A new season, a new exhibition!
From 30 May 2025, Palazzo Blu is pleased to host ‘Sara Colaone. History and stories of the 20th century in comics’, an exhibition dedicated to Italian comics paying homage to Sara Colaone, one of the most significant voices of contemporary comics.
Sara Colaone (Pordenone, 1970) is one of the most interesting figures on the contemporary comics and illustration scene, winner of prestigious international prizes and awards (including Gran Guinigi as Best Cartoonist at Lucca Comics & Games 2017). Author of the illustration for the Manifesto for the XXXVI Turin Book Fair, she teaches Comics and Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and is editor of the Comics section of ‘Nuovi Argomenti’.
The exhibition, curated by Giorgio Bacci, through a rich selection of original plates from five different comic strips, proposes a fascinating ‘figure-based’ journey through the 20th century, adopting a particular point of view, able to rediscover marginality and forgotten stories. Individual and collective memory find perfect agreement in Colaone's work, which invites the reader to come to terms with complex political and cultural legacies. Thus, in Evase dall'Harem (2020), the story of the two daughters of a dignitary of the Ottoman Empire who in 1906 fled from Constantinople/Istanbul to Paris claiming a denied freedom is evoked; Leda. Che solo amore e luce ha per confine (2016) presents the story of Leda Rafanelli, a woman of letters, an anarchist (and much more) who traverses 20th century Italian history; In Italia sono tutti maschi (2008) recounts the persecution and deportation to confinement of homosexuals during the fascist regime; In Ciao ciao bambina (2010), whose title cites the refrain of Domenico Modugno's Piove, Colaone narrates the emigration of Italians abroad in the 1950s/60s, retracing the experience of his parents who had met, as emigrants, in Switzerland; finally, Ariston (2018) tells a story of female self-determination in post-war Italy, with Renata, the owner of a hotel on the Adriatic Riviera, who opposes a destiny already written.
The exhibition will be open until 9 November 2025:
- Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.-7 p.m.;
- Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
- last admission 1 hour before closing
The entrance ticket to the exhibition includes a visit to the Palazzo Blu permanent exhibition.
- Full price: 5,00 €
- Reduced price: 3,00 € (Groups, conventions, visitors over 70 years of age; Young people from 18 to 25 years of age, disabled people, FAI members, Unicoop Firenze members, Mura di Pisa, FIAB Pisa members, Amico BLU)
- Reduced price for young: 3,00 € (from6 to 17 years old)
- reduced University: 3,00 € (Valid for all university students and employees of the University of Pisa, Sant'Anna and Scuola Normale Superiore)
- Family adult: 3,00 € (Valid for families composed of 1 or 2 adults + Children aged 6 to 17 - usable together with Family Giovani)
- Family giovani: 3,00 € (Valid for families composed of 1 or 2 adults + Children from 6 to 17 years - can be used together with Family Adulto)
- Reduced for school groups in combination with educational services: 1 €
- Free: (Children from 0 to 5 years, conventions, 1 accompanying person per group; 2 accompanying persons per school group, accompanying person for the disabled, tour guides, registered journalists, ICOM members)
