UDINE. Casa Cavazzini is ready to welcome the fifty paintings of the first major exhibition commissioned by the mayor Pietro Fontanini to relaunch tourism in the Friulian capital and ensure that culture becomes a vehicle for promoting the area, also helping to relaunch the economy.
For “The shape of infinity”, a project conceived by Don Alessio Geretti with the San Floriano committee, the declared goal, pandemic permitting, is to get 100,000 people to Udine before the end of the exhibition which will open on Saturday 16 October to end on March 27, 2022.
An ambitious goal that needed a container with the right credentials to host prestigious works such as those selected by Don Geretti. So here is that the Municipality has allocated one million and 238 thousand euros to complete the renovation project signed by the architect Edoardo Gherardi. Because although the renovation of Casa Cavazzini signed by Gae Aulenti’s studio was completed only in 2012 with a cost of 9 million, there was a need to “adapt” the museum to the new international standards that inspired the guidelines of the so-called decree Franceschini and which also make up the facility report, a sort of “x-ray” of the museum that is requested every time a work is borrowed.
“A new air conditioning system has been created with precise temperature and humidity control – explains the deputy mayor with responsibility for public works, Loris Michelini who yesterday carried out an inspection with the mayor Fontanini – because the works of art need to keep always constant these parameters that otherwise could ruin them. In addition, we have a security system with an internal control room, but connected with an external security company and a specific lighting system to create different scenarios according to needs. A new external lift has also been created on the entrance to the courtyard which allows us to transport large works. With this intervention we can finally say that we have a museum that respects all the highest quality standards both as regards the conservation of the works and for safety ».
The work was carried out by the company Di Betta Giannino di Nimis, the same company that completed the intervention on the facades of the castle. Fifty paintings that will be housed on the second floor of Casa Cavazzini including authentic masterpieces of modern and contemporary art signed by Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, Kandinskij, Boccioni, Picasso, Vedova, Fuchs, Sisley, Kupka, Lentulov, Nesterov and many others, including the Friulian artist, Giovanni Napoleone Pellis.
Many of the masterpieces come from the most important museums in the world: Vienna, Paris, New York, Barcelona, Moscow, Venice and Rome, but there will also be unpublished private collections, which Udine will unveil for the first time.
Reservations for visits are already open, by phone (0432.1279127), via email ([email protected]) or through the appropriate form on the dedicated website (www.laformadellinfinito.it). The exhibition will be open on Mondays from 2pm to 6pm, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9am to 6pm, on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 9am to 7.30pm. The entrance ticket will cost 12 euros.
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