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Nov
7
Sat
Palazzo Collicola Winter Exhibitions @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Nov 7 2015 @ 12:00 – Mar 18 2016 @ 19:00
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F. Manara, C. Marini, Opera Celibe # and “Spoleto Contemporanea”, collective exhibition on artists living in Spoleto. Opening: Sat 7 Nov 2015, h 12.00

The Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts Winter Exhibitions open on Saturday 7 November at 12. The exhibitions will end on Sunday 22 May 2016.

Artistic director Gianluca Marziani chose Fausto Manara‘s “Sincronie”, Claudio Marini‘s “Fratelli di Sale”, the interactive audio installation “Deep Carpet” by Vincenzo Core at the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo and above all a collective exhibition titled “Spoleto contemporanea. Lo sapevate che la città è ricca di energie, idee e visioni?” (Did you know the city is so rich in energies, ideas and visions?) that aims at taking stock of present-day Spoleto, a look to the present to define the coordinates of what has been done in the last years by young and veteran artists, men and women, among those who have remained and those who have returned, including those from abroad who chose Spoleto to live in: American, European and also Italian artists, who came here for a while, for a long stay or forever. The Spoleto Contemporanea exhibition will be followed, on Friday 11th December at 17 in Palazzo Mauri, by a study day titled “CONTEMPORARY SPOLETO. Hypotheses for a Convention. Theses for a Dialogue” coordinated by Andrea Tomasini.

The other exhibitions include the artistic journey of psychiatrist Fausto Manara, author of a complex project between photography and electronic language. Through some forty works, you access his flooring digital universe, a parallel world in which technology becomes painting and confirms the conceptual value of technological tools. What hits you soon is the precious epidermic weaving of the works, and the classical originality of the aesthetic plant, an uncommon vision that mixes the key to the future with the archetypes of ancient memories.

“Fratelli di sale” by Claudio Marini “starts – clarifies Marziani – where you formulate the dimension of private grief in the visual epicentre in which Claudio remembers his late brother Giancarlo: the loss as the light tracing maps in tar black. The luminous areas look like sails or lungs, two forms that both need air, to inflate and live on. Wishing to share the weight of memory, the artist has put in leaflets with numbers related to personal matters, private moments that weld the collective brotherhood with a silent frequency of the Leopardian Infinite”.

At the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, composer Vincenzo Core has created an intereactive audio installation titled “Deep Carpet”. “Deep Carpet” is the second step of the cycle “Opera Celibe” freely adapted from the Duchampian concept of “macchina celibe” (unmarried machine), a cycle that aims at developing, among the frescoes at the former church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, a research on sound and memory through a series of digital art installations, with contemporary tools and experimentations discussing with the history of the place.

Mar
19
Sat
Palazzo Collicola Springtime Exhibitions @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Mar 19 – May 22 all-day
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Natino Chirico, Mauro Iori, Sergio Russo: these are the protagonists of the Palazzo Collicola-Arti Visive springtime exhibitions.

Curated by director Gianluca Marziani, they will be visitable from 19 March to 22 May 2016.

Meanwhile, the exhibition Spoleto contemporanea has been extended; it will still be possible to direct our gaze to present Spoleto, and define the coordinates of what has been produced in the city, by both young and veteran artists, men and women,  who either stayed or returned, including foreigners who chose Spoleto for a short or a long period of their life, coming from the rest of Italy, of Europe, of the world.

Info: www.palazzocollicola.eu

Palazzo Collicola – Springtime Exhibitions @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Mar 19 @ 12:00
Natino Chirico, Mauro Iori, Sergio Russo: these are the protagonists of the Springtime Exhibitions at Palazzo Collicola – Arti Visive. The opening is scheduled for Saturday 19 March at 12.00.
Besides the three personal exhibitions, that will last till May 22nd, there will still be space for the project Spoleto Contemporanea, whose official book will be presented by Palazzo Collicola’s director, Gianluca Marziani, who thus described it “A book that collects the best adventures of the last decades, meticulously narrated by some characters of the world of culture in Spoleto, to show how much energy, quality and vigour flows in the veins of a more and more contemporary Spoleto”.
 
President of the Regional Council Donatella Porzi will join the exhibition’s opening.
Further information on www.palazzocollicola.eu
Apr
30
Sat
(Italiano) 1° raduno Spoleto ROSSO DUCATI @ Piazza Garibaldi
Apr 30 all-day

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May
18
Wed
Strumenti&Musica Festival
May 18 – May 22 all-day
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From May 18th to 22nd Spoleto is the location of the 8th edition of one of the most important accordion and piano festival in Italy. Strumenti&Musica Festival, organized by Associazione Culturale “Italian Accordion Culture” (Premiere Voting Member of CIA Imc-Unesco) with the support of Comune di Spoleto, Regione Umbria and Consorzio di Bonificazione Umbra, presents a wide program including concerts, seminars and auditions.

As usual, the highlights of the Festival are the International Contest for Young Accordionists (Premio Strumenti&Musica), the Italian Accordionists Selection, that’ll grant access to the final phase of the 69th Coupe Mondiale (CIA, 7 -11 September in Rostov-On-Don, Russia) and the International Piano Contests (Premio Pianistico Internazionale “Città di Spoleto” and Concorso Pianistico Internazionale “Città di Spoleto” – categories).

The jury of the piano contests is composed of first-class Teachers and performers, such as:
M° Fausto Di Cesare – chairman – Italy
M° Agathe Leimoni – Greece
M° Denis Chefanov – Russia
M° Enrico Stellini – Italy
M° Maria Teresa Carunchio – Italy
M° Marian Mika – Poland
M° Maurizio Marinelli – Italy

The Accordion Contest Jury includes:
M° Marco Gemelli – Italia
M° Patrizia Angeloni – Italia
M° Giorgio Dellarole – Italia
M° Jörgen Sundeqvist – Svezia
M° Ladislav Horak – Repubblica Ceca
M° Alexander Selivanov – Russia

Programme of the event:

Wednesday 18 May 2016

Palazzo Leti Sansi, h 19.00
Opening Concert
Katia Ghigi – violin
Michele Rossetti – piano

Thursday 19 May 2016

Palazzo Leti Sansi, h 9.00 and h 15.00
International piano contest

Friday 20 May 2016

Palazzo Leti Sansi, h 9.00 and h 15.00
International piano contest

Palazzo Mauri, h 18.00
Seminar: Scarlatti’s Sonatas
A modern reading of a repertoire loved by all-time keyboard players. Formal structure, articulation, dynamics, rhythm, popular and learned references (Teacher: Giorgio Dellarole – holder of the accordion tenure at the Arrigo Boito Conservatory in Parma)

Palazzo Leti Sansi, h 21.00
Concerto: Baroque Music
Giorgio Dellarole – accordion
Massimiliano Limonetti – clarinet

Saturday 21 May 2016

Palazzo Leti Sansi, h 09.00

International piano contest

Palazzo Mauri, h 09.00
International piano contest

Palazzo Leti Sansi, h 15.00
International piano contest

Palazzo Mauri, h 15.00
International accordion contest

Palazzo Leti Sansi, h 21.00
Concert Buttons&bellows
Aleksandar Nikolic (bandoneon)
Petar Maric (accordion)

Sunday 22 May 2016

Palazzo Leti Sansi, h 09.00
International piano contest

Teatro Caio Melisso, h 09.00
International contest (accordion and ensemble)

Teatro Caio Melisso, h 17.00
Piano and accordion section winners concert
Entrance fee € 10.00

The auditions for the piano and accordion contests, the seminars and the evening concerts are open for free.

