A beautiful villa that holds works by Renoir, Modigliani, Kandinsky forms a new museum hub

A new museum center has been created following an agreement between the Castello di Rivoli-Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and the Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte collection.The building is an imposing villa near the Rivoli Castle that belonged to Francesco Federico Cerruti, a Genoese entrepreneur with a great passion for art who lived his entire existence until his death in 2015 in Turin.

His never-ending passion for art had led him to collect 800 pieces, including 300 sculptures and paintings from the Middle Ages to the contemporary age, 200 rare and antique books and gold fonds, and 300 pieces of furniture and furnishings.
A rich collection with works by Renoir, Kandinsky, Klee, Magritte, Warhol, Burri, Modigliani, and Boccioni.

At the presentation of the agreement, in the presence of Rivoli Castle director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Cerruti Foundation president Andreina Cerruti, and Piedmont Region Culture Councillor Antonella Parigi, the latter said that this new collaboration “will further enrich the offer of Rivoli Castle by making the works dialogue with each other and also two structures, the Baroque Castle and Cerruti’s elegant 1960s Provençal-style villa, a treasure trove of works of immense value. The Region has made great efforts in recent years to revitalize the Castle thanks to a path that is bearing fruit, such as the success of the Colors exhibition currently underway, seen by more than 120,000 people.”

Andreina Cerruti, sister of the collector, said that that collection “is also a life story of our whole family with its memory, its shadows, its joys as if the objects, the paintings, the sculptures can refer back to familiar images that have remained suspended there, ready to unfold in the exclusive language of art and poetry.”

The villa will be open to the public from January 2019.

Source: Repubblica - Il Sole 24 Ore - La Stampa

Photo Credit: Rivoli Castle

A beautiful villa that holds works by Renoir, Modigliani, Kandinsky forms a new museum hub

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