AGENDA

  • from MONDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2019 to SUNDAY 26 JANUARY 2020

    Felice Filippini, Museo Mecrì, L'immagine dell'animale, Opere in Ticino da metà XIX al XX secolo

    L'IMMAGINE DELL'ANIMALE, an exhibition

    Curated by Valeria Malossa and Diego Stephani.

    The image of the animal, Works in Ticino from the mid-nineteenth to the twentieth century. The Fondazione Museo Mecrì proposes a collective exhibition on the theme of the animal world, which has always represented the experience of human life since its creation. In this exhibition, the close link between man and animal is represented with sculptural works and various paintings by artists from Ticino and from other cantons later established in Ticino.

    The exhibition is accompanied by the catalogue of the artworks with texts by Paolo Blendinger and Diego Stephani.

    The exhibition is open from 23 september 2019 to 26 january 2020
    Tue-Wed-Thu-Fri 2-5 p.m. / Sun 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and 2-5 p.m.

    Fondazione Museo Mecrì, Via Mondacce 207, 6648 Minusio

    Fondazione Museo Mecrì (link to official site)

    Download the introduction to the exhibition (.pdf / 337KB)

  • from SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2015 to SUNDAY 10 JANUARY 2016

    Dal 27 settembre 2015 al 10 gennaio 2016 la Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca dedica una mostra a Felice Filippini

    FELICE FILIPPINI, an exhibition

    Curated by Rudy Chiappini.

    From 27 September 2015 to 10 January 2016, the Pinacoteca Casa Rusca dedicates an exhibition to Felice Filippini. This initiative is part of the policy of attention and valorisation of Ticinese artists that the museum has recently undertaken and intends to pursue in the coming years.

    The Municipality, the Culture Commission and the Pinacoteca Casa Rusca of the town of Locarno is pleased to invite you to the inauguration of the exhibition Felice Filippini Saturday 26 September 2015 at 5:00 p.m.

    The exhibition is open from 27 September 2015 to 10 January 2016
    Tue-Sun 10-12 a.m. and 2-5 p.m. (Closed on Mondays)

    Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Piazza Sant'Antonio, CH-6600 Locarno

    Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca (link to official site)

    Download the invitation to the vernissage (.pdf / 1410KB)

  • TUESDAY 2 JUNE 2015, at 6:00 p.m.

    Caleidoscopico Felice - A choice of drawn and written papers from the Felice Filippini Archives

    CALEIDOSCOPICO FELICE, an exhibition

    Curated by Michela Cervini and Luca Saltini.

    Caleidoscopico Felice - A choice of drawn and written papers from the Felice Filippini Archives

    At the Opening Gerardo Rigozzi Director of the Lugano Cantonal Library, Michela Cervini Researcher and co-curator of the exhibition and Luca Saltini Lugano Cantonal Library, co-curator of the exhibition will speak.

    The exhibition is open from 2 June to 25 July
    Mon 1-6:30 p.m. / Tue-Fri 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. / Sat 9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. (Closed on Saturdays in July and August)

    Biblioteca cantonale di Lugano, Viale Carlo Cattaneo 6, CH-6900 Lugano

    Download the invitation to the vernissage (.pdf / 480KB)

  • THURSDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2014, at 6:00 p.m.

    Felice Filippini, Cena triste (The sad dinner), 1942, tempera on paper, cm 21x31.5

    FELICE FILIPPINI, DRAWINGS, PAINTINGS AND ETCHINGS, an exhibition

    Curated by Paolo Blendinger.

    The Municipality and the Culture Commission of the town of Massagno is pleased to invite you to the inauguration of the exhibition Felice Filippini, Drawings, paintings and etchings (1936 to 1956).

    At the Opening the Mayor Arch. Giovanni Bruschetti and Paolo Blendinger will speak.

    The exhibition is open from 26 September to 26 October
    Tue-Wed-Thu-Fri 5-8 p.m. / Sat 3-6 p.m. / Sun 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. (Closed on Mondays)

    Casa Pasquée, Via Madonna della Salute 14, CH-6900 Massagno

    Download the invitation to the vernissage (.pdf / 292KB)

    Download the exhibition flyer (.pdf / 1'230KB)

  • from SATURDAY 01 FEBRUARY 2014 to SATURDAY 18 OCTOBER 2014

    SATURDAY NIGHT STORIES di Felice Filippini

    STORIES - The Felice Filippini Archives are organising readings of Felice Filippini's Racconti del sabato sera (Saturday Night Stories) in 38 weekly episodes.

