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Collezione La Colonna

COLLEZIONE LA COLONNA

The collection comprises 266 works of art, mainly drawings and engravings, and documentation relating to the activities of La Colonna gallery in Milan.

In 2013 the heirs of the founder, Renata Usiglio, gave the Comune of Pelagio the use of the collection in a loan-for-use agreement. The collection is entirely dedicated to Italian realism of the 1950s, a movement that found in Usiglio a fundamental point of reference for more than ten years, from 1951 until 1962 when the gallery closed.
These works of art were the result of the network of friendships that the gallery owner skilfully wove around herself, with artists such as Renato Guttuso (16 paintings and drawings), Giacomo Manzù, Xavier Bueno, Domenico Cantatore, Carlo Levi, Aligi Sassu and Arnaldo Badodi.

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Piazza Lorenzo Ghiberti,  Pelago www.comune.pelago.fi.it info@comune.pelago.fi.it

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Museo Artistico Industriale Bitossi (MAIB)

MAIB - MUSEO ARTISTICO INDUSTRIALE BITOSSI

This corporate museum was opened by the Fondazione Vittoriano Bitossi in 2003 to document the history of twentieth-century ceramics (particularly the second half of the century), based on the production of the Bitossi factory.

The 200 pieces in the collection are housed in two rooms of the historic building, which was the first home of Manifattura Maioliche Artistiche founded by Guido Bitossi in 1921. The pieces were mainly chosen to illustrate the evolution of the company’s style together with the instruments and equipment used in the workshop.

The museum organizes exhibitions about architects and designers who have collaborated with the company as well as solo exhibitions relating to an individual artist or ceramic manufacturer.
The museum is next door to the Bitossi archives, the Manifattura ITALICA ARS archives and the Aldo Londi archives. Londi was the creative director of the company for many years during which time he also changed the style of their ceramics.

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Via A. Gramsci 12/14, Montelupo Fiorentino Tel. (+39) 0571 51033 www.fondazionevittorianobitossi.it dainie@fondazionevittorianobitossi.it

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Museo Artisti per Dino Campana

MUSEO ARTISTI PER DINO CAMPANA

The museum comes under the Centro Studi Campaniani “Enrico Consolini” in Marradi.

It was created thanks to the campaign led by the intellectual Matilde Hernandez Lorente in collaboration with the Centre to encourage foreign and Italian artists to donate work inspired by Dino Campana’s work.

The paintings and the sculptures that came in response to the appeal (57 works of art, plus 11 at a later date) have been displayed since 2009 in the three rooms of the museum and are accompanied by their inspiration — extracts of poems and letters chosen by the artists to translate Campana’s “colourful” poetry into images. Other works are also on show in the Centro Studi Campaniani including Ritratto di Dino Campana [Portrait of Dino Campana] (1913) by Giovanni Costetti.

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Via Castelnaudary 5/7, Marradi Tel. (+39) 055 8045943 www.dinocampana.it centrocampana@virgilio.it

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Museo di Fucecchio

MUSEO DI FUCECCHIO

The museum of Fucecchio, which re-opened in 2004 in its new home in the Fattoria Corsini, has a section dedicated to Arturo Checchi (1886–1971), painter, engraver, sculptor and native of Fucecchio.

On the first floor of the building, beyond the museum of sacred art, is a room that houses the works donated by the artist to his native city. They are mainly from his first period, with a focus on the places and affections relating to his family.
Of interest are the Self-portrait of 1908 and the portrait of his wife and muse Zena Fettucciari, both expressing that formal restraint and gestural vigour that characterized the artist’s style. A further group of works by Arturo Checchi is held by the Fondazione Montanelli Bassi in Fucecchio.

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Piazza Vittorio Veneto 27, 50054 Fucecchio Tel. (+39) 0571 268262 www.comune.fucecchio.fi.it/site/museo.asp museo@comune.fucecchio.fi.it

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Fondazione Montanelli Bassi

FONDAZIONE MONTANELLI BASSI

The Foundation was established in 1987 by the journalist and essayist Indro Montanelli in his home town.

It has been based in Palazzo della Volta since 1993, and although its vocation is mainly literary, it also has a collection of works by local painter Arturo Checchi (1886–1971). The first group in the collection comprises seven paintings, 28 drawings and two watercolours that were donated in 1998 by Montanelli himself.

Further gifts followed, the most important of which was in 2008 when a major exhibition of Checchi’s work was organized by the foundation in collaboration with the Museum of Fucecchio, which holds another collection of work by the artist. Of great interest are his Taccuini, fourteen books of drawings that testify to Checchi’s enduring interest in the quotidian.

