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 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.