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Major Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum I cannot consider Rimini an objective fact. It is rather, and only, a dimension of my memory. (Federico Fellini, My Hometown) Nothing is known, everything is imagined… (taken from The Voice of the Moon by Federico Fellini) Major Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum Cities are built to accommodate people and foster relationships. Architecture follows: hilosophy hilosophy open and enclosed spaces laid out in a more p contextand or less orderly fashion. Cities interpret their role, favouring the needs of people. Dreams – in the sense of hopes, expectations and desires – are usually relegated to the role of “supporting actor”, if not cut out completely. Yet cities that fail to focus on dreams are incomplete, uncomfortable places full of “things” perhaps, but not full of life. Rimini interprets its future through the dreams of an all-time cultural genius: Federico Fellini. It does so thanks to a museum that isn’t just a museum, but a piece of a city with ambitions of utopia: it is creativity and the artistic process that enter and above all, exit from established spaces to run through the streets, the squares, the places where everyday life takes place. Federico Fellini International Museum, a unique museum complex on a global level, made up of solids and voids, is the matrix of an operation based on restoration and innovation that in an urban space covering just 400 metres physically blends the body and soul of four historical eras: the legacy of the Romans, the splendour of the Middle Ages and the impulse of the Renaissance, the torment and ecstasy of great musical melodrama until the arrival of the seventh art form, thanks to perhaps the most creative “dream-maker” of all time. On this mother slab, Rimini is planning and creating its horizon seeking in the celebration of culture on a daily basis the key to a new phase of development and identification with its memory. If the example of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao is a precise benchmark in terms of the philosophy of the overall intervention, the uniqueness of the Rimini project is also clear, given that it is based on the ability of cinema – and of its Homer – to be the multidisciplinary glue linking the past and the present, classical art and contemporariness. 3 Major Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum The city of Rimini has 150,000 residents and is at the heart of a hilosophy Thanks to intervention work p contextand territorial system that for a total of 154 million boasts 16 million euro, the largest upgrading overnight tourist stays plan for the sewage system a year (source: ISTAT), currently underway in Italy is in addition to nearing completion. welcoming about 10 million excursionists. The industrial fabric of the Rimini area City of Rimini consists in about 35,000 companies. The Rimini “case study” is the history of a piece of Italy that has chosen to focus on art, culture and environmental Investment amounting to sustainability for its 100 million euro is being regeneration. spent on the old town Culture is the most centre; cultural driving powerful driving force forces instead of real In 2018, work will begin for not only economic estate ones. on Parco del Mare, development, it also which involves creates identity- regeneration of Rimini defining human and waterfront (over 13 km long); the largest social relationships. natural area dedicated to wellness in Europe. Major Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum In a quadrilateral of the town measuring just a few hundred square metres, on a trajectory hilosophy hilosophy running from Tiberius’ Bridge, at p contextand the start of the Via Emilia and the Via Popilia, to the Arch of Augustus and passing by way of the Surgeon’s Domus (a unique archaeological discovery in Italy in terms of the importance of the material retrieved and its innovative use), there are veritable “windows onto history” thanks to the Renaissance Castle, the rooms of the Museum with its extraordinary 14th-century Giotto-school paintings and the Malatesta Temple, designed by Leon Battista Alberti; with great Verdi operas at Amintore Galli Theatre, in front of the castle and currently undergoing full refurbishment which is nearing completion; with Fellini Museum organised on three axes - Sismondo Castle, CircAmarcord Piazza d’Arti and Fulgor–Casa del Cinema – created thanks to the artistic support of the Maestro, Dante Ferretti, three-time Oscar winner for best art direction. 