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Via Guglielmo di San Giorgio n. 2, 50054 Fucecchio Tel. (+39) 0571 22627 www.fondazionemontanelli.it info@fondazionemontanelli.it

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Galleria d’Arte Moderna e della Resistenza

GALLERIA D'ARTE MODERNA E DELLA RESISTENZA

The art gallery with its 150 paintings was established in 1974 in order to increase awareness of the Resistance movement among the younger generations and to bring Tuscan art from the second half of the twentieth century to a wider audience (the people of Empoli in particular).

The three rooms are divided into: a central gallery dedicated to Sìneo Gemignani (1917–1973) and to his Vetraio al lavoro [Glass worker], a painting that is emblematic of a product with special links to the city; the Resistance Room with works that cover the Resistance from the drama of the war to post-war reconstruction; finally the room dedicated to Carmignani (1909–1992) where his frescoes with the Crucifixion are kept along with a collection of photographs by Mario Giacomelli and Luciano Ricci.
Among the artists represented in the collection are Nello Alessandrini, Mario Maestrelli, Enzo Faraoni, Gino Terreni, Vinicio Berti and Gualtiero Nativi.

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Via Giuseppe del Papa 41, Empoli Tel. (+39) 0571 757920 www.inempoli.it/HOME/Pagina/105/galleria-darte-moderna-e-della-resistenza cultura@comune.empoli.fi.it

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MUVE Museo del Vetro di Empoli

MUVE - MUSEO DEL VETRO DI EMPOLI

This museum, housed in the former salt warehouse, is entirely given over to glass, traditionally made in Empoli. Its history is recounted by showing reconstructions of the glass-making process and displaying glass both for everyday and decorative uses.

Two areas on the first floor of the museum have displays of decorative glass.

The first area is dedicated to Empoli’s green glass, which was widely used in the 1930s to make tableware and interior design objects, and remained in fashion until the 1970s, while the second area displays coloured glass, engraved or decorated in various ways, the production of which started in the mid-fifties when greater variety of designs and colour combinations was demanded as tastes evolved.

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 Via Ridolfi 70,  Empoli Tel. (+39) 0571 76714 www.museodelvetrodiempoli.it info@museodelvetrodiempoli.it

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Museo Antonio Manzi

MUSEO ANTONIO MANZI

The museum was established in 2007 thanks to a gift of 109 works of art from Antonio Manzi to the Comune of Campi Bisenzio.

They are displayed on the ground floor of Villa Rucellai and trace the artist’s development from his first attempts as a boy to his most recent work. Underpinning the artist’s gesture is the close bond created between Manzi and the town in 1975, the year of his solo exhibition at the Galleria d’Arte Ariete.

The bond has recently been strengthened through public commissions such as the fresco for the church of Santa Maria or the sculpture Inno alla vita which stands in front of Villa Rucellai. The five rooms of the museum reveal the specifics of Manzi’s investigations, characterized by constantly experimenting with different techniques and materials that ranged from painting to ceramics, from frescoes to drypoint, including graffito, collage, and bronze and marble sculpture.

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Piazza della Resistenza, Campi Bisenzio Tel. (+39) 055 8959318 / 8959498 www.museoantoniomanzi.it info@museoantoniomanzi.it

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Fondazione Anna Querci per il design

FONDAZIONE ANNA QUERCI PER IL DESIGN

The museum is located in a vast room in the modern Design Campus, the building created for the degree course in industrial design at the University of Florence.

Set up in 2005 and opened in its current home in 2012, the museum exhibits (in rotation) some of the 150 objects owned by the Anna Querci Design Foundation, displayed by decade, from the 1960s to 2000. Some famous pieces of Italian industrial design were given to the Foundation by the manufacturers that made them.

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Via Sandro Pertini 89, Calenzano Tel. (+39) 055 2757056 www.fondazioneannaquerci.com info@fondazioneannaquerci.com

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Collezione Permanente Giuliano Vangi

COLLEZIONE PERMANENTE GIULIANO VANGI

The exhibition, which opened 31 January 2015, includes the gift made by the local sculptor Giulliano Vangi to his home town in 2013.

Vangi was one of the most celebrated Italian sculptors of his generation. The collection comprises 80 graphic designs in various formats, created using various techniques between 1964 and 2006.

The exhibition is displayed over three floors of Palazzo Pretorio. A selection of some graphic designs has been hung in the foyer of the Teatro Comunale Corsini, in Via della Repubblica, 3.
Included in the gift was the coloured plaster sculpture of Ragazza con vestito di lana [Girl with the woollen dress] which greets visitors at the entrance to Palazzo Pretorio in Piazza Cavour, opposite the house where Vangi was born.
This is the only public collection of the artist’s graphic designs and it enables visitors to look in detail at the particular techniques he used over time.

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Piazza Cavour 36, Barberino di Mugello Tel: (+39) 055 8477286 www.comunebarberino.it cultura@comune.barberino-di-mugello.fi.it

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