Il Giardino delle Risonanze

Il Giardino delle Risonanze
edited by Giulia Adami and Valerio Mezzolani
conceived by Costantino D’Orazio and Lorenzo Balbi
Hopefulmonster
Italian
2026

The catalog recounts the exhibition of more than thirty works from the archives and the Drawings and Prints Cabinet of the National Museums of Bologna, with loans from the Morandi Museum and the Archiginnasio Municipal Library, in dialogue with sixteen artists representative of the contemporary Bologna scene. A poetic place, an imaginary cultural garden where the balances and contradictions of humanity and nature are symbolically represented. The processes set in motion by the industrial revolution have often led us to lose sight of connections that date back to the dawn of civilization, yet the echoes of these ancient links can still be traced in the words we use: the term culture derives from the Latin colere, ‘to cultivate’. Therefore, following the origin of the term, creating culture also means taking care of nature, which is not to be understood as opposed to what is human, but rather as a context, an environment, and a history with which humanity must relate.

Il Giardino delle Risonanze's artists: Josef Albers, Anna Tappari, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Jean Couy, Cuoghi Corsello, Anton Raphael Mengs, Giorgio Alvise Baffo, Eva Marisaldi, Enrico Serotti, Alessandro Algardi, Francis Bacon, Zapruder, Giorgio De Chirico, Felice Giani, Filippo Scandellari, Daniel Seghers, Erasmus Quellinus Il Giovane, Arianna Zama, Giorgio Morandi, Alessandra Dragoni, Giuseppe De Nittis, Luigi Venturi, Riccardo Baruzzi, Ubaldo Gandolfi, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Emma Masut, Domenico Maria Viani, Italo Zuffi, Hans Fronius, Fanny & Alexander, Luigi Serra, Paolo Chiasera, Otto Dix, Bruno Munari, Jean Arp, Kurt Regschek, Zimmerfrei, Alessandro Tiarini, Tommaso Silvestroni, Valentino Solmi, Filippo Tappi, Maestro Vpr, Federico Zamboni, Guido Cagnacci, Emidio Clementi, Stefano Pilia, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Savinio, Antonio Muzzi, Enrico Romolo