The walls, the gardens, the installations, the furnishing of the art houses became three in turn. The environments that have framed the creations of artists, thinkers and historical figures of our country have collected and disposed of these stories in such a way that they themselves have to transmit additional knowledge. To the point where it stops being just walls and becomes something to be preserved and passed on. This is the function of museum houses, which by their mere existence are moments of art and fascination by their nature, their innate beauty and their wealth of anecdotes. And in an area steeped in history like our beautiful Italy, it’s easy to imagine how many of these homes there can be scattered across the beautiful country.
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Thus, the exhibition “4,798 km Case Museum” made sure to give prestige to these artistic contexts, which will be shown from July 6th to 29th in the premises of the Adolfo Pini Foundation in Milan, through a line that will ideally also be included in the establishment , “join us” on a thoughtful region-by-region itinerary highlighting the details of 20 museum houses from north to south of the peninsula with photos, descriptions and insights. A project curated by Rosanna Pavoni, created by the Foundation in collaboration with the C-Park NABA New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan and the Association for House Museums. From the Royal Palace of Turin to the Palazzo Mirto in Sicily, from the house in Marche where Osvaldo Licini painted all his life, to the spectacular villa of Axel Munthe in Anacapri and again from Giorgio Morandi’s studio in Bologna to the birthplace of Gabriele D “Annunzio and the homeland of captivity that Carlo Levi talks about in his writings: places that become interpreters and privileged witnesses of stories, characters and landscapes in an ideal journey along the boot.
“The exhibition takes us on a journey of great cultural richness, whose stops are houses, villas, palaces, apartments that collectors, artists, writers, travelers in love with Italy, families who have lived in the same spaces for generations, accommodated people who simply left traces of life in the rooms,” explains the curator of the exhibition, Rosanna Pavoni. “An extraordinary journey made possible by the existence of museum houses, unique places to discover and visit, which in recent years have shared a path to design new itineraries of discovery and knowledge, where the quality and way of life they become narrators of Societies, Territories, Cultural Landscapes and Changes”. A cultural journey but also an adventure to do “on the road” by following this artistic but at the same time real map: the mileage of the title has in fact been calculated on Google Maps and is the sum of the kilometers required all in the locations represented in the exhibition. Because from Trentino to Sicily, our Italy is not only our “homeland” but also a huge museum that preserves beauty, knowledge and culture.
