Weekly themed guided tours
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
A casket of ancient paintings | Saturday at 11 am
ROCCA ALBORNOZ – NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE DUCHY OF SPOLETO
The Rocca: a fortress, a prison, a symbol | Saturday and Sunday at 12 pm
MUSEUM OF TEXTILE AND COSTUME
Interwoven tales | Saturday at 6 pm
TEMPLE ON THE CLITUNNO
A monument of ancient charm Saturday at 7 pm
ROMAN HOUSE
A dream domus | Sunday at 3 pm
PALAZZO COLLICOLA
A noble walk | Saturday at 5 pm
Participation fees
Full € 5.00 | Reduced € 4.00 for Spoleto Card holders and from 7 to 17 years | Free up to 6 years |
Upon purchase of the Spoleto Card or the museum entrance ticket.
RESERVATION RECOMMENDED
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Photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato
13 May – 30 September 2023
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Via Sant’Agata,18/a
SPOLETO
Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.
In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.
Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.
Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.
Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.
The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.
This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.
The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.
Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.
Dacia Maraini photographer
A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.
Serafino Amato
Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281
www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
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Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
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Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620
Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
cinemasalafrau@gmail.com
Ph. 0743/522177
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www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620
Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
cinemasalafrau@gmail.com
Ph. 0743/522177
Send an e-mail to the address cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com to receive Spoleto cinemas NEWSLETTER!
www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620
Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
cinemasalafrau@gmail.com
Ph. 0743/522177
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Photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato
13 May – 30 September 2023
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Via Sant’Agata,18/a
SPOLETO
Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.
In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.
Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.
Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.
Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.
The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.
This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.
The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.
Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.
Dacia Maraini photographer
A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.
Serafino Amato
Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281
www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620
Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
cinemasalafrau@gmail.com
Ph. 0743/522177
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Photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato
13 May – 30 September 2023
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Via Sant’Agata,18/a
SPOLETO
Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.
In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.
Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.
Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.
Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.
The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.
This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.
The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.
Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.
Dacia Maraini photographer
A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.
Serafino Amato
Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281
www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
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Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
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77th EXPERIMENTAL LYRICAL SEASON OF SPOLETO AND UMBRIA
EINE KLEINE MUSIK 2023
THE LAW and THE EYES OF HYPATIA
Caio Melisso Theatre – Spoleto (PG)
Thursday 24 August at 20.30 (for organised groups)
Friday 25th August at 20.30
Saturday 26 August at 20.30
Sunday 27 August at 17.00
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
The first and last works of a great contemporary composer presented together
A preview of the season, the customary musical kermesse, in collaboration with the Municipality of Spoleto, this year presents a diptych of works by the famous composer Giacomo Manzoni, who recently turned 90. At the Teatro Caio Melisso from 24 August to 27 August, La legge (The Law), the maestro’s first opera composed in 1955 and reworked for the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, and Gli occhi di Ipazia (The Eyes of Hypatia), the last composition commissioned by the Sperimentale, will be performed. The direction is by Marco Angius and the staging is by Claudia Sorace / Muta Imago. Performers are the singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale.
OPERALIEDER
Le donne, i cavallier, l’arme, gli amori 2
Sala Monterosso, Villa Redenta Complex – Spoleto (PG)
Monday 28 August at 21.00
Duration: approx. 50 minutes
An evening immersed in Franz Schubert’s songs
The performance Le donne, i cavallier, l’arme e gli amori 2 will feature the singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto, directed by Laura Cosso and accompanied on the piano by Maestro Luca Spinosa. The pieces by Franz Schubert will deal with typical Lieder themes and transport the audience into a visionary evening at the Villa Redenta Complex in Spoleto.
A HAND OF BRIDGE and I DUE TIMIDI
Teatro Nuovo – Spoleto (PG)
Friday 1 September at 20.30
Saturday 2 September at 20.30
Sunday 3 September at 17.00
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Two 20th century operas on stage in Spoleto
The diptych formed by A hand of bridge, an opera by American composer Samuel Barber with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and I due timidi, an opera by Oscar winner Nino Rota with libretto by Suso Cecchi D’Amico, will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo. Direction is by Gian Rosario Presutti and direction by Giorgio Bongiovanni. “The two works that make up the diptych are apparently very different,” says director Giorgio Bongiovanni. “A hand of bridge” is a story without action, which takes place in the thoughts of the characters. “I due timidi”, on the other hand, is a typical Italian farce, with very Italian exchanges of person and misunderstandings. Yet one immediately grasps a common theme running through the two plays: the characters cannot communicate, they are forced into a terrible loneliness, which is the loneliness of our human condition”. Vocal performers will be the singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto accompanied by the instrumental Ensemble of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale.
18TH CENTURY INTERMEZZOS
The frankness of women and Moschetta and Grullo
Caio Melisso Theatre – Spoleto (PG)
Friday 8 September at 21.00
Saturday 9 September at 21.00
Sunday 10 September at 17.00
Duration: approx. 50 minutes
The recovery of two 18th century intermezzos in collaboration with the Centro Studi Pergolesi
In collaboration with the Pergolesi Centre – University of Milan, the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale will present at the Teatro Caio Melisso La franchezza delle donne in diptych with Moschetta and Grullo, buffo intermezzos from the 18th century composed by Giuseppe Sellitti and Domenico Sarri. An important recovery thanks to the new critical editions by musicologists Antonio Dilella and Claudio Toscani. The direction is entrusted to Pierfrancesco Borrelli, an expert musician in the baroque repertoire, while the direction is by Andrea Stanisci. The productions are made possible thanks to the support of the Francesca, Valentina and Luigi Antonini Foundation.
