F. Manara, C. Marini, Opera Celibe # and “Spoleto Contemporanea”, collective exhibition on artists living in Spoleto. Opening: Sat 7 Nov 2015, h 12.00
The Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts Winter Exhibitions open on Saturday 7 November at 12. The exhibitions will end on Sunday 22 May 2016.
Artistic director Gianluca Marziani chose Fausto Manara‘s “Sincronie”, Claudio Marini‘s “Fratelli di Sale”, the interactive audio installation “Deep Carpet” by Vincenzo Core at the Church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo and above all a collective exhibition titled “Spoleto contemporanea. Lo sapevate che la città è ricca di energie, idee e visioni?” (Did you know the city is so rich in energies, ideas and visions?) that aims at taking stock of present-day Spoleto, a look to the present to define the coordinates of what has been done in the last years by young and veteran artists, men and women, among those who have remained and those who have returned, including those from abroad who chose Spoleto to live in: American, European and also Italian artists, who came here for a while, for a long stay or forever. The Spoleto Contemporanea exhibition will be followed, on Friday 11th December at 17 in Palazzo Mauri, by a study day titled “CONTEMPORARY SPOLETO. Hypotheses for a Convention. Theses for a Dialogue” coordinated by Andrea Tomasini.
The other exhibitions include the artistic journey of psychiatrist Fausto Manara, author of a complex project between photography and electronic language. Through some forty works, you access his flooring digital universe, a parallel world in which technology becomes painting and confirms the conceptual value of technological tools. What hits you soon is the precious epidermic weaving of the works, and the classical originality of the aesthetic plant, an uncommon vision that mixes the key to the future with the archetypes of ancient memories.
“Fratelli di sale” by Claudio Marini “starts – clarifies Marziani – where you formulate the dimension of private grief in the visual epicentre in which Claudio remembers his late brother Giancarlo: the loss as the light tracing maps in tar black. The luminous areas look like sails or lungs, two forms that both need air, to inflate and live on. Wishing to share the weight of memory, the artist has put in leaflets with numbers related to personal matters, private moments that weld the collective brotherhood with a silent frequency of the Leopardian Infinite”.
At the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, composer Vincenzo Core has created an intereactive audio installation titled “Deep Carpet”. “Deep Carpet” is the second step of the cycle “Opera Celibe” freely adapted from the Duchampian concept of “macchina celibe” (unmarried machine), a cycle that aims at developing, among the frescoes at the former church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, a research on sound and memory through a series of digital art installations, with contemporary tools and experimentations discussing with the history of the place.
MAG MetaMorfosi Art Gallery presents: De Chirico: The Reconstruction, an exhibition organized by MetaMorfosi with the support of the city of Spoleto and the Umbrian Region.
Curated by Claudio Strinati, the exhibition brings together, in the 200 square meters of the new exhibition space, a selection of masterpieces by the leading exponent of Italian metaphysical painting (1888-1978) .
The exhibition will be open from Februrary 27 to June 5 2016
Opening hours
from Tuesday to Sunday
10.30 am-1.00 pm / 2.30-6 pm
Entrance fee: € 5,00
Information: 0039 0743 222889
www.ticketitalia.com
Associazione MetaMorfosi
www.associazionemetamorfosi.com
The 3rd edition of Un amico per sempre, the photographic exhibition/competition on pets, their owners and their lovers, will be from 12 Mar to 10 Apr, 2016.
Moments of daily life showing the indissoluble relation between man and pet will be captured by participants. The exhibition also aims at sensitizing everyone on the crime of pet abuse, mistreatment and neglect. Participants are encouraged to portray love and empathy between man and animals.
How to join:
Pictures will have to be submitted starting from 10 Feb 2016, until 8 Mar 2016, choosing from two formats:
1. Three digital pics (minimum pixels 1600×1200), colour or b/w, to be sent to prospoleto@gmail.com. By opting for the digital pics, you will need to pay € 15,00 and attach the payment receipt to the e-mail message (please check payment instructions below).
