Spoleto, Trevi, Montefalco and Scheggino, 24 June – 4 November 2018
MASTERPIECES OF THE 14th CENTURY. Giotto’s Workshop, Spoleto and the Appennines
Curated by Vittoria Garibaldi and Alessandro Delpriori
A great century for a great exhibition in Umbria. 70 works on display, among golden backgrounds and statues coming from prestigious collections in Italy and abroad, to present the extraordinary artistic heritage on the background of the political, religious, social and artistic climate of the period. The four exhibiting spaces include the Museum of St. Francis in Trevi, the Diocesan Museum and the Museum of the Duchy in Spoleto, the St. Francis Museum Complex in Montefalco. The Valcasana Spazio Arte in Scheggino is instead the start of itineraries to delve into the world of the exhibited artists in their original contexts.
On the turn of the 13th-14th centuries, Umbria is the stage of the Middle Ages’ most important artistic revolution. Anonymous artists such as Maestro delle Palazze, Maestro di Sant’Alò, Maestro di Cesi, Maestro della Croce di Trevi, Maestro della Croce di Visso, Maestro di Fossa, often painters and sculptors at the same time, represent a pictorial school by the high cultural interest, though little known, and testify to the artistic vitality of the Appennines area.
www.capolavorideltrecento.it
information:
22 June – 4 November
opening:
Friday 22 June at 17.30, Montefalco, Complesso museale San Francesco
Friday 22 June at 19.30, Trevi, Raccolta d’arte di San Francesco
Saturday 23 June at 17.30 Spoleto, Museo Nazionale del Ducato, Rocca Albornoziana
Saturday 23 June at 19.30 Spoleto, Museo diocesano, Basilica di Sant’Eufemia
opening times, Museo Nazionale del Ducato, Rocca Albornoziana:
Tuesday through Sunday 9.30-19.30
Mondays 9.30-13.30
opening times, Museo Diocesano e Basilica di Sant’Eufemia
Monday through Thursday 11.00-13.30
Friday through Sunday 11.00-13.30 / 14.30-17.00
Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive and Casa Romana, from 30 June
PALAZZO COLLICOLA ARTI VISIVE EXHIBITIONS
in the frame of the 61st FESTIVAL OF TWO WORLDS
A polyphonic symphony of glances on the world that boils over. Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive proposes nations, languages and themes by the strong ethical hold. American EUGENE LEMAY’s installations and paintings mix current themes with the artist’s personal fortunes. ANDREA PACANOWSKI proposes a series of crowds associated with their monotheistic faiths, global realities that turn into geometric rhythm, chromatic harmony, figurative balance. GIORGIO ORTONA leads us to his gaunt, analytical painting, a figurative reflection on the deep structures that rule man, the city, buildings and objects. Israeli YIGAL OZERI authors baffling female portraits by the enticing pictorial hyperrealism. GIUSEPPE PULVIRENTI’s mysterious sculptures are small objects by the cerebral rigour and metaphysical heart. GIORGIO FACCHINI’s artistic jewels efficiently dialogue with the works of the permanent collection, while ROBERTA PIZZORNO displays her Indian ink drawings and oneiric watercolours. The Casa Romana is where the TTOZOI duo lands after the success at the Reggia di Caserta and Pompei: their exhibition, featuring natural mould, fits in the place with sideral perfection. Japanese TORU HAMADA’s next autumn exhibition is anticipated by a marble sculpture in front of the Teatro Nuovo, well integrated with the city’s collection of open-air works of art. DAVID POMPILI’s installation at the entrance of Palazzo Collicola is a tribute to Spoleto’s most famous characters, a cloud between memory and future.
information:
opening – Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive
Saturday 30 June at 12.00
opening – Ttozoi duo at the Casa Romana
Saturday 30 June at 18.00
opening – Giorgio Facchini at the Museo Carandente
Saturday 7 July at 12.00
PALAZZO COLLICOLA ARTI VISIVE
Museo Carandente, Piano Nobile and Temprary Exhibitions Floor
opening times
Wednesday through Monday 10.30-13.00/15.30-19.00
Closed on Tuesdays
full ticket €9,00
reduction (15 – 25 yo) €5,00
free < 14 yo
CASA ROMANA
opening times
every day 10.30-13.30/14.00-19.00
full ticket€3,00
reduction (15 – 25 yo) €2,00
free < 14 yo, Spoletan residents and students
Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, from 30 June
JULIE BORN SCHWARTZ:
EX-VOTO
a project by Mahler & LeWitt Studios
supported by The Goldstone Family Foundation
Danish film-maker Julie Born Schwartz presents Ex-voto, a video-installation on three screens exploring expressions of faith and spirituality. The film is partly set in the sanctuary of Santa Rita da Cascia in Umbria, where pilgrims plead for intercession to the saint of “lost causes”.
Born Schwartz was the first film-maker who was allowed access to the secluded areas of the convent in Cascia, where she interviewed and recorded the monastery’s nuns.
