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Complesso Artistico Contemporaneo di Luicciana

COMPLESSO ARTISTICO CONTEMPORANEO DI LUICCIANA

In 1983 the Centro di Promozione Artistico-Culturale (Ce.Pa.C.) of Prato, the local Information Office of Luicciana, and the Town Council of Cantagallo, joined forces to periodically arrange a collective show in which artists are called upon to take part by executing paintings and sculptures on the facades of the buildings of Luicciana, and in public places, in order to renovate and improve the village and its natural and artistic setting in the upper Bisenzio valley.

The group of works on display in the interior of the Palazzo Comunale together with those of “open-air museum” is therefore the result of these exhibitions, and features works by Prato artists and masters of international fame. At the end of the 1990s, the project grew and came to include installations by Maurizio Faggi, Vittorio Corsini, and Tom Claassen, and in 2008 environmental works by Giuliano Mauri.

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Via Giuseppe Verdi 24, Luicciana, Cantagallo Tel. (+39) 0574 956809 www.cultura.prato.it/musei www.comune.cantagallo.po.it cultura@comune.cantagallo.po.it

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Toscana '900Complesso Artistico Contemporaneo di Luicciana
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Parco Museo Quinto Martini Seano

PARCO MUSEO QUINTO MARTINI SEANO

At Seano, where Quinto Martini (1908–1990) was born and raised, there is an extensive park museum in which 36 sculptures and works in bronze, executed between 1931 and 1988, illustrate his artistic journey, evoking in many cases the local people and life in the area. Inaugurated in 1988, it is an anthological and biographical work — with an intimate feel but at the same time intended for the public.

The sculptor himself believed in and actively participated in the founding of the park, making above all a choice between the sculptures that he considered more important and suitable for the location, carefully following the smelting process, assisting the architect, Ettore Chelazzi, in the task of arranging the sculptures in the open (on brick pedestals), thus redefining what had initially been a simple triangular field between the old village and the new urban expansion. Close to the park stands the artist’s home, which is in the near future expected to open as a historic house museum.

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Via Pistoiese, Seano,  Carmignano Tel. (+39) 055 8750250 / 8550231 www.quintomartini.it http://turismo.comune.carmignano.po.it

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Casa museo Leonetto Tintori

CASA MUSEO LEONETTO TINTORI

Leonetto Tintori (1908–2000) was a versatile artist who experimented with various techniques and materials, ranging from sculpture to mosaics and imitation marble, but he was also an internationally famed restorer.

He and his wife Elena purchased a house in 1935 in the locality of Vainella and equipped it as a school of art, donating it to the Prato City Council in 1983 to be used for artistic and cultural pursuits. The historic house museum is surrounded by a garden dotted with sculptures executed by Tintori — mainly in ceramics — and dominated by the large Arca [Ark], built by the artist for the repose of his own and his wife’s ashes.

The house is furnished with extreme simplicity, with furnishings and artworks from various periods, including some by Tintori himself. The fresco workshop looks after visits to the house and garden but, above all — inspired by Tintori’s experiences — carries on educational activities on the techniques of mural painting and artistic ceramics.

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Via di Vainella 1/G, Figline di Prato Tel. (+39) 0574 464016 www.laboratoriotintori.prato.it/home.htm info@laboratoriotintori.prato.it

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Toscana '900Casa museo Leonetto Tintori
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Museo Ardengo Soffici e del ‘900 italiano

MUSEO ARDENGO SOFFICI E DEL '900 ITALIANO

At Poggio a Caiano, where Ardengo Soffici (1879–1964) lived from 1907 onwards for most of his life, since 2009 a display devoted to his artistic work can be seen on the first floor of the Medici Stables.

