The opening of the new exhibitions at Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts will be on Saturday 4 March. RESIDENCE COLLICOLA is a format for young artists from abroad, who are called for their first exhibiting adventure in Italy; this time it is SOICHIRO SHIMIZU‘s turn, a Japanese artist who is crossing an ideal linguistic bridge between European values and Asian culture. Born and grown in Japan, Shimizu has been spending some time in Bangkok in the last years, where he conducts part of his major researches. This is his debut in Spoleto, after some trips to Umbria. DESTRUCTION FOR CREATION is a title that was envisaged after the August and October earthquakes in Central Italy, when Shimizu’s project was maturing in his Bangkok and Tokyo ateliers. Japan’s antiseismic culture is a an ethical and architectural pillar of Japanese civilization. Hence the idea that each destruction process becomes the prompt of creation that absorbs and levels all mistakes in a shared growth, turning yesterday’s false steps into tomorrow’s skilled pace, infusing the work with the value of experience and the sign of holistic rebirth. Umbria and Japan are far from each other on a world scale, yet close for their inner geological features, subterranean dynamism, the deep silence of their natural environments, their meditative mysticism that finds its chamber of human wonders on the mountains. The exhibition will go on till 28 May, 2017.

Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts presents the second stage of CORTESIE PER GLI OSPITI. It is a new cycle dedicated to the world of private gallerists, their stories, choices, passions and intuitions, a captivating, narrative travel conceived as a cultural adventure and built as an inner retrospective. After Giovanni Bonelli, it is now the turn of Lombard gallerist Giampaolo Abbondio, founder and owner of Galleria PACK in Milan. Luigi De Ambrogi, former avantgarde gallerist and Abbondio’s comrade in arms, will be the exhibition’s curator, privileged spectator of 15 years of exhibitions with 28 artists.

The exhibition will go on till 28 May, 2017.

 BEVERLY PEPPER 1963 is a donation of six 1963 sculptures, an important bequethal by the American artist to Spoleto, thus confirming a continuity of stories and intentions that consolidates the sculptress’ long presence in Umbria. In 1962 Beverly Pepper was the only woman, and one of the three Americans (along with David Smith and Alexander Calder), to have been invited by Giovanni Carandente and be featured in the historical exhibition SCULPTURES IN THE CITY.

Francesco Irnem‘s new project continues with SATELLITE COLLICOLA, physically, thematically and conceptually conceived for the Roman House in Spoleto, a building dating to the 1st century which is the most visited site in town. The exhibition involves the classical element, re-read through the multiple codices of contemporaneity.

 The exhibition “I MONDI DI MARIO SCHIFANO IN UNA COLLEZIONE DAVVERO PRIVATA” also goes on, already featured at Palazzo Collicola in summer 2013. The collection took shape along with art critic and merchant Gabriele Stori, close to Schifano’s worlds. The history of the collection is above all the sentimental journey of Gabriele and Marina, their kids Alice and Luigi, and the friendship with Schifano, that resulted in a number of original works, gathered and kept across the years. It is a human adventure that ended in 1980, when Stori passed away in a car crash, that yet lives on in paintings, exhibitions, catalogues…