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 »

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 »

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 »

CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione Università degli Studi di Parma in collaborazione con Fotografia Europea presenta 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 -… Read more »