Com’è viva la città. Art & the City 1913-2014

New exhibition at Villa Olmo

Villa Olmo i sready to host the new exhibition “Com’è viva la città. Art & the City 1913-2014”,  from July 18 to November 29 2015, bringing together over fifty works that span various media, formats and styles to look at daily life through the eyes of Italian and overseas artists. 

Among them, de Chirico, Warhol, Pistoletto, Lichtenstein, Chia, and Cattelan.

Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, internationally renowned art critic, Director of GAMeC – The Galleria of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bergamo and professor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, is the curator of the final stage of the City Council’s three-year plan for the now well established appointment with the arts in the Città di Como. While the previous exhibitions “La città nuova oltre Sant’Elia” [The new city beyond Sant’Elia] (2013) and “Ritratti di Città” [Portraits of the City] (2014), the idea for which came from the Councillor for Culture Luigi Cavadini as studies of the theme of the city, focused attention on the physical location and an architectural and tangible entity, the new exhibition examines the substrate of the city itself.

“Arte, energia per il territorio" (Art, energy for the territory) is an initiative organized by the exhibition organizers along with Acsm Agam.
During the whole duration of the exhibition, thanks to Acsm Agam, sponsor of the initiative, visitors can buy reduced tickets (5 euros instead of 10 euros) every Wednesday from 4pm to 8pm.
Incentive to visit "Com'è via la città - Arte & the City 1913 - 2014" is intended as part of the overall goal of Acsm Agam that, along with Comune di Como, is working in order to put Como in the network of art and culture cities, with great impact on the territory and the local community.

Special tours: every Tuesday, 3pm to 8pm, experts will explain to the visitors specific works at no additional costs.

Collateral events: a great choice of guided tours, performances, meetings, and so on.

In August, Sunday afternoon guided tours discounted 
"Com’è viva la città. Art & the City 1913-2014" offers a reduced ticket+guided tours for only 13 Euro on Sunday afternoon, starting at 3.30pm. The offer is available for 25 lucky visitors every Sunday in August on a first come, first served basis. 

Instagram contest #IlCieloSopraLaCitta: use the hashtag to uplaod pictures representing the city from above on Instagram. Best 10 pictures will be shown at Villa Olmo on the occasion of the exhibition closing.