La conoscenza dei nostri monti. 150 anni della Società Alpina Friulana 1874-2024

(Knowledge of Our Mountains. 150 Years of the Società Alpina Friulana 1874-2024)

Udine Castle, Archaeological Mezzanine (East wing, first floor) and rooms 7-8 of the Friulian Museum of Photography (East wing, third floor)

until Sunday 27 April 2025

Tuesdays-Sundays 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

reduced entrance to the Castle Museums for regularly registered Club Alpino Italiano (CAI) members

The exhibition hosted by the Castle Museums of Udine is promoted and organised by the Società Alpina Friulana (Friulian Alpine Society) on the occasion of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of its foundation. The exhibition recounts the ‘mont furlane’ (Friulian mountain), proposing a reflection on a place that over time has given rise to an original civilisation rich in unique cultural, social, economic and environmental aspects.

History, exploration, mountaineering and ethnography, climatic changes and future perspectives will animate the exhibition, which unfolds on two floors of the Castle, winding through the spaces of the Archaeological Mezzanine (East wing, first floor) proposing glances and possible readings of the mountains of today and yesterday and then moving on to rooms 7-8 of the Friulian Museum of Photography to illustrate to visitors the historical and iconographic heritage of the Friulian Alps, partly deposited at the Civic Museums of Udine, partly the result of loans from institutions and private individuals and never exhibited in its entirety until now.

The exhibition has been realised in collaboration with the University of Udine through ‘Cantiere Friuli’, the Geoparco Alpi Carniche, the Circolo Speleologico ed Idrologico Friulano, the Museo Etnografico di Malborghetto and the Museo Carnico Michele Gortani di Tolmezzo.

The exhibition is supported by Fondazione Friuli, the Club Alpino Italiano (CAI), with the contribution of the Consorzio Tutela del Formaggio Montasio and the patronage of the Municipality of Udine, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Regional Council, the Unesco Dolomites Foundation, the Giovanni Angelini Foundation - Centre for Mountain Studies, CAI Friuli Venezia Giulia and the International Association Rete Montagna.

For information: segreteria[at]alpinafriulana.it and biglietterie.civicimusei[at]comune.udine.it and +39 0432 1272591.

Antonio Bardino

Il respiro delle piante (Plants’ Breath)

Curated by Daniele Capra

Casa Cavazzini

Liceo Classico Statale Jacopo Stellini

Udine

From 20 December 2024 to 3 March 2025

Casa Cavazzini Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Udine and the Liceo Classico Statale Jacopo Stellini di Udine are pleased to present Antonio Bardino's personal exhibition Il respiro delle piante, curated by Daniele Capra. The project - realised in partnership with the Department of Culture and the Department of Health of the Municipality of Udine - is a unicum in the panorama of exhibitions in our country and stems from a synergy between institutions thanks to which contemporary art and the collective participation of students come together. In fact, it consists of an exhibition and a programme of collaborations that puts students at the centre.

The event is the first episode of Future Life, the project that will be developed over the next few years in the museum's new project room, located on the first floor of the building. It will consist of a series of solo exhibitions of the most representative artists of contemporary creativity who will be asked to measure themselves against the themes proposed by the UN's Agenda 2030. The selected artists will be asked to work focusing on the 17 goals identified by the document, in terms of environmental sustainability and socio-economic well-being.

The exhibition brings together some fifteen works on canvas created by Bardino in recent years that focus on house plants and the presence of the plant element in strongly anthropised contexts. The exhibition investigates the vitality of nature and its silent, yet vital and overpowering presence, which seems to escape human control. The plants painted by Bardino become luxuriant pieces of plant landscape, unexpected and wild clippings of nature housed in the captivity of domestic walls. The works will be hosted both at Casa Cavazzini (in the project room on the first floor and in the flat) and at the Aula Magna of the Stellini.

This is flanked by a collaborative programme with the students of the Liceo Stellini, which includes the placement of domestic plants in the museum spaces where the works are displayed, their care, and a programme of guided tours led by the students themselves during the exhibition period. This project is the natural evolution of La natura entra a scuola: le piante in classe, implemented at the Liceo Stellini under the guidance of teachers Claudio Bardini and Roberta Costantini. The initiative has seen, over the past few months, students together with teachers and ATA staff at Stellini adopt some domestic plants in classroom spaces and take care of them both during school periods and holidays. A practice of individual well-being and care for the community and the environment.

With a view to the participation and active role of students in public space, the Bardino exhibition is thus an opportunity to extend good practice to the spaces of an exhibition institution, stimulating knowledge and attendance of the museum. The students will also be involved in guiding activities of the exhibition aimed at both the young public of high schools and the visitors of Casa Cavazzini.

Antonio Bardino’s research of (Alghero, 1973) is characterised by an interest in anthropised contexts, nature and plant elements, which for the artist bear witness to forms of resilience to the fierce anthropic power through their flourishing. For Bardino - exclusively dedicated to oil painting - trees, garden or house plants constitute the rebellious characters of a third landscape that is in opposition to human presence, which is completely ignored and silenced. It is the plants that speak, that build a new world and preserve its memory for posterity with their vivid colours.

Casa Cavazzini - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

via Cavour 14, Udine

14 December 2024 – 16 March 2025

Tuesdays - Sundays 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Exhibition curated by Lorenzo Lazzari

Casa Cavazzini, the museum of modern and contemporary art in Udine, is hosting the eighth edition of the exhibition Mind The Gap, which is titled Come costruisci le immagini dell'altro? (How to construct images of the other?)

