The new space of the City Museum, Ala Nuova, opens to the public with three new exhibitions:
1st floor, until 13th March: ‘Un peso cubitale’ (a cubital weight) is the title of the exhibition by Francesco Bocchini and Giacomo Cossio. The exhibition aims to reveal the similarities in the works by the two artists, Francesco Bocchini and Giacomo Cossio, despite the clear difference of procedures and style. Because the focus in their works is the possibility of representing reality according to a direct and substantial impact.
2nd floor, until 28th February: ‘Pharmakos’ - eleven artists present their works on the theme of suffering. Adua Castellucci, David Babbi, Gino Balena, Pietro Castellucci, Antonio Furi, Olivia Marani, Mariano Marini, Michela Mariani, Rudy Mazzoni, Nicola Rospo and Fabrizio Zanuccoli have developed a path with interpretations and meanings on the pain in human experience, its spiritual value and its wisdom, but also the social dimension of suffering, such as discomfort, lack, restlessness, agitation.
3rd floor: ‘Overlook’, until 28th February - five painters, Cesare Baracca, Riccardo Cavallini, Valerio Melchiotti, Elisa Nasolini and Emanuele Sartori, are united in the exhibition that proposes a contemptuous view on the contemporary. The present time is difficult and it is pervaded by internal and external anxieties and threats, as witnessed by these artists with the choice of the title "Overlook".