2. Or else three printed pictures (20×30 cm) colour or b/w, to be sent via snail mail to ProLoco “A. Busetti”, via Minervio 2 – 06049 Spoleto (PG). By opting to send printed pics, the fee is € 10,00 and you will need to include the receipt in the sent, closed envelope along with the pics (please check payment instructions below).
The Jury will be formed by three professional photographers, whose verdict will be at their unquestionable discretion, yet a further winner will be proclaimed by the exhibition visitors. Winners will receive communication from the organizers.
Beauty, tenderness and also originality of the pictures will be awarded.
All proceeds will go to charity, including the Spoleto City Kennel.
PAYMENT INSTRUCTIONS:
– Bank transfer, IBAN: IT 24 K 05704 21800 000000021408, made out to Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto, Bank: Banca Popolare di Spoleto – Sede centrale, specifying “iscrizione concorso “Un amico per sempre” anno 2016;
– In cash, at the Pro Loco Spoleto in Via Minervio 2, or sending banknotes inside the envelope with pictures (please understand that this is at your own risk);
– Postal order made out to Associazione Pro Loco di Spoleto. Please specify: iscrizione concorso “Un amico per sempre” anno 2016.
Contact:
Pro Loco di Spoleto
Facebook: Mostra Concorso Fotografica UN AMICO PER SEMPRE
E-mail: prospoleto@gmail.com
Ph: 331 8855493
The International Week of Dance returns; organized in its usual location at the San Nicolò Monumental Complex, its next edition will start on March 13th and will end on March 19th.
The International Week of Dance, along with the included International Competition, is an important display for young dancers and future artists. The competition includes the following sections: classical soloists, modern-contemporary soloists, pas de deux, choreographic composition. The jury is composed of famous dancers from all over the world, chaired by Alberto Testa.
Under the general direction of Paolo Boncompagni, the artistic direction of Irina Kashkova and the honorary chairmanship of Alberto Testa, the Week of Dance has become an unmissable event, participated by young dancers from all over the world, in search of their excellence. It is the single Italian such event to have been featured into the International Federation of Ballet Competitions, that gathers the best international dance competitions on the basis of the organizative capacity and the artistic quality of participants.
Organization: Associazione Culturale EVENTART
Infoline: 328/3078377
E-mail: info@idcspoleto.com
Web: www.idcspoleto.com
On Friday 26 February, a series of meetings to disclose Spoleto’s archaeological Heritage will take place at the Archaeological Museum.
All meetings will start at 16.30.
Schedule:
26 Feb: Liliana Costamagna, Spoleto: the shape of the ancient city
18 Mar: Nicola Bruni, Joachim Weidig, Piazza d’Armi: a princely necropolis.
At the end, guided tour.
15 Apr: Maria Laura Manca, Cortaccione: the monumental grave
27 May: Stefano Creatore (Società Kronos), Spoleto: the city’s boundary walls.
At the end, guided tour.
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura dedicates a full cycle of meetings to the women, La donna nell’arte (Women in Art).
During the month of March, the complex relation between womankind and art will be narrated through the fortunes of some of the most meaningful paintresses and sculptresses of the past.
The second appointment, scheduled for Friday 18 March at 19.00 by Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive, will bring us back to the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, a period when women experienced a strong rise of awareness of their role of artists and hid it no more.
At the end of the evening there will be a tasting of typical products at the Caffè Collicola. The event is organized in collaboration with Con Spoleto – Hotel Managers Association.
Participation fee:
Guided tour
Full fare – € 7,00
Reductions – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive dinner – € 5,00
INFO
For organizational reasons, reservation is encouraged within h 13:00 of Friday 18 March.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743 46434
Natino Chirico, Mauro Iori, Sergio Russo: these are the protagonists of the Palazzo Collicola-Arti Visive springtime exhibitions.
Curated by director Gianluca Marziani, they will be visitable from 19 March to 22 May 2016.
