20th century Art
Functionalist architecture
The work of town planners and architects during the Fascist period (1923-1943) rose to institutional role as a propaganda tool within a housing and public works policy that supported the country's socio-economic renewal.
The operations in the area of Forlì-Cesena were significant and concerned the mountain economy’s improvement and the tourism’s development in the cities of the regime, mainly Forlì, Predappio and Castrocaro.
Today Predappio in particular is a real Urban Museum, which highlights the historical, artistic and cultural value of that period. Founded in 1927, the town developed around Piazza Garibaldi and Piazza S. Antonio; in the homonymous square the Parish Church dedicated to St. Antonio da Padova stands out. Noteworthy is the birthplace of Mussolini, a typical Romagna country cottage that today houses exhibitions dedicated to the early twentieth century. On the way to Premilcuore is the cemetery of St. Cassiano in Pennino, with the tomb of Mussolini and his family. Departing from Predappio, in direction of Meldola, one finds Rocca delle Caminate, a village of medieval origin, given to Mussolini in 1920 and which became the summer residence of his family.
Province of Forlì-Cesena - Tourist Office
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www.turismo.fc.it
Factory
Once there was the factory in the city. The factory intended as a production workplace: now the factory is gone, or at least it has become something else. The history of the SICLI cement works in Gambettola has begun again, after its discontinuance, thanks to the project of the designer Angelo Grassi, who thought to turn this great industrial monument into a city of culture.
Years of planning, investment and work gave substance to today's architecture made of spaces and people that give the building a new functionality. A container on the move, which changes depending on the users’ needs and always ready to accommodate new economic, social, cultural and artistic activities.
The desire to maintain the original structure of the building is present in every corner: nothing is lost of the granitic solidity of this former factory where old machines still remind us of the past hard works. The spaces recreated by Angelo Grassi, such as the multimedia stage laboratory, the exhibition areas created inside the tunnels, the after-work club and the observatory overlooking the city, are perfectly combined.
Factory
Viale Carducci, 119 - Gambettola
Tel. +39 0547 52115 - fax +39 0547 59302
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www.angelograssi.it
Tito Balestra Foundation - Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Foundation was established in 1989 with the aim of preserving and making accessible the modern art collection of the poet and writer Tito Balestra from Longiano. The exhibition gallery is located in the Castello Malatestiano (the Malatesta's Castle) in Longiano and in some neighboring areas. The art collection, which has been done in Rome during the long stay of the poet, is composed of more than two thousand paintings, drawings and sculptures and presents some interesting elements concerning the context of the twentieth-century Italian figurative history.
The Balestra Foundation owns one of the most important funds of Mino Maccari's work. Moreover, in the castle plenty of the works of Mafai, Rosai, De Pisis, Morandi, Guttuso, Vespignani, Bartolini, Zancanaro, Ziveri, Campigli, Fantuzzi, Sironi, Vangelli and other twentieth-century masters are displayed.
One showroom is dedicated to the works of foreign artists such as Chagall, Kokoschka, Matisse, Heckel. The Foundation finally organizes important exhibitions on art and literature protagonists of the twentieth century.
Tito Balestra Fondation
Piazza Malatestiana, 1 - Longiano
Tel. +39 0547 665850 - fax +39 0547 667007
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www.fondazionetitobalestra.org
Secondo Casadei and the ballroom dance
Secondo Casadei (Sant'Angelo di Gatteo April 1, 1906 – November 19, 1971) said that his music had never waned as long as there would have been someone who wanted to dance. The ballroom dance is a partner dance that owes its name to the movements of the dancers who glide, shuffle their feet and go away smoothly. The music of Secondo Casadei has accompanied many generations of dancing fans and still preserves the freshness, vivacity, originality and uniqueness of the beginning, acquiring the definition of “Strauss of Romagna”, given by the writer and director Leandro Castellani.
This great tradition is now accessible, besides in dance halls, at the Liscio@museuM in Savignano sul Rubicone, born from the desire to analyze the “ballroom dance phenomenon” as the cultural identity of a territory, not only as a kind of entertainment dance and music, but as a context that accompanies the social life of a whole community over a century. A large collection of historical evidence and information on the ballroom dance can be easily explored today thanks to modern technologies.
Liscio@museuM - Istituzione Cultura Savignano
Tel. +39 0541 944017 - fax +39 0541 942194
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www.lisciomuseum.it
Vero Stoppioni Art Gallery
The gallery was established in 1990 and is entitled to Vero Stoppioni, founder and leader of the "Premio Campigna" (Campigna Prize), an initiative of national importance.
Here, about a hundred works are displayed permanently, including those acquired in the various editions of the Prize since 1955. There are works by leading painters of Romagna such as Sughi, Cappelli, Piraccini and Ruffini, and national and international works by authors like Korompay, Vacchi, Fieschi, Bonfanti, Mandelli, Morlotti, Ruggeri, Plessi, Petlin, Berman.
The picture-gallery also guards an important archive of letters written by artists and critics such as Arcangeli, Valsecchi, Crispolti, De Micheli, Raimondi. A section of the museum is dedicated to Mattia Moreni, the famous informal artist, who between the Seventies and the Eighties has worked in Santa Sofia, realizing the great multi-matter work "Mistura". Connected to the gallery is the Parco delle Sculture all'Aperto (Outdoor Sculptures Park) opened in 1993 and which shows, in a two-kilometer route, the works by Somaini, Carrano, Mainolfi e di Anne e Patrick Poirier.
Galleria d'Arte Vero Stoppioni
viale Roma, 5/a - Santa Sofia
Tel. +39 0543 975428 / 981854
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www.comune.santa-sofia.fo.it
