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FORNASETTI Theatrum Mundi Hundreds of creations from the Atelier founded by Piero Fornasetti in dialogue with the collections of the Pilotta exploring classicism through the lens of contemporary design


The Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta and #fornasetti present FORNASETTI Theatrum Mundi

Hundreds of creations from the Atelier founded by Piero #fornasetti in dialogue with the collections of the Pilotta exploring classicism through the lens of contemporary design

from June 3, 2020 to July 25, 2021

June 3, 2020 saw the inauguration of "Fornasetti Theatrum Mundi", an exhibition housed in the Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta in Parma. The exhibition will be open to the public until July 25, 2021, and is part of "Revitalisations of the Contemporary," an initiative conceived to mark #parma 2020+21, Italian Capital of Culture.

Despite long periods of closure due to the the COVID-19 emergency, the exhibition has generated great success among the public, the press and enthusiasts and it has recorded almost 30.000 visitors so far.

The exhibition is a truly layered journey between the classic and the modern, between past and present. Curatorship of the exhibition is by #barnabafornasetti, Artistic Director of the Milanese Atelier, #valeriamanzi, co-curator of cultural activities and President of the #fornasetti Cult association, and the director of the Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta #simoneverde, with the intention of renewing the classical heritage of the independent museum institute of Parma, through the intellectual recovery that has made it one of the undisputed leaders in contemporary #design.

"Fornasetti Theatrum Mundi" creates a dialogue between the architecture and artworks of the Pilotta and the imagination of Piero and #barnabafornasetti, creating a true 'theatre of the world'. A network of iconographic references and cultural suggestions reveals the intellectual mandate of the objects and images on display, highlighting their depth and offering exciting and universal implications. A real "Theatrum" as the term was understood in the sixteenth century, articulating in the infinite variety of the world the encyclopaedic entirety of knowledge to which classicism aspired, in the Renaissance, in the eighteenth-century and even, as playfully interpreted by #fornasetti, in the modern age.

The exhibition's itinerary is divided into various cells relating to the main themes of Fornasetti's work: ruins and the use of the past as a fragment, architecture, music, variations on a theme, drawing, graphics, collecting, everyday objects, and the dimension of illusion and dreams.

The exhibition begins with the 21 windows inside the Galleria Petitot of the Biblioteca Palatina. After a chance to admire the extent of the Galleria dell'Incoronata, it then enters the heart of the Teatro Farnese, a masterpiece of seventeenth-century architecture built inside the Complex on the model of the Vitruvian theatre, the same architectural structure that inspired the idea of the Theatrum Mundi, formulated by the neoplatonic rhetorician #giuliocamillo (1480-1544). Camillo's utopia involved figures and symbols arranged in a precise order within the Vitruvian theatre, with the idea that this functioned as a sort of artificial mind, endowing the imagination with the ability to understand, reconstruct and interpret the world: an idea that has a deep affinity with Fornasetti's creativity.

Fornasetti's objects establish a profound dialogue with the spaces of the Pilotta, echoing their associations with culture, thought, dream and imagination.

Following the path traced by these elective affinities, the exhibition disseminates hundreds of works by the Atelier around the collections of the Pilotta, accompanied by short texts by Piero and #barnabafornasetti and selected quotes from other authors that provide suggestions and interpretations.

"Fornasetti Theatrum Mundi" therefore demonstrates the depth and universality of the contemporary regeneration of the forms of classicism in a witty counterpoint between Fornasetti's inventions and the collections and spaces of one of Italy's most important museums.

In order to make the visitor experience even more immersive, #barnabafornasetti has compiled a special selection of music in a playlist, which is available on Fornasetti's Spotify channel. This initiative is designed to accompany visitors around the rooms of the exhibition and reinforce the abstract connection between the arts: a dialogue between different languages of which #fornasetti has always been a staunch supporter, in the name of creativity without boundaries.

Thanks to the Open Culture project promoted by #parma 2020+21, it is also possible to access the exhibition virtually, using the parma2020.it portal or the #parma 2020+21 App. An original way of visiting the exhibition reserved for #parma Card holders, who are accompanied on the itinerary by the three curators of the exhibition, by means of video clips.

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