Where and when
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Museo Novecento
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Who
Simona Martinoli
Director of the Marguerite Arp Foundation in Locarno and professor at the University of Italian Switzerland
Una Szeemann
Artist and daughter of Harald Szeemann
Mario Martone
Movie Director
Raffaella Giordano
Chiara Gatti
Nicoletta Mongini
Sergio Risaliti
On the occasion of the exhibition Monte Verità. Back to nature, created in collaboration with the Monte Verità Foundation (Ascona – Canton Ticino), the Museo Novecento presents a series of events dedicated to the deepening of the famous hill of utopia, to its founders and to the illustrious guests who saw in its spaces suspended in time a buen retiro away from the drama of wars and also from the ideological clash between capitalism and communism that was going through Europe.
The protagonists of the upcoming meetings will be Simona Martinoli, Director of the Marguerite Arp Foundation in Locarno, Una Szeemann, artist and daughter of the great curator Harald Szeemann and Mario Martone, famous director author of the film Capri-Revolution, which won two David di Donatello.
SOPHIE TAEUBER-ARP TOLD THROUGH HER LETTERS BY SIMONA MARTINOLI
A small uncultivated path leads to the garden of Monte Verità, where every morning I crawl in my dancing dress for lessons
February 16, 2022 h6:00 pm – Cinema Room Museo Novecento
A pioneer of abstraction, Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) created deeply innovative works in many disciplines.
The recent publication of two editions of the artist’s letters, in addition to constituting a precious source on her life, corrects her image as a shy and silent woman, who lived in the shadow of her famous husband Jean / Hans Arp. One consists of three volumes of letters addressed above all to her sister (German edition by Walburga Krupp and Medea Hoch), the other is the one that will be presented on February 16 and is entitled Letters of Sophie Taeuber-Arp to Annie and Oskar Müller-Widmann. The volume published by the Marguerite Arp Foundation of Locarno with the Casagrande editions collects – for the first time in Italian – letters and postcards written by Taeuber-Arp to his first and most important collectors, the Müller-Widmanns of Basel. The merit of the correspondence is to give multiple information entering directly into the life of the writer, but also of those who appear in the letters, retracing the creative process of a universal and transdisciplinary artist, whose works range from applied arts to painting, from sculpture to dance, architecture and design.
EVERYDAY ANOMALIES
Harald Szeemann and Monte Verità
March 2, 2022 h6:00 pm – Cinema Room Museo Novecento
Una Szeemann will retrace the relationship between her father, the Swiss art historian and curator Harald Szeeman and the famous hill of utopia born in the Locarno pre-Alps. Anomalie Quotidiane is the title of the paper that traces a biographical journey of Harald Szeemann developed from the subjective perspective of a daughter. Through an introspection on Harald Szeemann’s cabaret beginnings with his “Einmanntheater” up to the development of the “Museum of Obsessions” and the “Agentur für Geistige Gastarbeit”, the reflection processes that led to the gestation of some of the exhibitions will be reconstructed. most famous of the twentieth century: “When Attitudes Become Form” (1969), Documenta 5 “Befragung der Realität – Bildwelten heute” (1972), “Grossvater: ein Pionier wie wir” (1974), “Le machini celibi” (1975), “Monte Verità. The breasts of Truths “(1978). Focal point, the close collaboration with artists and artists with whom Szeemann has collaborated and maintained close contact, through his archive in the “pink factory” in Maggia and his center of life in Italian Switzerland, a place he has always loved. The stories, the events lived, the family and friend ties, the daily anomalies that have helped to feed this testimony so full of constellations will be retraced.
CAPRI-REVOLUTION BY MARIO MARTONE
Screening of the film
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April 8, 2022 h9:00 pm – Cinema Spazio Alfieri
The Cinema Spazio Alfieri will host the meeting with the director Mario Martone at the end of which will follow the screening of the film Capri-Revolution, the 2018 film winner of two David di Donatello freely drawn from a real story: that of the commune that the painter , German naturist and utopian Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach gave birth to Capri at the beginning of the twentieth century. The model of Monte Verità in Ascona inspired Diefenbach’s political and social experiment on the island. Vegan nutrition, heliotherapy and nudism, gymnastics, dance and meditation were the daily practices of a community that testify to a widespread interest still today in the radical episodes of anarchist experiences such as social utopia, pacifist and libertarian dream made possible by a “reform of life” which starts precisely from the regeneration of body and spirit in a place, as Ise Gropius would say, “where our forehead touches the sky”.
The exhibition Monte Verità. Back to nature, curated by the director of the Novecento Museum Sergio Risaliti, with Nicoletta Mongini and Chiara Gatti and organized by MUS.E, retraces the centenary experience of Monte Verità that intertwines the destinies of intellectuals and masters of the twentieth century. From the anarchist Bakunin to the Hungarian choreographer Rudolf von Laban, from the anarcho-communist theorist Pëtr Kropotkin to the Dadaist Hugo Ball, from the dancer Isadora Duncan to the great writer Hermann Hesse; and, again, from the Bauhaus architect Walter Gropius to the artists Hans Arp and Paul Klee, from Carl Gustav Jung to the curator Harald Szeemann who, fascinated by the history of the place, dedicated to him in 1978 a traveling exhibition in Europe with the emblematic title “Monte Truth. The breasts of truth “. Until 10 April 2022 at the Museo Novecento.
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