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The show

Curated by Elisabetta Piccioni and Renata Frediani

On the stimulus of international museums that have dedicated important exhibitions to the Doll (from the historic Dolls Exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, New York, to the more recent Small Stories: at Home in a Dolls'House at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London), the Genoese exhibition was born from a wide-ranging project and aims to enhance otherwise little-known cultural heritage, with a strong emotional, anthropological and sociological impact, entering the rich calendar of cultural proposals of the Royal Palace of Genoa.
Set up inside the Teatro del Falcone , in the spaces on the first floor, the BAMBOLE exhibition will in fact be available to the public at the same time as the exhibition dedicated to the works of Antonio G. Santagata, La memoria della guerra. Antonio G. Santagata and the mural painting of the twentieth century , housed on the ground floor of the Theater.
It is the first time that visitors to the Royal Palace, in addition to exploring the historic apartments of the Museum, are offered the opportunity to take advantage of two complementary exhibition proposals in the spaces of the Theater, in order to attract a transversal audience with a range of cultural proposals wide and articulated.
In particular, the BAMBOLE exhibition intends to make tangible the artistic value of these very particular cultural assets, unjustly relegated exclusively to the playful manifestations of childhood , retracing their history, starting from the Marian images and wooden mannequins of the Ligurian crib production of the eighteenth century. century. Model of the human body, toy, instrument of religious and magical rituals, fetish, mannequin, simulacrum, work of art, collectible, pop symbol, the artifact-doll offers an infinite variety of readings, never banal expression of modern culture and contemporary.
Its history is also linked to the artisans and manufacturers that have made it over time, through memories settled in drawings, photographs, albums, catalogs, archive papers, letters and projects, materials and supports that will be present in the exhibition.
The fulcrum of the exhibition is the Frediani collection , an extraordinary collection of rare examples of dolls from the eighteenth century to today, already exhibited in 2012 at the State Archives of Lucca, favorably received on that occasion by critics and rewarded with considerable public success. . Characterized by the most varied geographical origins, different in construction techniques and typologies, the more than 200 specimens exhibited in the Teatro del Falcone refer above all to the female world, alluding to a collective destiny largely traced. Above all, the exhibition intends to underline how, over time and in different ways, the doll has had intense relationships with the decorative arts, design and fashion as well as, of course, with sculpture. A theme, therefore, with multiple readings and tackled from different perspectives, in its cultural and sociological implications, sometimes surprising and unexpected and that an articulated didactic, graphic and photographic apparatus will make manifest to the public.

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