Galleria d'arte moderna raccolta Lercaro

Named after the famous archbishop of Bologna, Giacomo Lercaro, the Foundation holds an important collection of modern art that formed in the early seventies of the twentieth century at the behest of a group of painters and sculptors in Bologna, Ilario Rossi, Pompilio Mandelli, Enzo Pasquini and Aldo Borgonzoni, who donated the nucleus of paintings and sculptures to the Cardinal, on the occasion of his eightieth birthday. Since his departure, the Foundation has continued to acquire assets (paintings, sculptures, ceramics, graphic works) by donation, with the aim of perpetuating the high spiritual purpose, social, ethical and aesthetic Lercaro discerned in contemporary art, in particularly in sculpture, which gives body to the bulk of the collection. Since the early seventies to the present, the collection was directed by Elva Bonzagni Poggi Franco Solmi and Marilena Pasquali in collaboration with the Presidency of Archbishop Arnaldo Fraccaroli. Open to public use since 1989, in May 2003 has moved from the initial site of Villa San Giacomo, owned by the Diocese of the Opera "Lady of Trust", the new dwelling within the building that houses the recently refitted ' Institute Veritatis Splendor, adjacent to the Cinematheque and the MAMBo, within the cultural pole of the Manufacture of Arts Hundreds are the representative works of the national art scene of the twentieth century, with some significant international presence: Manzu, Morandi, Marine, Martini, Moore , Giacometti, Ernst, Matta.La collection consists of about 700 works, paintings, sculptures, drawings and graphics by artists who worked during the twentieth century in various directions poetry, just to mention the most, ranging from figurative realist of the twentieth century and informal, from abstract-concrete spatialism, from modernism to post-modern surrealism with the conceptual work of Medardo Rosso, Paolo Troubetzkoy, Adolfo Wildt, Carlo Corsi, Peter Dodero, Pietro Melandri, Ercole Drei, Harold Bonzagni, Giorgio de Chirico, Arturo Martini, Giorgio Morandi, Virgilio Guidi, Michele Cascella, Severus Pozzati, Luciano Baldessari, Nino Corazza, Henry Moore, Mino Maccari, Francesco Messina, Marino Marini, Bruno Saetti, John Korompay, Alberto Viani, James Manzu, Mirko (Balsadella), Corrado Cagli, Toni Benetton, Luciano Minguzzi, Pietro Annigoni, Angel Biancini, Victor Brennan, Guttuso, Sassu, Bruno Cassinari, Piero Giunni, John Ciangottini, Ivo Tartarini, Guidone Romagnoli, Pericle Fazzini, Anthony Mazzotti, Gastone Breddo, Fifth Ghermandi, In Leonardi, Remo Brindisi, Gino Covili, Ernesto Treccani, Giuseppe Ferrari, Raymond Rimondi, Vasco Bendini, Mario Nanni, Dino Woods, Pirro Cuniberti, Sergio Vacchi, Germano Sartelli, and Arnaldo Pomodoro, Charles Zauli, Mario Bocchini, Sergio Romiti, Luciano De Vita, Floriano Bodini, Simon Benetton Concept Pozzati, Richard Hesse, Ivo Sassi, Carlo Santachiara, David Scarabelli Mulazzani Enrico, Fabrizio Passarella, White Rose Archangels (Rosalba), Alberto Giacometti, Roberto Sebastian Matta, Jean Michel Folon and Lucio Fontana. Complement the permanent exhibition, spread over two floors, a hall for temporary exhibitions, a conference and a library with more than ten thousand art books. At the rooms of the Modern Art Gallery are also held exhibitions among which we remember "Georges Rouault. Night of Redemption. Prints and drawings" and "John Poggeschi. Seeing things in the world" in 2010 and "the light of the Cross. ancient and contemporary art in comparison "of 2011.