TURANDOT
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti – Spoleto (PG)
Tuesday 12 September at 18.00 (preview for schools)
Wednesday 13 September at 10.00 (preview for schools)
Thursday 14 September at 10.00 (preview for schools)
Friday 15 September at 20.30
Saturday 16 September at 20.30
Sunday 17 September at 17.00
An opera in the time of fairy tales… a timeless fairy tale on stage.
The traditional opera to be presented in Spoleto at the Teatro Nuovo and in Perugia, Foligno, Città di Castello and Todi as part of the Umbria Regional Opera Season will be Giacomo Puccini’s unfinished masterpiece Turandot. Conductor Carlo Palleschi will conduct the singers, chorus and orchestra. The direction is by Alessio Pizzech and the stage design by Andrea Stanisci; costumes by Clelia De Angelis and lighting by Eva Bruno. In the various roles the singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto will perform, alternating over the 12 scheduled performances.
RESERVATIONS
Ticket Italia online circuit https://ticketitalia.com/77-stagione-lirica-sperimentale-2023/stagione-lirica-regionale-2023
or at authorised retailers.
In Spoleto: Bar CMB piazza della Vittoria n.24 – Tel. 0743.47967
For information
Tel. 0743.222889
E-mail: info@ticketitalia.com
Organisation
Experimental Lyric Theatre “A. Belli” Spoleto
Tel. 0743 221645
Website: www.tls-belli.it
e-mail: ufficio.stampa@tls-belli.it segreteria@tls-belli.it
Processes, creation, languages
The third edition of Umbria Factory Festival, a multidisciplinary festival dedicated to artistic languages and contemporary creation processes is back. The Festival – conceived by Zut!, an innovative space dedicated to performing arts and experimentation – will take place in Spoleto on the weekends of 15 and 16 September, 23 and 24 September, 30 September and 1 October, and will then continue in Foligno from 5 to 8 October and from 12 to 15 October in a variety of venues in the city. The project is supported by MiC Ministry of Culture, Umbria Region, Municipality of Foligno, Municipality of Spoleto + EMAS, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno.
Once again this year the fruitful collaboration with La Mama Umbria International Spoleto is renewed. This internationally renowned organisation has been involved in artistic and cultural projects for more than thirty years, consolidating its desire to expand its horizons and perspectives and widening its geographical territory to various places in the Umbria region. A concrete and participatory reflection that makes it possible to imagine new formulas for relocating art in society, overturning certain participatory practices and facilitating a real encounter with the demands of the public.
Umbria factory 2023 proposes specific paths in the sphere of performance and music within a project capable of connecting territories with national and international cultural platforms.
Spoleto Programme:
Friday, Sept. 15
Cantiere Oberdan, 9:30 p.m.
Mohabbat | Afshin Varjavandi
A study of Iran, a journey in search of the basic concepts of equality, progress and emancipation
Saturday, Sept. 16
Oberdan Yard, 9:30 p.m.
Mohabbat | Afshin Varjavandi
A study of Iran, a journey in search of the basic concepts of equality, progress and emancipation
Saturday, Sept. 23
Piazza San Gabriele Dell’Addolorata, 6:30 p.m.
Speeed | Parini Secondo and Bienoise
Musical and choreographic project inspired by Para Para and Eurobeat music
with Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria
Cantiere Oberdan, 9:30 p.m.
Euclidean Space | Eden Wiseman
Performance installation dedicated to the architectural works, sketches, musical compositions and life story of architect and composer Iannis Xenaki
Sunday, September 24
Cantiere Oberdan, 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Euclidean Space | Eden Wiseman
Performance installation dedicated to the architectural works, sketches, musical compositions and life story of architect and composer Iannis Xenaki
Saturday, Sept. 30
Oberdan Shipyard, 9:30 p.m.
Pedalare, pedalare, pedalare! | Jared McNeill & Arianna de Angelis M.
The story of Alfonsina Strada, the first woman to compete in men’s races such as the Giro di Lombardia and Giro d’Italia (1924), believed to be among the pioneers of male-female equality in sports.
To follow:
The Guest | Sara Libori
A study of the relationship with the other, unexpected guest and surprise for the soul.
Sunday, Oct. 1
Cantiere Oberdan, 6:30 p.m.
Pedalare, pedalare, pedalare! | Jared McNeill & Arianna de Angelis M.
The story of Alfonsina Strada, the first woman to compete in men’s races such as the Giro di Lombardia and the Giro d’Italia (1924), believed to be among the pioneers of male-female equality in sports.
To follow:
The guest | Sara Libori
A study of the relationship with the other, unexpected guest and surprise for the soul.
The festival’s programming will continue in Foligno Oct. 5-8 and Oct. 12-15 featuring numerous artists: marco martinelli / teatro delle albe / stefano pilia/spiralis aurea / luisa borini / otolab / niccolò fettarappa/lorenzo guerrieri / murcof & sergi palau / marco ceccotti / lucia guarino/ilenia romano / nerval teatro / benno steinegger & jovial mbenga / holy tongue / virgilio sieni / AZIONIfuoriPOSTO/silvia dezulian e filippo porro / emidio clementi e corrado nuccini / roberto abbiati/claudio morganti / artisti drama / ariella vidach – AIEP.
