As part of the interventions of the Municipal schedule “Expo in town”, the Archival Superintendence of Lombardy, Ministry of Heritage and Culture offers :
On 17th February 2013 MAR ( Art Museum of Ravenna) will see the opening of an outstanding exhibition: "BORDERLINE".
The exhibition touches some key points of art in the 1900s; it investigates the unclear and often incomprehensible boundaries between officially recognised artistic expressions and the ones belonging to estranged artists, genuine naive, anomalous and hardly recognised figures.
Important masterpieces by
Goya, Brueghel, Dalì, Klee, Basquiat, Ligabue will be displayed.
Managed by the museum's scientific director Claudio Spadoni and the psychiatrist and psychotherapist Giorgio Bedoni, also author of several essays on art and psychopathology, the exhibition - fully supported by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio of Ravenna and Fondazione Mazzotta in Milan - will run from 16th February 2013 until 15th June 2013.
In addition, 24 art works by
Gino Sandri will be exhibited.
The 2009 programme
The following exhibitions will be held in 2009:
"Art, Genius and Madness. The Day and the Night of An Artist" will be held from 30 January – 25th May 2009 in Siena at the Museum Complex of Santa Maria della Scala.
This is an extraordinary exhibition of works of art of great masters of contemporary and modern art.
Gino Sandri will be represented with 10 pieces.
The exhibition originated from an idea of Vittorio Sgarbi in collaboration with the Antonio Mazzotta Foundation. It is promoted by the Siena Municipal Council and the Monte dei Paschi Foundation of Siena. The organisation is by Vernice Progetti Culturali and the Museum Complex of Santa Maria della Scala.
"Art, Genius and Madness. The Day and the Night of An Artist" represents the first attempt in Italy to investigate the relationship between artistic production and mental disorder during important moments of the history of art.
VVan Gogh, Kirchner, Munch but also Ernst, Dix, Grosz, Guttuso, Mafai, Ligabue are only some of the artists you can admire in this exhibition.
Over 300 paintings and sculptures, some of which have great emotional impact, have been divided into eight different sections, each one under the guidance of great names in the field of art and psychiatry.
These works of art come from the most important museums of Europe, from the Musée D’orsay to the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou of Paris, from the Prado Museum in Madrid to Kirchener Museum in Davos, also from The National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, The Brera Art Gallery Museum and the National Braidense Library in Milan, as well as from important private collections.
The aim of this exhibition is to investigate ‘the essence of the world of artists’ through their masterpieces.
"Gino Sandri (1892-1959), lights of art, shadows of madness" will be held from 30 May – 19 July 2009 in the magnificent hall of the Arengario in Monza.
This exhibition is dedicated to Gino Sandri and the drawings he did while he was a patient in the Casa di Cura Villa Fiorita (Affori) and while he was incarcerated in the Psychiatry Hospital of Mombello, where he spent most of his life. It is not clear even today why he was confined to these institutions.
This is the first event in a long programme to be held during 2009, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the death of this artist. There will be other cultural initiatives such as conferences and the publication of his writings on the theme of madness.
This programme of events has been made possible thanks to the contributions of the following institutions:
- The Foundation and the The Provincial Council of Monza and Brianza who have financed the project;
- The Monza Municipal Council who gave the use of the Arengario;
- The Municipal Council of Ceriano Laghetto who have given support to these initiatives.
The exhibition will be organised by Professor Elena Pontiggia. The introduction essay to the catalogue is by Professor Elena Pontiggia and Professor Vittorino Andreoli.
The exhibition will be held under the patronage of:
- Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
- Regione Lombardia, Culture, Identità e autonomie per la Lombardia
- Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
- Università Cattolica di Milano
- Consorzio Parco delle Groane
The exhibits are part of a much larger collection of diaries, manuscripts, stories, letters to the family and drawings made during Gino Sandri’s stay in the mental asylum. All of this material has been declared "particularly important and of historical interest" by the Ministry of Cultural Assets and Activities, under law Nr. 42 of 22 January 2004.