Meanwhile, the exhibition Spoleto contemporanea has been extended; it will still be possible to direct our gaze to present Spoleto, and define the coordinates of what has been produced in the city, by both young and veteran artists, men and women, who either stayed or returned, including foreigners who chose Spoleto for a short or a long period of their life, coming from the rest of Italy, of Europe, of the world.
Info: www.palazzocollicola.eu
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Visit to the Roman House
ROMAN SPOLETO
(in Italian)
MEETING POINT: Roman House
Full fare € 5.00; € 3 for Spoleto Card holders
Reservation is recommended: 0743 46434
Information: www.spoletocard.it
Tel. 0743.46434 / 0743.218620-21
From March 19th, a series of concerts will be held at Casa Menotti.
Schedule:
Saturday March 19
Trio di Perugia
Sunday April 10
Maurizio di Fulvio Trio
Saturday April 23
Duo Bottini – D’Antò
Sunday May 8
Duo Rospigliosi
Sunday May 15
Alessandro Vena
Time: 4.30 pm round A / 6 pm round B
Tickets: round A or B €10, round A + B € 15
Subscription to all concerts €50
Info and reservations: 0039 0743 46620 / 0039 347 7683606
musical.mente@tiscali.it
www.musicalmenteonline.it
www.casamenotti.it
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From March 19th, a series of concerts will be held at Casa Menotti.
Schedule:
Saturday March 19
Trio di Perugia
Sunday April 10
Maurizio di Fulvio Trio
Saturday April 23
Duo Bottini – D’Antò
Sunday May 8
Duo Rospigliosi
Sunday May 15
Alessandro Vena
Time: 4.30 pm round A / 6 pm round B
Tickets: round A or B €10, round A + B € 15
Subscription to all concerts €50
Info and reservations: 0039 0743 46620 / 0039 347 7683606
musical.mente@tiscali.it
www.musicalmenteonline.it
www.casamenotti.it
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Sunday 20 March, the Apprendisti Ciceroni® of the “Sansi – Leonardi – Volta” secondary school, will lead visitors and sightseers at the discovery of the Oratorio della Resurrezione and of the Sacello ai decorati al valore di Spoleto, Ex Caserma Minervio as scheduled in the Giornate FAI di Primavera (Italian National Trust Days).
Visits will start at 10.30 and finish at 18.00.
From 10.30 to 13.00 it will also be possible to visit the Museo della Farmacia, in the nearby Farmacia Amici.
Info:
ORATORIO DELLA RESURREZIONE
Address
Piazza Garibaldi
Description
The oratorio della Resurrezione is a wide, Roman-style hall in the complex of San Gregorio maggiore. The decorations, the great Resurrection on the vault and the 14 Tales of Resurrection date all to 1593 and are by painter Pierino Cesarei. Each episode has a learned caption, following the indications of the Council of Trent, that aimed at revitalizing and spreading christian contents.
Bishop Paolo Sanvitale directly commissioned the theme and the iconographic program to his collaborator Decio Gelosi, prior of the Collegiata di San Gregorio; the twos shared the love for art and antiquity.
Foreign languages:
Romanian, Albanian
SACELLO AI DECORATI AL VALORE DI SPOLETO, EX CASERMA MINERVIO
Address
Piazza Garibaldi
Description
The sacellum is little known, even among Spoletans, because placed in a restricted monumental complex in need of major restoration, the area of the Roman Amphitheatre. During the Middle Ages the complex served as monastery, and in the mid-XIXth century it was expropriated by the newly-born Kingdom of Italy, and served as barracks. After WWI, what was likely the apse of the church of SS. Stefano and Tommaso, was arranged to be turned into War Memorial. Names of fallen soldiers who received a badge of honour appear on its walls in fact, and the whole is decorated by wall paintings showing rural scenes, such as the representation of the seasons featuring their related agricultural activities. The sacellum was inaugurated on 4 November 1925, as testified to by a painted cartouche.
