Sunday, 3 June 2012
Week of discovering European Cemeteries (WDEC)
Thursday, 17 May 2012
WDEC: 100 guided tours in the Flemish and Brussels’ region
Two non-profit organizations – Epitaaf vzw and Grafzerkje vzw – joined efforts in order to attract Flemish cities and local authorities for the WDEC.
Monday, 14 May 2012
WDEC: the programme in Bologna, Certosa Cemetery
The programme is promoted by Museum of the Risorgimento in collaboration with the Associazione Amici della Certosa, Associazione Didasco and Padri Passionisti, with the contribution of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna and Hera - Servizi Funerari.
Monday 28th May, 4.30 pm.
La Certosa in Bologna – A grand journey over two centuries of art and history
With Roberto Martorelli
A ‘not to be missed’ appointment for those who are not familiar with the largest monumental complex of Bologna or for those who would like to spend once again some pleasurable moments with art, history and literature “under the shade of the cypresses and inside the cinerary urns”.1
Free admission, no booking required. Meeting point main entrance (Church courtyard), 15 minutes before the start.
Tuesday 29th May, 4.30 pm.
Silverio Montaguti. XX century sculpture at the Certosa
With Roberto Martorelli
After the publication of the monograph on the Bologna sculptor, it is now possible to enjoy an overview of his entire activity in the monumental cemetery – featuring small works and colossal monuments – comparing him to the several artists who were active during the same period.
Free admission, no booking required. Meeting point main entrance (Church courtyard), 15 minutes before the start.
Wednesday 30th May, 9.00 pm.
The San Girolamo Church – a treasure chest of Bologna painting
With Ilaria Francia
The real heart of the Carthusian monastery, the church is what remains of the magnificence of the complex, established in 1334 and closed in 1796. One of the most beautiful churches in Bologna, it hosts works by Cesi, and other masterpieces by the Siranis, Gessi, Canuti, Pasinelli and Bibiena.
Free admission, no booking required. Meeting point main entrance (Church courtyard), 15 minutes before the start.
Friday 1st June, 9.00 pm.
Stralunate – A show featuring aerial dance and narration
By and with Briana Zaki and Valentina Franchino
On the moon or with one’s own feet firmly on the ground, two characters tell stories and talk about themselves between dreams and reality, the sky and the earth.
A 5 euro contribution is required and it will be entirely donated to recover the Cemetery further. Booking required, please call 345.2699200 (afternoon-evening) - Associazione Amici della Certosa
Meeting point main entrance (Church courtyard), 15 minutes before the start.
Saturday 2nd June, 11.00 am.
Discovering the plastic values of the Certosa. Tactile visit
With Paola Sema
The presence of thousands of artefacts, having plastic features, and sculptures offers a wide range of categories of works and the chance, by the use of touch, to make people understand any given artistic development and to analyze different sculpting techniques (bas-reliefs, high reliefs, full-relief statues). The visit is targeted in particular to the visually impaired and the blind, although being open to anyone.
Free admission, booking required, please call 051.347592 (Tue-Sun 9-12.30 am). Meeting point main entrance (Church courtyard), 15 minutes before the start.
Saturday 2nd June, 9.00 pm.
En pointe of memories
A project by Simone Fagioli with Cecilia Mazzanti ballet dancers, photographs by Andrea Fiesoli.
An all-women appointment that by starting with a guided visit to the monuments dedicated to Bologna Women, will end at the photographic set of Cecilia Mazzanti. Andrea Fiesoli’s photographs are part of the project for the 2013 Calendar on the Certosa, to raise funds for its restoration.
A 5 euro contribution is required and it will be entirely donated to recover the Cemetery further. Booking required, please call 345.2699200 (afternoon-evening) - Associazione Amici della Certosa. Meeting point main entrance (Church courtyard), 15 minutes before the start.
Sunday 3rd June, 10.00 am.
Opening of the exhibition “Dalla Certosa al Museo - Restauri e acquisizioni”
The exhibition will provide an account of the multi-faceted restoration project of the Certosa monuments. Worth mentioning, among the works on display, six busts portraying distinguished Bologna citizens, and also other sculptures, sketches, documents and photographs donated or acquired by the Museum over the past few years.
3rd June – 15th July 2012, Museo del Risorgimento di Bologna, piazza Carducci 5
Free admission, no booking required
Guided tours of the exhibition and the Museum, Sundays 10th, 24th June, 15th July, 10.00 am. No booking required, admission € 8.00
1 Dei Sepolcri, by Ugo Foscolo (own translation).
Monday 28th May, 4.30 pm.
La Certosa in Bologna – A grand journey over two centuries of art and history
With Roberto Martorelli
A ‘not to be missed’ appointment for those who are not familiar with the largest monumental complex of Bologna or for those who would like to spend once again some pleasurable moments with art, history and literature “under the shade of the cypresses and inside the cinerary urns”.1
Free admission, no booking required. Meeting point main entrance (Church courtyard), 15 minutes before the start.
Tuesday 29th May, 4.30 pm.
Silverio Montaguti. XX century sculpture at the Certosa
With Roberto Martorelli
After the publication of the monograph on the Bologna sculptor, it is now possible to enjoy an overview of his entire activity in the monumental cemetery – featuring small works and colossal monuments – comparing him to the several artists who were active during the same period.
Free admission, no booking required. Meeting point main entrance (Church courtyard), 15 minutes before the start.
Wednesday 30th May, 9.00 pm.
