Events
20/10/2020 - 04/04/2021
After the long closure caused by the pandemic, the exhibition Mirabilia, curated by the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d'Arte, is finally back with the reopening of the Triennale. Free entrance, it will be open until April 4, for the moment from Tuesday to Friday, from 11am to 9:30pm. Entrances will be limited and all safety regulations strictly applied. Fondazione Cologni and Triennale Milano have started a collaboration to present the cycle of exhibitions Mestieri d'Arte e Design. Crafts Culture, which offer a new point of view on contemporary applied arts. The first project of the collaboration is Mirabilia, which brings together a series of extraordinary objects by great Milanese craftsmen, between Renaissance heritage and contemporary high manufacturing. On display are about forty works that represent the "secrets of the trade" of artisanal ateliers and manufactures in Milan, produced in unique pieces of profound artistic and cultural significance. Special and significant works, objects, or rather "goods", for which the value of the handmade evokes the centrality of artisan talent and the dialogue with the design creativity for which Milan is rightly famous. The exhibition is enriched by four sought-after Renaissance objects, lent by important cultural institutions, which are related to contemporary creation. Mirabilia, therefore, has the intent to federate, around the values of high craftsmanship, the main Milanese institutions related to the applied arts such as the Milan Foundation, the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum, the Trivulziana Library, the Civic Collections of Applied Arts of the Sforza Castle, the Civic School of Violin Making of the City of Milan. The Quadreria is set up and presented as a contemporary version of the Renaissance cabinet de curiosités: the works are arranged according to an ideal symbolic order, to achieve the result of astonishment and wonder with sometimes surprising passages between one piece and another, to enhance the different scale of perception.
An exhibition celebrating the prestigious milestone reached by the Murano glassworks Nason Moretti, which was started in 1923, is underway at the Murano Glass Museum. Since its inception, the furnace turned special attention to glass for the table, characterized by intense colors. Glassware, which became icons of 20th-century glass art, is presented, such as the […]
18/05/2023 - 06/01/2024
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The Ginori Museum, which as of 2019 is part of the “Fondazione Museo Archivio Richard Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia,” is still closed to the public, but can be seen online, (museoginori.org), because it “already has so many stories to tell,” not only as a place that preserves a vast artistic and archival heritage, but […]
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The rose window, the upper part of the large four-light window in the Chapel of Santa Croce, in the Bolognese basilica was made between 1464 and 1466. The preparatory cartoons were made by the painter Michele di Matteo and the stained-glass window executed by the master glassmaker and German Dominican friar Jacob Griesigner, later to […]
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“La Grande Bellezza – The Dream Factory”, progetto di mecenatismo contemporaneo per l’alto artigianato artistico, promosso da Starhotels in collaborazione con Fondazione Cologni, OMA-Osservatorio dei Mestieri d’Arte e Gruppo Editoriale, dopo il grande successo di pubblico ottenuto al Fuorisalone milanese 2023 sarà in mostra al Giardino Corsini (15/17 settembre, Firenze) con un allestimento inedito: il […]
