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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Unknown landscapes which occur between eye and eyelid.

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

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

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

Entering in a strange apartment to make an unfamiliar experience.

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