{"id":2686,"date":"2015-05-12T10:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toscana900.com\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2015-05-12T10:53:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T08:53:21","slug":"the-20th-centurys-legacy-art-and-design-in-livornos-civic-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toscana900.com\/en\/the-20th-centurys-legacy-art-and-design-in-livornos-civic-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"The 20th Century\u2019s Legacy. Art and Design in Livorno\u2019s Civic Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Locations<\/em>: Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum &#8211; Granai di Villa Mimbelli, Livorno as well as the Livorno Foundation\u2019s exhibition centres<br \/>\n<em>Dates<\/em>: From 5 September to 31 October 2015<br \/>\n<em>Curated by:<\/em>\u00a0Mattia Patti and Antonella Capitanio<\/p>\n<p>These are two exhibitions held in two prestigious locations, both aimed at evoking the city\u2019s strong vocation for contemporary art. The exhibitions are &#8216;<strong>Art at the Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>hosted at the Villa Mimbelli Granaries and &#8216;<strong>Design&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0at the Livorno Foundation exhibition centres.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Livorno will host this event with its unambiguous title <em>The 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century\u2019s Legacy. Art in Livorno\u2019s Civic Collections <\/em>at two prestigious locations, entirely addressed at celebrating the city\u2019s strong vocation for contemporary art.<\/p>\n<p>Without an ancient local school of art, the city only created a gallery after Italian unity. One of the first important works of art bought by the collection was Montebello\u2019s Great Cavalry Charge by Giovanni Fattori, an artist who was under the age of forty when the painting was acquired. Over time the museum partly changed its identity, until, immediately after World War II, the new city council decided to once again significantly invest in contemporary art. After starting with numerous exhibitions in the early fifties at the Casa della Cultura \u2013 a sort of Kunstverein matching the Municipality\u2019s operational capacity and that of Livorno\u2019s cultural and art associations \u2013 a significant campaign for the acquisition of new works of art was embarked upon thanks to the City of Livorno \u201cAmedeo Modigliani Prize\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Art at the Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum \u2013 The Villa Mimbelli Granaries<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Curated by:<\/em>\u00a0Mattia Patti<\/p>\n<p>While awaiting the opening in the near future of the new City of Livorno Museum, where contemporary art will once again be on show in a large and well-coordinated exhibition, this event provides an excellent opportunity to recreate part of the Progressive Museum\u2019s exhibition in order to revisit the artistic experience of the new avant-garde movements that animated the city\u2019s artistic panorama in the mid-seventies. .<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this, three rooms of the Progressive Museum will be recreated in three rooms of Villa Mimbelli\u2019s former granaries.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Design at the Livorno Foundation\u2019s exhibition centres<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Curated by:<\/em>\u00a0Antonella Capitanio<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition presents a selection of material acquired by Livorno\u2019s civic collections following the exhibition entitled \u201cProject \u2013 Structures\u201d held in March and April 1975 in the Sala degli Archi of the Nuova Fortezza, the sixth event sponsored by the then new \u201cProgressive Museum of Contemporary Art.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There were six designers who took part in that exhibition \u2013\u00a0<strong>Mario Bellini, Giulio Confalonieri, Silvio Coppola, Franco Grignani, Bruno Munari and Pino Tovaglia<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 and one could hypothesise that a total of sixty works of art will be presented on this occasion. The disparity in the documentation preserved at the Villa Mimbelli Museum, where there are objects only by Munari and Coppola, while for Grignani and Tovaglia there are just designs, and as far as Bellini is concerned only photographs of works of art, imposes the need to ensure for the occasion the presence of at least one product on loan for each designer in this exhibition. This would mean, for example, the trays designed for Alessi both by Tovaglia and by Grignani and Coppola, while for Bellini it would be the concept-car Kar-a-sutra dated 1972 \u2013 perhaps including the maquette (scale model) created by Cassina in 2007 for the Milan Triennial entitled \u201cThe Seventies \u2013 the long decade of a brief century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Locations: Giovanni Fattori Civic Museum &#8211; Granai di Villa Mimbelli, Livorno as well as the Livorno Foundation\u2019s exhibition centres Dates: From 5 September to 31 October 2015 Curated by:\u00a0Mattia Patti and Antonella Capitanio These are two exhibitions held in two prestigious locations, both aimed at evoking the city\u2019s strong vocation for contemporary art. 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