Third and final appointment of the artist residency program Through time: integrity and transformation of the work which sees the artist Eva Marisaldi as the protagonist. The project is carried out in the context of Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020 + 21. The CSAC Archive-Museum, located within the impressive and evocative Abbey of Valserena, preserves over 12 million pieces divided into five sections (Art, Photography, Media, Design and Entertainment). After Massimo Bartolini and Luca Vitone,…
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The CSAC of the University of Parma presents Live Archive, a new path that winds through the Abbey of Valserena, completely redesigning the archive environments, no longer intended as places in their own right, but integrated with the exhibition space. The project was carried out thanks to the contribution of the Emilia Romagna Region (call POR-FESR EMILIA ROMAGNA 2014-2020. AXIS 5 Enhancement of artistic, cultural and environmental resources). Visits for the public will start on…
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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 –…
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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…
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Architect, designer, art director, writer, poet, critic: Gio Ponti has been an all-around artist, who crossed through the entire XX century, profoundly marking his taste, mirroring his most significant instances and anticipating many themes of contemporary architecture. Forty years on from his death, the MAXXI National Museum of the 21st Century Arts is dedicating a major retrospective to this exceptional figure, who studies and communicates his versatility, starting from the story of its…
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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…
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A restoration and renovation of the spaces of the Abbey of Valserena is programmed this Autumn, with a view to a new opening. CSAC exhibition spaces will remain closed from Monday September 30 2019 and will reopen at the beginning of the new year, with exhibitions and activities on the occasion of Parma Italian Capital of Culture 2020.
The renewal of CSAC Archive-Museum, part of the joint project between the Municipality…
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Sabato 13 aprile 2019 alle ore 10.00, nella Sala delle Colonne dell’Abbazia di Valserena, sede dello CSAC Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione dell’Università di Parma, apre la mostra Nuove figure in un interno nell’ambito dell’edizione 2019 di Fotografia Europea dal titolo Legami. Intimità, relazioni, nuovi mondi. La mostra, interamente costruita con opere provenienti dagli archivi dello CSAC di autori quali Gianni Berengo Gardin, Carla Cerati, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Mario Cresci, Luciano D’Alessandro, Luigi Ghirri, Guido…
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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,…
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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 -…
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