The unmissable events for next weekend in Cremona and its province: our advice for Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th May 2024.
(Cover photo: European Market, Cremona)
What to do in Cremona: weekend events (4-5 May 2024)
CREMONA. European market
- From 3 to 5 May 2024 – From 10am to midnight Corso Garibaldi
The European Market is finally back again this year. From 10am to midnight market, street food area, food and wine and typical products. Free admission. The event was created to revive the colours, sounds and scents of a market full of typical products and food and wine of European countries with more than 50 stands. There is also space for quality street food, with on-the-road cuisines to be consumed on site in the special areas set up between the stalls. For information: tel. 379 184 7686
CREMONA. Art and nature at the cemetery
- Saturday 4 May 2024 – Cemetery, Via cemetery 1
A journey to discover the symbolism of nature in funerary art in the beautiful monumental cemetery of Cremona. Signs of pain and hope, death and rebirth represented through plants, flowers, fruit, animals and insects to which are entrusted messages and contents deeper than simple immediate interpretation. Meeting at 2.20pm at the entrance to the Cemetery (Via cemetery 1). €10 (€8 CrArT Members). For info and reservations +39 3388071208 – [email protected]
CREMONA. Water more precious than diamond
- Until May 10, 2024 – Sala Alabardieri, Palazzo Comunale
The Italian Institute of Photography presents the photographic exhibition “Water more precious than diamond” which will be held from 29 April to 10 May at the Sala Alabardieri of the Palazzo Comunale of Cremona. The exhibition tells, through the gaze of 16 photographers, the exploitation of the soil and the environment as well as the water shortage that affects the Italian territory at different times of the year.
The photographic project, curated by the photographer and IIF teacher Erminio Annunzi and produced in collaboration with the Circolo Vedo Verde – Legambiente Cremona and with the support of the manager of the Integrated Water Service of the province of Cremona Padania Acque, clearly highlights the numerous consequences that the man’s action causes on the planet, from deforestation to the melting of glaciers but also the devastation caused by forest fires and the effects that the lack of rain has had on the economic and social activities present along the banks of the Po river.
CREMONA. The portraits of Leo Nucci
- Until 17 May 2024 – Palazzo Frodi, Corso Matteotti 15
They say he is the greatest baritone in the world, Leo Nucci. His Rigoletto has inflamed the audiences of the most important theatres, the greatest conductors have valorised his talents and everyone considers him an undisputed master, in the Verdian repertoire and beyond. Yet there is something in his gaze, in his smile that makes him dear and close to us. His profound love for art, his attachment to life and its cultural forms, a subtle irony that lights up his eyes. Here: such vibrant eyes could only become a perfect source of inspiration and so the famous Parma artist Vittorio Ferrarini made them the protagonists of a new collection of portraits all inspired by the looks and on-stage disguises of this extraordinary performer. They are truly interesting, realistic and pulsating paintings. Even funny, as in the case of the ‘meta-portrait’ chosen as the guiding image of the exhibition: Nucci observes a painting depicting an instant of Rigoletto, imitates its vivid expression and is in turn painted in the exact identification of gazes.
CREMONA. Tandem
- Until June 9, 2024 – Violin Museum
From 23 March to 9 June 2024, the 19th edition of the International Exhibition of Contemporary Illustrators will take place in Cremona, an annual exhibition event, created and curated by the Tapirulan Association, with the collaboration of the Municipality of Cremona. The theme of this edition is “Tandem”. Many will be thinking of bicycles with two or more seats, but tandem has many meanings, starting with the one that derives from Latin, which can be translated as “finally”. So, thanks to the exhibition and the artists exhibited, we will “finally” discover many of these meanings. More info CLICKING HERE.
CREMONA. Piccio on Paper
- EXTENDED until May 12, 2024 – Ala Ponzone Civic Museum, Via Ugolani Dati 4
In the rooms of the Pinacoteca the exhibition on the Piccio in Cremona. The Municipality, in particular the culture department headed by Luca Burgazzi, has acquired around fifteen unpublished drawings by the painter which will be exhibited to the public for the first time, not only drawings but on display there will also be other works by Piccio from from public and private collections. The exhibition will remain open to the public until Monday 1 April 2024 and can be visited every day, from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10am to 5pm.
CREMONA. Requiem
- Until 5 May 2024 – Church of San Carlo, Via Bissolati 33
San Carlo Cremona is happy to announce Jonas Mekas, Requiem, the first exhibition of 2024 hosted inside the seventeenth-century church of San Carlo in Via Bissolati 33 in Cremona. Requiem, by Jonas Mekas, will be visible from February 23 to May 5, 2024.
Requiem, commissioned and premiered at The Shed, New York, is a meditative homage to Verdi’s score for the Messa da Requiem, or Catholic funeral mass, and a reflection on the beauty of the natural world.
Artist, poet and director originally from Lithuania, Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) was one of the cornerstones of New York independent experimental cinema, famous throughout the world. Forefather of the avant-garde American cinema movement, his works have influenced entire generations of directors, and have been exhibited in art exhibitions such as Documenta, the Venice Biennale, the Serpentine in London, the Center Pompidou in Paris, and the Jewish Museum in New York.
CASALMAGGIORE. Workshop
- Until 7 July 2024 – Diotti Museum
The artists’ ateliers, working methods, tools and materials of the various expressive techniques have long been under the spotlight of historical-critical studies, investigations focused on aspects of protection and conservation, as well as the subject of exhibitions and real interventions museographic. The attention that the Diotti Museum has dedicated to the artist’s work since its foundation in 2007 now translates into an exhibition initiative focused on the theme of the atelier. The exhibition offers the opportunity to shine the spotlight on many works that are part of the Museum’s permanent exhibition itinerary, including the ateliers of the painters Goliardo Padova, Palmiro Vezzoni, Tino Aroldi and the sculptor Ercole Priori: materials from these artists are in fact on display archive (prints, drawings, photographs) not normally visible to the public. For more info: museodiotti.it
CASALMAGGIORE. Redefining the jewel
- Until 9 June 2024 – Bijou Museum, Via Porzio 9
Redefining Jewelery returns to the Bijou Museum in Casalmaggiore with 43 contemporary jewels designed by Italian and foreign artists. A project now in its ninth edition, born in 2010, from an idea of the curator Sonia Patrizia Catena, and which over the years has become a point of reference in the material experimentation of art jewellery. An annual competition that stimulates the design and creation of a contemporary jewel whose added value is created by the idea.
Exhibition times: Open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 12pm and from 3pm to 6pm; Sundays and holidays from 3pm to 7pm. Entrance to the exhibition and museum: full price €3.00; reduced €2.50. Free for school groups, holders of the Lombardy Museum Pass and every first Sunday of the month ( domenicalmuseo ). More info: museodelbijou.it
SAINT JOHN ON THE CROSS. Pic Nic at Villa Medici
- Wednesday 1 May 2024 – from 10.30am to 7pm – Villa Medici del Vascello
Villa Medici del Vascello will be open to visitors on Wednesday 1 May for guided tours and picnics in the park. Spend a day of fun and relaxation in the nineteenth-century park of Villa Medici del Vascello by organizing your picnic and taking part in guided tours with family and friends. The guided tours will take place at 11am, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm. It is possible to stay inside the park for a PICNIC at a cost of €5 per person (picnic only). The property offers a limited number of picnic tables which cannot be booked.
Four-legged friends are welcome!
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