Established thanks to the assistance of public and private collections that have loaned works by the artist to the Town Council of Poggio a Caiano, it is displayed in a concise but effective way that deals with the fundamental stages of his artistic career from the early decades of the twentieth century — where can be noted his adherence to the poetics of post-Impressionism, Futurism and Cubism — through to the figurative upturn of the 1920s and through the 1950s. In addition to the museum rooms designed to be “open” and “flexible” as a sort of permanent exhibition, there is a large room for temporary exhibitions, aimed especially at a closer examination of Soffici’s role in the national and international context. A study centre and specialist library assists in analysing his personality as poet, narrator, art critic and observant witness to his own times.

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Via Lorenzo il Magnifico, 9,? Poggio a Caiano Tel. (+39) 055 8701287 / 0 / 1 www.museoardengosoffici.it info@museoardengosoffici.it

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Museo di Palazzo Pretorio

MUSEO DI PALAZZO PRETORIO

On the third floor of Palazzo Pretorio, following on from a section focusing on Prato artists of the nineteenth century, is the huge salon devoted to artistic culture at the turn of the twentieth century.

After the recent rearrangements in the museum — reopened in 2013 — certain works by local painters are on display, such as those by Ardengo Soffici and Arrigo Del Rigo; also dramatically highlighted are the works of Jacques Lipchitz, donated to the Prato City Council by the Jacques and Yulla Lipchitz Foundation of New York. This is a corpus of 21 sculptures and 43 drawings by the celebrated sculptor, and document his artistic journey from Cubism through to more recent times.

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Piazza del Comune, Prato Tel. (+39) 0574 1934996 dal lunedì al venerdì (+39) 0574 1837860 solo nel week end www.palazzopretorio.prato.it museo.palazzopretorio@comune.prato.it

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Museo del Tessuto

MUSEO DEL TESSUTO

The Textile Museum was founded in 1975, thanks to a considerable donation from Loriano Bertini, a former textile industrialist and art collector; it was then enlarged through public and private contributions, till finally amounting to over 6,000 textile samples, as well as machinery and tools. Inaugurated initially in the Istituto Tecnico Industriale Tullio Buzzi, since May 2003 it has been located in its definitive seat in some of the restored rooms of the former Cimatoria Campolmi.

Entirely dedicated to the art and technology of textiles, it is a rich and varied collection set out in themed and chronological sections from ancient times to the present day. The display items are periodically rotated and include materials and fabrics of the twentieth century, from those of the Futurist Thayaht and of Gio Ponti, to those of artists such as Raoul Dufy.
Apart from an area for the temporary exhibits, the museum also offers an abundant documentary section and a specialized library.

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Via Puccetti 3, Prato Tel. (+39) 0574 611503 www.museodeltessuto.it info@museodeltessuto.it

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Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci

CENTRO PER L'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA LUIGI PECCI

The Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci [Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art] is the first Italian institution built from scratch to display, collect, document and promote the most advanced artistic research. Since its opening in 1988, the Centre has arranged a large number of exhibitions and documentation on contemporary art, numerous didactic programmes, performances and multimedia events. It has collected over a thousand works that map artistic trends from the 1960s to the present: painting, sculpture, cinema and video, installations, works on paper, artists’ books, photographs, graphics, applied arts and commissioned projects — all representing today clear proof of the critical research and carefully-informed choices that have shaped the identity of the Centro Pecci and of contemporary art in Tuscany.

The ongoing collection, the continual exhibitions and various cultural programmes for the public, are backed up by the CID/Arti Visive, whose specialized archive and library afford scholars an array of about 50,000 volumes consisting of catalogues of exhibitions and collections, essays and monographs, a library of 300 Italian and foreign journals, an audiovisual section, and an outstanding collection of posters, invitations and press releases, museum guidebooks, auctioneering catalogues and bibliographical bulletins.

The Centro Pecci is at present in the process of being enlarged — with a futuristic-looking ring-shaped plan commissioned from the Florentine architect Italo Gamberini — to accommodate it in premises appropriate for its cultural role as the hub of the “regional network for contemporary art”.

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Viale della Repubblica 277, Prato Tel. (+39) 0574 5317 www.centropecci.it info@centropecci.it

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Toscana '900Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci