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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.

Feb
6
Sat
(Italiano) Funeral Party @ Complesso Monumentale di San Nicolò
Feb 6 @ 21:00
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Feb
7
Sun
(Italiano) Funeral Party @ Complesso Monumentale di San Nicolò
Feb 7 @ 17:00
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Mar
8
Tue
(Italiano) Visita guidata gratuita per le donne @ Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto
Mar 8 @ 12:00
(Italiano) Migrazioni – Iniziative per la Giornata della Donna @ Biblioteca Comunale 'G. Carducci'
Mar 8 @ 16:30

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Mar
9
Wed
(Italiano) Storie di ordinaria ironia – Racconti al femminile @ Sala Pegasus
Mar 9 @ 18:00

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Mar
10
Thu
(Italiano) Il Tè delle Signore @ Palazzo Collicola (ingresso Piazza San Domenico)
Mar 10 @ 17:30

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Mar
12
Sat
(Italiano) Inaugurazione mostra ‘Migrazioni” @ Officina d’Arte &Tessuti
Mar 12 @ 18:30

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Mar
13
Sun
(Italiano) Premio ‘Donna Sapiens’ @ Caffè Letterario - Palazzo Mauri
Mar 13 @ 16:30

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Mar
15
Tue
(Italiano) Dalla triennale di Milano a Spoleto: la narrazione della maternità @ Biblioteca Comunale G. Carducci
Mar 15 @ 16:30

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Mar
17
Thu
(Italiano) La guerra non ha un volto di donna @ Biblioteca Comunale G. Carducci
Mar 17 @ 17:00

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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
Mar
20
Sun
Italian National Trust Days @ Oratorio della Resurrezione e del Sacello ai decorati al valore di Spoleto, Ex Caserma Minervio
Mar 20 @ 10:30 – 18:00
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Sunday 20 March, the Apprendisti Ciceroni® of the “Sansi – Leonardi – Volta” secondary school, will lead visitors and sightseers at the discovery of the Oratorio della Resurrezione and of the Sacello ai decorati al valore di Spoleto, Ex Caserma Minervio as scheduled in the Giornate FAI di Primavera (Italian National Trust Days).

Visits will start at 10.30 and finish at 18.00.

From 10.30 to 13.00 it will also be possible to visit the Museo della Farmacia, in the nearby Farmacia Amici.

Info:

ORATORIO DELLA RESURREZIONE

Address
Piazza Garibaldi

Description
The oratorio della Resurrezione is a wide, Roman-style hall in the complex of San Gregorio maggiore. The decorations, the great Resurrection on the vault and the 14 Tales of Resurrection date all to 1593 and are by painter Pierino Cesarei. Each episode has a learned caption, following the indications of the Council of Trent, that aimed at revitalizing and spreading christian contents.
Bishop Paolo Sanvitale directly commissioned the theme and the iconographic program to his collaborator Decio Gelosi, prior of the Collegiata di San Gregorio; the twos shared the love for art and antiquity.

Foreign languages:
Romanian, Albanian

SACELLO AI DECORATI AL VALORE DI SPOLETO, EX CASERMA MINERVIO

Address
Piazza Garibaldi

Description
The sacellum is little known, even among Spoletans, because placed in a restricted monumental complex in need of major restoration, the area of the Roman Amphitheatre. During the Middle Ages the complex served as monastery, and in the mid-XIXth century it was expropriated by the newly-born Kingdom of Italy, and served as barracks. After WWI, what was likely the apse of the church of SS. Stefano and Tommaso, was arranged to be turned into War Memorial. Names of fallen soldiers who received a badge of honour appear on its walls in fact, and the whole is decorated by wall paintings showing rural scenes, such as the representation of the seasons featuring their related agricultural activities. The sacellum was inaugurated on 4 November 1925, as testified to by a painted cartouche.

Foreign languages:
English

Mar
26
Sat
(Italiano) Rendez Vous 2016 @ Casa Menotti
Mar 26 @ 17:00

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(Italiano) Nota Nata Femmina @ Cantiere Oberdan
Mar 26 @ 18:00

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Apr
2
Sat
(Italiano) I diversi canoni della bellezza, fascino e seduzione in gravidanza @ Biblioteca Comunale G. Carducci
Apr 2 @ 16:30

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May
28
Sat
“Città di Spoleto” National Choir Festival
May 28 @ 17:00
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The 2nd National Choir Festival organized by Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti” will take place next May 28-29 at the Basilica of San Salvatore.

