Mourning in the art world: Claudio Cerasi has passed away. Palazzo Merulana was born thanks to him

Claudio Cerasi, president of the Claudio and Elena Cerasi Foundation, through which Palazzo Merulana was established, has died at the age of 87.

Born in 1933, he was founder of SAC, the company with which he built the MAXXI in Rome and the new Teatro dell’Opera in Florence. A great art lover like his wife Elena, he created with her the Elena and Claudio Cerasi Foundation.

And it is thanks to the collaboration between the Foundation and CoopCulture that Palazzo Merulana was born in 2018. “Thanks to the visionary ability and generosity of Claudio Cerasi,” recalls Letizia Casuccio, general manager of CoopCulture, “the former hygiene office at 121 Via Merulana has been reborn as a cultural space delivered to the city with an even greater gift: the possibility to admire inside the beautiful art collection of the Cerasi family, marked by the artists of the Roman School and the early 20th century, which for years together with his wife had built, loved and jealously guarded.”

CoopCulture and the staff of Palazzo Merulana remember him with immense gratitude, “At such a difficult time in our history, we find it even more painful to leave the person to whom we owe our adventure, a modern, kind, generous and determined soul.”

Mourning in the art world: Claudio Cerasi has passed away. Palazzo Merulana was born thanks to him

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