Foreign languages:
English
Fourth appointment with La Domenica dei Sogni, the theatre festival conceived by Vincenzo Cerami, now in its 8th edition.
L’Arca parte alle otto (The Ark Leaves At 8)
text Ulrich Hub
featuring Elisa Canfora, Dario De Falco, Stefano Panzeri
director Renata Coluccini
Teatro del Buratto
Three penguins, life-time friends, are on the icepack shooting the shit, when an arriving dove announcing the impending deluge interrupts and invites them aboard the 8 o’ clock ark. But the invitation is for two only. What to do then? A poetic fairy tale on love, a story of friendship for all.
Tickets and reservations:
€ 6,00 (free for minors)
All 6 plays: € 30,00
Tickets counter open 15.45 – 16.30 on the day of the play
Info and reservations:
0743 218615 – 20 – 21
iat.spoleto@comunespoleto.gov.it
scuola.musicadanza@comunespoleto.gov.it
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Cento anni di relatività (A hundred years of relativity)
MASSIMO FIORONI, Physicist
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura dedicates a full cycle of meetings to the women, La donna nell’arte (Women in Art).
The investigation on the complex relation between women and art goes on; the third appointment, scheduled for Friday 25 March at 19.00 by Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts, will lead us straight through the XXth century; the times when it seemed that the limits to the formation of women artist were pulled down, will be thoroughly examined through the women who took part in the Sculptures in the City – Spoleto 1962 exhibition.
At the end of the evening there will be a tasting of typical products at the Caffè Collicola. The event is organized in collaboration with Con Spoleto – Hotel Managers Association.
Participation fee:
Guided tour
Full fare – € 7,00
Reductions – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive dinner – € 5,00
INFO
For organizational reasons, reservation is encouraged within h 13:00 of Friday March 25.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743 46434
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“Daddy dear, I understand your wonder which is almost a scolding: why am I here and why am I not away from all clash of arms and battles? Why should I cause this pain to my family?”
Thus wrote Spoletan lawyer Pietro Morichelli to his worried family in August 1915, after having volunteered to the front following Italy’s engagement in WWI. His words and thoughts came to us thanks to the many letters kept by his family; they portray historical fortunes that in the generous volunteer’s daily experience correspond to an intimately complex emotional frame, authentic and multifaceted: the enthusiasm of departure, the impulse that led the young lawyer to leave his desk and the certainties of a well-heeled, upper-class life, are progressively replaced by the awareness of reality, and the gap between many soldier’s patriotic trust and the cynicism of the ruling class, turn enthusiasm into unease, disillusion, dejection.
On the occasion of the celebrations for the Centennial of WWI, UmbriaEnsemble has prepared a music and reading original programme by the great historical and musicological value, featuring the letters, never published before, penned by the young Spoletan lawyer.
Saturday 26 March at 17.00, at the Complesso Monumentale di San Nicolò, the UmbriaEnsemble String Quartet (Angelo Cicillini and Cecilia Rossi, violin; Luca Ranieri, viola; M. Cecilia Berioli, cello), along with Claudio Carini’s voice (Fontemaggiore TSI) will present a new version of Casella‘s and Malipiero‘s pages, written during the Great War, as well as those by Umbrian musicians that went to the front, also unpublished. Compositions written between 1916 and 1917 and Pietro Morichelli’s letters (courtesy of Morichelli’s family), will retrace the history and tragedy of the Great War, so that such a useless carnage be no more.
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For the second year in a row, the Festival of Two Worlds proposes a special concert for Easter. Monday 28 March, worldwide-famous flutist Andrea Griminelli will be on stage at the Teatro Nuovo “Gian Carlo Menotti”, for a concert totally dedicated to M° Ennio Morricone.
