La costruzione della città moderna: gli archivi degli architetti del ‘900 a Reggio Emilia

Among the many projects reconstructed through archival materials, noteworthy are the refurbishment of the Hotel Posta and the Teatro Ariosto (Tirelli), the Mercato Coperto and the Cimitero Monumentale (Sorgato), Villa Ferretti (Cavicchioni), the Cinema Ambra and the ‘Della Robbia’ intervention (Lucci), the Seminary, the INA Casa neighbourhoods in Via Wybicki and Via Bismantova (Manfredini), the Coop1 and the so-called Skyscraper (Coop. Architetti e ingegneri), the Max Mara headquarters in Via F.lli Cervi and Palazzo Caminati (Pastorini and Salvarani).

Furthermore, the exhibition features works by two nationally renowned figures from Reggio Emilia. The sculpture by artist Graziano Pompili, which dominates the courtyard of the building, is part of the series Poeticamente abita l’uomo, a cycle begun in the early 1990s, in which the artist addresses the theme of living through various interpretations of the home, understood as an archetypal form, a safe haven and a way of striving for the absolute. The first exhibition room hosts Greetings from, an oil on canvas painting by Angelo Davoli, kindly loaned by the Angelo Davoli Archive. The work offers a reflection on our stereotypes, both physical and mental, and through a mimesis between the real and the imaginary, proposes a new idea of the city in which space-time coordinates dissolve, restoring it in the form of an old postcard.