Full programme on www.spaziozut.it/umbria-factory-festival/
Further information: uffestival.info@gmail.com
Press Office Danilo Nardoni – tel. 3491441173
Weekly themed guided tours
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
A casket of ancient paintings | Saturday at 11 am
ROCCA ALBORNOZ – NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE DUCHY OF SPOLETO
The Rocca: a fortress, a prison, a symbol | Saturday and Sunday at 12 pm
MUSEUM OF TEXTILE AND COSTUME
Interwoven tales | Saturday at 6 pm
TEMPLE ON THE CLITUNNO
A monument of ancient charm Saturday at 7 pm
ROMAN HOUSE
A dream domus | Sunday at 3 pm
PALAZZO COLLICOLA
A noble walk | Saturday at 5 pm
Participation fees
Full € 5.00 | Reduced € 4.00 for Spoleto Card holders and from 7 to 17 years | Free up to 6 years |
Upon purchase of the Spoleto Card or the museum entrance ticket.
RESERVATION RECOMMENDED
Visits can be booked on www.spoletowelcome.it
Information and reservations:
SISTEMA MUSEO
0743.224952 | museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it
Photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato
13 May – 30 September 2023
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Via Sant’Agata,18/a
SPOLETO
Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.
In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.
Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.
Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.
Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.
The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.
This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.
The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.
Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.
Dacia Maraini photographer
A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.
Serafino Amato
Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281
www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620
Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
cinemasalafrau@gmail.com
Ph. 0743/522177
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77th EXPERIMENTAL LYRICAL SEASON OF SPOLETO AND UMBRIA
EINE KLEINE MUSIK 2023
THE LAW and THE EYES OF HYPATIA
Caio Melisso Theatre – Spoleto (PG)
Thursday 24 August at 20.30 (for organised groups)
Friday 25th August at 20.30
Saturday 26 August at 20.30
Sunday 27 August at 17.00
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
The first and last works of a great contemporary composer presented together
A preview of the season, the customary musical kermesse, in collaboration with the Municipality of Spoleto, this year presents a diptych of works by the famous composer Giacomo Manzoni, who recently turned 90. At the Teatro Caio Melisso from 24 August to 27 August, La legge (The Law), the maestro’s first opera composed in 1955 and reworked for the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, and Gli occhi di Ipazia (The Eyes of Hypatia), the last composition commissioned by the Sperimentale, will be performed. The direction is by Marco Angius and the staging is by Claudia Sorace / Muta Imago. Performers are the singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale.
OPERALIEDER
Le donne, i cavallier, l’arme, gli amori 2
Sala Monterosso, Villa Redenta Complex – Spoleto (PG)
Monday 28 August at 21.00
Duration: approx. 50 minutes
An evening immersed in Franz Schubert’s songs
The performance Le donne, i cavallier, l’arme e gli amori 2 will feature the singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto, directed by Laura Cosso and accompanied on the piano by Maestro Luca Spinosa. The pieces by Franz Schubert will deal with typical Lieder themes and transport the audience into a visionary evening at the Villa Redenta Complex in Spoleto.
A HAND OF BRIDGE and I DUE TIMIDI
Teatro Nuovo – Spoleto (PG)
Friday 1 September at 20.30
Saturday 2 September at 20.30
Sunday 3 September at 17.00
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Two 20th century operas on stage in Spoleto
The diptych formed by A hand of bridge, an opera by American composer Samuel Barber with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and I due timidi, an opera by Oscar winner Nino Rota with libretto by Suso Cecchi D’Amico, will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo. Direction is by Gian Rosario Presutti and direction by Giorgio Bongiovanni. “The two works that make up the diptych are apparently very different,” says director Giorgio Bongiovanni. “A hand of bridge” is a story without action, which takes place in the thoughts of the characters. “I due timidi”, on the other hand, is a typical Italian farce, with very Italian exchanges of person and misunderstandings. Yet one immediately grasps a common theme running through the two plays: the characters cannot communicate, they are forced into a terrible loneliness, which is the loneliness of our human condition”. Vocal performers will be the singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto accompanied by the instrumental Ensemble of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale.
18TH CENTURY INTERMEZZOS
The frankness of women and Moschetta and Grullo
Caio Melisso Theatre – Spoleto (PG)
Friday 8 September at 21.00
Saturday 9 September at 21.00
Sunday 10 September at 17.00
Duration: approx. 50 minutes
The recovery of two 18th century intermezzos in collaboration with the Centro Studi Pergolesi
In collaboration with the Pergolesi Centre – University of Milan, the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale will present at the Teatro Caio Melisso La franchezza delle donne in diptych with Moschetta and Grullo, buffo intermezzos from the 18th century composed by Giuseppe Sellitti and Domenico Sarri. An important recovery thanks to the new critical editions by musicologists Antonio Dilella and Claudio Toscani. The direction is entrusted to Pierfrancesco Borrelli, an expert musician in the baroque repertoire, while the direction is by Andrea Stanisci. The productions are made possible thanks to the support of the Francesca, Valentina and Luigi Antonini Foundation.
