MatER Meeting 2025 | Locations ENG

The 7^th MatER Meeting  will be held at the Piacenza Campus (Caserma Neve) of the Politecnico di Milano, located in via Scalabrini 76, Piacenza.

The lunch breaks of the Meeting will be held at the Piacenza Campus (Arata) of the Politecnico di Milano, located in via Scalabrini 113, Piacenza.

The guided tour scheduled for the evening of Monday 9th June will be at the XNL Piacenza spaces, located in Via Santa Franca 36 in Piacenza.

XNL Piacenza

XNL Piacenza is the center dedicated to the development of the new languages of contemporaneity owned by the Fondazione di Piacenza e Vigevano. Based on the relationship between artistic and educational practices, next to the dimension of enjoyment of the arts, with exhibitions, screenings, concerts, performances, the center hosts higher education projects and offers activities, ateliers and meetings aimed at schools and adult audiences.

The exhibition Giovanni Fattori 1825-1908. The Genius of the Macchiaioli is curated by Fernando Mazzocca, Elisabetta Matteucci and Giorgio Marini. The exhibition – organized on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth and the forthcoming release of the catalog raisonné, edited by Giuliano Matteucci – aims to renew Fattori’s memory by offering a new interpretation of his figure and work, focusing on the peculiarities and uniqueness of the artist and the man in relation to the panorama of 19th-century Italian art.

The Gala Dinner scheduled for the evening of Monday 9th June will be at the cloisters of the Galleria d’arte moderna Ricci Oddi, located in Via San Siro 13 in Piacenza.

 

Galleria d’arte moderna Ricci Oddi

The nobleman Giuseppe Ricci Oddi (Piacenza, 1868-1937) was a passionate art collector, gifted with good taste and particular sensitivity.
The collection is characterized by an extraordinary homogeneity, based on the acknowledged superiority of figurative art; it is also presented as methodical, because it includes mainly Italian works from the 1830s to the 1930s, trying to maintain a balance between the various regions of Italy and considering foreign artists according to their influence on Italians.

Once the idea of donating the collection to the city was conceived, Ricci Oddi offered to pay for the construction of a building on land made available by the municipality. For this purpose, the area of the former convent of San Siro, of which only a few remnants remained at the time, was chosen.
The new museum, designed free of charge by his friend Giulio Ulisse Arata (Piacenza, 1881-1962), one of the protagonists of the Italian architectural renewal of the early 1900s, was built following suggestions from the collector himself. The interior is fascinating: the geometrical clarity of its halls goes hand in hand with the structural complexity and with the innovative choice of lighting from above.
The halls of the Gallery are dedicated to the regional schools and to the Movements (Novecento Italiano, The Lombard Scapigliatura, Symbolism); however, particular areas are also dedicated to the most loved artists, Antonio Fontanesi and Antonio Mancini.