    The collection includes: The 1938 Story; The Man from the Volcano; Journey of Wisdom; Holes; The Heart; It Happened One Saturday Night; Evening Concert; The Pebble of Death (Armando Cadì; The Cat's Tale; The Second Cat's Tale); Domestic Interior; The Tale of the Sad Errand Boy; A Man of Few Words; Things Past; Federal Shot I; Federal Shot II; Portrait of a Little Man and Journey. Meetings; Profiles for a "Journey to Italy" (The Sea; Tell Me How Strong You Are; Soap and Rope; The Meal; Pasquale).

    STORIES - Read more...

  • from MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2013 to MONDAY 6 JANUARY 2014

    RED SKY AT NIGHT, racconto di Felice Filippini

    RED SKY AT NIGHT - The Felice Filippini Archives are holding a reading of Felice Filippini's story Red Sky at Night, in nine weekly episodes.

    The original Italian typewritten script of Rosso di sera (Red Sky at Night) is held in the Filippini Collection in the Lugano Cantonal Library's Contemporary Culture Archives. It comprises 16 pages, all marked with numerous alterations in the author's own hand.

    RED SKY AT NIGHT - Read more...

  • from WEDNESDAY 11 to FRIDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2013, at 1.30 p.m.

    From fair to fair - The story of Lugano's Swiss Fair, by Felice Filippini

    FROM FAIR TO FAIR - The story of Lugano's Swiss Fair, by Felice Filippini

    RETE DUE, Colpo di scena

    For a production unit like Rete Due, the existence of such cultural institutions as the City of Lugano's Historical Archives can provide an interesting resource, because of both the papers it preserves and its work of researching and republishing audio files.

    On the occasion of the exhibition Ticino-Tessin. La Fiera Svizzera di Lugano (1933-1953) hosted in Villa Ciani until 12 January 2014, the programme Colpo di Scena is transmitting Felice Filippini's first work for the stage, Di fiera in fiera (From Fair to Fair), written in 1945 for the newly-established experimental department, a total of 14 scenes in a variety of styles that illustrate the Lugano institution's first ten years using a series of anthropological cross-sections...

    RETE DUE - Colpo di scena (link to official site)

  • THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013, at 1.30 p.m.

    Felice Filippini

    THE TALE OF THE SAD ERRAND BOY, from the eponymous story by Felice Filippini

    RETE DUE, Colpo di scena

    Adapted for radio by Dino Di Luca, directed by Fabio Barblan, produced in 1983; with Mario Rovati, Alberto Ruffini, Alvaro Aretini, Dino Di Luca, Maria Rezzonico, Diego Gaffuri, Mario Bajo, Mariangela Welti and Pino Romano.

    During an election campaign a long time ago, a charge pressed by a labourer who has been slapped without reason risks compromising the political image of the local boss. An errand boy is sent to the obstinate labourer... But something happens to change events...

    RETE DUE - Colpo di scena (link to official site)

  • THURSDAY 8 AUGUST 2013, at 5.10 p.m.

    Felice Filippini

    60 YEARS AFTER THE LAST SWISS FAIR IN LUGANO, by Gianni Delliponti

    RETE DUE, Il punto

    The guests on today's live edition of Il punto are Pietro Montorfani, a researcher in the City of Lugano's historical archives, and Francesca Giorzi, who manages the Drama Department at our radio; they are accompanied by our colleague Orazio Martinetti, who has written a study of how Ticino used to be between the thirties and the fifties of the last century.

    The three of them will be describing how they, as different observers, view what was Canton Ticino's most important economic event and at the same time the leading cultural event for all Italian Switzerland for twenty years...

    RETE DUE - Il punto (link to official site)

  • JUNE 2013

    Il Cantonetto, Nr. 3-4

    IL CANTONETTO, Nr. 3-4

    The new issue of Cantonetto - coming out to coincide with the cultural event planned for 25 May 2013 "An Afternoon at the Dazio Grande", organised by our magazine to celebrated its 60th anniversary - as always looks into regional issues of historical, literary and artistic interest...

    Flavio Catenazzi, who has recently curated a critical edition of Felice Filippini's Signore dei poveri morti, takes another look at the author, this time analysing his exchange of letters with the author from Francophone Switzerland Corinna Bille.

    FLAVIO CATENAZZI, Il carteggio Felice Filippini - Corinna Bille, p. 81.

    Il Cantonetto (link to official site)

    Download the cover (.pdf / 157KB)

  • SATURDAY 8 SEPTEMBER 2012, at 5.30 p.m.

