artistic director Gianluca Marziani

COLLICOLA COLLECTION 2.0

Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts doubles the exhibition space allocated to the permanent collection. An entire floor of the museum retraces the artistic direction of Gianluca Marziani, enriching the historical patrimony - COLLEZIONE COLLICOLA - with paintings with a contaminated soul, 3D prints, photographic decompositions that open to plastic volume, narrative and interactive sculptures, installations between nature and artifice, works with an open contribution... a mapping that adds to the wall works - ONTHEWALL COLLECTION - and expands its trajectories between the building´s courtyard, the outdoor plaza and the connecting interstices. COLLECTION 2.0 investigates the methodologies that evolveopera and its iconographic value, creating a germinative, dynamic and therefore mutant heritage, open to semantic short-circuiting, to a narrative that stimulates the senses, to an elastic process in which the artist imagines the future while processing the necessary past.

MATTEO BASILE'

Unseen

to edited by** Gianluca Marziani**

(in collaboration with Art for Communication)

A new, exciting contemporary journey inside the ancient halls of the Piano Nobile. For summer 2014 it is the turn of Matteo Basilé, an Italian artist who has taken the culture of photographic portraiture to new aesthetic philosophies. Memory and the future are at the heart of his iconographic and conceptual universe, a journey between distant centuries and near futurisms, (re)set in the 18th-century rooms of the Palazzo. A dramaturgical trajectory of the portrait, veered into the dense margins of cosmic black, toward a dimension of the suspended soul, of the spiritual crisis of a new millennium, where black implies emotional vertigo but also the need for a moral kindling of its protagonists.

THE PINK GAZE.

THE PINK GAZE

Tsuruko Yamazaki, Yoko Ono, Kazuko Miyamoto, Chiharu Shiota

to edited by Valentina Gioia Levy

(in collaboration with National Museum of Oriental Art, Japanese Cultural Institute, Japan Foundation, Bonotto Foundation)

Four Japanese women artists to recall four key moments in contemporary Japan. Crossing generations to trace an ideal path starting from the Postwar period and arriving in the canon of the present. Female visual art, including sculptures, videos, performances and installation projects. Pure energy for a sensory polyphony in which action meets levity, power merges with control.

FRANCESCO BOSSO

White Golden Dark

to edited by Gianluca Marziani

The photographic research of a contemporary landscape artist. Francesco Bosso presents to Spoleto the newest series "After Dark," in addition to the previous cycles "White World" and "Golden Light." A methodical journey in panoramic photography that becomes pictorial matter, among infinitesimal variations of black and white, exciting atmospheres, abstractions and calibrated geometries. When pure photography crosses the boundary of technological time. When the sublime is reborn from the form of the real.

RIA LUSSI

Emperors of Light

to edited by Gianluca Marziani

Glass as a privileged material for figurative sculpture. A vision that reactivates ancient statuary, using the excellence of Murano for a journey through time among the busts of twelve emperors, both Roman and Byzantine. Ria Lussi weaves symbolism and philosophical aspects, irony and visual metaphor, defining the multiple code of a complex, atypical, finally sculptural material. The project, created in collaboration with Massimiliano Floridi and Gesine Doria Pamphilj, confirms a newfound link between an important Italian family and contemporary art. to complete the operation, recall the exhibition stops at the Villa del Principe (Genoa, May 2014) and the Doria Pamphilj Gallery (Rome, October 2014).

FRANCA PISANI

Archeofuture

to curated by Marzia Spatafora and Gianluca Marziani

Franca Pisani, the protagonist of recent exhibitions at Hamburger Bahnhof to Berlin and Galleria degli Uffizi to Florence, arrives to Spoleto with a new dialogue between painting and sculpture. His anthropological themes, on the ridge connecting myth and the unconscious, recreate mental spaces with strong sign connotations. A journey into primordial memories, where the present incorporates roots and rebirth, where the past evokes the frontiers of a continuous evolution. The Spoleto exhibition is divided into four installation acts, chapters of a score that defines the artist's aesthetic grammar and conceptual syntax. A polyphonic exhibition with a homogeneous sound, the synthesis of an iconographic journey into the mnemonic trails of time and the archaic noises of a liberated space.

Artist's book rules/

books to artist rule

to edited by Emanuele De Donno, Giorgio Maffei

A viaindustria/studio project to'87 in collaboration with Palazzo Collicola Visual Arts (as part of the seventh edition of LIBEROLIBROdARTISTALIBERO7/FreeBOOK7). Among the artists/books: Stéphane Mallarmé, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Sol LeWitt, Gino De Dominicis, Bruno Munari, Giulio Paolini, Raqs Media Collective, Richard Prince, Maurizio Nannucci, Ed Ruscha, Alighiero Boetti, Allan Kaprow, John Cage...

ARType - Archetypes of contemporary video art

to edited by Paolo Granata and Silvia Grandi

(in collaboration with Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna and Officina d'Arte e Tessuti Spoleto)

Created as a special project within the "Videoart Yearbook" event, "ARType" proposes themes and keys to understanding contemporary video art. Thirty-six Italian artists, gathered in six archetypes (ritual, play, territory, gesture, journey, Self), will lead the viewer into the multiplicity of an increasingly contaminated language.