XXth-century French conceptual artist Yves Klein was devout to Santa Rita and offered her a number of ex-votoes. An ex-voto is a religious offer in support of a prayer. Klein’s ex-votoes appear here and there along with Born Schwartz’ meetings with Santa Rita’s contemporary devotees. The film also includes other spiritually-connoted places around Spoleto, including the oneiric complex of Tomaso Buzzi in Montegabbione, “La Scarzuola”, and an underwater church used by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky in his Nostalghia.
information:
Chiesa dei Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Spoleto
Via S. Giovanni e Paolo, 5
opening: Saturday 30 June, 12.00 to 20.00
curator’s presentation
Friday 6 July and Friday 13 July
18.00 to 20.00
opening times:
Wednesday through Monday
11.00-13.00 / 15.30-19.00
ticket €2,00
visits on 30 June and the curator’s presentations are free of charge
Palazzo Racani Arroni, from 30 June
FABRIZIO FERRI
PERSONAL EXHIBITION
Fabrizio Ferri is the author of the 61th Festival Of Two Worlds’ image and participates in the festival with a personal exhibition, a series of shots taken from 1973 to the present days, images by the extraordinary charm that portray famous artists, icons of the show business in the last decades.
information:
opening: Saturday 30 June at 16.00
opening times:
Monday through Thursday 15.30- 18.30
Friday through Sunday 10.00 – 18.30
full ticket €10,00
reduction €5,00
Istituto Amedeo Modigliani, 30 June – 4 August
MODIGLIANI’s FRIENDS
MIMMO NOBILE’s SOCIAL AMBUSH
The Istituto Amedeo Modigliani proposes two high-profile artistic events. A first exhibition is dedicated to Modigliani’s friends, famous painters who had relations with the Italian artist sharing their passion for painting and life experiences, that include Picasso, Utrillo, Braque, Chagall and others.
Parallely, Casa Modigliani hosts Italian contemporary painter Mimmo Nobile’s “Social Ambush”; Nobile is considered a “social” painter in that his works interpret the tensions and sufferances of a people torn apart by inequalities, conflicts, lonesomeness, despair and neglect.
information:
30 June – 4 August
Istituto Amedeo Modigliani
Palazzo Montani
Piazza Fontana, 3
opening Saturday 30 June
ticket box opens at 16.00
opening times: Thursday through Sunday 10.00 to 23.00
full ticket €10,00
reduction (over65) €7,00
free until the age of 10 and for accompanied, disabled people
MAG – Palazzo Bufalini (Piazza Duomo), 30 June – 15 July
DUCA
LUCE RITROVATA (LIGHT RETRACED)
curated by Gianluca Marziani
The deep eye of painting in a suspended time. The space of an intimate reflection on the shared themes of Still-Life. The slow rite of the brush between thorough perception and physical discipline, silent details and metaphorical keys. The universe on the table, to disclose our own uniqueness through the interior sharing of universal objects.
information:
30 June – 15 July
MAG – Palazzo Bufalini
opening times:
Monday through Thursday 10.00-13.00 / 15.00-20.00
Friday through Sunday 10.00-23.00
Free admission
Rocca Albornoz Museo del Ducato, 12 May – 15 July
CANAPA NERA – BLACK HEMP
Guardavo le macerie e immaginavo il futuro – I watched the debris and envisioned the future
“Canapa Nera” is a project to give value to the Umbrian areas, in particular the Valnerina: the installation is created by fragments recovered from the 2016 earthquake and was lately exhibited in the frame of Fuorisalone – Interni House in Motion at the Università degli Studi di Milano.
Visit to the installation is included in the Rocca’s ticket.
Info: Sistema Museo – Tel: 0743-224952 – Mail: spoleto@sistemamuseo.it
information:
Rocca Albornoz – Museo Nazionale del Ducato di Spoleto
12 May – 15 July 2018
opening times
Tuesday through Sunday 9.30 – 19.30
Mondays 9.30 – 13.30
Admission is allowed till 45 minutes before closing time.
Closed on Monday afternoon
tickets Museo Nazionale del Ducato e Rocca Albornoziana
full €7,50
reduction €3,75 (18 – 25)
free till the age of 17
Sezione Archivio di Stato di Spoleto (Largo Ermini), 28 June – 20 September 2018
SPOLETO 1959 – THE SECOND FESTIVAL OF TWO WORLDS
curated by Paolo Bianchi and Antonella Manni
“1959 is an important year, the Festival is announced with a progressive number, the 2nd Festival of Two Worlds. It’s a sign, uncertain as it may be, of the will to move forward on the wings of the success of the previous year”. This is what Sandro Morichelli and Gianni Toscano wrote in 1987. The latter was the communist mayor who in 1958 had opened the festival by welcoming the “Americans” around Gian Carlo Menotti with open arms. The second Festival of Spoleto is prepared in the background of a city that feels the need and the first signs of a profound change both in economic and infrastructural terms. Together with the experimentation of new show formulas, such as Album Leaves directed by Steven Vinaver and Fogli d’Album directed by Franco Zeffirelli, there is an urge for new spaces to be used for the theatre, for exhibitions as well as for the stagecraft workshops and for the offices in charge of the organization. Just as we begin to talk about converting the Rocca Albornoziana for cultural purposes. “1959 is also the year of the invention of the Concert in Piazza del Duomo – writes Maurizio Modugno – We don’t know to whom it is due: maybe Schippers himself can have borrowed the idea from Tanglewood, from Ravinia, from the evenings at the Lewisohn Stadium or Aix-en-Provence. What is sure is that it immediately becomes an event of resounding musical and personal appeal for Tommy and Spoleto”.
On the occasion of the sixty-first edition of the Festival of Two Worlds, continuing a project started for the sixtieth edition, through a conference, a book, an exhibition, you retrace extraordinary moments in the history of the city to re-read the origins of the event, understand the heritage in the present, trace future scenarios.
information:
opening times
Mondays, Thuesdays 8.00-14.00 / 14.30-17.20
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays 8.00-14.00
Free admission
