Milan kicks off 2018 edition of Visions of Art film festival

The traditional appointment with Visioni d’Arte, the film festival entirely dedicated to art, promoted by theSilvia Dell’Orso Association in collaboration with Mudec, is back in Milan again for 2018. This is the only film event proposed as part of the Novecento Italiano program schedule, the billboard that, this year, the City of Milan is dedicating to the short century. Consequently, Visioni d’Arte, which reaches its seventh edition in 2018, will also be entirely dedicated to the twentieth century to narrate the lives and works of the most important Italian artists of the first fifty years of the century.

The events, all with free admission, will be held from Feb. 18 to March 11, always on Sundays, always at 4:30 p.m. and always at the Mudec Auditorium, 56 Via Tortona. Eighteen high-quality documentaries will be shown on the screen for a total of more than six hours of screenings. This year the title of the festival will be Visions of Art: Sunday, February 18, space will be given to an in-depth look at Futurism and its protagonists (Balla, Boccioni, Severini and Carrà); on February 25, it will be the turn of Metaphysics (with De Chirico, Carrà and Morandi); and again on Sunday, March 4, the appointment will be devoted to modernists, rationalism and design, and finally on Sunday, March 11, there will be a selection of films on the postwar avant-garde (important figures such as Arturo Martini, Giacomo Manzù, Renato Guttuso, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Mimmo Rotella, and Mario Schifano will be examined). Following is the full program.

Sunday, Feb. 18, 2018, 4:30 p.m.: As the Avant-Garde Screams. The long wave of futurism. Screenings: Giacomo Balla and Futurism (14’), Italy, 1977, by Ugo la Rosa, © and courtesy of the Cineteca Nazionale di Roma; Boccioni in Milan (34’), Italy, 1983, by Raffaele Andreassi; Gino Severini’s Personnel (10’), Italy, 1960, by Emilio Lavagnino, © and courtesy of Cineteca Nazionale di Roma; Dieci minuti con Carlo Carrà (11’), Italy, 1956, edited by Giancarlo Fusco, directed by Vieri Bigazzi; Arte italiana 1910-1950 (9’), Italy, 1958, by Folco Quilici, © and courtesy of Cineteca Nazionale di Roma.

Sunday, February 25, 2018, 4:30 p.m.: Reality is Magic. From Metaphysics to Plastic Values: recovering the past. Screenings: Il Realismo Magico (1918-40) (16’), Italy, 1989, by Antonio Menna; L’ approdo. Carlo Carrà in Padua (5’), Italy, 1963, by Silvano Giannelli; De Chirico metaphysico (16’), Italy, 1962, by Raffaele Andreassi, © and courtesy of Cineteca di Bologna; Morandi (38’), France, 1988, by Frédéric Rossif, © and courtesy of Luce Cinecittà.

Sunday, March 4, 2018, 4:30 p.m.: A Very Reinforced Concrete. Architecture and design, the science of the classic. Screenings: Loving Giò Ponti (30’), Italy, 2015, by Francesca Molteni, © and courtesy of Muse - Factory of projects; Contemporary Portraits. Pier Luigi Nervi (17’), Italy, 1970, by Arnaldo Genoino; Italian Architecture between the Two Wars (39), Italy, 1976, by Anna Zanoli; directed by Maurizio Cascavilla; I fratelli Castiglioni (9’), Italy, 1967, by Bruno Munari and Marcello Piccardo, © and courtesy Promovideo by Andrea Piccardo.

Sunday, March 11, 2018, 4:30 p.m.: The War Behind. Sculpture and painting return to reality. Screenings: Arte senza pace (13’), Italy, 1968, by Paolo Saglietto, © and courtesy of Cineteca di Bologna; Giacomo Manzù’s La Porta di San Pietro (26’), Italy,1965, by Glauco Pellegrini © and courtesy of Cineteca Nazionale di Roma; Sette Pittori (13’), Italy, 1957, by Luciano Emmer, © and courtesy of Luce Cinecittà; Novorealismo (11’), Italy, 1962, by Enzo Nasso, © and courtesy of Cineteca Nazionale di Roma; Artisti allo specchio. Mario Schifano (28’), Italy, 1987, by Mario Carbone.

All meetings are free admission subject to availability (organizers do not accept reservations). The festival is suitable for a family audience. Visioni d’Arte has obtained the patronage of Municipio Sei of the Municipality of Milan and the City of Milan. With the participation of Rai Teche, Cineteca Bologna, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia - Cineteca Nazionale, Luce Cinecittà, Lo Studio di Monte Olimpino. More information at www.a-sdo.org.

Image: Giorgio De Chirico, Piazza d’Italia (1954-1955; oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm; Bologna, Galleria d’Arte Maggiore)

Milan kicks off 2018 edition of Visions of Art film festival

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