Art goes on stage to Spoleto: all exhibitions of the Festival dei Due Mondi
During Festival dei Due Mondi the events multiply, the city is transformed into a living place of creation for all languages of art. Festival-goers and visitors to the city can count on a proposal that involves some of the place's main realities. to one year after his death, the journey to enhance the artistic heritage initiated by the Foundation Festival dei Due Mondi is enriched with a new exhibition stage with the exhibition dedicated to Giorgio Ferrara, its director from 2008 to 2020. The inauguration is scheduled friday June 28 at at 5 p.m., at 12 Via Saffi: through a careful selection of costumes, archival material and photographs, the exhibition curated from Piero Maccarinelli traces the productions of those years, offering an immersion in Ferrara's creative world and that of his fellow travelers, offering a portrait of his extraordinary artistic legacy. The following day at at 4 p.m. the homage to Giorgio Ferrara continues with an appointment to curated by Fabiana Giacomotti Love letters to Giorgio, at the Sala XVII settembre of the Teatro Nuovo Gian Carlo Menotti. A journey of words and emotions with the participation of some of the greatest directors, costume designers, authors, dancers and international actors who have collaborated with Ferrara in the thirteen editions of his artistic direction. A long journey that has allowed the Spoleto Festival to be reborn in a new form, delivering it to the cultural, but also popular, success of today.
Still Saturday, June 29 at the Ex-Baptistery of the Golden Manna at at 11 opens the exhibition Legàmi, a project by photographer Luis Alberto Rodriguez and set designer Afra Zamara for the Fondazione Carla Fendi, Main Partner of the Festival, in collaboration with Mahler & LeWitt Studios. The two artists reinterpreted some of the 3,800 costumes that illustrate the Festival's history: tying, knotting, and overlapping them, they constructed new combinations that capture their charm and details. The result is on display in a photo exhibition from June 29 to July 14.
As every year, the Civic Museums of Spoleto host a series of interventions by contemporary artists in different venues in an art circuit within the city. Of particular note is the solo exhibition of Chiara Camoni-author of the Spoleto67 manifesto-an exhibition path that winds through the rooms of the Piano Nobile of Palazzo Collicola (June 28-July 14). References to the natural and plant worlds, strongly present in the artist's practice, intersect with the spaces, in an unprecedented dialogue that also features works created for the occasion.
Since 2010 the Mahler & LeWitt Studios association has been promoting a program of artistic residencies to Spoleto. Scheduled for Spoleto67 is an exhibition of Jonathan Monk 's work (Torre Bonomo, June 28-July 14), including some ceramic sculptures made to Deruta during his residency at Mahler & LeWitt Studios. Monk's work-a tribute to figures such as Sol LeWitt, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Lawrence Weiner-recalls the procedural strategies typical of conceptual and minimalist art of the 1960s and 1970s and enriches them with a personal or playful twist.
It is signed again from Mahler & LeWitt Studios the exhibition Umru: tales from a hydrosocial landscape., produced in collaboration with the Musei Civici di Spoleto at the Museo del Tessuto e del Costume (June 29-July 14). The project is the result of a meeting between artist Cecilia Ceccherini and geographer Alberto Valz Gris, who have created a large tapestry of interconnected symbols and a sound installation with multiple narratives around the concept of a hydrosocial landscape, a term that describes water as a multifaceted set of human and nonhuman beings, historical transformations and unpredictable futures.
From June 29 (at 12) to Oct. 7, artist Stefano Di Stasio presents his Agata eterna as part of the event The Thin Line of Umbria, promoted by the National Museums of Perugia - Regional Directorate Museums Umbria. Di Stasio has placed the iconography of the Saint to whom the small church - an integral part of the National Archaeological Museum of Spoleto - is dedicated within his dreamlike imagery: the 'opera, a painting on paper, will take the place of the ancient altarpiece in the apse of the church, becoming the background for the initiatives and concerts that will be hosted in the structure. to Halfway between liturgical and civic space, the Church of St. Agatha becomes a window on theopera of Di Stasio, author of a modern sacredness.