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On Tuesday 11 June, in the “author’s garden” of the Museum of the Twentieth Century and the Contemporary of Palazzo Fabroni, in Pistoia, the program of the 2024 edition of Teatri di Confine continues, the exhibition dedicated to the contemporary scene created by Teatri di Pistoia and the Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo onlus.
Tuesday 11 June, at 7.00 pm, in the ‘author’s garden’ of the Museo del Novecento e del Contemporaneo of Palazzo Fabroni, in Pistoia, arrives ABATTOIR BLUES, by and with Luigi Ciotta, the last title of the Abundance Trilogy, after Funky Pudding (2009, on the topic of food waste) and Sweet Dreams (2014, on sugar abuse). A dreamlike, surreal, comic, cruel and exciting show, which through the clown and the circus addresses the human and animal living conditions inside slaughterhouses in an irreverent and non-moralistic way. The typical day of a slaughterhouse worker who will undergo profound changes over the course of the show. A lonely person, with borderline traits, who spends his life among animals, living and dead. An alienating and repetitive work, which lends itself to the choreography of movement and circus to express its relational tension with life, suspended between gravity and death. The show, which won the “Emilio Vassalli” Award – Festival Circonanze in 2019, combines puppet theatre, circus, physical theatre, magic and comedy in a dimension in which words give way to sounds, verses and noises, both recorded and live.
The original scene of Abattoir Blues will be the “author’s garden” of the Museum of the Twentieth Century and Contemporary of Palazzo Fabroni. The events of the 2024 program, in fact, are hosted in various exhibition spaces, art places that dialogue with theatre, dance and music, showing themselves in a new guise: together with the Museo del Novecento, in Pistoia Villa Stonorov-Fondazione Vivarelli, and in Pescia , the Libero Andreotti Plaster Cast Gallery and the Paper Museum. Right opposite the Romanesque parish church of Sant’Andrea with the splendid pulpit by Giovanni Pisano (1301), the Museum of the Twentieth Century and the Contemporary of Palazzo Fabroni, named after the noble Pistoia family who lived there until 1842, displays the permanent art collection modern and contemporary of the Municipality of Pistoia which, made up of original civic funds, acquisitions and donations, allows an itinerary through the artistic panorama from the 1920s to the present day. The museum itinerary, ordered chronologically and by homogeneous groups of works, begins from the rooms on the ground floor where, in addition to the spaces reserved for welcoming the public with an informative video installation on the history of the building and its collections up to the new garden, it is the section dedicated to the artistic twentieth century of Pistoia from the second half of the twenties to the end of the sixties has been placed. On the first floor, around the large double-volume central hall, identified as a privileged place for reflection on art also thanks to the imposing Shadow Sculpture by Claudio Parmiggiani on the walls, the itinerary continues with the monographic rooms dedicated to Mario Nigro from Pistoia , Fernando Melani, Gualtiero Nativi and Agenore Fabbri, and with the collective rooms which host the works donated to the Municipality of Pistoia by many of the artists who have attended Palazzo Fabroni since 1990 with personal or thematic exhibitions, giving rise to a significant itinerary through Art Poor, Conceptual, Minimal Art, Visual Poetry and so on, with a total renewal of the language and artistic materials. Eleven photographic portraits of artists by Aurelio Amendola are distributed in various rooms. The spaces on the second floor are intended for temporary exhibitions. At the back of the building, beyond the large loggia, the outdoor space was completely reconfigured in the three-year period 2019-2021 as a contemporary “author’s garden”, designed by the architects Alessio Gai and Michele Fiesoli, with the collaboration of the artist Federico Gori.
Together with the Civic Museum of Ancient Art in the Palazzo Comunale, the Spedale del Ceppo Museum and the Fernando Melani House-studio, the Museum of the Twentieth Century and the Contemporary of Palazzo Fabroni is part of the Civic Museums of Pistoia. It joins the Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums and the Contemporary Network in Tuscany.
Teatri di Confine will continue until June 17th with dance, contemporary circus, prose and music performances. The event, dedicated to the contemporary scene, is organized by Teatri di Pistoia and the Fondazione Toscana Spettacolo onlus, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the Tuscany Region, in collaboration with the Municipality of Pistoia and the Municipality of Pescia.
Tickets
€12 full
€8 reduced
€5 reduced for children under 14
€5 special evening 4 June – Pescia Paper Museum
reductions
reduced for Over65, UNICOOP Firenze members, Far.com Loyalty Card holders, season ticket holders for the Pistoia Theater Seasons, Lamporecchio Theater Season season ticket holders, Mabellini School students, Funaro course members, CRAL members/affiliated associations; holders of regional season tickets (Tuscany Region) and Trenitalia tickets for Pistoia and Pescia from another province (on the same day or the day before the event), Giovani Card, Futuro ticket under 35 with Unicoop Florence, Tuscany Student Card.
Info and presale
(Corso Gramsci, 127 – Pistoia)
summer hours: Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 4pm/7pm; Wednesday 11am/3pm; Saturday 10am/1pm
http://www.teatridipistoia.it | http://www.toscanspettacolo.itThe places
Libero Andreotti plaster cast gallery, Piazza del Palagio, 7, 51017 – Pescia PT
Paper Museum, via Mammianese Nord, 229, 51017 – Pescia PT
Garden of Palazzo Fabroni, Via Santa – Pistoia
Villa Stonorov – Vivarelli Foundation, Via di Felceti 11 – Pistoia
Next appointments
On Friday 14 June (7.00 pm), in the ‘author’s garden’ of the Museum of the Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art of Palazzo Fabroni, in Pistoia, WOOD will be staged, with Maria Anzivino, choreographed by Marianna Moccia and Sara Lupoli. The journey of the performance is a metaphor for the growth of man and his relationship with nature. Nature of which he is part, an ecosystem that he tries to decipher, from which he escapes, with which he converses, which he tries to dominate and to which he succumbs to be reborn in the harmonious flow of his time. Wood takes the viewer by the hand and accompanies him on a visual and audio journey where the scenes swing on the thin thread of imagination and sharing, evoking suggestions linked to the complexity of the human being and the stubborn search for balance.
Followed by THERE IS A PLANET by Michele Scappa, with the performer Emanuel Santos. There is a Planet is a research aimed at distancing oneself from the theatrical environment, through an investigation of the body in spaces, a body that abandons itself, that observes, that includes and that communicates. The investigation takes inspiration from Ettore Sottsass’ photographic exhibition at the Triennale Milano (2017-18), from which the homonymous title derives. They are photographs, taken in forty years of travels around the world, which concern living and in general the presence of man on the planet: the uncontaminated scenarios of nature flow between the pages (panoramas of rivers, forests, marine expanses, rocks ) and images of architecture, houses, people, particular, profoundly human situations. The show was selected for the Extra 2023 young art dance showcase – Network Anticorpi XL.
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