Following the resumption of activities in recent months, the Church of the Study Centre and Communication Archive of the University of Parma is reopening to the public with many new features.
The inauguration will take place on Sunday, 9 November at 10 a.m. at the Abbey of Valserena and will be followed, at 11.15 a.m., by the concert-recital Il Museo si svela (The Museum Reveals Itself) by Daniele Ruzza (solo violin), the first event in the series Oltre le Opere / Dentro alla Musica – Intorno allo CSAC
The new permanent exhibition inside the Church offers a unique journey through some of the highlights of the more than twelve million items held in the Archive.
The exhibition, curated by CSAC, spans five sections – Art, Photography, Media, Design and Entertainment – showcasing works, objects and documents that have rarely or never been exhibited before.
Designed to leave the nave of the Abbey free, the exhibition allows visitors to admire the extraordinary Cistercian architecture while immersing themselves in a visual narrative of Italian creativity in the 20th century and today.
Conceived as a “mobile” installation, the exhibition will be able to transform over time, with works and materials being periodically replaced or displayed for the first time, inviting visitors to return to Valserena to discover new sections of the CSAC collections.
The permanent exhibition includes works, objects, materials, documents and projects from some of the most significant collections in the Archive.
The Farani Collection includes a costume designed by Danilo Donati for Federico Fellini‘s Roma (1972) and several costumes created for David Lynch‘s Dune (1984), as well as a selection of costumes for operas such as Giorgio Pressburger‘s The Magic Flute (1980), with costumes by Gianni Novak, and La Traviata (1984), directed and costumed by Franco Zeffirelli.
