New expansion to open the legendary Cerruti Collection

“We are transforming what a museum of contemporary art can be, creating a new model that turns the paradigm of museums on its head. Instead of a museum of the past adding a contemporary wing, we are a museum of today, looking at the art of the past from a contemporary perspective. We are offering artists and the broader public the opportunity to relate up-close to periods that came before.”
–C. Christov-Bakargiev

The new Castello di Rivoli - Cerruti Collection campus will open on January 1, 2019, the birthday of the collector. It will incorporate the Cerruti Villa, built near the Castello by the collector and bookbinding industrialist Francesco Federico Cerruti (1922–2015) to house his collection. Never open to the public, the collection has remained a mystery, known only by experts and persistent art-lovers who made appointments to view it.

From the 1950s until his death in 2015, the reclusive Turin collector amassed almost 300 works of sculpture and painting, ranging from the Middle Ages to today, plus approximately 200 rare and ancient books with exquisite bookbindings, and over 300 furnishings including carpets from Anatolia, Egypt, Persia, Turkestan, Flemish tapestries as well as crystal Luis XV chandeliers, gilded and carved wall mirrors, a Steinway & Sons Grand piano, sets of silver coffee cups, carved mahogany ashtrays, oil jugs, carafes and desks by renowned Baroque cabinet makers.

An encyclopedic collection of immense quality, the Cerruti Collection includes extraordinary artworks by:
Afro, Spinello Aretino, Arman, Gioacchino Assereto, Vittorio Avondo, Domenico Baccarini, Francis Bacon, Roberto Marcello Baldessari, Giacomo Balla, Federico Barocci, Evaristo Baschenis, Pompeo Batoni, Willi Baumeister, Ambrogio Bergognone, Umberto Boccioni, Giovanni Boldini, Paris Bordone, Carlo Bossoli, Georges Braque, Alberto Burri, Heinrich Campendonk, Massimo Campigli, Simone Cantarini, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Felice Carena, Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, Valerio Castello, Mario Cavaglieri, Paul Cézanne, Marc Chagall, Gigi Chessa, Vittorio Amedeo Cignaroli, Italo Cremona, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Enzo Cucchi, Bernardo Daddi, Moritz Michael Daffinger, Barnaba da Modena, Giovanni da Modena, Cesare Dandini, Giorgio de Chirico, Gino De Dominicis, Simone dei Crocifissi, Robert Delaunay, Jacopo del Casentino, Lorenzo Delleani, Giacomo Del Maino, Jacopo del Sellaio, Nicola De Maria, Giuseppe de Nittis, Fortunato Depero, Filippo De Pisis, Nicholas de Staël, Neroccio di Bartolomeo dei Landi, Lorenzo di Bicci, Neri di Bicci, Pacino di Bonaguida, Segna di Bonaventura, Stefano di Giovanni di Consolo known as il Sassetta, Francesco di Gentile da Fabriano, Paolo di Giovanni Fei, Gherardo di Jacopo Starna, Michele di Matteo da Bologna, Sano di Pietro, Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, Giuliano di Simone, Marco d’Oggiono, Domenichino, Dosso Dossi, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Giovanni Fattori, Jean Fautrier, Lyonel Feininger, Luigi Colombo Fillia, Lucio Fontana, Antonio Fontanesi, Frà Galgario, Francesco Raibolini Francia, Agnolo Gaddi, Gaetano Gandolfi, Orazio Gentileschi, follower of Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, Alberto Giacometti, Gilbert & George, Natalia Goncharova, Francisco Goya, Juan Gris, Vittore Grubicy De Dragon, Francesco Guardi, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri known as il Guercino, Renato Guttuso, Hans Hartung, Antonio Joli, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Silvestro Lega, Fernand Léger, Osvaldo Licini, Maximilien Luce, Maestro della Misericordia, René Magritte, Man Ray, Piero Manzoni, Giacomo Manzù, Carlo Maria Mariani, Marino Marini, Albert Marquet, Arturo Martini, Joan Miró, Amedeo Modigliani, Giorgio Morandi, Angelo Morbelli, Emil Nolde, Luigi Nono, Giuseppe Nuvolone, Ubaldo Oppi, Mimmo Paladino, Filippo Palizzi, Giulio Paolini, Enrico Paolucci, Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Cristiano Pintaldi, Domenico Piola, Giovanni Battista Pittoni, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Pontormo, Enrico Prampolini, Pseudo Salini, Giovanni Battista Quadrone, Daniele Ranzoni, Rembrandt van Rijn, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jusepe de Ribera, Sebastiano Ricci, Medardo Rosso, Mimmo Rotella, Alberto Savinio, Egon Schiele, Scipione, Gino Severini, Telemaco Signorini, Mario Sironi, Alfred Sisley, Luigi Spazzapan, Bernardo Strozzi, Graham Sutherland, Yves Tanguy, Tanzio da Varallo, Ettore Tito, Mario Tozzi, Louis Valtat, Gaspare Vanvitelli, Emilio Vedova, Paolo Veneziano, Simon Vouet, Andy Warhol, Wols, and Federico Zandomeneghi.

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Castello di Rivoli press
Manuela Vasco: press@castellodirivoli.org / T +39 0119565209
Brunella Manzardo: b.manzardo@castellodirivoli.org / T +39 0119565211

International press
Sarah Greenberg, Evergreen Arts: sgreenberg@evergreen-arts.com / T +44 7866543242