Special opening
NOVEMBER 1st SPECIAL OPENING h 10.00 – 19.00 h 16.00 Guided tour to the museum and the exhibition 1968. Un anno
Visit
CSAC
An exhibition space that
proposes to offer to the public
an emblematic essay
of the the Archive's collections.
FIGURE CONTRO. FOTOGRAFIA DELLA DIFFERENZA
Curators: Paolo Barbaro, Cristina Casero, Claudia Cavatorta
The exhibition Figure contro. Fotografia della differenza is made of artworks from the CSAC archives, documents the role that photography, especially in the Seventies, has had in raising awareness around hidden, forgotten, sometimes censored issues.
The figures against depicted in these shots are people literally pushed to the margins from the society, because their own existence is in contrast with the logic…
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Ettore Sottsass. Oltre il Design
On Saturday, November 18th the exhibition ETTORE SOTTSASS. OLTRE IL DESIGN opens to the public. It is produced and organized by the CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione of the University of Parma and curated in close collaboration with a working group composed by historians in the fields of architecture, design and contemporary art, designers and archivists.
In 1979, Ettore Sottsass donated over 14,000 project materials (sketches and drawings) and 24 sculptures…
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Objets trouvés. Archivi per un grande magazzino
Department stores: a synthesis of modernity in photography, architecture, design and fashion The ‘department store’ constitues an appropriate field of research for a twentieth-century archive of images and projects such as the CSAC, in which investigation and narrative methods can be verified. Our research in the archives has revealed documents and images that trace a pathway of fragments, integrated within the exhibition structure that unravels through the Paradigna abbey: these are objects trouvés…
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Esposizioni / Exhibitions Call for Papers
Call for Papers Esposizioni / Exhihitions International conference, CSAC, Abbazia di Valserena, Parma, January 27-28 2017 Organised by Università di Parma (CSAC), Sapienza Università di Roma, Università di Salerno, IUAV.
The origins of the Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione (CSAC) of the University of Parma could be traced back to a series of exhibitions promoted since 1968 by Arturo Carlo Quintavalle, in the context of a reflection on the relationships…
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Esplorazioni dell’archivio. Fotografie della Via Emilia
CSAC – Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione Università degli Studi di Parma
in collaborazione con Fotografia Europea
presenta
ESPLORAZIONI DELL’ARCHIVIO Fotografie della Via Emilia 7 maggio – 2 ottobre 2016
Abbazia di Valserena
From May 7th to October 2nd in the evocative setting of the Abbey of Valserena, a few kilometers away from the city of Parma, the CSAC -…
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CSAC & Mercanteinfiera
On the occasion of the 2016 Spring Edition of Mercanteinfiera, CSAC Archive-Museum offers a unique chance to all the fair’s visitors and exhibitors to discover the exhibition inside the Valserena Abbey, that brings together and conserves original materials of visual communication, artistic research and design in Italy starting from the first decades of the 20th century. An extraordinary legacy of over 12 million individual items: Fine Art (over 1,700 paintings, 300 sculptures, 17,000 drawings), Photography…
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CSAC presented at the GALA annual meeting, Beijing
CSAC president Francesca Zanella attended the GALA annual meeting “Communication without Borders”, which took place at the Communication University of China, Beijing on 6-7 July, 2015. University of Parma had been invited as a parter of this network to investigate the ways in which international collaboration can transform our activities as scholars, teachers and students: CSAC has been presented as a case study.
Bruno Munari, Manifesto Campari, 1964
The billboard designed by Bruno Munari for Campari is closely related to the opening of the M1 subway line in Milan, in November 1964: it is in fact a poster that considers a mobile, and at the same time fragmented, vision because, as the artist himself affirms, it does not lose “its strenght even if it is partially glimpsed, even if groups of people partially cover it, or if you look at it from…
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A Specialization Course at the CSAC for the students of PUCE (Quito, Ecuador)
June 15th began the third and last week of the Specialization Course Archiviare il Novecento, organized by the CSAC Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione dell’Università degli studi di Parma. This course has seen the participation of twenty-nine students in architecture, design and visual arts from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, after an agreement with the University of Parma. The 60 hours course has been designed with three modules focusing on the…
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