Parma: presentation of the catalog and short film of the #GrandTourists project

On Tuesday, June 12, at 5:30 p.m., the outcomes of the #GrandTourists project will be presented at the multipurpose room of the CSAC - Communication Studies and Archives Center of the University of Parma. Immersions in the Collections, Accumulations and Obsessions of Parma’s Museums and Archives: a bilingual (Italian/English) volume published by MUP Editore, containing contributions from the heads of the institutions involved and essays by residents, and the #GrandTourists video directed by Giacomo Volpi, which will be screened for the occasion.

#GrandTourists is a residency program proposed by the University of Parma’s Sistema Museale di Ateneo with CSAC, together with a network of partners consisting of the Parma State Archives, Fondazione Museo Ettore Guatelli and Fondazione Museo Glauco Lombardi; the initiative has the support of Fondazione Cariparma.

Representing the institutions and the publisher MUP, Paolo Andrei, Rector of the University of Parma, Giovanni Fracasso, Director of Fondazione Cariparma, and Marzio Dall’Acqua, President of MUP - Monte Università Parma Editore, will speak at the presentation. The results of the project will be illustrated by Francesca Zanella, President of CSAC and Marina Gorreri, Head of Organization of the University Museums.

The meeting will also feature the exceptional participation of GrandTourists Elisabetta Terragni (architect and Associate Professor at the City University of New York) and Kurt Forster (historian ofarchitecture and professor at Yale), among the distinguished protagonists of the four residencies, held between March and August 2017, together with Michele Lanzinger (director MUSE - Museo delle Scienze di Trento), Luca Vitone (visual artist) and Martino Stierli(The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design - MoMA The Museum of Modern Art in New York).

The title #GrandTourists alludes directly to the value-added contribution made by the outside, qualified gaze of traveling “tourists” and refers evocatively to the travel culture that matured in the 18th century and has now been profoundly transformed into a new, contemporary perspective. The programmed residencies of selected “tourists” have had a twofold objective: to produce, on the one hand, new exhibition forms, interventions and content, thus making materials not always easily visible accessible, and bringing a different light on stories and collections through innovative storytelling and exhibition design practices; and, on the other hand, to add new meanings to well-established exhibition forms and objects in the collections, through seminars, workshops and public meetings that open new perspectives of research at the international level.

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Parma: presentation of the catalog and short film of the #GrandTourists project

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