Mind the Gap is a project dedicated to contemporary visual arts, with a focus on moving images. Inspired by the figure of Franco Basaglia, it pursues an idea of culture as a means of activating and involving people, places and communities in relation to contemporary issues through an interdisciplinary approach.

The works on display are placed in relation to each other to highlight some of the ways in which Western culture has constructed the image of otherness in recent history and beyond to legitimise colonial domination, including through art history, mental health, technological advancement, cinema and new media.

The title of the exhibition is based on a conceptual operation by Alfredo Jaar. In 2013, the Chilean artist gave new meaning to the quote by US photographer Ansel Adam “You do not take a photograph. You make it” by printing it in large-format multiples for the public to take away. This action completed Jaar's work by emphasising the difference between taking and making. Indeed, each image is not a simple slice of the world, but a particular conception of it, and everything we often take for granted is instead constructed.

Based on this consideration, five film and video works by Invernomuto (Italy), Gelare Khoshgozaran (Iran), Little Warsaw (Hungary), Stefan Kruse (Denmark) and Eleonora Roaro (Italy) will be exhibited at Casa Cavazzini together with a screening by Caterina Erica Shanta (Italy) at Cinema Visionario. The aim is to raise questions about the way in which we construct the images with which we overwrite desires, instances, cultures and bodies.

The eighth edition of Mind The Gap is characterised by significant growth and the institutionalisation of the project, which is widespread throughout the region and the urban peripheries, and is complemented by a dense programme of participatory art workshops for schools, training courses and popular and interdisciplinary encounters involving not only the artists in the exhibition, but also a series of speakers from universities and cultural institutions, in order to combine the artistic perspective with historical, sociological, scientific and philosophical knowledge.

Mind The Gap is a project by Altreforme in collaboration with the Musei Civici di Udine, realised with the support of Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, Fondazione Friuli, Fondazione Pietro Pittini, Boato International, Legacoop.

For more information about the exhibited artists and works as well as the public programme, please visit the website www.projectmindthegap.it

Ethnographic Museum of Friuli

via Grazzano 1 Udine – Palazzo Giacomelli

from 15 November 2024 to 9 February 2025

Fridays-Sundays 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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Trasformazioni. Trieste, il territorio e la sua gente nella fotografia d’arte, 1880-2020

(Transformations. Trieste, its Territory and its People in Art Photography, 1880-2020)

Church of San Francesco

via beato Odorico da Pordenone, 1, Udine

14 December 2024 - 26 January 2025

Tuesdays-Fridays 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

25 December 2024 (Christmas) 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.

1 January 2025 (New Year's Eve) 3 p.m. – 7 p.m.

Free Entry

The church of San Francesco hosts the yearly photo exhibition organised by IRPAC - Istituto Regionale di Promozione e Animazione Culturale.

The second edition of the 3-year project Trasformazioni (Transformations) is dedicated to Trieste and the Julian territory, with its extraordinary variety of the landscape, between the Karst and the Adriatic Sea, and the peculiarity of its architecture.

Trieste's historical cosmopolitan vocation and its connection to the Germanic world reverberate, even in photography. This is testified by the production of a number of professional photographers with a Teutonic sound, such as Francesco Benque, active in the city from 1864 until 1921, or Giuseppe Wulz, with his atelier opened in 1860, whose production was not limited to portraits but also extended to the depiction of landscapes and moments of life from life.

The Wulz dynasty (with Joseph's son Charles and granddaughters Wanda and Marion) was active throughout the 20th century until 1981. To the city and its rich history, which was also dramatic for long stretches, local artistic photography has dedicated countless shots, which will be selected on the basis of their ability to tell the emotional places they evoke, from the romantic architecture of the Porto Vecchio to the evocative ‘hell’ of the Ferriera di Servola, from Miramare Castle to the unspeakable monstrosity of the Risiera di San Saba.

The exhibition will display reproductions by female photographers such as Anna Scrinzi and Emilia Manenizza, as well as by Mario Circovich, Adriano De Rota, and Alfonso Mottola, in addition to those of the two main press agencies historically present in the city, Ugo Borsatti and Giornalfoto, where a new and more iconic impact of narrative photography was experimented with, in the wake of the lessons of refined US photojournalism.

The exhibition also includes some ‘external’ views of the Trieste and Julian territory by several Friulian authors, including Italo Michieli, Carlo Dalla Mura and Andrea Arduini.

The history of the Slovene community also has its most effective storyteller, Mario Magajna, for over half a century an extraordinary narrator on the pages of the Primorskj Dvenik, the Slovene-language daily newspaper printed in Trieste, of daily life in the Karst and Benecja regions and an author of great formal effectiveness.

The long work of Claudio Erné, who documented Franco Basaglia's activity in the psychiatric hospital in Trieste, as well as many other events in Trieste for local and national weekly newspapers, including L'Espresso, is also witnessed as a trait-d'union between old and new photojournalism.

Nowadays, from the perspective of contemporary art declined through photography, the territory is being restored and often transfigured by the expressive elaboration of the subjects, such as in Tullio Stravisi's images of the Trieste Karst, or by the recovery of ancient photographic techniques such as the pinhole, in Andrej Furlan's work, or Massimiliano Muner's Polaroid montages or Elisa Biagi's projects on memory.