TURANDOT
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti – Spoleto (PG)
Tuesday 12 September at 18.00 (preview for schools)
Wednesday 13 September at 10.00 (preview for schools)
Thursday 14 September at 10.00 (preview for schools)
Friday 15 September at 20.30
Saturday 16 September at 20.30
Sunday 17 September at 17.00
An opera in the time of fairy tales… a timeless fairy tale on stage.
The traditional opera to be presented in Spoleto at the Teatro Nuovo and in Perugia, Foligno, Città di Castello and Todi as part of the Umbria Regional Opera Season will be Giacomo Puccini’s unfinished masterpiece Turandot. Conductor Carlo Palleschi will conduct the singers, chorus and orchestra. The direction is by Alessio Pizzech and the stage design by Andrea Stanisci; costumes by Clelia De Angelis and lighting by Eva Bruno. In the various roles the singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto will perform, alternating over the 12 scheduled performances.
RESERVATIONS
Ticket Italia online circuit https://ticketitalia.com/77-stagione-lirica-sperimentale-2023/stagione-lirica-regionale-2023
or at authorised retailers.
In Spoleto: Bar CMB piazza della Vittoria n.24 – Tel. 0743.47967
For information
Tel. 0743.222889
E-mail: info@ticketitalia.com
Organisation
Experimental Lyric Theatre “A. Belli” Spoleto
Tel. 0743 221645
Website: www.tls-belli.it
e-mail: ufficio.stampa@tls-belli.it segreteria@tls-belli.it
Processes, creation, languages
The third edition of Umbria Factory Festival, a multidisciplinary festival dedicated to artistic languages and contemporary creation processes is back. The Festival – conceived by Zut!, an innovative space dedicated to performing arts and experimentation – will take place in Spoleto on the weekends of 15 and 16 September, 23 and 24 September, 30 September and 1 October, and will then continue in Foligno from 5 to 8 October and from 12 to 15 October in a variety of venues in the city. The project is supported by MiC Ministry of Culture, Umbria Region, Municipality of Foligno, Municipality of Spoleto + EMAS, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno.
Once again this year the fruitful collaboration with La Mama Umbria International Spoleto is renewed. This internationally renowned organisation has been involved in artistic and cultural projects for more than thirty years, consolidating its desire to expand its horizons and perspectives and widening its geographical territory to various places in the Umbria region. A concrete and participatory reflection that makes it possible to imagine new formulas for relocating art in society, overturning certain participatory practices and facilitating a real encounter with the demands of the public.
Umbria factory 2023 proposes specific paths in the sphere of performance and music within a project capable of connecting territories with national and international cultural platforms.
Spoleto Programme:
Friday, Sept. 15
Cantiere Oberdan, 9:30 p.m.
Mohabbat | Afshin Varjavandi
A study of Iran, a journey in search of the basic concepts of equality, progress and emancipation
Saturday, Sept. 16
Oberdan Yard, 9:30 p.m.
Mohabbat | Afshin Varjavandi
A study of Iran, a journey in search of the basic concepts of equality, progress and emancipation
Saturday, Sept. 23
Piazza San Gabriele Dell’Addolorata, 6:30 p.m.
Speeed | Parini Secondo and Bienoise
Musical and choreographic project inspired by Para Para and Eurobeat music
with Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria
Cantiere Oberdan, 9:30 p.m.
Euclidean Space | Eden Wiseman
Performance installation dedicated to the architectural works, sketches, musical compositions and life story of architect and composer Iannis Xenaki
Sunday, September 24
Cantiere Oberdan, 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Euclidean Space | Eden Wiseman
Performance installation dedicated to the architectural works, sketches, musical compositions and life story of architect and composer Iannis Xenaki
Saturday, Sept. 30
Oberdan Shipyard, 9:30 p.m.
Pedalare, pedalare, pedalare! | Jared McNeill & Arianna de Angelis M.
The story of Alfonsina Strada, the first woman to compete in men’s races such as the Giro di Lombardia and Giro d’Italia (1924), believed to be among the pioneers of male-female equality in sports.
To follow:
The Guest | Sara Libori
A study of the relationship with the other, unexpected guest and surprise for the soul.
Sunday, Oct. 1
Cantiere Oberdan, 6:30 p.m.
Pedalare, pedalare, pedalare! | Jared McNeill & Arianna de Angelis M.
The story of Alfonsina Strada, the first woman to compete in men’s races such as the Giro di Lombardia and the Giro d’Italia (1924), believed to be among the pioneers of male-female equality in sports.
To follow:
The guest | Sara Libori
A study of the relationship with the other, unexpected guest and surprise for the soul.
The festival’s programming will continue in Foligno Oct. 5-8 and Oct. 12-15 featuring numerous artists: marco martinelli / teatro delle albe / stefano pilia/spiralis aurea / luisa borini / otolab / niccolò fettarappa/lorenzo guerrieri / murcof & sergi palau / marco ceccotti / lucia guarino/ilenia romano / nerval teatro / benno steinegger & jovial mbenga / holy tongue / virgilio sieni / AZIONIfuoriPOSTO/silvia dezulian e filippo porro / emidio clementi e corrado nuccini / roberto abbiati/claudio morganti / artisti drama / ariella vidach – AIEP.
