Accademia Carrara and SACBO present a new project in the HelloSky Lounge spaces of Milan Bergamo Airport, thanks to the loan of eleven graphic works bythe John Factors (Livorno, 1825 – Florence, 1908).
The airport, an international gateway, thus confirms itself as a place of art, at
through the presence of the works and therefore the story of the extraordinary heritage of the Accademia Carrara, transforming the Lounge room into a space of beauty, as well as relaxation, and inviting you to continue the journey directly into the museum rooms.
The eleven engravings, including portraits and genre scenes, accompany travellers in the discovery of stories, people, places and experiences of ancient rural and military life. Moving away from rigid academic forms, Fattori searches for a more genuine source of inspiration in the humble aspects of everyday life. Even the technical means of engraving, in its ability to offer essential and dry iconographies without colour, contributes to providing poetic images that suggest the call to life in the fields, a return to nature and to that almost religious feeling that it can instil.
With this new exhibition, Accademia Carrara and SACBO restart their collaboration after Vette di Luce, created on the occasion of Bergamo Brescia Capitale della Cultura 2023. A renewed synergy, which continues to see the airport as a fundamental hub for reaching the city and losing oneself among the wonders that Carrara holds.
The collaboration with SACBO offers Accademia Carrara a showcase in an unexpected place that we hope will intrigue those who do not already know us. At the same time, the most anxious travellers can find a moment of peace and tranquility in the contemplation of works of great charm.
Martina Bagnoli Director Accademia Carrara
Milan Bergamo Airport has long chosen to open its doors to art and offer HelloSky Lounge guests
some of the precious treasures of Accademia Carrara. A shared artistic project, which develops in a place of transit and becomes a business card that adds to the magnificent skyline of the city of Bergamo visible from the airport. The exhibition of Giovanni Fattori’s graphic works not only enriches the time in which passengers stop in the HelloSky Lounge, but is also an invitation to visit the routes
paintings of the Museumsaid Giovanni Sanga, SACBO president.
Carrara Academy
Established in Bergamo in 1796 by Giacomo Carrara as a single complex of School of Painting and Art Gallery, which housed his extraordinary collection of paintings. Over the course of over two hundred years, it has been enriched by bequests from great connoisseurs such as Guglielmo Lochis, Giovanni Morelli and Federico Zeri. Memory and symbol of Italian collecting, the Carrara houses absolute masterpieces of art history, testimonies of six centuries with Pisanello, Foppa, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Botticelli, Bergognone, Raphael, Titian, Baschenis, Fra Galgario, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Hayez and Piccio. Accademia Carrara boasts some of the most important corpuses in the world of works by Lorenzo Lotto and Giovan Battista Moroni. Since its reopening in 2015, the exhibitions Io sono il Sarto. Moroni in Bergamo, Lorenzo Lotto. Through Bergamo, Raphael and the Echo of the Myth, The Stories of Botticelli. Between Boston and Bergamo, Titian and Caravaggio in Peterzano, Rembrandt in a Wonderful Story, Piccio IN Carrara and Velázquez. The Prado’s Masterpiece is in Carrara, Cecco del Caravaggio. The Model Student, Leopoli Here. The Culture of Peace, Peaks of Light, All My Light in You. Painting of History and Melodrama, Naples in Bergamo. A Look at the 17th Century in the De Vito Collection and in the City, as well as a series of important international loans, such as Caravaggio’s Musicians from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Titian’s Mars, Venus and Love from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Carrara is also an ambassador of Italian art abroad through the participation of works from the collection in international exhibitions such as at the Bund One Art Museum in Shanghai (2021) and the Royal Castle in Warsaw (2022). The museum, in addition to conservation, research and study, restoration and promotion, is engaged in educational proposals, services to the public and communication activities that demonstrate the liveliness of a contemporary museum.
Milan Bergamo Airport
Milan Bergamo Airport, the third national airport in terms of passenger traffic after the two hubs of Fiumicino and Malpensa, recorded a passenger movement of almost 16 million in 2023, following the continuous growth trend that began in 2002 and has come to be connected in the summer schedule with 154 destinations in 42 countries. Over the years, thanks to the always active balance sheets and the amount of investments made by SACBO with its own resources, the airport has equipped itself with the service infrastructures and the technical and operational capabilities to fulfill the strategic function of a link between the territory and the national and European mobility routes, in turn connected to the rest of the world. Thanks to the attention dedicated to the creation of cycle-pedestrian rings and the opening of the Bike Room, a reception point for those who use bicycles, Milan Bergamo is also the first certified bike-friendly airport in Europe. The new Airport Development Plan for the year 2030 has envisaged investments of 450 million. The airport, which extends over a surface area of 70 thousand square meters after the opening of the new extra-Schengen area and the extension of the Schengen flight terminal, is undergoing further expansion of the check-in area, which in its new configuration will be opened in early summer 2025, and the area reserved for security checks, ready in December 2025.
Preparatory works for the appointment with the Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina 2026. In the works are scheduled by RFI for the construction of the terminus of the future railway connection. The airport generates over 8 thousand direct jobs, occupied by workers whose activities are directly referable to the airport, which reach 20 thousand with the induced ones, producing 8% of the GDP of the Bergamo area.
Carlo Franza