Ferrara, major exhibition dedicated to Ligabue reopens at Palazzo dei Diamanti

The exhibition dedicated to Antonio Ligabue set up at Ferrara ’s Palazzo dei Diamanti will reopen from Monday, February 1, 2021, and by February 12 the city’s other museums will also open their doors to welcome visitors back in attendance. This was announced by Ferrara City Council Culture Councillor Marco Gulinelli. “This is a phase of great importance for us, because, although with limitations, we can return to offering the public and visitors the empathy of beauty and the enjoyment, in presence, of art and heritage,” declared Gulinelli. "There is a great desire for culture and there is a strong desire to ’reappropriate’ the taste of visiting an exhibition and reinforce the direct link with art and beauty. In recent months we have received dozens of emails from people interested in Ferrara, its exhibitions, who have shown closeness and attachment to our city and its heritage. For access to the exhibitions there remain some limitations that will undermine the large numbers, but these reopenings are certainly a first good news after difficult months. In addition to the reopening of the major exhibition dedicated to Ligabue, the new exhibition dedicated to Giovanni Boldini is scheduled to open at the Estense Castle. Also, the new layout of the Cathedral Museum, with the relocation of the famous Madonna of the Pomegranate, and on Monday, February 8, the Salone dei Mesi at Palazzo Schifanoia will be reopened to the public.

Antonio Ligabue. ALife as an Artist presents until April 5, 2021 more than one hundred works by the artist, some never exhibited before, through which Ligabue’s career and the fundamental themes of his research will be retraced: from self-portraits to still lifes, from wild to domestic animals, from rural landscapes to hunting scenes. A difficult life, marked by hostility, misunderstandings and repeated hospitalizations in psychiatric hospitals, Ligabue nevertheless found in artistic practice that safe place he badly needed.

Image: Antonio Ligabue, Head of a Tiger (1953-54, oil on faesite, 66.4 x 57.4 cm)

Ferrara, major exhibition dedicated to Ligabue reopens at Palazzo dei Diamanti

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