The Gallery of the ‘Cassa di Risparmio’ Foundation of Imola opens its doors to the community with an exhibition. The restoration works in Piazza Matteotti 1 have been completed, curated by the architect Luciana Bandini, whose project, born in 2019, began in 2022. To best inaugurate these spaces, the Foundation has decided to exhibit its collections , in an exhibition inaugurated yesterday and open to visitors until 23 June, on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 10am to 12pm and from 4pm to 7pm and on Wednesdays and Fridays from 4pm to 7pm. In two shop windows displayed on the Square the most representative works from the Foundation’s collections were positioned: the plaster sculpture ‘Sensations of the soul’ by Domenico Beccarini and the polychrome ceramic work ‘I don’t remember’, by Gianpaolo Bertozzi and Stefano Dal Monte Casoni, representing the aged Pinocchio present at Palazzo Tozzoni. The exhibition develops in a traveling itinerary divided into six rooms. In the first we have an exhibition of 90 paintings by the Romagna painter Anacleto Margotti. These were purchased by the relatives of Riccardo Lanzoni, a childhood friend of the artist, brought to light after having been closed for a long time in a trunk. Subsequently, going up the stairs, you will find a picture gallery with works by various artists, including Innocenzo da Imola. The third and fourth rooms are dedicated respectively to the Foundation’s collections. In one, space is completely left for ceramic ones, starting from the early nineteenth-century vases from Faenza up to some works from the Ceramic Cooperative of Imola. In the other there is an exhibition of various types of art and craft objects. The fifth room instead gives life to the Archive of Renato Manzoni, a shoemaker from Imola who worked in the city for over sixty years, whose collections represent a reference for the study of twentieth-century women’s fashion. The exhibition concludes with a photographic archive of the city composed of a selection of images of the Casa del Fascio and others taken by the photographic collective Terra Project for the volume ‘Gente del Santerno’. “We are very happy to make the city participate in this project – says Rodolfo Ortolani, president of the Cassa di Risparmio di Imola Foundation –. The sad note of this day, however, is represented by the absence of Raffaele Mazzanti, our vice-president, who passed away a few week ago.” Which is why the screening room was dedicated to the latter. Present at the inauguration, as well as Ortolani, were also the architect Bandini and the participants of the Giuseppe Savini and Giovanni Vignazia foundation.
