Manlio Rho Exhibition

Special Exhibition at Silk Museum in Como

FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER 2018 – SUNDAY 31 MARCH 2019

The Silk Museum celebrates this leading exponent of Italian historical abstractionism with particular attention to his work as a draftsman and colour expert.

On show paintings, drawings, fabrics, colour charts and documents.

Phone: +39 031 303 180

Email: info@museosetacomo.com

Website: www.museosetacomo.com

Ottocento Lombardo: from Hayez to Segantini

Exhibition at Palazzo delle Paure in Lecco

SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER 2018 – SUNDAY 20 JANUARY 2019

The exhibition offers an exploratory journey in painting and, more generally, in the culture of Lombardy in the nineteenth century. Starting from the romantic season, passing through the Risorgimento experiences and the disillusioned rebellions, the path leads to the social commitment of the end of the century and to the divisionist research.
It begins with the Romantic season, in which the figure of Francesco Hayez, master and model of entire generations of painters, stands out. And then again: Giuseppe Diotti, Giacomo Trecourt, Massimo d’Azeglio and Giuseppe Molteni.
The path then passes to the period of the Wars of Independence, with works dedicated to the Risorgimento themes. It then closes with a last step on verism, which touches social characters, and the divisionism, whose great artist is Segantini.

Phone: +39 0341 271871

Email: turismo@comune.lecco.it

Website: www.comune.lecco.it

Vincenzo Bianchi Art Exhibition

Villa Monastero in Varenna hosts the exhibition dedicated to the Romantic painter

SUNDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2018 – SUNDAY 27 JANUARY 2019

From 11 November to 27 January Villa Monastero offers an interesting exhibition dedicated to the painter Vincenzo Bianchi (1822-1870), who was able to illustrate the territory of Lecco with great sensitivity.

Through his works, mostly unpublished, presented in the evocative setting of the historic Lariano mansion owned by the Province of Lecco, the artist reveals unexpected qualities of landscape artist, entering fully into the broader contemporary Lombard romantic climate.

Views of the lake made in the mid-nineteenth century alternate with images of lively villages of Como, particularly attractive for the compositional cut and the refined color choice, as pointed out by the curator of the exhibition Sergio Rebora. Some can be compared to the masterpieces of the Veronese Giuseppe Canella, leader of romantic landscape painting, as the scholar who has retraced the painter’s artistic life, identifying the biographical data hitherto unknown.

The exhibition can be visited during the opening days and hours of the Casa Museo:

· November: 11-18-25 from 10.30 AM to 04.30 PM

· December: 2-8-9-16-23-26-27-28-29-30-31 from 10.30 AM to 04.30 AM

· January 1-2-3-4-5-6-13-20-27 from 10.30 AM to 04.30 PM

Access to the exhibition is included in the entrance ticket to Villa Monastero of 8 euros (5 euros only the Garden); reduced admission for people over 65, groups of more than 10 people, Touring members, children aged 12 to 18 and students aged 18 to 24 are 5 euros (3 euros only the Garden); admission is free for children from 0 to 11 years old, disabled people, ICOM members, holders of the Milan Lombardy Museums Subscription and residents in Varenna.

Phone: +39 0341 295450

Email: villa.monastero@provincia.lecco.it

Website: www.villamonastero.eu

Lo strano colore del Rosso – Exhibition

Special Exhibition in Bellano

SATURDAY 1 DECEMBER 2018 – SUNDAY 28 APRIL 2019, Sat-Sun 11.00 AM – 01.00 PM and 05.00 – 07.00 PM

The Municipality of Bellano, in collaboration with the ArchiViVitali Cultural Association, organizes the exhibition “The strange color of red” in the Circolo space, which was given back to the community after a meticulous restoration. The title “The strange color of red” is inspired by the poetry “The Rain” by Jorge Luis Borges and, asking the artists to participate with works freely inspired by the flower, aims to be a “dedication” to the artist Giancarlo Vitali in the year of his disappearance. The exhibition, created with the support of Torneria Automatica Alfredo Colombo, Studio La Scala and BIG Broker Insurance Group, is the first of the Dilaghée project conceived by ArchiViVitali to animate the Circolo exhibition space that will also host meetings with writers and courses on the book ‘artist.