Full programme on www.spaziozut.it/umbria-factory-festival/
Further information: uffestival.info@gmail.com
Press Office Danilo Nardoni – tel. 3491441173
Weekly themed guided tours
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
A casket of ancient paintings | Saturday at 11 am
ROCCA ALBORNOZ – NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE DUCHY OF SPOLETO
The Rocca: a fortress, a prison, a symbol | Saturday and Sunday at 12 pm
MUSEUM OF TEXTILE AND COSTUME
Interwoven tales | Saturday at 6 pm
TEMPLE ON THE CLITUNNO
A monument of ancient charm Saturday at 7 pm
ROMAN HOUSE
A dream domus | Sunday at 3 pm
PALAZZO COLLICOLA
A noble walk | Saturday at 5 pm
Participation fees
Full € 5.00 | Reduced € 4.00 for Spoleto Card holders and from 7 to 17 years | Free up to 6 years |
Upon purchase of the Spoleto Card or the museum entrance ticket.
RESERVATION RECOMMENDED
Visits can be booked on www.spoletowelcome.it
Information and reservations:
SISTEMA MUSEO
0743.224952 | museoducatospoleto@sistemamuseo.it
0743.46434 | spoleto@sistemamuseo.it
Photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato
13 May – 30 September 2023
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Via Sant’Agata,18/a
SPOLETO
Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.
In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.
Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.
Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.
Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.
The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.
This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.
The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.
Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.
Dacia Maraini photographer
A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.
Serafino Amato
Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281
www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
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Ph. 0743 522620
Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
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77th EXPERIMENTAL LYRICAL SEASON OF SPOLETO AND UMBRIA
EINE KLEINE MUSIK 2023
THE LAW and THE EYES OF HYPATIA
Caio Melisso Theatre – Spoleto (PG)
Thursday 24 August at 20.30 (for organised groups)
Friday 25th August at 20.30
Saturday 26 August at 20.30
Sunday 27 August at 17.00
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
The first and last works of a great contemporary composer presented together
A preview of the season, the customary musical kermesse, in collaboration with the Municipality of Spoleto, this year presents a diptych of works by the famous composer Giacomo Manzoni, who recently turned 90. At the Teatro Caio Melisso from 24 August to 27 August, La legge (The Law), the maestro’s first opera composed in 1955 and reworked for the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale, and Gli occhi di Ipazia (The Eyes of Hypatia), the last composition commissioned by the Sperimentale, will be performed. The direction is by Marco Angius and the staging is by Claudia Sorace / Muta Imago. Performers are the singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale.
OPERALIEDER
Le donne, i cavallier, l’arme, gli amori 2
Sala Monterosso, Villa Redenta Complex – Spoleto (PG)
Monday 28 August at 21.00
Duration: approx. 50 minutes
An evening immersed in Franz Schubert’s songs
The performance Le donne, i cavallier, l’arme e gli amori 2 will feature the singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto, directed by Laura Cosso and accompanied on the piano by Maestro Luca Spinosa. The pieces by Franz Schubert will deal with typical Lieder themes and transport the audience into a visionary evening at the Villa Redenta Complex in Spoleto.
A HAND OF BRIDGE and I DUE TIMIDI
Teatro Nuovo – Spoleto (PG)
Friday 1 September at 20.30
Saturday 2 September at 20.30
Sunday 3 September at 17.00
Duration: approx. 60 minutes
Two 20th century operas on stage in Spoleto
The diptych formed by A hand of bridge, an opera by American composer Samuel Barber with libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, and I due timidi, an opera by Oscar winner Nino Rota with libretto by Suso Cecchi D’Amico, will be staged at the Teatro Nuovo. Direction is by Gian Rosario Presutti and direction by Giorgio Bongiovanni. “The two works that make up the diptych are apparently very different,” says director Giorgio Bongiovanni. “A hand of bridge” is a story without action, which takes place in the thoughts of the characters. “I due timidi”, on the other hand, is a typical Italian farce, with very Italian exchanges of person and misunderstandings. Yet one immediately grasps a common theme running through the two plays: the characters cannot communicate, they are forced into a terrible loneliness, which is the loneliness of our human condition”. Vocal performers will be the singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto accompanied by the instrumental Ensemble of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale.
18TH CENTURY INTERMEZZOS
The frankness of women and Moschetta and Grullo
Caio Melisso Theatre – Spoleto (PG)
Friday 8 September at 21.00
Saturday 9 September at 21.00
Sunday 10 September at 17.00
Duration: approx. 50 minutes
The recovery of two 18th century intermezzos in collaboration with the Centro Studi Pergolesi
In collaboration with the Pergolesi Centre – University of Milan, the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale will present at the Teatro Caio Melisso La franchezza delle donne in diptych with Moschetta and Grullo, buffo intermezzos from the 18th century composed by Giuseppe Sellitti and Domenico Sarri. An important recovery thanks to the new critical editions by musicologists Antonio Dilella and Claudio Toscani. The direction is entrusted to Pierfrancesco Borrelli, an expert musician in the baroque repertoire, while the direction is by Andrea Stanisci. The productions are made possible thanks to the support of the Francesca, Valentina and Luigi Antonini Foundation.
TURANDOT
Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti – Spoleto (PG)
Tuesday 12 September at 18.00 (preview for schools)
Wednesday 13 September at 10.00 (preview for schools)
Thursday 14 September at 10.00 (preview for schools)
Friday 15 September at 20.30
Saturday 16 September at 20.30
Sunday 17 September at 17.00
An opera in the time of fairy tales… a timeless fairy tale on stage.
