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The collections of the Municipality of Alessandria are free on weekends

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ALEXANDRIA. Once an exhibition is over, we are thinking about the next one. There are already ideas on the Pietro Sassi post: the exhibition dedicated to the nineteenth-century landscape architect at the Sale d’Arte has just been dismantled. «We will do them as soon as possible, perhaps as early as March. There is no shortage of ideas and projects », says Cristina Antoni, president of Culturale – Costruire Insieme (the company that deals with city museums).

But in the meantime, in this moment of pause, together with the Municipality it was decided to give the public a bit of culture, opening the doors of the collection in via Machiavelli every weekend. They can be visited for free in the afternoons from Friday to Sunday. After all, what is owned by the Municipality belongs to all the Alexandrians.

In this way they will be able to see, photograph and share the Arthurian cycle, the mosaics of Lady Be and some other works present in the space next to the civic library without spending a euro. «An opportunity not to be missed is to visit the rooms for free, rediscovering or getting to know the artistic treasures of the permanent collections. Although the exhibition dedicated to Pietro Sassi is being dismantled, the rooms in fact contain the precious frescoes of the Arthurian cycle and the surprising contemporary mosaics of Lady Be », recalls Antoni.

And he adds: «From this weekend, for all those who come up to the new exhibition, there will be free admission. Last weekend the anthology that Alessandria dedicated to his illustrious fellow citizen Pietro Sassi ended “Living with art and art”. In addition to the visitors in attendance, the exhibition reached a large audience thanks to the web and social networks ».

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What can you see today at the Art Rooms? The precious “Rooms of King Arthur”, the cycle of frescoes commissioned at the end of the 14th century by Andreino Trotti (leader and member of an important Alexandrian family) to celebrate the victory obtained in 1391 alongside Gian Galeazzo Visconti against the French troops ; the series, inspired by the love affairs and vicissitudes of Lancelot del Lago, is one of the oldest examples of the Lanzaloti room.

Originally the fifteen scenes of the cycle decorated the walls of the large reception room of Cascina Torre di Frugarolo, where they were discovered in 1971 and, after a careful restoration, exhibited in a section of the Art Rooms specially created to enhance them and be able to see them from near.

We move on to contemporary mosaic with some works by Lady Be, the young artist from Pavia, Letizia Lanzarotti, also famous abroad for the works made using waste and plastic materials: caps, bottles, old toys and costume jewelery.

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