Happy Monday to you all! ❤️ I hope you spent a nice weekend. Here in my area it was a warm sunny Sunday and so, in the afternoon, me and my hubby went to walk in the center of my city (Pistoia, Italy) to enjoy our free time. Yesterday there was the International Day of Museums and so the municipality provides the free entry to civic museums and places of culture in many city.
A similar initiative there is from time to time, usually in the first Sunday of the month, so we use to visit those museum every time we can and it's always a pleasure.
Yesterday there was the free entry to 3 local musem: the City Museum of Antique Art, the Museum of the ancient Spedale del Ceppo and The Palazzo Fabroni Museum of 20th-Century and Contemporary Art. We decided to go to the Palazzo Fabroni, where a couple of weeks ago we visited the Marino Marini Exhibition. This time we enjoyed the first floor where there are many interesting paintings and sculptures of the past and, of course, I took some pics to share with you!
At first, in the following pic you can see me in front of one of my favorite artwork. It's a painting titled "Folla" (it means "People") painted in the 1996 by the artist Roberto Barni.
In this artwork there are some stylized male figures on a brown background, but the very interesting thing is that Barni uses sheets of newspaper glued and manipulates by his fingers to create protuberances to obtain a sort of bas-relief.
This kind of stylized figures are typical of the works by Barni, even if he was also an excellent sculptor.
In the same room there was also some artworks by Gianni Ruffi, Umberto Buscioni and, in a corner, there are 3 pics took by the italian photographer Aurelio Amendola, who, along the time, portraited many important people in different fields, included Andy Warhol!
In the following pic you can see the pics of Ruffi (at the left) and Barni (at the right) took by Amendola many years ago:
The portrait of Buscioni by Amendola:
A large abstract painting by Buscioni:
An installation by Ruffi (1971) titled "Cestole" and made by wood, iron and rope:
Now I have to come back to my brushes and colors, but soon I'll share with you some other pics I took inside the museum!
See ya soon and stay safe,
Silvia
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