PROGRAMME

Saturday 28 May, h 17.00

Youth Choir La Fenice
Istituto Magistrale Statale “Elena Principessa di Napoli”, Rieti
Conductor: Francesco Corrias

I Madrigalisti di Perugia
Conductor: Mauro Chiocci

“Città di Tolentino” Polyphonic Choir
Conductor: Aldo Cicconofri

Sunday 29 May, h 17.00

Cantoria Mevaniæ ensemble of ancient music, Bevagna (PG)
Conductor: Elga Ciancaleoni

Choir Voceincanto, Arezzo
Conductor: Gianna Ghiori

Female Vocal Ensemble Nota So’, Perugia
Conductor: Marta Alunni Pini

Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”
Chairwoman – Silvestri Maria Teresa
Via Minervio n° 2 – Spoleto (PG)
Phone / Fax: 0743 46484 Mob: 331 8855493

May
29
Sun
(Italiano) II Rassegna Corale Nazionale “Città di Spoleto”
May 29 @ 17:00
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Sep
22
Thu
(Italiano) Evento finale di Rendez Vous Estate 2016 @ Angolo di Rendez Vous
Sep 22 @ 19:30

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Oct
23
Sun
(Italiano) Giornata delle Castagne e dei Funghi @ Montebibico
Oct 23 @ 10:00

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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.

Dec
8
Thu
(Italiano) Spoleto, la Città in un Presepe @ Spoleto
Dec 8 2016 – Jan 14 2017 all-day

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Mar
26
Sun
SPRING DAYS OF FAI 2017 – Extraordinary opening of the Santo Chiodo Works Of Art Depot @ Deposito Beni Culturali
Mar 26 @ 10:00 – 17:30
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The FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano (Italian Environment Fund) holds it as one of the most important places among the ones included in the list of extraordinary openings on the occasion of the 2017 Spring Days of FAI: the Santo Chiodo Cultural Heritage depot, which will be exceptionally visitable on 26 March, 2017.

Conceived after the 1997 seismic swarm and finished by 2008, it was created to give Spoleto an anti-seismic structure to store works of art endangered by prospective similar future events, and at present it keeps 5000 works and boxes with archaeological material coming from the Valnerina. A laboratory is active inside, operated by restorers of the Florentine Opificio delle pietre dure. Its visit allows to fully appreciate our great cultural Heritage, understand the work by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Assets, by law-enforcement agencies, Fire Brigade and Civil Protection, and experience the passion and competence at the service of the areas wounded by the seism, to return the signs of their identity.

The visits will be led by students of the “Pontano – Sansi – Leonardi” school in Spoleto. Accesses will be organized on a group basis, maximum 10 pp per group, every 15 minutes, from 10.00 to 17.30. Access will be allowed upon presentation of one’s identity document. The depot is equipped with a surveillance system.

Contributions of at least 2,00 € are encouraged, but not compulsory, and will be gratefully accepted. In case of huge mass attendance, entrances may be closed before scheduled closing time.

The depot is located close to the well signalled Civil Protection Operative Centre (COC – COM), the Santo Chiodo Industrial Area is along the road from Spoleto to Acquasparta (SS 418). Coming from Spoleto, at the big roundabout of Santo Chiodo turn to the right. After 200 m, at another, much smaller roundabout, go straight ahead and (you’re in via dei Tessili now) drive on for half a mile about. The depot is shortly after the COC – COM Civil Protection Operative Centre, on the right, in via dei Tessili.

Dec
8
Fri
(Italiano) Il Presepe in Stazione @ Stazione feroviaria
Dec 8 2017 – Jan 14 2018 all-day

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Spoleto, the City in a Crib @ Vari spazi della città
Dec 8 2017 – Jan 14 2018 all-day
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The 8th edition of Spoleto, la città in un presepe, the cribs exhibition organized by the Pro Loco di Spoleto “A. Busetti”, will be held from December 8, 2017 to January 14, 2018

Opening:
December 8, at 11.00 a. m. Former Church of San Simone (Piazza Campello)

Program:

Auditorium della Stella (Piazza Garibaldi)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
Monumental Crib by Masters Stefano and Alessandro Fiasca from Avezzano. The Nativity Scene extends over an area of more than 20 square meters.

