Florence's Museo Novecento gets a makeover

The new director of the Novecento Museum in Florence, Sergio Risaliti, will turn the museum around by organizing a series of exhibitions and temporary projects and reorganizing the layout of the collections for better enjoyment of the museum’s holdings.
On April 21, the exhibition, conceived by Sergio Risaliti and curated by Eva Francioli, Francesca Neri and Stefania Rispoli(Muse), entitled “The Sculptor’s Drawing,” which will remain open until July 12, 2018 and focuses on drawing, including in relation to other artistic disciplines or sciences, opened. On display on the second floor of the museum, the exhibition showcases graphic works signed by Adolfo Wildt, Jacques Lipchitz, David Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Luciano Fabro, Rebecca Horn and Rachel Whiteread.

Also on April 21, the project “Paradigm. The Architect’s Table” ending June 21, 2018, curated by Laura Andreini featuring the newly appointed director of the Italian Pavilion at the next Architecture Biennale, Mario Cucinella.
From April 21 to Sept. 20, 2018, “Of a Golden Sun” curated by Lorenzo Bruni opens, and the video exhibition “The Body is a Sacred Garment” conceived by Beatrice Bulgari for In Between Art Film and curated by Paola Ugolini is also open to the public during the same period.

Finally, from April 21 to June 21, 2018, The Wall project is on view, an original exhibition format conceived by Risaliti that for its debut bears the signature of Marco Bazzini with the collaboration of Isia Florence and is titled “Il Buio. At the Margins of Vision.”
The layouts of the rooms will not be the only change in the museum: an external gate has been installed with the words “Museum” and in dialogue with Piazza Santa Maria Novella by artist Paolo Parisi in collaboration with students from theFlorence Academy of Fine Arts.

Four Florentine artists, Marco Bagnoli, Paolo Masi, Maurizio Nannucci and Remo Salvadori, with the project “Grafts,” propose four works that dialogue with the Renaissance architecture of the former Leopoldine Hospital.

Risaliti specifies, “The Museum we are thinking of is a fluid reality, a laboratory and a gym; a multitasking institution, generating multiple experiences and practices, and preferring dynamism to immobility. It is a place of storytelling and contemplation, of education and discovery. Without ever neglecting research and in-depth study, the Museo Novecento will be a place of wonder and discovery for children, young people, and families. And when possible it will move with its collections and works even to schools and homes, hospitals and places of detention, to reduce the distance between art and life.”

Mayor Dario Nardella, for his part, emphasized, “The ’new’ Museo Novecento will be a ’young’ and original space in the city’s panorama, collecting the best legacy of our collectors but with an eye to the future. In 2017 the Museo Novecento was visited by about 45 thousand people, the goal, with this vast renovation operation, is to increase this figure by 20 percent.”

Pictured: the new layout of the Novecento Museum in Florence

Florence's Museo Novecento gets a makeover

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