Bologna, CUBO's 10-year anniversary year comes to a close. On display works by Klimt, Sironi, Basilé and many others

From Oct. 12, 2023 to Jan. 18, 2024, the two Bologna venues of Torre Unipol and Porta Europa will host the exhibition that concludes the ten-year anniversary events of CUBO, the Unipol Group’s Business Museum.

Crossing. From Klimt to Basilé, Sironi to Bauermeister, this is the title of the exhibition curated by Ilaria Bignotti, will present a selection of its artistic heritage along with some recent acquisitions. Twenty-two works by modern and contemporary artists, including Klimt, Basilé, Sironi, and Bauermeister, will be brought together with the aim of rereading the museum’s holdings in a non-historicist manner, highlighting the values that the works share with its identity, mission, and core messages. The tour itinerary will focus on the content of the works, articulating itself by nuclei of meaning, overcoming genre boundaries and focusing mainly on the themes covered. The exhibition itinerary, organized by themes, kicks off from the Unipol Tower. Here three sections will be found: Experimentation (with works by Mary Bauermeister, Francesca Pasquali, Scuola Napoletana, Alessandro Lupi), Empathy (Gaetano Previati and Luigi Conconi, Silvia Margaria, Angelo Marinell, Filippo De Pisis, Quayola), and Comparisons (Mario Sironi, Giovan Battista Langetti).

In Porta Europa, the path will be divided into four sections: Protection (Anna Di Prospero, Tommaso Fiscaletti), Sharing (Jacop Ferdinand Voet, Vania Comoretti, Matilde Piazzi), Change (Giacomo Costa, Ettore Frani), Vision (Gustav Klimt, Matteo Basilé, Tania Brassesco and Lazlo Passi Norberto, Ignazio Stern).

Themes and dialogues in the exhibition are well exemplified by Mary Bauermeister’s 2015 work Positions, formed by a myriad of painted stones to create a stone mandala where each element assumes its position, its meaning in the organic whole that is placed in dialogue with anFrancesca Pasquali’s iconic Straws, made in 2020 and composed of hundreds of colored straws arranged in a plastic-kinetic mesh, just as only wood, technically speaking, associates the deposed Christ by an unknown 18th-century author and Alessandro Lupi’s Centaurus, two sculptures with completely opposite grammar. Connections that continue, transcending styles and mediums, by associating 17th-century paintings (Portrait of a Woman by Jacob Ferdinand Voet) with 2013 photographic shots (Portrait of Louise by Matilde Piazzi) around the theme of portraiture andindividuality; contemporary photographs by Marinelli and Margaria with the 1887 oil on canvas signed Gaetano Previati and Luigi Conconi on the theme of nature, the same on which Filippo de Pisis’ Landscape dialogues with PP 3D-Scan T011.A12 by Quayola, different but similar depictions of the tree and its generative force. Similarly, the mystery of the Vision is the same in both Matteo Basilè’s Night (Landing Francesca (diptych)) and Klimt’s Figure of a Seated Woman, as well as in Ignazio Stern’s religious painting and Tania Brassesco & Lazio Passi Norberto’s photographic print (Fairy Book).Direct and lateral references are also made up in the Confrontations between Giovanni Battista Langetti and Mario Sironi (Figures).

“Ten years of CUBO is a way to pull the strings of a path, it is a way to launch new challenges,” said the curator. “It is a way to draw a map, or rather an atlas, of forms that have landed and even sailed from the industrious ports of the Museum; it is a moment to place firmly on paper and in the exhibition spaces the milestones and crossroads of artistic languages that CUBO has welcomed and contaminated with loving care and protection.”

Free admission.

Image: Anna Di Prospero, Self-portrait with my sister (2018; photographic print, 67 x 100 cm). Credit Anna Di Prospero

Bologna, CUBO's 10-year anniversary year comes to a close. On display works by Klimt, Sironi, Basilé and many others

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