    Felice Filippini, Lucrezia (detail), 1945

    MACT/CACT CONTEMPORARY ART IN CANTON TICINO, vernissage

    SUBTLE PSYCHO-GEOGRAPHIES: A CALVARY FOR THE IMAGE

    Curated by Mario Casanova & Pier Giorgio De Pinto.

    Felice Filippini & Jean Corty, Martin Disler, Otto Dix, Aurelio Gonzato, Hermann Hesse, Apollonio Pessina, Luigi Rossi, Louis Soutter, Varlin.

    The exhibition is open from 8 September to 4 November, Fri-Sat-Sun 2-6 p.m.

    MACT/CACT, Via Tamaro 3, CH-6500 Bellinzona

    MACT/CACT Centro Arte Contemporanea Ticino (link to official site)

    Download the introduction to the exhibition (.pdf / 102KB)

  • WEDNESDAY 23 MAY 2012, at 6.00 p.m.

    A work by Felice Filippini has been restored...

    The Municipality of Savosa is pleased to invite you to the inauguration of the MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS

    We are celebrating the end of the renovation work in the junior school.

    At the same as the school has been renovated, a work by Felice Filippini has also been restored and will be presented to the public.

    Speakers will include the municipal authorities, the designer from the Gaggini architectural office, the restorer Mattia Canevascini and the art critic Paolo Blendinger.

    Download the invitation to the inauguration (.pdf / 151KB)

    Download the inauguration programme (.pdf / 167KB)

  • FRIDAY 18 MAY 2012, at 9.00 p.m.

    Felice Filippini, Crucifix (detail), oil painting on masonite, cm 124x80

    BETWEEN ART AND POETRY, an exhibition

    Curated by Luigi Cavadini

    The Municipality of Faloppio, in the province of Como, just a few kilometres past the border, is devoting an exhibition to Felice Filippini, an outstanding - and often controversial - exponent of the culture of Canton Ticino and of Switzerland in the last century ...

    The event features a score of large-scale works, paintings on canvas and on Masonite dedicated to a variety of topics: crucifixions, embraces, dance, a cellist, tragedies (Auschwitz, Biafra) and the art of Alberto Giacometti.

    The exhibition inaugurates on 18 May and lasts until 10 June; open on Thu-Fri-Sat 4-7 p.m. and on Sun 10-12 a.m. and 3-7 p.m.

    Old church of Gaggino, Piazza Chiesa Vecchia, Faloppio (CO) Italy.

    Download the introduction to the exhibition (.pdf / 135KB)

  • SATURDAY 15 JANUARY 2011, at 9.00 p.m.

    CALL ME FELICE, a documentary by Giusi Boni. A RSI production

    CALL ME FELICE, a documentary by Giusi Boni

    RSI LA2, Superalbum

    Felice Filippini (1917-1988), a volcanic artist from a modest background, was a man of vital significance for Ticino and Switzerland as a whole. A painter, writer and animator of the cultural and artistic scene...

    Guests of the Special Edition edited by Gianni Delliponti are two important exponents of the cultural scene: Philippe Daverio and Carlo Piccardi.

    RSI LA2 - Superalbum (link to official site)

    Download the invitation to the documentary's preview (.pdf / 139KB)

  • FRIDAY 28 MAY 2010, at 3.29

    Death Mask of Modigliani taken by Jacques Lipchitz

    MEDITATING ON MODIGLIANI'S MASK

    Amedeo Modigliani in a re-evocation of Filippini and Vogel.

    RETE DUE, Perle d'archivio

    The new RSI studio at Lugano-Besso was inaugurated on 31 March 1962 in the presence of the Cantonal and Federal authorities. To mark the occasion, the RSI management had commissioned Felice Filippini, then head of the spoken department, and the composer Wladimir Vogel to write a work to be performed during the gala concert on the historical day. Filippini decided to write a piece inspired by the life and work of Amedeo Modigliani, starting by meditating on the painter's death mask now preserved in the Museum of Modern Art in Paris...

    RETE DUE - Perle d'archivio (link to official site)

  • SATURDAY 17 APRIL 2010, at 10.00 a.m.

    Casa Porta, Manno

    The Municipality of Manno is pleased to invite you to the inauguration of CASA PORTA

    On permanent show: a group of sculptures and a painting by Felice Filippini.

    Speakers will include the Mayor of Manno, Giancarlo Bernasconi, his predecessor as Mayor of Manno until 2000, Basilio Gabutti, the President of the Council of State, Luigi Pedrazzini, and the architects Tita Carloni, Remo Leuzinger and Claudio Vicari. The Reverend Don Claudio Premoli will pronounce his blessing.

    Municipality of Manno (link to official site)

 

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