Friday, November 28, 2014

The collector emptied the house and goes to show the works to Lisbon – Daily News – Lisbon

The works of art were home, decorating the walls of the apartment where Franco Maria Ricci lives. In the office of his publisher in the same Italian city, in the cottage. And in his small apartment in Rome. Form the collection’s editor, designer and bibliophile and had only been shown together once in Parma. The National Museum of Ancient Art (NMAA), in Lisbon, is the first where traveling together. Will be a “test”, according to the woman artist, Laura Casalis, speaking to DN, visit the FMR exposure. Collection of Franco Maria Ricci, the day before yesterday.
 

“A test to know how it is to live in a house with free space,” he says. When leaving Portugal settle definitively in the Labyrinth, the space built in Fontanellato, near Parma, a place designed by Ricci with a bamboo garden – inspired by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges work. “Only in our small apartment in Rome there were 17 busts. I told them one day,” he says. Some of them can be seen from today, including the sculpture of Pope Clement X, by Bernini, one of the greatest sculptors of his time, and one of the highlights of the exhibition.

Read more in the printed edition and e-paper version of the DN.

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