A comic strip tells the story and career of Massese artist Gigi Guadagnucci

Saturday, March 25, at 5 p.m., inside the 17th-century Villa La Rinchiostra in Massa, home of the Guadagnucci Museum, will be the presentation of Gigi Guadagnucci Sculptor. La storia a fumetti, a notebook of drawings created by Massa cartoonist Lorenzo Grassi, edited by Cinzia Compalati with texts by Matteo Filippi.

The idea for the notebook stems from an educational activity fielded by the Guadagnucci Museum last school year starting with Comics in Museums, a project conceived and curated by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism: a contest in which several secondary schools in the Province were the protagonists in the creation of comic strips set inside the Museum; an occasion that also saw the professional contribution of Lorenzo Grassi in the creation of a panel with six vignettes showing some fragments of the life of Gigi Guadagnucci (Massa, 1915 - 2013) and which became a room panel.

With its eighty colorful vignettes, which cover the entirety of the Apuan master’s long career, Lorenzo Grassi’s notebook now completes the experience begun for schools and, with the fresh and immediate iconographic language of comic strips, is set to become not only a useful tool available to children and young people visiting the Museum, but, at the same time, a true work of authorship that fits into the wide range of offerings with which the cultural institution opens every day to visitors "from 0 to 99 years of age," involving, among others, students of all school levels, fragile audiences and the elderly.

The meeting, which will be attended by Lorenzo Grassi and Matteo Filippi, will be enriched by speeches from the Museum’s Education Department and the presence of the students who won the contest related to “Comics in Museums.” As a memento of the event, a copy of the comic book will be donated to the participants.

Participation is free, no reservation is required. For information: museoguadagnucci@comune.massa.ms.it, www.museoguadagnucci.it.

The Guadagnucci Museum opened its doors to the public in 2015 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Gigi Guadagnucci (Massa, 1915-2013). A great sculptor who was born in Massa but trained in France and lived for a long time in Paris, Guadagnucci was one of the foremost marble masters of the 20th century.The museum originates from the donation of a substantial nucleus of his works, given by the artist himself and his wife to the Municipality of Massa in 2012 with the specific goal of opening a museum containing a significant selection of his production. The location, the ground floor and basement of the seventeenth-century Villa La Rinchiostra, surrounded by a splendid park, had been identified when Gigi Guadagnucci was still alive: the sculptor believed that the opening of a museum could form the basis for transforming the villa into a hub dedicated to contemporary arts. The museum - set up by architects Giuseppe Cannilla and Alberto Giuliani - houses forty-six works by Gigi Guadagnucci executed between 1957 and 2005, documenting the artist’s entire creative journey. For more information: www.museoguadagnucci.it/la-villa/.

A comic strip tells the story and career of Massese artist Gigi Guadagnucci

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