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Archive for December, 2009
All the souls of the Mummy – 20 June 2009 to April 5, 2010 – Chianciano Terme (Siena) – Tuscany
Dec 2009
Following the great success of public and to meet the demands of many local schools, the exhibition “All the souls of the Mummy – life after death in the time of Sety I”, in progress at the Museo Civico Archeologico di Chianciano Terme been extended until 5 April 2010. zone from January 7 to April 5, 2010 Saturday Sunday and holidays 10-13 and 16-19 (other days by reservation for groups). Ticket: € 5.00, reduced to less than 18 years and over 65 years: € 4.00, groups (20 undermine people): € 2.50. Accessible to disabled people thanks for your attention – More >
Carlo Guarnieri Woodcuts – Castagneto Carducci (LI) – Dec. 23, 2009 to Jan. 10, 2010
Dec 2009
The expressive power of the incision, and the modern revival in the work of Carlo Guarnieri, Tuscan master of the twentieth century, in the retrospective exhibition staged at Castagneto Carducci (LI), at the Galleria Sergio Balducci subsidiary Athena Art Space (Suvereto), having the woodblock plates, in the period 1905 to 1928. Organized by Sergio Balducci, the staff discovers the look and feel Maremma’s production, also known as a painter, whose work of woodcuts, marks more modernity, the essential composition and great tension inside, after ‘ incisive cutting psychological portrait, and the mystical and spiritual symbolism of his most visionary. A More >
Eighteenth edition “Rassegna d’Arte della Costa Etrusca” – Cecina (LI) – until January 10, 2010
Dec 2009
It is being held in Cecina, in the halls of the Exhibition Center “Il Palazzetto” Guerrazzi Square, the exhibition of paintings and sculpture that has the excellence of contemporary figurative, the eighteenth edition of the event twenty years “Rassegna d’Arte della Costa Etrusca” organized for the town of Cecina from the cultural circle “La Saletta”, directed by painter Claudio Carotenuto with the patronage of the Municipality.
The currents of painting and sculpture, figurative and realistic works of important artists in the territory, in a group that are added every year in search of different styles “of that style that was missing” More >
LARGE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS IN “RESIDENCE SANTA CHIARA” COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION – VOLTERRA – FROM December 16 2009 to January 7 2010
Dec 2009
When art reveals the radical force of its communicative potential and opens new doors, where the border between normality and discomfort that becomes unstable, in the territories of mental and emotional expressiveness free and pure, you trace the outline of events that cross issues not always complement of daily life.
This is the case of the show, scheduled at the facilities of the nursing home “Santa Chiara” of Volterra (PI), a large group, opened December 16, 2009, in progress throughout the Christmas period (until 7 January) and has the participation of established artists in the world of contemporary arts, engaged in More >
Christmas and New Year’s Eve Special openings and free admission to museums in Pistoia
Dec 2009
Want to spend an afternoon of celebration different and special? Do this by taking advantage of the opportunity offered by the Civic Museums of Pistoia: on Christmas Day and New Year, in fact, the Civic Museum in fourteenth-century Palazzo Comunale (1 Piazza Duomo) and Palazzo Fabroni (via Santa 5) will be exceptionally open from 16.00 to 19.00 with free entry for all. It will therefore be possible to freely visit the two museums in the City of Pistoia in a unique museum spread over two containers placed a monumental few dozen meters away from each other in the city center, More >
Greetings Gruppo Labronico – dinner on December 14, 2009
Dec 2009
Christmas 2009, Gruppo Labronico (Labronico group) elebrated its members with the traditional dinner. In the splendid halls of the Regina del Mare (Queen of the Sea) Resort in Cambron Tirrenia, there were over 100 guests, including Amateur Cultori and Honorary Membership. During the evening were presented the new members, Mr. Mauro Barbieri Director of Arte a Livorno e oltre confine (art magazine), Mr. Adriano Bartoli, painters Bonsignori Franco, Roberto Pampana and Augustine Veroni. Addition to the evening screening of the trailer docufilm Luca Dal Canto, which will be available next year (year of celebrations 90th anniversary of the foundation), Scilla More >
Frederick is the workshop of the Angels Palazzo Davanzati – Florence – October 23, 2009 by al January 17, 2010
Dec 2009
The show, conceived and curated by the same director of the Museum Rosanna Caterina Proto Pisani, will present the works of the painter, copyist and restorer Frederick Angels who, with his father’s workshop, took part in the restoration of the decorations of the palace at the beginning of last century. The antiquarian Elia Volpi bought Davanzati Palace in 1904 and devoted himself to its restoration with great passion for five long years, generously investing money and effort and maintaining great secrecy about the progress of work so it does not came news of his rival Stefano Bardini, which was simultaneously More >
The dream of the Middle Ages – the flags of the nineteenth-century quarters of the Palio Siena – from October 26, 2009 al May 31, 2010
Dec 2009
Flags of the Palio protagonists of the celebration of the seven hundred years of Costituti Senese. Saturday, September 26th at 11am at the Santa Maria della Scala was inaugurated the exhibition “The Dream of the Middle Ages,” edited by Mauro Civai and Enrico Toti. This occasion will be presented in a superb display, twelve flags of the contrade specially restored Stibbert from the Museum of Florence. On the same occasion will also be presented the documentary “Behind the flag” by Massimo Reale.
This is an important recovery of evidence concerning both the Palio, the seventeen local community. Flags on display present More >
The pinhole: magic box, pure essence of light – Arezzo – 14 Nov. 2009 by al January 24, 2010
Dec 2009
The photographs of Barbara Bigozzi, Eleonora Ciampelli Vitoria and Maria Paci, were made during the course of photography “from analogue, with darkroom, the digital” organized by Centro Cultural ArtCamera in the current year 2009. The school protagonists of the exhibition, among other components of the course, having shown particular interest in and commitment, especially the part concerning the study of applied Pinhole deserve the laudable result from them, is shared with those of that and unusual and suggestive way of “writing with light” are not aware of, and thus may be inspected and curiously find that the magical efficacy ee More >
Crosses of the time to Massimo Zuppelli – Florence – from 21 Nov. 2009 al 16 Apr. 2010
Dec 2009
“Frontier” is going to be in a city like Florence, the mirror of art and not young, but definitely moving iperfuturibile, sufficient to hit the heart of aesthetic communication. E ’so that this project, conceived and directed by the illustrious history of Modern and Contemporary Prof. Carlo Franza, an international figure, becomes a kind of thermometer above all true of the spectacle and the historicity of the new art, but above all Compass is in a sea of propositions of the culture and the arts. And ‘The time of utopias and ideologies. The new century living tensive reality, the daily More >
