Florence, Museo Novecento reopens with four new exhibitions

Florence’s Museo Novecento reopens April 28 with four new exhibition projects.

“It is a joy to reopen today our civic museums, which have been so long penalized by the pandemic,” said Culture Councillor Tommaso Sacchi, "and which we now hope can remain visitable without any more stop&go, compatible with the health situation. The Novecento Museum will welcome visitors with new exhibitions prepared during the forced closure: returning to admire the exhibition halls live will be a bet of future and restart for the whole city."

“After two months and more,” adds museum director Sergio Risaliti, "the Museo Novecento reopens its doors to citizens and does so with as many as four new exhibitions in addition to the one dedicated to Henry Moore. "It demonstrates that our museum is not a repository to be kept alive to deal only with conservation, but a center of production in full activity in which different practices coexist, from the enhancement of the collection to the design of exhibitions, from cultural mediation to the experimentation of new forms of communication and participation. A place where research and education are done, where masterpieces of the early Italian twentieth century are exhibited together with the works of young artists, such as Giulia Cenci, a protagonist of the Italian and international scene, whose exhibition occupies three rooms on the ground floor. In addition to these proposals, there are other projects committed to topical issues such as the Gender Gap exhibition, curated by Laura Andreini, which involved as many as twenty international female architects, bringing to light a gender inequality that also affects the world of architecture. Then we do not forget the civic collections, whose heritage we try to enhance in ways that are always different and dynamic.“ ”With the reopening,“ he continues, ”we therefore inaugurate the new Étoile cycle, and we do so by taking from the deposits a work by Titina Maselli that ideally depicts the divine Greta Garbo, among Salvatore Ferragamo’s beloved stars. Indeed, I thank Stefania Ricci for agreeing to the loan of a series of shoes designed by the ’Shoemaker of Dreams’ for the great actress. We then continue to pour our attention and that of the public on the very young, so as to give them the opportunity to engage with the life of the museum and the presence of artists of different generations. Chiara Gambirasio, class of 1998, installed her small figurative poems on the walls of the loggia, a daring feat won by playing with emptiness and silence, which together with her images compose a kind of landscape of the soul, in which emotional resonance springs from colors and geometric shapes. During these months we have been striving to keep the level of the proposal high by overcoming all the difficulties of the moment. I want to thank all the staff of the Museo Novecento who have been committed to achieving the goals set. I have always stated that the Museum is a necessary reality in the cultural life of the city, and on its vitality and courageous programming is built its authority and personality."

The Duel cycle, which is based on the dialogue between emerging artists and works from the permanent collection, continues with the solo exhibition of Giulia Cenci (Cortona, 1988), the young artist finalist for the Maxxi Bvlgari Prize 2020. Heel of Iron, this is the title, was born and developed on the ground floor of the museum around the dialogue with Arturo Martini’s Lion of Monterosso - Chimera, a bronze sculpture from around 1933-35. Curated by Eva Francioli and Sergio Risaliti, from April 28 to August 22, 2021.

The enhancement of the museum’s works also continues with the new Étoile project, curated by Stefania Ricci and Sergio Risaliti, titled Titina Maselli, Salvatore Ferragamo and the Myth of Greta Garbo, created in collaboration with the Salvatore Ferragamo Museum. The project aims to put the spotlight on a work among those preserved in the museum’s deposits and, on this first occasion, presents a painting by Titina Maselli, author of an ideal portrait of Greta Garbo. The solo show traces the bond between the Divina and the Shoemaker of Dreams, sanctioned by a series of shoes that Ferragamo made especially for Garbo and exceptionally exhibited in the museum’s second-floor spaces. April 28 through August 29, 2021.

Also renewed is the exhibition The Architect’s Table. Over the past three years, as many as nine projects have been realized in collaboration with great architects from the international scene. Gender Gap, curated by Laura Andreini, is a reflection on the role of women in the world of architecture with the testimony of twenty female architects active worldwide. April 28 through October 10, 2021.

Finally, the museum’s loggia, traditionally dedicated to emerging artists, hosts the exhibition Flying Instructions by Chiara Gambirasio, an artist from Lombardy who has just completed her residency at Manifattura Tabacchi. Her research focuses on the representation of reality through color. This practice, defined by the artist herself as “Kenoscromia,” is also used in the site-specific work created especially for the museum and focuses on points of color that appear in reality as intruders, which the artist transforms through the image into perspective fulcrums. April 28 through October 10, 2021.

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Florence, Museo Novecento reopens with four new exhibitions

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