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…
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 -…
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…
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…
CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione Università degli Studi di Parma
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ESPLORAZIONI DELL’ARCHIVIO Fotografie della Via Emilia 7 maggio – 2 ottobre 2016
Abbazia di Valserena
From May 7th to October 2nd in the evocative setting of the Abbey of Valserena, a few kilometers away from the city of Parma, the CSAC -…
On the occasion of the 2016 Spring Edition of Mercanteinfiera, CSAC Archive-Museum offers a unique chance to all the fair’s visitors and exhibitors to discover the exhibition inside the Valserena Abbey, that brings together and conserves original materials of visual communication, artistic research and design in Italy starting from the first decades of the 20th century. An extraordinary legacy of over 12 million individual items: Fine Art (over 1,700 paintings, 300 sculptures, 17,000 drawings), Photography…
June 15th began the third and last week of the Specialization Course Archiviare il Novecento, organized by the CSAC Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione dell’Università degli studi di Parma. This course has seen the participation of twenty-nine students in architecture, design and visual arts from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, after an agreement with the University of Parma. The 60 hours course has been designed with three modules focusing on the…
From 18 October until 25 January 2015, “Infinito” by Luigi Ghirri (1973) is exposed in Pino Pascali Museum of Polignano a Mare (BA).