Ex Chiesa di San Simone (Piazza Carducci)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
7th Competition of Crib Art “Youth Creativity in Schools”.
Exhibition of Nativity Scenes of vast dimensions curated by Anna Maria Donati and Nando Zannoli
Life-size Nativity scene by “Il Borgaccio” association
Exhibition of Nativity scenes by Spoleto’s artists

Sala degli Ori (Via Aurelio Saffi)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
Opening December 10, 2017 at 17.00 p. m.
Christmas according to sculptor Giorgio Carlini and Danila Diglio
Electrode welding on iron sheets and dremel work with glass colours on iron.

Ex Monte di Pietà (Via Aurelio Saffi)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
Exhibition of wooden handicrafts “The small ancient world”, collection by M° Mario Bartoli
Exhibition of rural objects with iron miniatures by Giacomo Cintio.

Ex Monte di Pietà (Via Visale)
Opening hours: 10.00-13.00 / 15.00-19.00
Artistic crib made by Spoleto prison inmates
Christmas 2017 Traditional charity fishing tournament
Pievania Santa Maria Centro Caritas (Saint Ansano charity fishing)

Ex Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Piazzetta SS Giovanni e Paolo)
Opening hours: 10.30 – 13.00 / 15.00 – 18.30
Exhibition of ‘500 and ‘700 nativity scenes – private collection

Palazzo Mauri 1st floor – Saturday December 16, 2017 at 17.00
Conference “Il Presepio” (The Crib) – speaker M° Andrea Tortora – member of “Italia Amici del Presepio” association.

Ex Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Piazzetta SS Giovanni e Paolo) 15.00 – 18.30
Meetings with Art “The Nativity scene in the Medieval Tradition”
Curated by Mrs Caterina Sapori

Ex Chiesa di San Simone – Saturday December 23, 2017 at 17.00
Reading of poems “Tender innocence: Jesus in the manger” curator Sandro Costanzi in collaboration with “Fare Cultura” Cultural Association.

Competition for families – Best domestic nativity scene – 8th edition
Registration by December 20 at Pro Spoleto.

Palazzo Mauri 2nd floor – Saturday January 27, 2018 at 10.00
Award day

Organization:
Association Pro Loco of Spoleto “A. Busetti” – Pro Loco Association of Spoleto
Via Minervio n° 2 – Spoleto (PG)
Tel / Fax: 0743 46484 Mob: 331 8855493
e-mail: prospoleto@gmail.com

Dec
17
Sun
(Italiano) Presepe Subacqueo @ Lavatoio di Via Posterna
Dec 17 2017 – Jan 14 2018 all-day

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May
13
Sun
(Italiano) Raggio di Maggio – Incontro tra Poesia e Musica @ Il Panciolle
May 13 @ 17:00

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May
19
Sat
(Italiano) Raggio di Maggio – Incontro tra Poesia e Musica @ Hotel San Luca
May 19 @ 17:00
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May
26
Sat
(Italiano) Raggio di Maggio – Incontro tra Poesia e Musica @ Chiesa S.S. Giovanni e Paolo
May 26 @ 17:00
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Dec
14
Fri
(Italiano) SPOLETO, LA CITTÀ IN UN PRESEPE – 9^ edizione @ Ex Chiesa di San Simone
Dec 14 2018 – Jan 14 2019 all-day
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Nov
23
Sat
CHRISTMAS MARKETS, CRIBS AND ENTERTAINMENT @ Spoleto
Nov 23 2019 – Jan 14 2020 all-day
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FROZEN PARK
Ice rink
from Saturday 23 November 2019 to Sunday 26 January 2020
parking area near Via Fratelli Cervi

CHRISTMAS MARKETS
Friday 29 November – Tuesday 14 January 2020
Casina dell’Ippocastano gardens

THE ENCHANTED FOREST
music concerts and Christmas shows on weekends
Saturday 30 November – Wednesday 15 January 2020
Chico Mendes Park

NATALE IN GIOCO
7-8 December/ 14-15 December/ 21-22 December | Old Town
children’s entertainment with Santa Claus from 16.30 to 19.30

CHRISTMAS CRIBS
from Sunday 8 December 2019 to Tuesday 14 January 2020
Church of S. Simone
Spoleto, la città in un Presepe – 10th edition

BAGPIPERS
7-8 December/ 14-15 December/ 21-22 December
Old Town

Jun
27
Sat
EXHIBITION | Gianni Asdrubali: Surfing With The Alien @ Palazzo Collicola
Jun 27 – Sep 13 all-day
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Gianni Asdrubali: Surfing with the Alien
curated by Marco Tonelli and Bruno Corà
Palazzo Collicola
Inauguration: Saturday 27 June 2020 – h 11.00

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

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