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ARTEVERBANO 2002
Rasma - Tedeschi - Verzasconi - Vicentini  

From March 24  through June 16, 2002
Opening hours: Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays: 10-12 am / 3.00 - 6.00 pm
All the other days of the week: only by appointment
Admittance fee:Euro 2.60  - cut-rate tickets:  Euro 1.60

Press release

With the first exhibit of the year 2002 the museum intends to open the doors to contemporary art by local artists from the different territories into which the Verbano area can be divided: three of these territories are Italian provinces (Varese, Novara, and Verbano-Cusio-Ossola) and one is Canton Ticino in Switzerland, which borders on two of the three Italian provinces we just mentioned and shares with them some of the shores of Lake Maggiore.
Every two years the museum will select four different artists – one for each area – and display their works in this exhibition that crosses the borders between nations and regions; the personal exhibits of the artists will intertwine to create a sort of artistic dialog, as opposed to keeping the production of each one of them separated from the others’.  This stimulating experience will focus on their most recent works. 

The artists selected for the 2002 exhibition are Giorgio Vicentini from Induno Olona (Varese), Franco Rasma from Gattico (Novara), Valerio Tedeschi from Mergozzo (Verbano) e Marco Massimo Verzasconi from Gerra Piano (Canton Ticino).
The technical-cultural committee of the Museum chose to display these four very different artistic paths because of their quality, with the purpose of showing the creative vitality of an outlying area that maintains fundamental contacts with the artistic research that develops both in the southern and in the northern regions, and both in Italy and in Switzerland.  The works resulting from this research deserve an international exposure, and this exhibit intends to turn borders into merely virtual lines.
A catalog of the exhibit supervised by Luigi Cavadini will be available.

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G. Vicentini Est, 2001		F. Rasma Senza titolo, 2001		V. Tedeschi Effetto di causa, 1999		M.M.Verzasconi Pelléas et Mélisande, 2001

Maccagno is a commune on the Lombardic shore of Lake Maggiore, a few kilometers from Luino, and the earliest documentation about its existence dates as far back as the year 926.  Giuseppe Vittorio Parisi – an artist born in Maccagno -  and his wife Wanda Valle have donated to the commune a vast collection of works both by Parisi and by other important artists. Parisi’s decision to make his collection available to the public was made on his coming back from Rome, where he spent most of his intense artistic life, to his hometown; this resulted in the construction of Civico Museo Parisi Valle, a modern art museum realized between 1981 and 1998. This building made of reinforced concrete crosses the Giona River like a bridge where the river flows into Lake Maggiore, and was designed by Roman architect Maurizio Sacripanti (1916-1996), Giuseppe Noris (engineer, 1924-1989), architect Riccardo Colella, and by Parisi himself, expert in visual culture and founder of the museum.