Andrea Griminelli flute
Stefano Nanni piano and accordion
Luciano Zadro guitar and mandolin
Stefano Travaglini double bass and bass
Gianluca Nanni drums and percussion
programme:
Ennio Morricone
Per le antiche scale
Saharan dream
Medley da “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”
Giù la testa
Medley: Novecento, Malena, L’Uccello dalle Piume di Cristallo
C’era una volta in America
C’era una volta il West
My Heart and I
Il Prato
The Mission
Box Office
Piazza della Vittoria 25, Spoleto
Punti Vendita TicketItalia
Info and reservation
+39 0743 22 28 89
info@ticketitalia.com
ANDREA GRIMINELLI first got in touch with the flute at the age of 10, and has been studying with such legends as Jean-Pierre Rampal and Sir James Galway, who called him “the greatest flutist to have risen to fame in quite a number of years”. While studying with J. P. Rampal at the Conservatory in Paris, Griminelli wins competitions in Stresa and Alessandria. In 1983 and 1984 he obtains the Prix de Paris.
The international debut takes place in 1984, introduced to the American audience by Luciano Pavarotti at the Madison Square Gardens in New York; other remarkable concerts will be in Hyde Park in London (1990), at the Central Park in New York (1993), at the Eiffel Tower in Paris and in Moscow’s Red Square.
The list of artists and ensembles he played with include Pretre, Giulini, Metha, Krivine, Sutherland, Bonynge, Rampal, Rojdestvenski, Levine, Lu-Ja, Ughi, Sado, Semkov, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Munchner Rundfunkorchester, London Philharmonia, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Rai Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
His list of world premieres includes performances of new music for flute by such composers as Carlo Boccadoro, Fabrizio Festa, Ennio Morricone, Shigeaki Saegusa.
Griminelli has also played with Luciano Pavarotti, Elton John, James Taylor, Bradford Marsalis and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.
The 64th Study Week on Early Middle Ages organized by Fondazione CISAM – Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo, will be from 30 Mar to 6 Apr, 2016.
The aim of the Study Week is to take stock of little known researches and stimulate new, interdisciplinary investigations, focusing year after year on specific themes.
This year’s theme is Monachesimi d’Oriente e d’Occidente nell’Alto Medioevo (Eastern and Western Monasticism in the Early Middle Ages)
Organization: Fondazione Centro Italiano di Studi sull’Alto Medioevo
Ph.: +39 0743.225630
Fax.: +39 0743.49902
E-mail: cisam@cisam.org
Web: www.cisam.org
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Fifth appointment with La Domenica dei Sogni, the festival of theatre for families conceived by Vincenzo Cerami, that reached its 8th edition.
Biancaneve
by Brothers Grimm
featuring Laura Mirone and Adele Pardi
Production: Teatro delle Quisquilie
Once upon a time, in the middle of winter… that is how the fairy tale of Snow White begins, and it is there, far away across time that children will be led, there where magic and reality melt together in a game where the queen and Snow White are the protagonists facing each other, while male characters are nothing but a cheerful background of puppets and shadow theatre.
Tickets and subscriptions:
single entrance: € 6,00 (adults, free for minors)
subscriptions: € 30,00 (6 shows)
Tickets will be available by the Complex of San Nicolò tickets counter on the day of the play, h 15.45 – 16.30
Info and reservations:
Ph. 0743 218615/20/21
iat.spoleto@comunespoleto.gov.it
scuola.musicadanza@comunespoleto.gov.it
Visit to the Roman House
ROMAN SPOLETO
(in Italian)
MEETING POINT: Roman House
Full fare € 5.00; € 3 for Spoleto Card holders
Reservation is recommended: 0743 46434
Information: www.spoletocard.it
Tel. 0743.46434 / 0743.218620-21
From March 19th, a series of concerts will be held at Casa Menotti.