Email: archivivitali@gmail.com

Website: www.archivivitali.org

Bizarre, novelty and extravagance in the European silks of the eighteenth

Exhibition at FAR – Fondazione Antonio Ratti in Villa Sucota in Como

FRIDAY 14 DECEMBER 2018 – SUNDAY 31 MARCH 2019

The Antonio Ratti Foundation opens on 14 December 2018 at 6 pm in the exhibition rooms of Villa Sucota, Bizarre, novelties and extravagances in the European silks of the 18th by Maddalena Terragni in collaboration with Gregorio Magnani.
The exhibition, which runs from 15 December 2018 to 31 March 2019, presents an unprecedented dialogue between a selection of “bizarres” fabrics, coming from the FAR and TGL collections, and the work of the artist Stefano Arienti.

Bizarre, novelty and extravagance in the European silks of the 18th shows, in a contemporary and transversal perspective, a phenomenon in the history of the Western fabric. At the turn of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, European weavers invent unusual decorative motifs by mixing them freely and drawing on all the cultural references that come from the East, without worrying about producing representations faithful to reality. It is this approach in redesigning the forms the common sign between these productions and the contemporary.

Following their sensitivity and interpreting the forms, for the first time the textile artisans can draw hands to the repertoire of the designs and create for their polychromatic silks abstract designs that wind their sinuous mix with geometric motifs, great fantastic inflorescences that merge between depictions of baroque architecture and oriental buildings. The realization of such demanding drawings is made possible by the very high technical competence of the time, able to translate the novelties, the extravagance and the refinement of the decorations, sometimes difficult to read.

This free approach, common to eighteenth-century and contemporary productions, is reiterated and emphasized by Stefano Arienti’s site-specific intervention. It is not the first time that Arienti’s work develops through the comparison with a historical collection – for example, we remember the recent Meridiane windows exhibitions. Intersections with the collection of Villa Croce, Genoa (2017) or Quadri from an exhibition, Palazzo Te, Mantova (2016) – but the FAR case is unique for the pressing dialogue that is established with the fabrics.

Opening party on Friday 14 December, 06.00 PM

Opening hours: MON-FRI: 10.00 AM – 01.00 PM | 03.00 PM – 06.00 PM      SUN: 02.00 PM – 06.00 PM

Christmas opening: same hours and Saturdays 15 and 22 December 02.00 PM – 06.00 PM; from 27 to 30 December 02.00 PM – 06.00 PM; from 2 to 6 January 02.00 PM – 06.00 PM.

Phone: +39 0313384976

Email: info@fondazioneratti.org

Website: www.fondazioneratti.org

Luigi Binaghi – Inverno

The art unveiled: works from the deposits of the Pinacoteca in Como

SUNDAY 13 – SUNDAY 27 JANUARY 2019, FROM 10.00 AM TO 06.00 PM

Sunday, January 13, 2019, the Art Unveiled initiative begins in the Civic Art Gallery, in the Campo Quadro space: works from the galleries of the Pinacoteca, with the painting L’inverno by artist Luigi Binaghi.

Luigi Binaghi, known as Gin, was an academic painter but above all an expert mountaineer and crowned his intense activity as a climber with participation in Italian expeditions in the Chilean Andes in 1934 and Peruviane in 1958. For Binaghi the passion for the mountains finds its natural expression in painting. His subjects are the gravity of the snow-capped mountains, the solemn beauty of the ice, the virgin summits of the 5000 meters.

The work that will be unveiled to the public on this occasion is Winter, Peruvian Cime, Nevado Ciudad de Como, which was painted after the artist, together with other friends from the Alpine Club of Como in 1958, conquered eleven Andean peaks still unpolished. The title refers to one of the climbing summits, then still nameless, dedicated by the same Binaghi to his hometown.

The painting will be accessible to visitors from January 13th to 27th in the Campo Quadro space, a treasure chest, purposely created to unveil, discover and contemplate gem works, unpublished and exclusive.

Ticket:

Adult € 4,00
Reduction/Groups € 2,00
One-Ticket 3 Museums € 10,00
Family pass € 10,00

Phone: +39 031 269869

Email: musei.civici@comune.como.it

Website: www.visitcomo.eu

XV Alaskan Malamute Sleddog Day

Special days with dogs at Giumello

FRIDAY 18 – SUNDAY 19 – SUNDAY 20 JANUARY 2019

The beautiful event dedicated to the canine race of the Alaskan Malamute is revived, which now reaches its fifteenth edition.

On Friday 18, Saturday 19 and Sunday 20, January 27 at Giumello, in the town of Casargo, these animals will be welcomed with their owners, from all over the world, who will give life to a series of initiatives for young and old, to get closer and learn more about these specimens.

Phone: +39 3495062231

Website:  CIRN | XV Alaskan Malamute Sleddog Day