On Sunday 12 May, from 9.30 to 12.30, Assicoop Modena&Ferrara opens to the city the Modena offices that host its art collection. It will be possible to visit the spaces in via Carlo Zucchi together with the president of Assicoop Modena&Ferrara Milo Pacchioni, the curator of the Collection Luciano Rivi and the art historian Tomas Fiorini. It will be an opportunity to retrace the events of Modena art and to delve into the historical-artistic, taste and market issues through which the Collection took shape. Founded in 2002 on the initiative of the president of Assicoop Modena&Ferrara, the Collection today consists of over nine hundred works (paintings, sculptures, drawings and graphics) exhibited in the Modena and Ferrara offices.
“We have started a collection of works of art – specifies president Milo Pacchioni – with the aim of preserving, enhancing and sharing an important part of the local artistic heritage with citizens. The open guided tours of the city are therefore a fundamental piece of this journey. We hope that the citizens of Modena will increasingly perceive the Assicoop Modena&Ferrara Collection as a valuable heritage that also belongs to them”.
The morning of visits will be divided into three different shifts: the first shift from 9.30 to 10.30; the second shift 10.30-11.30 am; the third shift 11.30-12.30. It will be possible to participate in the guided tours until all available places are available, subject to mandatory reservation at 800-992220 or by email at [email protected]. The meeting point is at the UnipolSai Assicurazioni agency in via Carlo Zucchi 31, Modena.
“The works in the Collection – specifies the curator Luciano Rivi – constitute an important and detailed testimony to the activity, not only of local importance, of Modena and Ferrara artists from the nineteenth century to today. Thanks also to the presence of an Academy of Fine Arts, between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Modena was able to look at the main themes of the artistic world with promptness and attention. During the guided tour it will be possible to follow the artistic experiences between the 19th and 20th centuries with attention to the development of the different iconographic genres (portrait, landscape, urban view, historical or genre scene, still life) and the succession of cultural models over time and different styles”. Among the artists present in the Collection we can mention, for example, Adeodato Malatesta, Giovanni Muzzioli, Gaetano Bellei, Casimiro Jodi, Giuseppe Graziosi, Mario Vellani Marchi, Mauro Reggiani, Enrico Prampolini. Some works by recently acquired Ferrara artists (Giuseppe Mentessi, Arnaldo Ferraguti, Achille Funi) will also be visible on the day of the visit.
