'Florence’s Daughters' at the Innocenti
A new restoration at Europe’s earliest foundling hospital By Linda Falcone Autumn/Winter 2024-25, Issue 06 Restoration Conversations ...
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Calliope Arts
Documenting women’s stories, today and through the centuries.
A project for the ‘restoration’ of women’s creative achievements,
through research, awareness, conservation and cultural exchange.
Calliope Arts also raises awareness through Restoration Conversations livestream broadcasts and bi-annual magazine.
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Find out about our programmes and guiding principles as the Restoration Conversation
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What to watch...
If you missed the premiere broadcast of our latest curator-led broadcast 'Restoration Conversations' now is your chance to watch the show. Florence-based French museum director Morgane Lucquet Laforgue calls Museo Sant’Orsola ‘a museum in the making’. Part of a 17,000-square-metre complex once inhabited by Franciscan nuns, it is scheduled for inauguration in 2026. In this episode, with presenter Linda Falcone, Morgane introduces artworks from the exhibition ‘Rivelazioni’, capturing the essence of a historical complex thanks to contemporary art by Juliette Minchin and Marta Roberti.
Reading up...
Our AUTUMN/WINTER 2024/2025 issue is now 'out' in its digital version.
Press the cover to read the magazine online.
The Curators' Quaderno: Louise Bourgeois in Florence
Second in a series that began with Lola Costa: An Artist at Il Palmerino, the September issue, Louise Bourgeois in Florence, invites readers to visit two of Florence’s most iconic museum spaces, Museo Novecento and Museo degli Innocenti to explore the French-born US artist’s ‘site-specific’ sculptures and gouaches on themes linked to maternity. The ‘Louise Bourgeois in Florence’ project and exhibition, sponsored by Calliope Arts and Christian Levett Collection / FAMM, is organised by the Museo Novecento, in collaboration with The Easton Foundation and the Museo degli Innocenti.
“Exhibitions, cultural festivals and grant projects aimed at the rediscovery of women’s contributions to history and their relevance today do not begin on inauguration day,” Margie MacKinnon explains. “They are the product of a far longer process of courage and ‘care’, in which creative personalities or ‘curators’ band together to research, rediscover, document, or display these women’s achievements. The Curator’s Quaderno is about insight into curators intentions. It is the starting point of a journey the reader shares.”
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Vanessa Bell exhibition, Installation view, MK Gallery
‘Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour’
140 works at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes make up the venue’s newest exhibition: ‘Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour’, which opened its doors this October. The exhibition offers a complete ‘picture’ of the artist’s range: paintings, furniture, drawings, murals and more. These photographs of its installations are an invitation to explore Bell’s evocative oeuvre, including still-life works, ceramics and mural designs… and to enjoy the largest-ever survey of her work on show…
The exhibition ‘Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour’, curated by Fay Blanchard and Anthony Spira, is on at MK Gallery until 23 February 2025. Calliope Arts is providing support to the exhibition through the Vanessa Bell Circle of Friends.
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Three main photos (left to right) by: Olga Makarova, Alinari Foundation for Photography Archives, Marco Badiani
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