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Volume 2 | Catalogue | Traces of Contemporary Art in Cortina d’Ampezzo

Traces of Contemporary Art in Cortina d’Ampezzo

From the Digital Archive of the Mario Rimoldi Museum

open access | peer reviewed

edited by

Diego Mantoan - Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italia - email orcid profile

Abstract
In 1974, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art named after Mario Rimoldi, hotelier and former mayor during the 1956 Olympics, opened its doors in Cortina, as part of a much older institution, the Regole d’Ampezzo. Thus was born one of the first private museums dedicated to 20th century Italian art, the virtuous outcome of Rimoldi's own collecting activity. The Museum enriched the Ampezzo community with a patrimony that was committed to enhancing the overall artistic heritage of the Dolomite basin, projecting Cortina’s role far beyond that of nature and hospitality. However, the Museum's archival materials, including correspondences and photographs tracing the vicissitudes of one of the most refined collectors of the mid-twentieth century with masters such as Giorgio de Chirico, Filippo de Pisis, Fortunato Depero, Alis Levi and Mario Sironi, had remained unexplored until now. This volume is the result of the project to analyse and adapt the digital identity and computer systems to manage, study and enhance the rich heritage of works and archival materials of the Regole d’Ampezzo on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Rimoldi Museum. In view of this milestone, the Museum, together with the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, has carried out a thorough reorganisation of its heritage by reorganising the archival fonds and transferring them to a relational database. This catalogue accompanies the new public database as a useful tool to retrace the stages and areas of the reorganisation work, while at the same time tackling stringent methodological aspects in the debate on the digitisation of the art sector. If, on the one hand, the volume provides a moment of reflection on best practices in the Digital and Public Humanities, especially in the field of relational database creation, on the other it offers a privileged opportunity to discover previously unpublished material from the Museum, capable of shedding light on its birth as well as on the Ampezzo artistic context in the 20th century. As a concrete outcome of the relational methodology adopted in the creation of the new museum database, the catalogue presents for the first time a vast iconographic apparatus composed of letters, works, documents and photographs through which to indicate research paths and valorise artistic firsts in the heritage of the Regole d’Ampezzo.

Keywords Arte contempornea • Archivi digitali • Mario Rimoldi • Cortina d’Ampezzo • Museo Mario Rimoldi • Relational database • Contemporary art • Collezionismo • Digitisation • Museologia digitale • Regole d'Ampezzo • Italian twentieth century

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Sezione prima. Il patrimonio artistico delle Regole d’Ampezzo nel nuovo millennio: la transizione digitale del Museo Mario Rimoldi

Digitalizzare una collezione d’arte contemporanea
Questioni metodologiche, aspetti storico‑evolutivi e il caso del Museo Mario Rimoldi
Diego Mantoan
July 5, 2023

Costruire un inventario digitale per ricostruire un lascito artistico
Report sul riordino informatico dei fondi archivistici del Museo Rimoldi
Ilaria Lancedelli, Silvia Ballarin, Asja Lazzari, Fabiola Chiericato
July 5, 2023

Sezione seconda

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dc.creator	Mantoan Diego
dc.title	Traces of Contemporary Art in Cortina d’Ampezzo. From the Digital Archive of the Mario Rimoldi Museum
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dc.description.abstract	In 1974, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art named after Mario Rimoldi, hotelier and former mayor during the 1956 Olympics, opened its doors in Cortina, as part of a much older institution, the Regole d’Ampezzo. Thus was born one of the first private museums dedicated to 20th century Italian art, the virtuous outcome of Rimoldi's own collecting activity. The Museum enriched the Ampezzo community with a patrimony that was committed to enhancing the overall artistic heritage of the Dolomite basin, projecting Cortina’s role far beyond that of nature and hospitality. However, the Museum's archival materials, including correspondences and photographs tracing the vicissitudes of one of the most refined collectors of the mid-twentieth century with masters such as Giorgio de Chirico, Filippo de Pisis, Fortunato Depero, Alis Levi and Mario Sironi, had remained unexplored until now. This volume is the result of the project to analyse and adapt the digital identity and computer systems to manage, study and enhance the rich heritage of works and archival materials of the Regole d’Ampezzo on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Rimoldi Museum. In view of this milestone, the Museum, together with the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, has carried out a thorough reorganisation of its heritage by reorganising the archival fonds and transferring them to a relational database. This catalogue accompanies the new public database as a useful tool to retrace the stages and areas of the reorganisation work, while at the same time tackling stringent methodological aspects in the debate on the digitisation of the art sector. If, on the one hand, the volume provides a moment of reflection on best practices in the Digital and Public Humanities, especially in the field of relational database creation, on the other it offers a privileged opportunity to discover previously unpublished material from the Museum, capable of shedding light on its birth as well as on the Ampezzo artistic context in the 20th century. As a concrete outcome of the relational methodology adopted in the creation of the new museum database, the catalogue presents for the first time a vast iconographic apparatus composed of letters, works, documents and photographs through which to indicate research paths and valorise artistic firsts in the heritage of the Regole d’Ampezzo.
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dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-07-05
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dc.subject	Archivi digitali
dc.subject	Arte contempornea
dc.subject	Collezionismo
dc.subject	Contemporary art
dc.subject	Cortina d’Ampezzo
dc.subject	Digitisation
dc.subject	Italian twentieth century
dc.subject	Mario Rimoldi
dc.subject	Museo Mario Rimoldi
dc.subject	Museologia digitale
dc.subject	Regole d'Ampezzo
dc.subject	Relational database
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