The ancient Rocca dei Farnese near Parma now opens to contemporary art
L’antica Rocca dei Farnese vicino Parma ora si apre all’arte contemporanea
The Rocca Sanvitale in Sala Baganza, near Parma, opens its Farnese Apartment to contemporary art with the exhibition "Racconti Materici" (Material Tales) by Italian artist Brunivo Buttarelli (born 1946, Casalmaggiore). The show, running until November 29, 2026, marks Buttarelli's 80th birthday and surveys over forty years of his sculptural practice. His works—assembled from salvaged metal, industrial debris, corroded wood, and oxidized surfaces—resemble impossible archaeological relics or fossils of a future civilization, exploring themes of geological time, material memory, and transformation.