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contemporary art / history of art

From ART CITY to the Summer Programme of Bologna 2021

Intended as revitalisation of the city’s cultural institutions after the lockdown, the postponed ART CITY could take place from May 7th to 9th in Bologna. Traditionally the ART CITY is the accompanying programme for the city’s art fair in January. Due to the pandemic, it was cancelled. Fortunately, it could be carried out now. Including a special project, the main programme, many institutional, gallery and exhibition space initiatives, there were altogether 65 events allocated in different places in Bologna. Many of the exhibitions are still on view, since this years’ ART CITY is part of the cultural summer offer Bologna Estate. Here some impressions of 18 shows we visited up to now.

The proposals are sorted by the end date of the exhibitions with the earliest closings first. Alas, there are two venues already past at the end of the list. However, others will be open until July. In case, you have the possibility to a personal visit, it is recommended to book your visit via telephone for sanitary reasons. In most private galleries, it is possible to agree upon reservations outside the normal business hours.

Magma Gallery: Amandine Urruty – The Most Incredible Things

Studio Cenacchi: Gian Butturini – From London to free Derry

Galleria B4: Anna Rosati – Cattedrali Urbane

Adiacenze: HOLE. Temporary art peep show

Galleria Studio G7: Letizia Cariello – Fuso Orario

Biblioteca Salaborsa: Mimmo Paladino – Dalla pittura alla letteratura

Palazzo d’Accursio: Virginia Zanetti – Be a Poem

AF Gallery: Gianni-Emilio Simonetti – Notizie dalla zoé

CAR DRDE: Giulio Saverio Rossi – Prima di un’immagine dopo di un quadro

Collezioni Comunali d’Arte: 1X2 FlavioFavelliNanniMenettiFabiolaNaldi

Galleria L’Ariete: Back to Myself – Jingge Dong, Luca Lanzi, Paola Migliazza

Galleria Spazia: Colours

Otto-Gallery: Matteo Montani – Nel rovescio della palpebra

Alchemilla: Alessandro Pessoli – City of God

Gallleriapiù: Emilio Vavarella – rs548049170_1_69869_TT (The Other Shapes of Me): Sourcecode

P420: Riccardo Baruzzi, Pieter Vermeersch: Resonance

Ex GAM: Gregor Schneider visits N.Schmidt

Spazio Lavì!: Ulrich Wienand – Venezia. Solitudini contro

 

Amandine Urruty – The Most Incredible Things
Magma Gallery
Via Santo Stefano 164, Bologna
www.magma.gallery
17 April – 29 May 2021

 

Hyper-realistic drawings to enter in a most incredible world.

Gian Butturini – From London to free Derry
Studio Cenacchi
Via Santo Stefano 63, Bologna
www.studiocenacchi.com
13 April – 29 May 2021, extended until 12 June

 

Two faces of one country: London in the 1960s and Derry after the Bloody Sunday.

Anna Rosati – Cattedrali Urbane
Galleria B4
Via Vinazzetti 4/b, Bologna
www.galleriab4.it
21 April – 29 May 2021

 

A Bolognese house in the course of the seasons and at different times of day and night.

HOLE. Temporary art peep show
Adiacenze
Vicolo Spirito Santo 1, Bologna
www.adiacenze.it
28 April – 1 June 2021

 

Spying on art: A reflexion on the relationship between the observed and the observer.

Letizia Cariello – Fuso Orario
Galleria Studio G7
Via Val D’Aposa 4/A, Bologna
www.galleriastudiog7.it
9 April – 5 June 2021

 

An investigation of the fine line between internal and external space and the research for a link between physical and spiritual body.

Mimmo Paladino – Dalla pittura alla letteratura
Biblioteca Salaborsa
Piazza del Nettuno 3, Bologna
www.bibliotecasalaborsa.it
8 May – 6 June 2021

 

From Dante to Don Quixote: Glimpses on various book illustrations.

Virginia Zanetti – Be a Poem
Palazzo d’Accursio
Piazza Maggiore 6, Bologna
www.museibologna.it/arteanticaen/luoghi/70083/offset/0/id/70110
7 May – 6 June 2021

 

Turning the world upside down and wearing your own poem: Glances at participative art projects.

Gianni-Emilio Simonetti – Notizie dalla zoé
AF Gallery
Via Bersaglieri 5, Bologna
https://www.af-artecontemporanea.it
10 April – 11 June 2021, extended until 19 June

 

Fluxus-collages made of mute music, signs and colours.

Giulio Saverio Rossi – Prima di un’immagine dopo di un quadro
CAR DRDE
Via Azzo Gardino 14/a, Bologna
www.cardrde.com
20 April – 19 June 2021

 

A conception of art which includes the image before and the painting afterwards. Additionally, it glances to additive and subtractive colour synthesis to represent light.

1X2 FlavioFavelliNanniMenettiFabiolaNaldi
Collezioni Comunali d’Arte
Palazzo d’Accursio, Sala Urbana
Piazza Maggiore 6, Bologna
www.museibologna.it/arteanticaen/luoghi/70083/offset/0/id/70110
7 May – 20 June 2021

 

Two similar white two-dimensional artworks in communication with their exhibition space.

Back to Myself – Jingge Dong, Luca Lanzi, Paola Migliazza
Galleria L’Ariete Artecontemporanea
Via Marsili 7, Bologna
www.galleriaariete.it
26 April – 24 June 2021

 

Three artists at the research of their roots: the cultural background, the fundaments of self-discovery in childhood and the unknown origins of humankind.

Colours
Galleria Spazia
Via dell’Inferno 5, Bologna
www.galleriaspazia.com
8 May – 30 June 2021

 

An investigation of the relationship of the presented artists and colours in their oeuvre and the endless possibilities in use and meaning of colours.

Matteo Montani – Nel rovescio della palpebra
Otto-Gallery
Via d’Azeglio 55, Bologna
www.otto-gallery.it
24 April – 10 July 2021

 

Unknown landscapes which occur between eye and eyelid.

Alessandro Pessoli – City of God
Alchemilla, Palazzo Vizzani
Via Santo Stefano 43, Bologna
www.alchemilla43.it
7 May – 10 July 2021

 

Insides into the imaginative world and the varied oeuvre of the artist.

Emilio Vavarella – rs548049170_1_69869_TT (The Other Shapes of Me): Sourcecode
Gallleriapiù
Via del Porto 48 a/b, Bologna
www.gallleriapiu.com
4 May – 16 July 2021

 

A voyage from the beginnings of programmed weaving to high technology fabric production including the artist’s genetic code.

Riccardo Baruzzi, Pieter Vermeersch: Resonance
P420
Via Azzo Giardino 9, Bologna
www.p420.it
7 May – 23 July 2021

 

Resonances between painting and installation and the different approach of two artists.

Gregor Schneider visits N. Schmidt
Ex GAM
Piazza Costituzione 3, Bologna
7 – 16 May 2021

 

Entering in a strange apartment to make an unfamiliar experience.

Ulrich Wienand – Venezia. Solitudini contro
Spazio Lavì!
Via Sant’Apollonia, 19/A, Bologna
https://www.spaziolavi.it
7 – 22 May 2021

 

Photographs of the poetic solitude of Venice, even before the lockdown.