Umbria is in the collective imagination a region tied to traditions. In reality, there is nothing more beautiful than to discover how the happy relationship with the past has given rise to a happy modernity.
This modernity is the result of a fruitful relationship with a history that has made man the guardian of the space in which he dwells.
For this itinerary, we enjoyed following a series of exchanges that great contemporary artists wanted to establish with the different experiences gained in the region through the centuries.
- Between Città di Castello and Assisi: Burri and his dialogue with the pictorial cycles of the Basilica of San Francesco. The idea behind this proposal is to re-examine Burri’s work in Città di Castello, his hometown, both at the former dryhouses and at the historic site of Palazzo Albizzini, in light of the suggestions drawn from inside the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. Two guided tours that follow our thread between past and present.
- Arnaldo Pomodoro and the relationship with an ancient territory: the Carapace among the Sagrantino vineyards and the Lance of Light coming out of the steel forges of Terni. A landscape modulated by the agricultural rhythms of Sagrantino wine cultivation in the Montefalco area is chosen as the setting for Pomodoro’s large functional sculpture, “Carapace,” a tortoise-shaped cellar on the Castel Buono estate. In Terni, the same artist celebrates the tradition of steelwork and creates the “Lance of Light.” Two tours for two faces so different yet both deeply Umbrian.
- Foligno and the Cosmic Magnet: a city to discover. Foligno is presented in an itinerary that includes the frescoes of Gentile da Fabriano, the printing museum and celebrates its great openness to contemporary art, as evidenced by having attracted big names such as Fuksas, who was asked to design a church, and Gino De Dominicis, whose Calamita Cosmica was acquired and fully enhanced in the setting of the former Church of the Holy Trinity.
- Spoleto: city of the Festival of Two Worlds, urban setting as the backdrop of the great masters of contemporary art. Calderoli’s Theodolapio, for starters!
- Todi and Pepper: an important legacy celebrates a passionate relationship between the Umbrian city and the United States.
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