The last appointment with the “I Lunedì dell’arte” from the “Il Museo che non c’è”
On June 14 at 6 pm, the President of the Fondazione De Fornaris Piergiorgio Re will accompany the public inside the studio of Giuseppe Penone, with whom he will talk. They will start from his work “In limine”, located outside the GAM of Turin and created in 2011 on the
LIVE Streaming h.18 – I “Lunedì dell’Arte”
Riccardo Passoni, Director of the GAM – Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin, speaks about Felice Casorati's artworks. https://youtu.be/KiJjVGoqRCw
I Lunedì dell’Arte
Lectures from “Il Museo che non c’è” The ‘Lunedì dell’arte’ of the Fondazione De Fornaris are back: not in person, but online. The new series includes three meetings appointed to eminent speakers who will talk about the fundamental works included in “Il Museo che non c’è” (the Fondazione’s virtual museum)
The Fondazione De Fornaris launches “Il Museo che non c’è”
The new Virtual Museum of the Fondazione De Fornaris is now online and has been created to allow art lovers from all over the world to discover some of the most significant works from the Fondazione De Fornaris collection, including Francesco Hayez’s “L’angelo annunziatore” (The Angel of the Annunciation), Giuseppe
“Il Museo che non c’è”: Live broadcast on Zoom
The press conference for the presentation “Il Museo che non c’è” will be held on 2nd December 2020 at 11.00 am. Follow the live broadcast on LIVE ZOOM. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88192328871
“The Primacy of the Work”
“The Primacy of the Work” is the title of the new layout of the 1900s collection of Gam, recently created by the director Riccardo Passoni. Numerous pieces on display belong to the collections of the Fondazione De Fornaris: among these, “Still Life with Salami” (1919) by Giorgio de Chirico, “The
The restoration of “In limine” by Giuseppe Penone
The conservative restoration of Giuseppe Penone’s work “In limine” is almost completed, carried out in 2011 by the De Fornaris Foundation on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy and inaugurated on April 18 of that year by the President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano.
Portrait of Massimo d’Azeglio
After being admired in the Milanese exhibition “Romanticism”, the beautiful “Portrait of Massimo d’Azeglio (Portrait of a Man)” from 1835, purchased in 2016 by the De Fornaris Foundation, returned home. Long considered a “Self-portrait” of the same artist and writer, after extensive research it turned out to be a painting
The Passanti Fund will soon be available on the web
The digitization of the Archival Fund of the architect Mario Passanti (Rosario de Santa Fé, 1901 - Turin 1975), acquired by the De Fornaris Foundation in 1992, has recently been completed. It includes drawings, manuscripts, projects, photographs, plates, negatives, albums , sketches, for a total of over 15,000 elements. The
New acquisitions
Two paintings by Francesco Tabusso - "The old chestnut tree", oil on canvas from 1956, and "Imaginary allegory without joy legs in the air" or "Imaginary allegory" or "Allegory", oil on panel from 1966 - have entered recently part of the collections of the De Fornaris Foundation. They belong to