Jun
23
Thu
Photographic Exhibition: SCHWETZINGEN by Horst Hamann @ Palazzo Leonetti Luparini
Jun 23 – Jul 30 all-day
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From 23 June to 30 July, 2016 Palazzo Leonetti Luparini (Via del Municipio) will host the photographic exhibition SCHWETZINGEN by Horst Hamann.

The exhibition is organized jointly by the cities of Spoleto and Schwetzingen (Germany) in the frame of their sistership.

The partnership between Schwetzingen and Spoleto started in 2005, and the focus of this year’s celebration is Schwetzingen’s first-ever written documentation, i.e. the Lorsch Codex, dating to 766 AD. The exhibition Schwetzingen by Horst Hamann is but one of the initiatives included, and features photos of the city, its castle and its park, that catch the German city’s most magical and charming nuances.

Worldwide-famous photographer Horst Hamann’s New York Verticals, an actual milestone in the history of photography, won him a personal exhibition at the New York City Museum, the first time ever for a German photographer.

Opening: 23 June 2016, h 18.00
Opening times: 10.30 – 12.30 / 16.00–19.00
Closed on Mondays

Free admission

Dec
3
Sat
Palazzo Collicola Winter Exhibitions @ Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Dec 3 2016 – Feb 12 2017 all-day
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The marks caused to Palazzo Collicola by the recent earthquake turn into art. PALAZZO COLLICOLA ARTI VISIVE‘s director Gianluca Marziani instructed the artist Vincenzo Pennacchi to create an installation that would give an aesthetic and symbolic value to the fissures produced by the earthquake on the museum’s walls. LA CREPA (The Crack), is one of the proposals of Palazzo Collicola’s winter exhibitions that will be on show until February 12.

An important donation of six sculptures from 1963 by BEVERLY PEPPER is one of the highlights of these winter exhibitions. The works, donated to the contemporary art museum by the artist, testifies of the long-term relationship between the sculptor and Umbrian territory. In 1962 Beverly Pepper was the only woman as well as one of the three American artists (together with David Smith and Alexander Calder) who were invited to take part in the exhibition SCULPTURES IN THE CITY, curated by Giovanni Carandente.

The first stage of CORTESIE PER GLI OSPITI (Courtesies to Guests) project will feature works by Giovanni Bonelli’ private gallery in Milan.  COURTESIES TO GUESTS is a new cycle dedicated to the world of private galleries with their stories, choices, passions and intuitions… a narrative and engaging journey, imagined as a cultural adventure. Giovanni Bonelli’s gallery, opened in 2012 in the “Isola” district, features works by emerging artists as well as established national and international artists (Maurizio Mochetti, Gianni Pettena, Daniel Spoerri).

Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive will also host  an ambitious project connecting FOOD and VISUAL ARTS: OBIC, originating from an idea by Anna Paola Lo Presti and Gianluca Marziani, is the title of a big book in which the featured art works explore the history of food, from its origins to primary ingredients, traditional dishes and innovations.

Three new sculptures by Spoleto’s artist Cristina MMR Bonucci will be presented within the cycle TERRITORIO Storie di artisti umbri (Territory, Stories of Umbrian artists). Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive’s exhibition pays tribute to Kengo Kuma’s architectural look, to the holistic spirit of its buildings. The works have been set up in the Piano Nobile’s main room.

GROUND LAYER, Francesco Irnem’s new project, is part of SATELLITE COLLICOLA. It has been conceived and created especially for the phisical, thematic and conceptual characteristics of Spoleto’s Roman House (Via di Visiale), with its exciting living spaces and its elegant mosaic floors.  (on show until March 26)

Finally, L’ECO DEL BOSCO (The Echo of the Wood) is Franco Marrocco’s exhibition. Marrocco’s artistic path seems to consciously aim at reducing the unnecessary. His artistic quality has an oriental profile and seems to be influenced by Japanese culture of ceramics, where the talent shows itself in the silence of the suspended step.

Jun
24
Sat
(Italiano) BAT NIGHT SPOLETO 2017 @ Monteluco
Jun 24 @ 18:00
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