A new museum, rich in an exceptional permanent collection, reopens to the public after an impressive restyling with the evocative "Daily Golgotha" exhibition.“Daily Golgotha” is the first stage of the “Crossing Art” cycle of exhibitions, which brings great contemporary art to comparison with the Museum's permanent collection, and includes: Russian icons dating back to the XNUMXth century XVIII-early XX, wooden icons from the Orthodox world, bronze polyptychs (among which a very rare example of a baptismal cross dating back to the XV century stands out), as well as the collection of engravings and lithographs donated by Vito Merlini: a collection of works ranging from the informal to the figurative, to Metaphysics.
"Daily Golgotha", an extraordinary exhibition on the theme of the "Cross" treated with great emotional involvement by the artist Renato Meneghetti, is instead a temporary exhibition that will last until October: curated by Francesco Buranelli, directed by Alberto Bartalini, it is promoted by Peccioli Foundation.
A courageous and unusual exhibition that seals the collaboration between Meneghetti and Buranelli which began with the installation "Look inside to see beyond" created in Rome in 2012 and with this year's beautiful US exhibition "I have come to you again . Blessed John Paul II”, dedicated to the pontificate of John Paul II, which saw the participation, in addition to Meneghetti, of many other well-known artists such as Giuliano Vangi, Mimmo Paladino, Igor Mitoraj, Giuseppe Ducrot.
Before the opening of the exhibition, the public was able to watch the documentary film by Alberto Michelini on the life of John Paul II, with the commentary of the director, who was present for the occasion.
The Museum takes its name from the ancient Palazzo Pretorio, from the Middle Ages, which is located in the main square of the village of Peccioli: Building used for carrying out the public administration, it was first the residence of the Consuls of the Pisan Municipality and then of the Podestà of the Florentine Government .
Twenty coats of arms in sandstone, polychrome glazed terracotta and marble are inserted on the facade, according to the custom of applying their coats of arms to the outside and inside of the podestà's residences. Nineteen form a sort of crowning feature of the first floor.
On entering the atrium there are other painted coats of arms on the walls. Below the floor, through three openings closed by glass, the rooms originally used as a prison are visible. These spaces now host the installation by Vittorio Corsini entitled Fonte. The building also has a rectangular internal courtyard in which Corsini also placed his work Chiacchiere.
An exhibition center of excellence, therefore, the one that has just been inaugurated, which has the ambition of becoming a cultural point of reference on a national level.
PALAZZO PRETORIO MUSEUM
Piazza del Popolo, 556037 Peccioli (Pi)
Tel. 0587 672877
info: www.fondarte.peccioli.net
