CONSERVATION AND STUDY
OF ETTORE FICO HERITAGE
The Fondazione and the Museum have started a meticulous study of the master’s life with deep attention to his artistic relationships, poetic paths and contacts with art world of the second half of 20th century. In 2008, the general catalogue of the works conserved in public and private collections has been planned. In the future, a software will make it possible to look through the online archive and to draw on the documents directly from the web.
CONSERVATION AND STUDY
OF LUIGI SERRALUNGA HERITAGE
Luigi Serralunga adopted as his favourite pupil as well as sole heir to his property Ettore Fico, who after his death took care of a corpus of more than 200 works by the master, including oil and pastel paintings and drawings. Luigi Serralunga (1880-1940), in his turn Giacomo Grosso’s pupil, was a member of the Piedmontese school which had been working between late 18th century and early 19th century. His painting, permeated with late Impressionist and veristic influences between Simbolism and Art Nouveau, is often descriptive and packed with anecdoctic details, nevertheless rendered by means of a quick and gestural, flowing and material brushwork, and his mostly female subjects capture well the bourgeois style of the time. Luigi Serralunga heritage, in addition to the mentioned works, holds letters, relics and many objects that belonged to the master’s family, as well as some Giacomo Grosso’s personal possessions. All the works have undergone a restoration at Studio Antonio Rava in Turin, and in Summer 2010 the first great and most complete anthological exhibit was mounted in the historical venue of Villa Giulia in Verbania.