The traditional opera to be presented in Spoleto at the Teatro Nuovo and in Perugia, Foligno, Città di Castello and Todi as part of the Umbria Regional Opera Season will be Giacomo Puccini’s unfinished masterpiece Turandot. Conductor Carlo Palleschi will conduct the singers, chorus and orchestra. The direction is by Alessio Pizzech and the stage design by Andrea Stanisci; costumes by Clelia De Angelis and lighting by Eva Bruno. In the various roles the singers of the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto will perform, alternating over the 12 scheduled performances.
RESERVATIONS
Ticket Italia online circuit https://ticketitalia.com/77-stagione-lirica-sperimentale-2023/stagione-lirica-regionale-2023
or at authorised retailers.
In Spoleto: Bar CMB piazza della Vittoria n.24 – Tel. 0743.47967
For information
Tel. 0743.222889
E-mail: info@ticketitalia.com
Organisation
Experimental Lyric Theatre “A. Belli” Spoleto
Tel. 0743 221645
Website: www.tls-belli.it
e-mail: ufficio.stampa@tls-belli.it segreteria@tls-belli.it
www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620
Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
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Ph. 0743/522177
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www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com
Ph. 0743 522620
Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
Facebook: Cinema Sala Frau
cinemasalafrau@gmail.com
Ph. 0743/522177
Send an e-mail to the address cinemasalapegasus@gmail.com to receive Spoleto cinemas NEWSLETTER!
www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
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Vicolo San Filippo 16
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Photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato
13 May – 30 September 2023
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Via Sant’Agata,18/a
SPOLETO
Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.
In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.
Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.
Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.
Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.
The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.
This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.
The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.
Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.
Dacia Maraini photographer
A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.
Serafino Amato
Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281
www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
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Vicolo San Filippo 16
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Photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato
13 May – 30 September 2023
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Via Sant’Agata,18/a
SPOLETO
Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.
In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.
Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.
Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.
Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.
The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.
This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.
The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.
Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.
Dacia Maraini photographer
A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.
Serafino Amato
Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281
www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
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Ph. 0743 522620
Cinema Sala Frau
Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
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Weekly themed guided tours
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
A casket of ancient paintings | Saturday at 11 am
ROCCA ALBORNOZ – NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE DUCHY OF SPOLETO
The Rocca: a fortress, a prison, a symbol | Saturday and Sunday at 12 pm
MUSEUM OF TEXTILE AND COSTUME
Interwoven tales | Saturday at 6 pm
TEMPLE ON THE CLITUNNO
A monument of ancient charm Saturday at 7 pm
ROMAN HOUSE
A dream domus | Sunday at 3 pm
PALAZZO COLLICOLA
A noble walk | Saturday at 5 pm
Participation fees
Full € 5.00 | Reduced € 4.00 for Spoleto Card holders and from 7 to 17 years | Free up to 6 years |
Upon purchase of the Spoleto Card or the museum entrance ticket.
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Information and reservations:
SISTEMA MUSEO
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Photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato
13 May – 30 September 2023
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Via Sant’Agata,18/a
SPOLETO
Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.
In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.
Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.
Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.
Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.
The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.
This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.
The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.
Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.
Dacia Maraini photographer
A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.
Serafino Amato
Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281
Sorry, this entry is only available in Italiano.
www.palazzocollicola.it
Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.
Cinéma Sala Pegasus
Piazza Bovio
Web site: www.cinemasalapegasus.it
Facebook: Cinéma Sala Pegasus
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Ph. 0743 522620
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Vicolo San Filippo 16
Web site: www.spoletocinemaalcentro.it
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Processes, creation, languages
The third edition of Umbria Factory Festival, a multidisciplinary festival dedicated to artistic languages and contemporary creation processes is back. The Festival – conceived by Zut!, an innovative space dedicated to performing arts and experimentation – will take place in Spoleto on the weekends of 15 and 16 September, 23 and 24 September, 30 September and 1 October, and will then continue in Foligno from 5 to 8 October and from 12 to 15 October in a variety of venues in the city. The project is supported by MiC Ministry of Culture, Umbria Region, Municipality of Foligno, Municipality of Spoleto + EMAS, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno.
Once again this year the fruitful collaboration with La Mama Umbria International Spoleto is renewed. This internationally renowned organisation has been involved in artistic and cultural projects for more than thirty years, consolidating its desire to expand its horizons and perspectives and widening its geographical territory to various places in the Umbria region. A concrete and participatory reflection that makes it possible to imagine new formulas for relocating art in society, overturning certain participatory practices and facilitating a real encounter with the demands of the public.
Umbria factory 2023 proposes specific paths in the sphere of performance and music within a project capable of connecting territories with national and international cultural platforms.
Spoleto Programme:
Friday, Sept. 15
Cantiere Oberdan, 9:30 p.m.
Mohabbat | Afshin Varjavandi
A study of Iran, a journey in search of the basic concepts of equality, progress and emancipation
Saturday, Sept. 16
Oberdan Yard, 9:30 p.m.
Mohabbat | Afshin Varjavandi
A study of Iran, a journey in search of the basic concepts of equality, progress and emancipation
Saturday, Sept. 23
Piazza San Gabriele Dell’Addolorata, 6:30 p.m.
