Villa delle Rose 1936
In the year of the celebrations for the centenary of the donation of Villa delle Rose to the City of Bologna by Countess Nerina Armandi Avogli, Istituzione Bologna Musei offers a reflection on the moment identified as the beginning of the history of the Modern Art Gallery which, through a century of development, has brought us to what is now MAMbo. The exhibition Villa delle Rose 1936, curated by Uliana Zanetti and Barbara Secci, presents a reproduction of the exhibition organised 80 years ago by Guido Zucchini, who was the first to fully execute the donor’s wishes by limiting the installation exclusively to 20th-century works. The exhibition, which coincides with the celebrations of another important anniversary this year, CONCIVES 1116 - 2016 900th Anniversary of the City of Bologna, is open to the public from 24 September to 31 October 2016. Prolonged until 29 January 2017.
Despite the significant losses suffered during the second world war, thanks to the over 100 works that have survived and work on the current architectural design of the Villa, the overall original layout of the collections was brought back to life, offering the public the opportunity to see works which have seldom been exhibited over the last decades.
Essential to the successful reproduction of the feeling of the exhibition of 80 years ago and the context in which it was installed have been the studies brought together as unpublilshed essays and presented along Uliana Zanetti’s text in the catalogue of the exhibition: Anna Maria Matteucci Armandi Avogli traced the figures of her ancestors Nerina De Piccoli and Guelfo Armandi Avogli, Manuela Rubbini reconstructed the history of Villa delle Rose in the early 1900s, and Elena Pirazzoli explored later events up to the second world war.
Villa delle Rose 1936 has been made possible also thanks to the support of the Istituto per i Beni Culturali of the Region Emilia-Romagna and the contribution of Art Bonus through Zanichelli Editore SpA, which allowed to carry out the extensive conservatory restoration works necessary for the installation of numerous works in the exhibition.
Opening hours:
5 November 2016 - 29 January 2017
Saturday and Sunday h 3.00 pm - 8.00 pm
Tickets:
Intero € 5
Ridotto € 3 (Card Musei Metropolitani Bologna and other reductions)
Image: Giovanni Romagnoli, Teletta, 1923 – 1925, oil on wood, cm. 97 x 80