In Bologna, a famous fairy tale by Gianni Rodari becomes a work of art. It is Gone Free to Fly by Antonello Ghezzi

From January 21 to March 1, 2020, the exhibition Via libera per volare, one of the main projects of ART CITY Bologna 2020, opens at the Davia Bargellini Museum in Bologna. It is a project with which the artistic duo Antonello Ghezzi (formed by Nadia Antonello and Paolo Ghezzi) pays tribute to the great poet and children’s writer Gianni Rodari (Omegna, 1920 - Rome, 1980), on the occasion of the centenary of his birth.

The starting point is the short story Il semaforo blu (The Blue Traffic Light), from which the artists will create a series of installations in different points of the city(Palazzo d’Accursio, Guglielmo Marconi Airport, Policlinico Sant’Orsola - pediatrics department, Casa della Conoscenza in Casalecchio di Reno) where iconic traffic lights that spread blue light will be placed. It is their “green light to fly,” an exhortation to dream: Gianni Rodari’s fairy tale tells of a traffic light in Milan that, instead of the usual green, yellow and red, one day begins to emit blue lights, causing bewilderment among motorists, until a traffic policeman arrives to cut off the electricity to the traffic light (which, however, before being turned off, is in time to launch into a bitter reflection: “Poor things! I had given the all-clear signal for the sky. If they had understood me, everyone would know how to fly now. But maybe they lacked the courage.”).

The project will culminate at the Davia Bargellini Museum where traffic lights, lights and mirrors will create site-specific works in dialogue with the museum’s permanent collection and Luigi Mainolfi’s work entitled Per quelli che volano.

The event is curated by Manuela Valentini and Olivia Spatola, in collaboration with Silvia Evangelisti, Chiara Belliti and Galleria ME Vannucci - Pistoia, and promoted by Istituzione Bologna Musei | Museo Davia Bargellini in collaboration with Legati al Filo APS - Festival for Social Innovation, with the support of Datalogic and Threestones Capital and the technical sponsorship of La Semaforica and Vetreria San Martino.

For all information you can visit the official ART CITY Bologna 2020 website.

In Bologna, a famous fairy tale by Gianni Rodari becomes a work of art. It is Gone Free to Fly by Antonello Ghezzi

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