Speeed | Parini Secondo and Bienoise
Musical and choreographic project inspired by Para Para and Eurobeat music
with Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria
Cantiere Oberdan, 9:30 p.m.
Euclidean Space | Eden Wiseman
Performance installation dedicated to the architectural works, sketches, musical compositions and life story of architect and composer Iannis Xenaki
Sunday, September 24
Cantiere Oberdan, 6:30 and 9:30 p.m.
Euclidean Space | Eden Wiseman
Performance installation dedicated to the architectural works, sketches, musical compositions and life story of architect and composer Iannis Xenaki
Saturday, Sept. 30
Oberdan Shipyard, 9:30 p.m.
Pedalare, pedalare, pedalare! | Jared McNeill & Arianna de Angelis M.
The story of Alfonsina Strada, the first woman to compete in men’s races such as the Giro di Lombardia and Giro d’Italia (1924), believed to be among the pioneers of male-female equality in sports.
To follow:
The Guest | Sara Libori
A study of the relationship with the other, unexpected guest and surprise for the soul.
Sunday, Oct. 1
Cantiere Oberdan, 6:30 p.m.
Pedalare, pedalare, pedalare! | Jared McNeill & Arianna de Angelis M.
The story of Alfonsina Strada, the first woman to compete in men’s races such as the Giro di Lombardia and the Giro d’Italia (1924), believed to be among the pioneers of male-female equality in sports.
To follow:
The guest | Sara Libori
A study of the relationship with the other, unexpected guest and surprise for the soul.
The festival’s programming will continue in Foligno Oct. 5-8 and Oct. 12-15 featuring numerous artists: marco martinelli / teatro delle albe / stefano pilia/spiralis aurea / luisa borini / otolab / niccolò fettarappa/lorenzo guerrieri / murcof & sergi palau / marco ceccotti / lucia guarino/ilenia romano / nerval teatro / benno steinegger & jovial mbenga / holy tongue / virgilio sieni / AZIONIfuoriPOSTO/silvia dezulian e filippo porro / emidio clementi e corrado nuccini / roberto abbiati/claudio morganti / artisti drama / ariella vidach – AIEP.
Full programme on www.spaziozut.it/umbria-factory-festival/
Further information: uffestival.info@gmail.com
Press Office Danilo Nardoni – tel. 3491441173
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Weekly themed guided tours
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
A casket of ancient paintings | Saturday at 11 am
ROCCA ALBORNOZ – NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE DUCHY OF SPOLETO
The Rocca: a fortress, a prison, a symbol | Saturday and Sunday at 12 pm
MUSEUM OF TEXTILE AND COSTUME
Interwoven tales | Saturday at 6 pm
TEMPLE ON THE CLITUNNO
A monument of ancient charm Saturday at 7 pm
ROMAN HOUSE
A dream domus | Sunday at 3 pm
PALAZZO COLLICOLA
A noble walk | Saturday at 5 pm
Participation fees
Full € 5.00 | Reduced € 4.00 for Spoleto Card holders and from 7 to 17 years | Free up to 6 years |
Upon purchase of the Spoleto Card or the museum entrance ticket.
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Photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato
13 May – 30 September 2023
National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre
Via Sant’Agata,18/a
SPOLETO
Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel mondo is the title of the photographic exhibition curated by Serafino Amato and held from 13 May to 30 September 2023 in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto (Via Sant’Agata, 18/A) : about fifty large and medium format photographs taken by the author between the 1960s and 1970s.
In her travels around the world, often in the company of Alberto Moravia and, on other occasions, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Maria Callas and other artists, photographers and directors (Andrea Andermann, Gianni Barcellona, Roberto Faidutti, Sebastian Schadauser), the writer crossed several continents, from Central America to Asia, capturing with her camera the monumentality of archaeological sites as well as that of nature, investigating with singular narrative skill the fascination of a past that continues to evoke its greatness, in traditional costumes or through the ruins of ancient architecture.
Having travelled to places that today would be unimaginable to reach with the same freedom, makes these documents even more precious, evidence of a vanished world, traces of a humanity that has been transformed.
Dacia Maraini, mindful of her father’s lesson (her father Fosco was an anthropologist and photographer of distant lands and cultures), has always carried a camera with her, offering through it, but even before that with her smile and curiosity about the most distant cultures, a strong document that is somehow written in photograms that in the precision of their sequences are in themselves accomplished stories.
Those who have had the good fortune to see her archive can realise how much care and attention she has always paid to this instrument of expression.
The flow of tradition and modernity, of memory and oblivion, the power of nature, are poetically interwoven in the sequence of about fifty shots selected for this exhibition by Serafino Amato, which ideally dialogue with the rich collection of artefacts preserved in the rooms of the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre in Spoleto.
This exhibition, which can be visited until 30 September 2023, is intended to pay tribute to the work of Dacia Maraini, a writer and investigator of the cultural and social phenomena of our time, as well as to her multifaceted nature that, in addition to literary narration, also expressed itself through the camera lens, offering the opportunity to get to know one of Italy’s most authoritative writers and thinkers better and more closely.
The exhibition “Dacia Maraini. Viaggi nel Mondo” is promoted by FIDAPA Spoleto in collaboration with the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto, the Regional Museums Directorate of Umbria, the Alberto Moravia Fund Association, the Municipality of Spoleto and the Festival dei Due Mondi Foundation, with the fundamental support of the Amen Foundation, the Urbani Tartufi company, the Amici di Spoleto Onlus Association, the Crisalide Anti-Violence Centre and the “Women against War” Association, and with the patronage of the Spoleto Rotary Club and the Spoleto Lyons Club.
