Summer Emotions

Living Memories
Mart
Rovereto
Mart is a museum of modern and contemporary art with a
permanent collection of over 13,000 paintings, drawings and
sculptures, a considerable number of which are dedicated to
Futurism and include some 3,000 works by the Trentino artist
Fortunato Depero.
Besides the new building in Rovereto, designed by the architect
Mario Botta and Giulio Andreolli, Mart also has a centre in
Palazzo delle Albere, a Renaissance palace in Trento.
Among the events held in the museum in Rovereto this year,
there is Picturing New York. Works from MoMA, open to the public
from 11 July to 4 October. This exhibition will display 140
original photographs from the permanent collection of the
famous MoMA museum and dedicated to the Big Apple.
www.mart.tn.it
Buonconsiglio Castle
Trento
The seat of the prince bishops since 1255, Buonconsiglio
Castle in Trento is a complex of several buildings each
representing a particular period and its prominent personalities.
The rooms in Castelvecchio, the oldest part of the castle,
and those in the Magno Palazzo, one of the most beautiful
Renaissance residences in Italy, form the setting for a rich
collection of art. The Torre dell’Aquila preserves the frescoes
of the CYCLE OF MONTHS, one of the most important examples of
international gothic art.
From the end of May to November the museum is displaying to
the public a series of sarcophagi and funerary items dating back
to the 2nd millennium B.C., from the Egyptian Museum of Turin,
as well as a rich collection of precious exhibits belonging to
Buonconsiglio Castle and on show for the first time. In particular
some funerary masks, remains of mummies and small bronze
and wooden statues of divinities.
www.buonconsiglio.it