L’Arte Inquieta

The urgency of creation

Interior landscapes, maps, faces. 140 works, from Paul Klee to Anselm Kiefer

An exhibition itinerary exploring the theme of identity, a restless identity that questions our time, through painting, sculpture, drawing, graphics and artists’ books by 57 artists.

The project, which explores the multiple facets of identity, presents the public with artists who have used innovative languages to look at their own inner reality and the world around them: gazes that are increasingly important in today’s present, where arte inquieta (‘restless art’) is the upshot of personal and collective occurrences, of research, of that expressive urgency of artists displaying their own feverish activity, and with unique works still capable of surprising us. An exhibition where the authors of the founding poetics of our modernity interface with works sometimes from excluded worlds, today considered a precious and necessary archive of imagery: art brut, therefore, I presented as visionary and with unprecedented languages, just as the great masters of the avant-garde who open the exhibition sections had already sensed: Paul Klee, as early as 1912, Max Ernst and Surrealism, through to Jean Dubuffet in 1945.

L’Arte Inquieta. L’urgenza della creazione is divided into thematic areas (the metamorphic face; seriality, obsessions and interior monologues; cartographies, maps and visionary worlds), with artists and works juxtaposed by affinity of genre and language: an exhibition itinerary that thus investigates the burning vitality of artists, the restless identity to be found in their historical outlook, as well as their desires and realities in this world. Carla Accardi, Alighiero Boetti, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Keith Haring, Emilio Isgrò, Paul Klee, Anselm Kiefer, Maria Lai, Antonio Ligabue, Zoran Music, Emil Nolde and Yves Tanguy are just some of the artists in the exhibition who will also be in dialogue with authors whose unpublished works are to be found in the San Lazzaro Archive of the Museum of the History of Psychiatry in Reggio Emilia, today one of the largest collections in the field in Europe.

The exhibition is the culminating moment of Identità Inquieta (‘Restless Identity’): a great choral work promoted by the city of Reggio Emilia that, in the current planning phase, involves institutions and organisations from the social, educational and cultural spheres (including Reggio Emilia Città senza Barriere, FCR of Reggio Emilia, Council Cultural Services – Civic Museums, Libraries, AUSL), with the aim of offering a rich and diverse calendar of cultural events and opportunities for active participation.

This exhibition will be carbon neutral: Fondazione Palazzo Magnani is committed, starting with this exhibition, to totally offset the tons of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere for the production of the cultural activities it organises.

Tickets
Buy your ticket online or at the ticket office of Palazzo Magnani

Sustainable ticket 13 €

Full price 12 €

Reduced 10 €

Students (19-26 years old) 8 €

Kids (6-18 years old) 6 €

Families 14 € - 32 €

Sustainable ticket: to help offset your environmental impact when coming to the exhibition. We will buy sustainability credits from the Apennine National Park. More info here

Concessions: over 65, people with disabilities, groups of at least 10 people, “Italia in-attesa” ticket, “Modenantiquaria 2023” ticket, YoungER card, membership card affiliated institutions, FAI card, NaturaSì Community Card holders, Card Cultura Bologna, BPER Banca employees, Max Mara employees, FCR employees, FCR Benessere card, Trenitalia/Frecce ticket with destination RE and dated no earlier than the day before the visit

Students: students from 19 to 26 years old with a university card

Family tickets (to be purchased only at the ticket office of Palazzo Magnani) :
2 adults + 1 kid 24 €
2 adults + 2 kids 28 €
2 adults + 3 kids 32 €
1 adult + 1 kid 14 €
1 adult + 2 kids 18 €

Free admission: carers of people with disabilities, children under 6 years-old, members of Fondazione Palazzo Magnani, press-accreditated journalists, members of Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Strozzi and Camera