on the occasion of Parma Capitale Italiana della Cultura 2020+21 Abbey of Valserena (until August 29) Strada Viazza di Paradigna 1, Parma Palazzo Pigorini (until July 25) Strada della Repubblica 29/a, Parma Open to the public on 28 April in Parma, simultaneously in two locations, the Abbey of Valserena and Palazzo Pigorini, the exhibition Design! Objects, processes, experiences curated by Francesca Zanella, produced by CSAC –… Read more »

From September 6 to October 18, 2020, CSAC – The Study Centre and Communication Archive of the University of Parma presents the second appointment of the artist residency program Through time: integrity and transformation of the art work, realized on the occasion of Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020+21, with the participation of Massimo Bartolini, Luca Vitone and Eva Marisaldi. Since 1968, the CSAC Museum-Archive has preserved more than 12 million… Read more »

From Sunday 16 February  CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione dell’Università di Parma reopens the renovated and restored spaces of the Valserena Abbey with the installation of Massimo Bartolini entitled On Identikit, the first appointment of the artist residences Through time: integrità e trasformazione dell’opera, created on the occasion of Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020. The artist intervenes on the space in a completely anti-monumental way, modifying it, interpreting… Read more »

The exhibiton 1968. Un anno (1968. A year) displays a great story that focuses, through a strictly synchronic approach, on a fundamental year in the history of the twentieth century: 1968 is reconstructed through a survey within the CSAC archives, whose first nucleus was born in 1968 and which today, fifty years later, boasts a collection of over 12 million original materials, in the fields of visual communication, artistic and design research in Italy,… Read more »

In occasione del centenario della nascita di Leonardo Ricci (1918-1994), e all’interno delle manifestazioni organizzate dal Comitato nazionale “Ricci100”, ha aperto a Parma il 1 dicembre,  presso lo CSAC, la mostra Leonardo Ricci architetto. I linguaggi della rappresentazione. Leonardo Ricci, architetto, pittore, scenografo, urbanista, docente, è stato un esponente della ‘scuola fiorentina’ guidata da Giovanni Michelucci. Il suo fare progettuale è legato ad una concezione ‘esistenziale’ dell’architettura, conferendo allo spazio – dinamico, continuo, asimmetrico -… Read more »

Curators: Paolo Barbaro, Cristina Casero, Claudia Cavatorta The exhibition Figure contro. Fotografia della differenza is made of artworks from the CSAC archives, documents the role that photography, especially in the Seventies, has had in raising awareness around hidden, forgotten, sometimes censored issues. The figures against depicted in these shots are people literally pushed to the margins from the society, because their own existence is in contrast with the logic… Read more »

On Saturday, November 18th the exhibition ETTORE SOTTSASS. OLTRE IL DESIGN opens to the public. It is produced and organized by the CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione of the University of Parma and curated in close collaboration with a working group composed by historians in the fields of architecture, design and contemporary art, designers and archivists. In 1979, Ettore Sottsass donated over 14,000 project materials (sketches and drawings) and 24 sculptures… Read more »

Department stores: a synthesis of modernity in photography, architecture, design and fashion The ‘department store’ constitues an appropriate field of research for a twentieth-century archive of images and projects such as the CSAC, in which investigation and narrative methods can be verified. Our research in the archives has revealed documents and images that trace a pathway of fragments, integrated within the exhibition structure that unravels through the Paradigna abbey: these are objects trouvés… Read more »