Currently, the museum includes an exhibition of 133 works by Italian artists, including renowned names such as Emilio Vedova and Mario Schifano, as well as international artists. One room, the tower, and the castle’s granary house creations by contemporary Italian artists; another room hosts 11 works by foreign artists, and a third is dedicated to the Milanese master Gianni Brusamolino. An entire room is dedicated to the works of Piacenza artists, featuring 37 works by the main local authors, including Cinello Losi and William Xerra. The museum, which preserves some of the most current artistic trends, is particularly interesting: like the great American contemporary art museums, MIM includes about 300 works—paintings, drawings, sculptures, and installations—which are rotated on public display, with a maximum of 180 pieces shown at a time. MIM stands for Museum in Motion, a space intended to host on rotation the works from the Spaggiari family’s contemporary art collection. The Museum of Contemporary Art of Our Time, Museum in Motion, is set within the Castle of San Pietro in Cerro. The fortress dates back to the 13th century, but its current architectural layout is from the mid-15th century, created by the founder Bartolomeo Barratieri. Archival documents from the 18th century allowed for the functional restoration of many castle spaces. Owned by the Barattieri family until 1993, it is now in the hands of the Spaggiari family. In the attic, along the route between the two turrets, MIM has been arranged; owned by Franco Spaggiari, it is open to the public with an interesting collection of art from the postwar period to the present, comprised of over three hundred works by international, national, and local artists. Since its establishment in 2001, thanks to the patronage of its owner, MIM has collaborated with the Parisian association D’ARS and had the critical support of Pierre Restany, who coined the museum’s name as a testament to the ongoing evolution of collections aimed at showcasing the most significant contemporary artistic expressions; since then, the museum has been organized by Roberta Castellani. The museum is divided into three sections: international research is represented by artists such as Gonzalo Martin Calero, Roger Selden, Robin van Arsdol, Jaume Solè, Cordelia von den Steinen, Alzek Misheff, and Javier Loren, while the Italian creative panorama includes many artists such as Alberto Allegri, Agostino Bonalumi, Gianni Brusamolino, Aurelio Caminati, Pino Chiari, Marco Cornini, Carla Crosio, Roberto Crippa, Sergio D’Angelo, Gioxe De Micheli, Gianfranco Ferroni, Gianni Dova, Paolo Grimaldi, Omar Galliani, Ale Guzzetti, Ugo La Pietra, Giancarlo Ossola, Fabrizio Plessi, Bruto Pomodoro, Concetto Pozzati, Valentino Vago, Franco Vaccari, and Walter Valentini. Particular attention is given to developments in Piacenza art, highlighted by works from Carlo Berté, Armodio, Bot, Sergio Brizzolesi, Gustavo Foppiani, Mauro Fornari, Alberto Gallerati, Giorgio Groppi, Paolo Perotti, Ludovico Mosconi, Cinello Losi, Luciano Spazzali, and William Xerra. Museum in Motion is surrounded by a garden featuring contemporary sculptures and installations from the post-cubist and post-metaphysical period of Gianni Brusamolino, as well as conceptual and poverist works by Pina Inferrera Curtò. In 2004, the management established the Luigi Pronti Award, dedicated to young photographers, in memory of the attention and consideration that the director of the Piacenza Tourist Board, who passed away prematurely, always showed towards them. The museum’s exhibition activity takes place in Castell’Arquato, inside the Palazzo della Pretura, where numerous exhibitions have been held, including solo shows by Francesco Ferlisi, Gianni Testoni, Riccardo Bonfadini, Hiromi Masuda, the joint shows of Pinuccia Bernardoni and Antonio Violetta, and finally Dario Rossi; among group exhibitions are The Crisis of Presence, s. Finished by art. On work and other struggles, Chakra. Inner pathways expressed by art, Engineered installations, Ecce Homo and Fourth Selection of works by contemporary authors for a castle collection. Furthermore, starting on October 14, 2007, MIM inaugurated the second stage of the traveling series titled Carosello Italiano, featuring forty-eight painters, about ten sculptors, twelve photographers, and one video artist representing different contemporary trends of the Italian art world. In 2008, coinciding with the permanent placement of the sculpture “Landscape” in the castle park, the exhibition “A Sculpture for the Park – Annamaria Gelmi” was held.
Information about MIM – Museum in Motion
Via Roma, 19,
29010 San Pietro in Cerro (Piacenza)
0523934722
info@locandareguerriero.it
https://www.castellodisanpietro.com
Source: MIBACT
