From 20 June to 22 September 2013 in the halls of Casa Saraceni, headquarters of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna, via Farini 15, the exhibition "Sculptures by Adriano ridere.Da Cecioni Quinto Ghermandi. Tra Ottocento e Novecento, un secolo di caricatura e satira nella scultura italiana”.
La mostra è curata da Alfonso Panzetta, scientific director of the formwork for the nineteenth-century Italian sculpture of the twentieth century Montevarchi (With). The exhibition includes 170 works that go of the late nineteenth century to the nineties of the twentieth century including crockery, bronzes, gessi, drawings and paintings by fifteen artists. An important nucleus of 60 pieces depicting characters such as, among others, Nilde Jotti, Enrico Berlinguer, Ciriaco De Mita, Giulio Andreotti, Giorgio Napolitano, Sandro Pertini, Achille Occhetto, Bettino Craxi, Amyntor Fanfani, Giovanni Spadolini and a young Antonio Di Pietro still toga, but also as revolutionary Carniti, Lama and Welcome and the exponents of culture and industry as Antonio Zichichi and Gianni Agnelli.
Deformed caricatures of politicians thieves, smudged lipstick, cultured on a couch in brothel, "Ghosts" naked and pompous defended only by their genital organs which forced the organizers to reserve this section for adults. Then there are the works of Umberto Tirelli, Modena who has long lived in Bologna. Great drawer of caricatures for the most important Italian periodicals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, It is present with twenty Painted terracotta caricatures, all absolutely unprecedented, lequali between those of Carducci, Guglielmo Marconi, Eleonora Duse, Emma Gramatica e Primo Carnera.
colored plates and a large unpublished picture depicting the "National Coffee of Bologna", populated with characters and caricatures of Bologna artists of the twenties of the twentieth century. Among the other works on display are a dozen of macchiaioli Adriano Cecioni angiolo tricca in polychrome terracotta and boards caricatures and later Leonardo Bistolfi, Enrico Caruso, Ettore Ximenes, Felice Tosalli, Giuseppe Renda, Timo Bortolotti, Rodolfo Castellana, Amilcare Guido and Renato Brozzi. The exhibition is organized by the Municipality of Montevarchi, Department of Culture, with the Association "Friends of Il Cassero for the nineteenth-century Italian sculpture of the twentieth century", Genus Bononiae and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Bologna, curated by the director of scientific Civic Museum of Montevarchi Alfonso Panzetta. The sponsorships are the Tuscany Region, of the Province of Arezzo, the Foundation Carnival of Viareggio and the support and cooperation of Edizioni Fioranna, Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna – Restoration School, Unipol Assicurazioni.
“Sculture da ridere. Da Adriano Cecioni a Quinto Ghermandi. Tra Ottocento e Novecento, un secolo di caricatura e satira nella scultura italiana”
Casa Saraceni, via Farini 15 – Bologna
vernissage Wednesday 19 June hours 18
from 20 June to 22 September 2013 ( closed from 3 to the 19 August)
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