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Palazzo da Mosto, 22 November 2025 – 8 February 2026
Guido Tirelli
Prospero Sorgato
Pietro Cavicchioni
Enea Manfredini
Cooperativa Architetti e Ingegneri and Osvaldo Piacentini
Carlo Lucci
Eugenio Salvarani
Antonio Pastorini
The exhibition, promoted by the Fondazione Palazzo Magnani in partnership with the Municipality of Reggio Emilia and Biblioteca Panizzi and curated by Giordano Gasparini and Andrea Zamboni, traces the urban evolution of the city, offering an in-depth look at the archives left by leading figures in Reggio Emilia’s architecture and urban planning over the previous century.
Original drawings by Guido Tirelli, Pietro Cavicchioni, Prospero Sorgato, Carlo Lucci, Osvaldo Piacentini, the Cooperativa Architetti e Ingegneri (Architects and Engineers Cooperative) and Antonio Pastorini from the Biblioteca Panizzi are on display, as are materials from the archives made available by the heirs of Eugenio Salvarani and Enea Manfredini.
Not only plans and technical drawings, but also notes, correspondence and photographs, essential for a thorough understanding of the creative process, the design context and the architects’ networks of relationships. These documents allow us to go beyond the finished work, restoring the figure of the architect in its entirety: designer, teacher, intellectual, and sometimes even public and political figure.
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.
