Inside the Cerruti Collection: Stories from a House-Museum near Turin

The Italian Chapter

is pleased to invite you to an Online Lecture (via Zoom)

on Thursday, March 20 at 6:30 pm (CET)

Delivered by Laura Cantone on the subject of 

The Cerruti Collection: Stories from a House Museum

Francesco Federico Cerruti is remembered  as a captain of industry and, since his house in Rivoli became a public museum in 2019, as a collector of extraordinary works over the course of just under fifty years.

Laura will look at Cerruti's collecting from two closely connected perspectives. The first examines a complex collection from a temporal perspective and traces its development. Attempts are made towards a chronology of Cerruti's collecting, through a journey that highlights different acquisitions and variation of interests over time.

The second perspective focuses on objects, the house-museum and the forms of space. The villa on the hill of Rivoli is a modest treasure chest, as opposed to the ornament within. And yet, this unbalanced relationship is a salient characteristic not only of the collection, but even more of its creator. The memory and domesticity that these objects evoke provides the key to how a house-museum should be made public today..

Speaker Bio: Art historian Laura Cantone is currently collection manager at Cerruti Collection, Rivoli (Turin). After completing her master’s degree in Cultural Heritage Conservation at the Università degli Studi di Pisa, she earned her postgraduate diploma at the Università degli Studi di Siena. She has worked with public and private archives, international galleries and institutions, including the Macro in Rome and the Iccd. She managed the archive of the artist Claudio Parmiggiani from  2013 to 2016.