Cultural Dialogues returns to Bologna's Palazzo d'Accursio

Bologna for the Arts is organizing two meetings on Friday, January 18 and Friday, January 25, 2019, on the art of Giovanni Paolo Bedini, an artist born in Bologna in 1844 and active until the 1920s.

The appointments, with free admission, will be held at the Sala Farnese in Palazzo d’Accursio and are related to the retrospective entitled Giovanni Paolo Bedini. The Charm of Carefree 1844-1924 running until Feb. 3, 2019 at the same exhibition venue. These are part of the Cultural Dialogues at Palazzo d’Accursio initiative, now in its ninth edition.

OnFriday, January 18 at 5 p.m. there will be a meeting Un viaggio, un’emozione, un sorriso in which Giuseppe Mancini, curator of the exhibition, and Gianarturo Borsari, president of the Bologna per le Arti Association will invite visitors to enter the heart of the artist’s production by recounting the Bolognese and Italian context of the second half of the 19th century. Bedini’s works reveal the charm of lightheartedness: from bourgeois interiors to still lifes, from portraits to graphic works, from oils to watercolors.

On Friday, January 25, at 5 p.m., the meeting Quadri da salotto will be held instead. Bourgeois fantasies in fin de siècle Bolognese painting.
Roberto Martorelli of the Museo Civico del Risorgimento in Bologna and coordinator of the Certosa Project will take the audience on a journey through the typical figures and situations that animate and characterize Bedini’s painting: elegant ladies, prelates intent on reading, affectionate mothers, chatting in the shade of a tree. A repertoire of images and texts on Bologna (and beyond) of the late 19th century will then be offered.

For info: www.bolognaperlearti.it

Image: Giovanni Paolo Bedini, Colloquio galante (oil on canvas, 35.5 x 45.5 cm; private collection)

Cultural Dialogues returns to Bologna's Palazzo d'Accursio

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