Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana

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Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI)
Le LAC, la façade sud (Lugano, Suisse) (21783439458) .jpg
MASI wing in the LAC
Data
place Lugano
Art
Art museum
opening September 12, 2015
management
Tobia Bezzola (since 2018)
Website

The Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana di Lugano (MASI , also MASILugano) is an art museum in Lugano , Switzerland . The museum was created through the merger of the Museo Cantonale d'Arte with the Museo d'Arte and opened on September 12, 2015.

The two locations in the art center Lugano Arte e Cultura (LAC) and in the Palazzo Reali ( location ) have existed since December 13, 2019 .

history

In 1892 the idea arose to found an art museum for the Canton of Ticino in Lugano. The church of Santa Maria degli Angioli was planned as the location . In the following year, Antonio Caccia bequeathed a collection of art objects and the Villa Malpensata (since 2019 “ musec - Museo delle Culture ”) to the city of Lugano . The "Fondazione Caccia" was founded in 1904 to establish the Municipal Art Museum. The Museo Civico di Belle Arti - Fondazione Caccia was opened in the Villa Malpensata in 1912 and moved to the Villa Ciani ( Lage ) in 1933 . The city's art exhibitions have also been shown again at Villa Malpensata since 1973. With an increasing number of exhibitions, it was officially named Museo d'Arte Moderna in 1992 and Museo d'Arte in 2008 .

  • Former location Palazzo Ciani (2010)

  • Former location Villa Malpensata (2012)

  • Location Palazzo Reali (2014)

The Art Museum of the Canton of Ticino (Museo Cantonale d'Arte) was only opened in 1987 in the Palazzo Reali. After a cooperation was agreed in 2010 and in 2012 it was jointly managed with the Municipal Art Museum, the Museo Cantonale d'Arte was merged with the Museo d'Arte (della Città di Lugano) in 2015 .

The contemporary art collection of Giancarlo and Danna Olgiati was given to the city of Lugano for usufrutto in 2012 and opened in the same year in the “Spazio -1”.

The museum has been managed by Tobia Bezzola since January 2018 . The President of the Board of Trustees is Carmen Giménez , who curated the museum's Picasso exhibition in 2018 .

The MASI, with more than 100,000 visitors, is one of thirteen museums supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture in the five-year period 2018–2022. It is a member of the “Art Museums of Switzerland”, which has been selected to promote tourism worldwide.

Locations

Special exhibitions are shown in the LAC art center. The 15th-century permanent exhibition in Palazzo Reali will reopen on December 13, 2019 after three years of renovation work. It comprises eight halls and two corridors. A third location is the Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati in Riva Caccia 1, which opens twice a year in autumn and spring with temporary exhibitions.

collection

The collection includes not only works by artists from Ticino or by Swiss and foreign artists who have worked in Italian-speaking Switzerland, but also by Italian and other artists who have played a leading role in the history of modern art, as well as contemporary artists. For example: Degas , Renoir , Pissarro , Orozco , Dijkstra and Struth . The art collections of the canton and the city are “category A cultural assets of national importance” in the Swiss inventory (KGS).

The Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati comprises over 200 works of the artistic avant-garde of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Exhibitions (selection)

See also

Web links

Commons : Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ MASI: Musei d'arte a Lugano: la storia in breve. (Italian, accessed December 2, 2019)
  2. ↑ MASI: Governance . (accessed on December 2, 2019)
  3. ↑ ticino.ch: Museo d'arte della Svizzera Italiana (MASI), Lugano . (accessed on December 2, 2019)
  4. ↑ MASI: Palazzo Reali - Una nuova sede per il MASI . (accessed on December 2, 2019)
  5. ↑ Kulturgüterschutz inventory with objects of national importance: MASI: Museo Cantonale dell arte ?? . (accessed on December 2, 2019)
  6. ↑ Inventory of cultural property protection with objects of national importance: MASI: Museo civico delle belle arti . (accessed on December 2, 2019)
  7. ↑ MASI: Meret Oppenheim . (English, accessed December 2, 2019)
  8. ↑ MASI: Mostra Picasso Lugano . (Italian, accessed December 2, 2019)

Coordinates: 45 ° 59 '56.8 "  N , 8 ° 56' 54.4"  E ; CH1903:  716 966  /  95297