Unlikely Monuments. In dialogue. Merini / Carducci

Monuments dedicated to women who have played a public role—whether well-known, unknown, or forgotten—are undoubtedly rare, as are the spaces in which they are situated. Starting from the ongoing series Unlikely Monuments. Excerpt from the Catalogue, Sonia Lenzi creates a dialogue between places, the figures represented, and the viewer. In this way, a dispositif for individual and collective imagination and memory is activated, beginning from one or both subjects—the urban spaces and the unlikely monument—and leading to a rethinking of the modes of inclusion and exclusion from history, along with the related social differences and inequalities.

The first “In Dialogue” by Sonia Lenzi is presented at Casa Carducci, in front of which the monument to Alda Merini is symbolically placed, not far from the monument to Giosuè Carducci by Leonardo Bistolfi. Merini and Carducci: two contrasting figures and poets, who lived in different periods and engage with opposing ideas of representing public memory, within the austere spaces of the last residence of the poet of unified Italy.

Tickets: €3 (reduced) – €2 (special reduced, ages 19–25). Free admission for Card Cultura holders, with an ARTEFIERA ticket during ART CITY Bologna, and for all visitors on Saturday 7 February from 6 pm. Due to the specific nature of the museum, visits are always guided and last a maximum of 30 minutes. Groups cannot exceed 10 visitors.

Related events: Friday 27 February, 6 pm – conversation with the artist and Federica Muzzarelli, in collaboration with FAF / Research Center for Photography, Art and Feminisms; Thursday 12 March, 6 pm – Parallel Constellation. Twentieth-Century Italian Women Poets: discussion of the volume edited by Isabella Leardini; Saturday 21 March, 5:30 pm – guided tour with the curator in the presence of the artist.