5 Major Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum Cultural venues 1a. ARIMINUM – Via Emilia Arena on the Water hilosophy Ancient harbour p contextand Tiberius’ Bridge Start of Via Emilia/Via Popilia 1b. ARIMINUM – Arch of Augustus 1c. ARIMINUM – Roman Amphitheatre 1d. ARIMINUM – Surgeon’s Domus, Rimini Caput Viarum 2. THE MEDIAEVAL CITY a 6c6c 6b6b The Arengo and Podestà Municipal Buildings become the new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 3. THE RENAISSANCE CITY Malatesta Temple, Sismondo Castle, the new urban art squares and gardens 4. NEW MUNICIPAL MUSEUM, CONTEMPORARY ARTS WORKSHOP 5. A. GALLI THEATRE 6. FELLINI MUSEUM a. Sismondo Castle b. Fulgor, Casa del Cinema c. CircAmarcord/Piazza Malatesta, Piazza d’Arti Federico Fellini Museum is a magical place of artistic synthesis. A space that creates emotions and spectacle, where innovation, research and experimentation come to terms with the classical nature of art. 6 Major Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum hilosophy hilosophy p contextand ARIMINUM The Roman city THE NEW MUNICIPAL MUSEUM / CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM Cultural driving force THE MEDIAEVAL AND RENAISSANCE CITY Un fantasmagorico set che A phantasmagorical set that producesproduce arte. art. TheIl cinema films ande la universalpoetica universale poetry of Federicodi Federico Fellini uniquely a interpretare interpret e proporreand in proposechiave inedita the mysterious le misteriose RECONSTRUCTION OF connectionsconnession ibetween tra la settima the seventh arte e artle “seiform sorelle”. and the “six sisters”. FELLINI MUSEUM GALLI THEATRE 1857 7 Major Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum 1 ARIMINUM - The Roman City hilosophy hilosophy a) Via Emilia, Arena on the Water [COMPLETED/CONSTRUCTION SITE] p contextand Pedestrianisation of Tiberius’ Bridge, start of Via Emilia and Via Popilia and the Arena on the Water, Ancient Harbour b) Rimini Caput Viarum [ COMPLETED] Multimedia Museum of Roman Rimini that links the Surgeon’s Domus and the entire Roman city (Arch of Augustus, Tiberius’ Bridge, Amphitheatre). 2 THE MEDIAEVAL CITY [ CONSTRUCTION SITE] The Arengo and Podestà Municipal Buildings become the new Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 3 THE RENAISSANCE CITY [CONSTRUCTION SITE / COMPLETED] The Malatesta Temple and Castle with the new urban art squares and gardens 4 NEW MUNICIPAL MUSEUM /Contemporary arts workshop th [COMPLETED / CONSTRUCTION SITE] The Roman city, the Mediaeval city, 14 -century Rimini, Giotto, Bellini, Piero della Francesca The contemporary wing: contemporary art workshop/residence 5 REFURBISHMENT OF GALLI THEATRE 1857 [ DUE FOR COMPLETION IN 2018] 6 FELLINI MUSEUM a) Sismondo Castle [CONSTRUCTION SITE] b) Fulgor - Casa del Cinema c) CircAmarcord / Piazza d’Arti 8 Major Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum 1 2 XIS A um XIS A Sismondo Castle The three axes of A spectacular muse dream factory: Federico Fellini International Fulgor Casa Fellini’s real and del Cinema virtual sets Museum The origins of Fellini’s imaginary world: his dreams and memories CASA DEL CINEMA SISMONDO CASTLE AXIS 3 CircAmarcord Piazza d’Arti A Fellinesque urban space: interactive installations inspired by Fellini’s poetry 9 Major Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum Axis 1 seum mu Axis 3 Axis 2 AXIS 1) Sismondo Castle AXIS 2) Fulgor Casa del Cinema AXIS 3) CircAmarcord 10 Major Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum Objectives - A venue for artistic research and creativity - An innovative and immersive indoor and um outdoor space e s - Places where emotions, historical rigour mu and spectacle merge - An internationally-renowned museum complex of excellence 11 Major Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum The world’s largest and most innovative museum dedicated to the genius of Federico Fellini and his poetic heritage, as well as his artistic and visual references to the art of um e all ages, is based on s three axes. Malatesta Castle, Fulgor mu Casa del Cinema and a large outdoor urban space at the heart of the city, located within the other two axes become a visual and immersive experience that characterises the spaces where everyday practices take place for residents and visitors alike. Federico Fellini was born in Rimini on 20 January 1920. He directed 24 feature-length films. He won 5 Oscars and a Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Festival. He died on 31 October 1993. 12 Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum AXIS 1 Sismondo Castle was commissioned by Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta with building Sismondo Castle starting in 1437. Shortly after construction began, Filippo Brunelleschi was consulted on the building, having been called to Rimini to carry out inspections on the main fortresses in the Seignory. description 13 Cultural Heritage Projects Federico Fellini International Museum AXIS 1 Sismondo Castle Federico