The San Girolamo Church – a treasure chest of Bologna painting
With Ilaria Francia
The real heart of the Carthusian monastery, the church is what remains of the magnificence of the complex, established in 1334 and closed in 1796. One of the most beautiful churches in Bologna, it hosts works by Cesi, and other masterpieces by the Siranis, Gessi, Canuti, Pasinelli and Bibiena.
Free admission, no booking required. Meeting point main entrance (Church courtyard), 15 minutes before the start.
Friday 1st June, 9.00 pm.
Stralunate – A show featuring aerial dance and narration
By and with Briana Zaki and Valentina Franchino
On the moon or with one’s own feet firmly on the ground, two characters tell stories and talk about themselves between dreams and reality, the sky and the earth.
A 5 euro contribution is required and it will be entirely donated to recover the Cemetery further. Booking required, please call 345.2699200 (afternoon-evening) - Associazione Amici della Certosa
Meeting point main entrance (Church courtyard), 15 minutes before the start.
Saturday 2nd June, 11.00 am.
Discovering the plastic values of the Certosa. Tactile visit
With Paola Sema
The presence of thousands of artefacts, having plastic features, and sculptures offers a wide range of categories of works and the chance, by the use of touch, to make people understand any given artistic development and to analyze different sculpting techniques (bas-reliefs, high reliefs, full-relief statues). The visit is targeted in particular to the visually impaired and the blind, although being open to anyone.
Free admission, booking required, please call 051.347592 (Tue-Sun 9-12.30 am). Meeting point main entrance (Church courtyard), 15 minutes before the start.
Saturday 2nd June, 9.00 pm.
En pointe of memories
A project by Simone Fagioli with Cecilia Mazzanti ballet dancers, photographs by Andrea Fiesoli.
An all-women appointment that by starting with a guided visit to the monuments dedicated to Bologna Women, will end at the photographic set of Cecilia Mazzanti. Andrea Fiesoli’s photographs are part of the project for the 2013 Calendar on the Certosa, to raise funds for its restoration.
A 5 euro contribution is required and it will be entirely donated to recover the Cemetery further. Booking required, please call 345.2699200 (afternoon-evening) - Associazione Amici della Certosa. Meeting point main entrance (Church courtyard), 15 minutes before the start.
Sunday 3rd June, 10.00 am.
Opening of the exhibition “Dalla Certosa al Museo - Restauri e acquisizioni”
The exhibition will provide an account of the multi-faceted restoration project of the Certosa monuments. Worth mentioning, among the works on display, six busts portraying distinguished Bologna citizens, and also other sculptures, sketches, documents and photographs donated or acquired by the Museum over the past few years.
3rd June – 15th July 2012, Museo del Risorgimento di Bologna, piazza Carducci 5
Free admission, no booking required
Guided tours of the exhibition and the Museum, Sundays 10th, 24th June, 15th July, 10.00 am. No booking required, admission € 8.00
1 Dei Sepolcri, by Ugo Foscolo (own translation).
Friday, 11 May 2012
WDEC: events at Glasnevin, Ireland
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Floating Tales
Civic Museums Institution - Museum of the Risorgimento of Bologna dedicated to the Certosa two
mesmerizing evenings, at the beginning and at the end of summer 2011,
that included a physical and sensorial “journey” through its most
evocative spots where video and music mixed and alternated with poems
of great poets like Keats, Borges, Goll as well as to dance
performances dedicated to the great mystic Rumi.
To see the video of the event click here.
«The
Certosa (charterhouse) - the historical cemetery of Bologna -, aside
being the most beautiful cemetery in the world, is the most
characterized and at the same time the less provincial place in the
city, so much so that in past centuries it was included in the grand
tour, and C. J. H. Dickens himself has left an admired and amused
description.
The neoclassical rigor somehow protects this place from the pathetic excesses of the fin de siècle and early twentieth century art, so intensely present in other even more monumental cemeteries such as Staglieno (Genoa).
Time’s intense work of remodelling - Time, the great sculptor of Yourcenar- has trasformed it into a mirable romantic sediment grafted into a classical structure which makes us think of C.D. Frierich’s sublime painting.
An enthralling space where a poignant and sacral melancholy floods every urn, each profile, each gesture as a symbolic western ganges, where the marble angels gently plunge, making this place wonderfully unique, a lyrical antidote to the global urbanistic culture of present days».
The neoclassical rigor somehow protects this place from the pathetic excesses of the fin de siècle and early twentieth century art, so intensely present in other even more monumental cemeteries such as Staglieno (Genoa).
Time’s intense work of remodelling - Time, the great sculptor of Yourcenar- has trasformed it into a mirable romantic sediment grafted into a classical structure which makes us think of C.D. Frierich’s sublime painting.
An enthralling space where a poignant and sacral melancholy floods every urn, each profile, each gesture as a symbolic western ganges, where the marble angels gently plunge, making this place wonderfully unique, a lyrical antidote to the global urbanistic culture of present days».
Fabrizio Passarella
Progetto / project > Fabrizio
Passarella | Roberto Martorelli
Video + music > Fabrizio Passarella
Readings + poetry > Marco Bucchieri
Danza + coreografie / Dance +
coreography > Elisa Biondi
Monday, 16 April 2012
The Certosa lion 'roars again'
The restoration of the “Monument to the Martyrs of Independence” has just been completed: it features a grand lion, sculpted by the Bolognese Carlo Monari (1831-1918) and it is spectacularly located at the end of the Sala delle Tombe (the Graves Room) at the Certosa cemetery.
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
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Wednesday, 21 March 2012
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