Andrea Bruciati on 2019 Programming for Italian Museums

Andrea Bruciati, director of the Istituto Autonomo Villa Adriana e Villa d'Este, outlines his 2019 programming in an interview with Artribune. The year's agenda consolidates a path of continuous dialogue among cultural studies, focusing on themes such as the female imaginary linked to Lucrezia Borgia, reflections on the artwork's significance past and present, new studies on Hadrian's utopian city for Leonardo, and the architectural legacy of Villa d'Este from Borromini to Meier. Initiatives will also promote collecting, green heritage, and synesthesia among the arts. For young Italian art, Bruciati emphasizes projects like the wallpaper exhibition 'Le stanze di Ferenc' (until February 17 at Villa d'Este), involving over 70 artists, and invitations to young collectors and galleries. Resources come from integrated ticketing for exhibitions and collaborations. Reflecting on 2018, Bruciati describes it as important, having proposed unprecedented research paths and a different approach to cultural heritage. He aims to deepen studies on Nero and Hadrian, the post-Raphaelite workshop, an El Greco in Tivoli, Ovidian metamorphoses from the Niobids, and 17th-century genre painting in Tivoli. Bruciati sees the institute as a new organism, growing through mutual confrontation, and emphasizes the need for exceptional projects to reaffirm the international role of UNESCO sites.