Bologna, “The Days of Mud”: an exhibition on the flood

Thursday 23 May at 18pm, at the Lercaro Collection in via Riva di Reno 57, inauguration of: "The days of the mud“, one year after the flood, the works of Carlo Zauli at the Lercaro collection. With photographic shots by Andrea Bernabini, Richard Betti, Marco Parollo, Adriano Zanni. The exhibition was born from the collaboration between the Lercaro Collection and the Carlo Zauli Museum of Faenza.

Speakers:: the Delegate for Culture of Bologna and the Metropolitan City; the Mayor of Faenza; Monsignor Roberto Macciantelli, president of the Lercaro Foundation; Giorgia Boldrini, director of the Culture and Creativity sector of the Municipality of Bologna; Eva Degl'Innocenti, director of the Civic Museums sector of Bologna; Matteo Zauli, director of the Carlo Zauli Museum and Giovanni Gardini, director of the Lercaro Collection.

Art as a possibility of meeting and sharing, as a vehicle to convey important content. It is with this attention which Thursday 23 May at 18pm, for the "Lercaro Thursday" a new exhibition is inaugurated which brings the work by Carlo Zauli (1926-2002), important international-level ceramist from Faenza. One year after the flood that hit Romagna will two appreciable works by Carlo Zauli are on display, whose Museum, based in Faenza, was dramatically affected by the flood of May 2023.

Together with the sculptures of Carlo Zauli will also be exhibited photographs by Andrea Bernabini, Richard Betti, Marco Parollo and Adriano Zanni who, with different perspectives, documented what happened last May.

Adriano Zanni, by renouncing color, it provides an extremely clear vision of reality, immortalized in all its extreme crudeness, without any discounts whatsoever. Andrea Bernabini it offers a predominantly aerial gaze, only apparently detached, in search of harmony in the midst of a devastated territory. Marco Parollo's choice is harsher: his eyes linger on the rubble in search of details that can restore longed-for fragments of everyday life. Richard Betti instead he investigated the dimension of memory by offering the public gaze a series of photographs linked to his family dimension and which the flood inexorably erased or distorted. Nevertheless, memory and affection towards loved ones and places visited, remains unchanged despite everything, if not even more intense.

The works of the four photographers will remain visible until July 28th.

openings and times:

The Lercaro Collection can be visited, free entry, at the following times:
Tuesday and Wednesday: 15-19
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday: 10-13 / 15-19

For information and registration:

Lercaro collection
Via Riva di Reno 57, Bologna
segreteria@raccoltalercaro.it
www.raccoltalercaro.it.