Pinocchio robot on show in Parma until 22 December 2024

Fondazione Cariparma has inaugurated at the headquarters of Palazzo Bossi Bocchi in Parma the exhibition Il Pinocchio d’Artista (The Artist’s Pinocchio by Mimmo Paladino, between sketches, words and notes), realised thanks to the patronage of Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi and the collaboration with Sinapsi group.

The exhibition – which can be visited at Palazzo Bossi Bocchi until 22 December 2024 – was inaugurated on 20 September 2024, in the presence of Franco Magnani, President of Fondazione Cariparma, the artist Domenico Paladino, the artist Mauro Olivotto Lampo and Davide Battistini, Secretary General of Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi, Pier Francesco Bernacchi, President of Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi, Loredana Lignola, member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of Fondazione Collodi.
Together with the exhibition: Il Pinocchio d’Artista (The Artist’s Pinocchio) by Mimmo Paladino from the Mingardi Collection of the Cariparma Foundation – there are also: 30 Italian editions of the book by Carlo Lorenzini aka Collodi and 70 wooden sculptures from the Sinapsi Group’s ‘Pinocchio all’Opera’ project.

Completing the display are the more than 70 robotic wooden sculptures of Pinocchio at work, created with the collaboration of Scuola di Robotica, a project conceived and promoted by Fondazione Nazionale Carlo Collodi in collaboration with Sinapsi Group. Thanks to its innovative scope, Pinocchio at Work was awarded by the Ministry of Culture as one of the best projects of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. The exhibition consists of a series of wooden statues created by the artist Mauro Olivotto, aka ‘Lampo’, a sculptor from the Belluno Dolomites, robotised by School of Robotics.

The characters have the likeness of the Collodian puppet and represent all the elements present in the orchestra, but also the workers who work behind the scenes and 17 great characters who have made the history of Italian opera. Some of the sculptures, robotised by the School of Robotics, move and play arias from the most famous operas in the opera repertoire. The ensemble is also enriched by five opera houses faithfully reproduced to scale by artist Amedeo Piscino and by a pinocchio/Giuseppe Verdi, capable of answering questions from the audience.