Schedule:
Saturday March 19
Trio di Perugia
Sunday April 10
Maurizio di Fulvio Trio
Saturday April 23
Duo Bottini – D’Antò
Sunday May 8
Duo Rospigliosi
Sunday May 15
Alessandro Vena
Time: 4.30 pm round A / 6 pm round B
Tickets: round A or B €10, round A + B € 15
Subscription to all concerts €50
Info and reservations: 0039 0743 46620 / 0039 347 7683606
musical.mente@tiscali.it
www.musicalmenteonline.it
www.casamenotti.it
Sixth and last appointment with La Domenica dei Sogni, the festival of theatre for families conceived by Vincenzo Cerami, that reached its 8th edition.
A proposito di Piter Pan
loosely based on the character by J.M. Barrie
by Silvano Antonelli
featuring Silvano Antonelli and Laura Righi
Production: Compagnia Teatrale Stilema
“There are certain books that when read it is as if all words, pictures, colours and even the smell of paper spring out from the pages and enter your head, your belly, your heart”. After such introduction, the play faces themes like the wish to fly and the fear of growing old.
Tickets and subscriptions:
single entrance: € 6,00 (adults, free for minors)
subscriptions: € 30,00 (6 shows)
Tickets will be available by the Complex of San Nicolò tickets counter on the day of the play, h 15.45 – 16.30
Info and reservations:
Ph. 0743 218615/20/21
iat.spoleto@comunespoleto.gov.it
scuola.musicadanza@comunespoleto.gov.it
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From March 19th, a series of concerts will be held at Casa Menotti.
Schedule:
Saturday March 19
Trio di Perugia
Sunday April 10
Maurizio di Fulvio Trio
Saturday April 23
Duo Bottini – D’Antò
Sunday May 8
Duo Rospigliosi
Sunday May 15
Alessandro Vena
Time: 4.30 pm round A / 6 pm round B
Tickets: round A or B €10, round A + B € 15
Subscription to all concerts €50
Info and reservations: 0039 0743 46620 / 0039 347 7683606
musical.mente@tiscali.it
www.musicalmenteonline.it
www.casamenotti.it
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On Friday 26 February, a series of meetings to disclose Spoleto’s archaeological Heritage will take place at the Archaeological Museum.
All meetings will start at 16.30.
Schedule:
26 Feb: Liliana Costamagna, Spoleto: the shape of the ancient city
18 Mar: Nicola Bruni, Joachim Weidig, Piazza d’Armi: a princely necropolis.
At the end, guided tour.
15 Apr: Maria Laura Manca, Cortaccione: the monumental grave
27 May: Stefano Creatore (Società Kronos), Spoleto: the city’s boundary walls.
At the end, guided tour.
Francesco Refini: a 17th century painter from Spoleto
Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura, Palazzo Collicola – Arti Visive’s event curated by Sistema Museo, returns Friday, April 15, at 7.30 pm.
The meeting will focus on one of Spoleto’s most prolific painters of the seventeenth century: Francesco Refini. Thanks to the many paintings preserved inside the piano nobile, it will be possible to recall his life, to appreciate his stylistic evolution and discover the many works that are still preserved in the city.
At the end of the evening there will be a tasting of typical products at the Caffè Collicola. The event is organized in collaboration with Con Spoleto – Hotel Managers Association.
Participation fee:
Guided tour
Full fare – € 7,00
Reductions – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders
Aperitive dinner – € 5,00
INFO
For organizational reasons, reservation is encouraged within h 1:00 pm of Friday April 15.
news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it
0743 46434
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Visit to the Roman House
ROMAN SPOLETO
(in Italian)
MEETING POINT: Roman House
Full fare € 5.00; € 3 for Spoleto Card holders
Reservation is recommended: 0743 46434
Information: www.spoletocard.it
Tel. 0743.46434 / 0743.218620-21
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Restauri in occasione di Expo 2015: la nuova sistemazione della “Pietà Rondanini” di Michelangelo nel Castello Sforzesco di Milano (Expo 2015 restoration works: the new setting of Michelangelo’s “Rondanini Pietà” at the Sforza Castle in Milan).
PAOLO VIRILLI, Tecnireco – Spoleto
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