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july 02, 2021 - Palazzo Pilotta

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 September 26, 2021 

Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta

Piazza della Pilotta 15, Parma 

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 September 26, 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 Barnaba Fornasetti, Artistic Director of the Milanese Atelier, Valeria Manzi, co-curator of cultural activities and President of the Fornasetti Cult association, and the director of the Complesso Monumentale della Pilotta Simone Verde, 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 Barnaba Fornasetti, 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

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