The Foundation Remo
Rossi (FRR Locarno) is a non-profit association with the
purpose of promoting and valorising the Work and the
artistic heritage of the famous sculptor of
Locarno.
The Foundation council
(Board) is currently composed of four members including
representatives of the Cantone Ticino and the Commune of
Locarno.
The official address of the
Foundation is: Fondazione Remo Rossi
Via Rusca 08
6600 Locarno,
Tel : +41
(0)91 751 2166
The statutes of the
FRR foresee the following general purposes:
The promotion and
conservation of the work of the sculptor Remo
Rossi, born in Locarno on September 27th 1909
and deceased in Bern on December 30th
1982.
The fundation has the
purpose of protecting, conserving, disclose and spread,
promote and develop the Work of Remo Rossi, by
undertaking any necessary action
therefore.
Among the scopes of the
Foundation, there is also the intention to offer to young
artists who have been granted fellowships and to Ticino's
students who have accomplished their studies at the
Brera's academy (or with analogous training), the
possibility of residing and working in the ateliers of
the Saleggi, once these latter will be conveniently
restructured.
The intent is to revive
the ancient "Via dei marmi" (today "Via A. Nessi") where
Ettore Rossi (father of Remo) had built his own
laboratory. With this, one should be able to recapitulate
the artistical-cultural ambiente who had been
originally generated by Remo Rossi, who had given life to
the ateliers towards the beginnning of the
sixties.
It is a project that
relaunches the idea of creating an artistic
community analogous to the one of which Remo Rossi
had been the initiator, thanks to his wide net of
friendships with internationally known artists, and
thanks to his commitment to foster young talents through
the federal commissikon of fine arts, of which he had
been president along over ten yerars.
The opening of one of
these ateliers on the occasion of the Exhibit
"l'energia
del luogo"
(may 2009) has been a unique occasion to begin
rediscovering on one side the Work od RR and on the other
side his passion for the promotion of junior artists.
This will be done to honorably celebrate the great
artist, in the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his
birth and in honour and memory of his son Giancarlo who
died in 2008 and had just the time to put together the
first pieces of the Foundation.
The Foundation Remo
Rossi has officially seen the light by January 10th 2009
, in full accomplishment of the Last Will of Remo's son
Giancarlo, prematurely deceased on May
2008.
The idea of creating the
foundation was getting around already since several
years, but various circumstances made the realisation of
this vision impossible, until the first steps could be
undertaken towards the end of 2008, in accordance with,
and with the full collaboration of the heritage
-managment lawyers (Avv. Salvioni).
The initial members of
the Foundation Council (Board) had been designated by the
main Founder Giancarlo, while the following members and
the honorary members have been subsequently named by the
Board itself. Therewith the foundation had rapidly
acquired its structure.
Already after opening the
doors of the Ateliers of Via Nessi and of the
apartments in Via Rusca the Board members had to
realise the immense amount of work that was ahead of
them.
An impressive collection
of plaster casts, disorderly piled up in the ateliers ,
the majority thereof in a rather precarious state,
sculptures and casts spread all over in the depots of Via
nessi and in the apartments of Via Rusca, an immensely
rich collection of paintings, drawings, sculpures,
documents, photographs and books piled up in dust covered
cardboard boxes.
We started immediately to
prepare a primary catalogue and inventory and to to bring
the most precius items into security. This was rather
complicated due to the amount and to the precarious
conservation status.
The more precise
catalogation is still ongoing and will require long time
a big skills. The same will be needed for putting order
and for refurbishing the plaster casts in view of their
final placing in a dedicated space
(gipsoteca).
Settembre-Dicembre
! visite guidate alla mostra
ore 10:00 Casa Rusca, sabato o domenica: - 22.09 (lingua tedesca)
- 30 settembre
- 13.10 (lingua tedesca)
- 14 ottobre
- 28 ottobre
- 11 novembre
- 25 novembre
- 08.12 (lingua tedesca)
- 09 dicembre
