spoleto: Box 25 – Piazza Vittoria 25 – Tel. 0743 47967
Organization:
Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto “A. Belli”
Piazza Garibaldi – Ex Caserma Minervio
06049 Spoleto (PG)
Tel. +39.0743.220440 – +39.0743.221645
E-mail: teatrolirico@tls-belli.it – www.tls-belli.it
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
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Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Having the SPOLETO CARD allows for joining the guided visits for free; without the card, the price is € 3.00, plus the museum ticket, where applicable.
Visits are by reservation only and with a limited number of participants..
During the visit, participants must wear a mask, sanitize their hands and maintain social distancing.
Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel e Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it

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After lockdown break, ‘Visioni d’Autore’ returns on Thursday, October 1 at 21.00 at Cinéma Sala Pegasus, with the sixth meeting of the year and first of the new film season 2020/21.
Director Gianluca De Serio will meet Spoleto audience and present “Spaccapietre”, a movie shot together with his twin brother Massimiliano and presented in competition at Venice Days as part of the 77th Venice Film Festival.
The film features actor Salvatore Esposito (“Gomorra”) and the soundtrack signed by the Gatto Ciliegia contro il Grande Freddo, who also were at the Lido with “Miss Marx” by Susanna Nicchiarelli.
On the occasion of their participation in the Venice Film Festival, the two directors presented their movie as follows:
“In Spaccapietre art and personal biography are inseparably intertwined. The story at the center of the film takes its cue from a news story of a few summers ago, the death at work of the Apulian laborer Paola Clemente, and the absurd coincidence with the death of our paternal grandmother, who died working in the same fields in 1958. And, like Giuseppe’s father in the film, our paternal grandfather, before leaving for Turin in the ’60s, was also a stone-breaker. The film is first and foremost an attempt to regain possession of a soul, that of our grandmother we never knew, through the story and body of another woman. But it is also a film of paternal love in which the themes of death, violence, fear, love and revenge emerge pure”.
The screening will be followed by Q&A led by Roberto Lazzerini, an expert film trainer.
Tickets are available in advance during the opening hours of the cinema and online on www.cinemasalapegasus.it

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On September 4 and October 2, the festival La Voce della Terra will stage an event in Spoleto.
Friday 4 September in downtown Spoleto (times TBD), The Fantomatik Orchestra will perform; this ensemble from Tuscany is composed of 14 musicians and started as a funky, soul and rhythm’n’blues group, influenced by ethnic, pop and dance music. The Fantomatik Orchestra has been performing on the streets and stages of many cities in Italy and abroad; has opened for great artists and was featured in TV broadcasts, theatre and cinema events, developing an original identity that makes it unique and unlike any traditional, street or marching band. Great arrangements and the funk, rock, ethnic, prog, jazz and pop repertoire, express all the energy and vitality of the musicians, involving entertainers like few others.
Friday 2 October at the Teatro Nuovo “Gian Carlo Menotti” (at 21.00), grand finale with the Neri per Caso. After debuting in 1994 at the Sanremo Giovani with their Donne di Zucchero, the following year they triumph with Le ragazze. Their first album was awarded 6 platinum records. With Mai più sola the group repeats the festival experience and classifies 5th. In 1997 they issue their fourth, eponymous album. In 2000 Angelo blu is issued, featuring the single Sarà. In 2008 it’s the time of Angoli diversi featuring Mango, Lucio Dalla, Luca Carboni, Samuele Bersani, i Pooh, Claudio Baglioni, Gino Paoli and Mario Biondi. In 2008 are again at the Festival di Sanremo in the evening dedicated to the duets, and sing Baciami adesso along with Mietta. In 2009 Angoli diversi is awarded the prize of “best European acapella record”. In the same year they work with Claudio Baglioni on Se guardi su. Donne, an album featuring duets with great female singers is issued in 2010, features Loredana Bertè, Ornella Vanoni, Mietta, Mia Martini, Dolcenera, Giusy Ferreri, Noemi, Alessandra Amoroso and Karima. Alicia Keys, Dionne Warwick, Randy Crawford, Chaka Khan and Bobby McFerrin are other artists who collaborated with them, enhancing their funky, jazz and R&B side. Between 2016 and 2017 they participate in Renato Zero’s ALT tour. In 2018 they are again at the Festival di Sanremo along with Elio e le Storie Tese. In April, 2019 they issue We love The Beatles, a tribute to the Liverpool four.
Information:
www.visioninmusica.com
+39 0744 432714 – +39 333 2020747
info@visioninmusica.com
Pre-sale: www.vivaticket.com

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Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Having the SPOLETO CARD allows for joining the guided visits for free; without the card, the price is € 3.00, plus the museum ticket, where applicable.
Visits are by reservation only and with a limited number of participants..
During the visit, participants must wear a mask, sanitize their hands and maintain social distancing.
Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel e Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.

Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
Having the SPOLETO CARD allows for joining the guided visits for free; without the card, the price is € 3.00, plus the museum ticket, where applicable.
Visits are by reservation only and with a limited number of participants..
During the visit, participants must wear a mask, sanitize their hands and maintain social distancing.
Information and reservation:
Soc. Coop. Sistema Museo – Spoleto – Tel e Fax 0743.46434 – 0743.224952 e-mail: info@spoletocard.it

After the success of the first edition, the Free Wor(l)d Festival for Freedom of Expression – born in Spoleto last year with the idea of putting people back at the centre through culture and information – the second edition is full of content and relationships. Challenging the difficulties brought about by the current Covid-19 health emergency, the Board of Directors, coordinated by Valentina Tatti Tonni, has proposed four days, from 15 to 18 October 2020, for a thematic festival dedicated to Disinformation, to be present in the territory in an itinerant way, with a series of events designed for the community.
The opening will be a long-distance meeting with schools in the morning of 15 October 2020: in collaboration with the Spoleto Anti-Violence Centre, pedagogist Adelaide Coletti and the president of GIULIA Giornaliste Silvia Garambois will conduct a debate with the junior high-school students, on the theme of sexist and discriminatory languages and the Venice Manifesto. In the afternoon, the book La lingua disonesta by Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, professor of linguistics at the Roma Tre University, will be presented at the Albornoz Hotel; in the evening at the Albornoz Hotel there will be a concert by the well-known and appreciated Trio Francioli, Marino, Scarabottini. The morning with the schools will be repeated on Friday 16 October 2020 with teacher and writer Lorella Zanardo and film director Cesare Cantù, with the aim of providing students of the last three years of high school with useful tools for interpretation and media education. Zanardo’s format – Screens, if you know them, you don’t avoid them – exported all over Italy as a meeting and show will continue in the evening at the Albornoz Hotel, directed to a wider audience interested in the conscious use of media. In the afternoon the exhibition Il pozzo dei desideri (Italian for “Wishing Well”) by acclaimed photographer Emanuela Duranti will be inaugurated in the town hall in via del Mercato.
On the weekend, the theme of Disinformation will be discussed in two conferences, both at the Albornoz Hotel. On Saturday, October 17, 2020, there will be an open debate in the dynamic style of the Ted Talks (everyone answering from their point of view the question What is true and what is really false?) with the Deputy Secretary General of CittadinanzAttiva Anna Lisa Mandorino, the sociolinguist Vera Gheno, the journalist and president of “Cittadini Reattivi” Rosy Battaglia, the journalist collaborating with Il Sole 24Ore on Travel and Tourism Sara Magro, the lawyer expert in international law Laura Guercio and the actor Mirko Frezza. In the afternoon there will be a conference on human rights with the director of Altraeconomia Duccio Facchini, the sociologist Eurispes Marco Omizzolo, the Equo Garantito councillor Fabrizio Cuniberti and the president of Il Ponte Solidale Stefania Guerrucci. Still on the same theme, in the evening at Sala Frau, the film (ticket: 5 euros) directed by Mick Jackson La verità negata will be screened.
Sunday 18 October 2020, last day of the 2020 Free Wor(l)d Festival, in the morning at the Sala Pegasus there will be a tribute to Andrea Camilleri after one year from his passing, participated by director and dramatist Lorenzo Salveti: Andrea Giuliano, Diletta Masetti and Giorgia Fagotto Fiorentini will read selected passages and there will be an intervention by don Luigi Ciotti. At the Sala Frau there will be the award-giving ceremony of the first edition of the Scientific-Literary Competition “Bernardino Ragni”, intended for the third and fourth classes of second level high schools and continued despite the Covid-19 containment measures, thanks to the tenacity and passion of the teachers who have taken an interest in the students; the competition is promoted by the Associazione Il Contrappunto and IIS Sansi Leonardi Volta. Finally, at 6 p.m. at the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti, the Festival is pleased to propose at the end of this second edition the theatrical performance (ticket: 10 euros) Aletheia: theatre of voices and bodies of women directed by Fabiana Vivani, together with an art exhibition by Maura Coltorti.
This year the Festival features the cultural and social promotion associations BeHuman, Cantiere Oberdan, CittadinanzAttiva, Donne contro la Guerra and Centro Anti Violenza “Crisalide”, Il Contrappunto, Libera with “Angela Fiume”, Sala Frau and the Ubik bookshop. At the moment with the collaboration of the Umbrian section of Amnesty International, with the partnership of Spoleat, with the support of the Dental Studio of Dr. Cristina Santi of Campello sul Clitunno, with the media partnership of Classicult and Umbria24, with the patronage of the Province of Perugia, the City of Spoleto, the IIS Sansi Leonardi Volta, Articolo21, the National Association of Natural Science and Oxygen Information Teachers.
Unless a ticket is specified, all iniziatives are free of charge and while seats last. In compliance with the anti-Covid regulations in force in closed places, it is compulsory to wear the mask and keep a safety distance.
Reservation for the single events is mandatory: please e-mail to festivalfreeworld@gmail.com (save for the theatre event).
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