Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti: Giovanni Sassu pushes away the direction hypothesis

In the past few hours, Vittorio Sgarbi, president of the Ferrara Arte Foundation, in responding to the appeal of the former three culture aldermen of the Municipality of Ferrara (Alberto Ronchi, Francesco Ruvinetti, and Massimo Maisto) who had asked Mayor Alan Fabbri to revoke Sgarbi’s appointment, had let it be known that the new director of the Palazzo dei Diamanti would be art historian Giovanni Sassu. “By competition,” Sgarbi had written, “Ethel Guidi [...] is the winner; and loser, in third place, Maria Luisa Pacelli. It is my intention, with equal titles, to appoint Giovanni Sassu as acting director.”

However, Sassu, reached by the editorial staff of Finestre sull’Arte, dismissed the hypothesis that sees him at the direction of the important Ferrara exhibition venue. “I politely declined the offer,” he told us, “because for that role you need qualities that I believe I do not have.” Sassu, in fact, considers himself more suited to research than management. Sgarbi has already let it be known that the Foundation’s next board meeting will consider whether to make a direct appointment or issue a public notice.

In the photo: Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara. Ph. Credit Ferrara Art Foundation

Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti: Giovanni Sassu pushes away the direction hypothesis

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