Throughout the period of the exhibition, the National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre of Spoleto is planning a series of meetings with authors and presentations of books related to the theme of the exhibition event, including travel, rights and cultural identities.
Dacia Maraini photographer
A ‘real’ photographer encapsulates the semantics of seeing without hesitation, in a single shot he/she finds the subject, the predicate, the object and, if he is good and lucky, even the adjective. The meaning of a sentence enclosed in a frame and little matter the size. I looked at these photos with a photographer’s eye, it is true, I am easily moved by pictures, no matter whose. I had these photos in my hands for years, first at the Moravia Fund, single shots though. I couldn’t find anything other than the subject in many of Dacia’s photos, but when I got my hands on the negatives and the proofs the plot became clear to me. Dacia writes ‘ …the cameras were companions of adolescence’. Were Fosco’s cameras in plain sight or available? What is certain is that anyone who loves photography cannot help but love the camera, the transparency of the lens and the discreet mechanics of an object built to receive the forms of reality through light. A Kodak camera, it was called ‘Retina’: never was the name more appropriate. Dacia used her father’s Leica, she says, then bought an SLR with her first money. Not so unconscious Dacia when she says that she loves the normal lens, the 50mm. to be clear, an optic that restores proportions ‘without bringing the field too close, nor too wide’. A difficult choice, because ‘telling a story’ with a normal 50 mm lens is, and has been, something few people know how to do well. “I think of photography in terms of storytelling, I like the photo to tell something, even if only in hints”. Dacia’s choice is to tell stories and, even if photography is not as congenial a tool to her as the ‘pen’ is, in the repetition of the sequence she marks the sentence, even different images link together for two, three and sometimes many frames. “Photographs as notes of thought, of travel”, notes in the form of a story. In front of a discovery one is moved, this guided me. I have not discovered a photographer, Dacia knows very well that a cultivated passion, even from childhood, is not enough to become one, but she has returned to me, with her photographs, and I hope also to those who will observe them, her passion for the ‘things’ of life, from breathing, to light breathing. Love, trees, animals and landscapes, traversed with the dear friends of a lifetime ago and those of today.
Serafino Amato
Information: Spoleto National Archaeological Museum and Roman Theatre 0743 223277
Press info: Antonella Manni, Mob. 3395993281
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Intervallo
Solo exhibition by Flavio Favelli
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Precious Painting. Paintings on stone, copper and glass
Works from: Fondazione Marignoli di Montecorona, Spoleto; Collection formerly Palazzo Valenti, Trevi; Fondazione Camillo Caetani, Rome
From 24 June to 8 October 2023
Group exhibition with the participation of Francesco Bendini, Paolo Bufalini, Lucia Cantò,
Giovanni de Cataldo, Binta Diaw, Bekhbaatar Enkhtur, Roberta Folliero,
Jacopo Martinotti, Lulu Nuti, Giulia Poppi, Davide Sgambaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
Rock’n’Roll – pure metal does not rust
Solo exhibition by Gabriele Donati
From 24 June to 9 July 2023
CHURCH OF SAINTS JOHN AND PAUL
Anacronismo
Installation by Paolo Icaro
From 24 June to 16 October 2023
TEXTILE AND COSTUME MUSEUM
Teatrino
Installation by Adelaide Cioni
From 24 June to 24 September 2023
ROMAN HOUSE
DreamHouse
Installation by Alice Paltrinieri
From 24 June to 1 October
The programme of events of the museum network will also touch on the Museum of Science and Territory and the Mining Museum. On Sunday 9 July, to coincide with the ‘Festa dei Boschi’ (Forest Festival), the artist Giulia Mangoni (Isola del Liri, 1991) will propose a project halfway between an exhibition and a workshop, in collaboration with the operators of Int.Geo.Mod. and Hyla, the two organisations that run the Science and Territory Museum. Il Soffio del Gatto (The Cat’s Breath), this is the title of the project, envisages the realisation of paintings and sculptures inspired by the Museum’s background, which will be exhibited for a few hours in the Sacred Wood of Monteluco; on the same day, Giulia Mangoni will lead a life drawing workshop, aimed at observing the landscape and surrounding nature. At the end of the day, the materials produced by the artist will be donated to the Museo delle Scienze e del Territorio.
Starting on 29 June, the posters of the Insieme Miniera project will be on display. The initiative stems from the desire to ‘bring’ the Mining Museum closer to the city, starting with the posting of a number of posters in various places in Spoleto. The photographer Serafino Amato (Rome, 1958), invited by the association Amici delle Miniere (Friends of the Mines), took a series of shots during a picnic held at the Museum in recent weeks: one of the images will be used for the poster, trying to show the potential of the place, its ability to attract and characterise itself as a space for aggregation and meeting between different generations, between memory and future projection.
All the events are characterised by the desire to unite the different venues of the network through the direct intervention of contemporary artists. Through this programme, the network of the Municipal Museums of Spoleto intends to characterise itself as a platform dedicated to research, dissemination, encounter and experimentation, focusing on collaborations between artists, institutions and associations active in the city and beyond. The programme, which will start at the end of June, will accompany the public throughout the summer, until autumn.