Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Art museums

Opened in 1983, the museum is housed in the rooms annexed to the watermill where the painter Innocente Salvini (1889-1979) was born and worked throughout his life. Some of the large canvases created in the 1920s are on permanent view. In the other three rooms works are exhibited on a rotating basis according to specific themes or temporary exhibitions of other artists are held. On the external walls of the building there are frescoes by Salvini (recently restored) and by the painters Rossi and Minoretti. The mill structure made up of two runners and two bedstones, restored in 1998 thanks to the European project Hidràulic, is in working order."Colour was music, imagination, drawing was form, an open question about mankind and the world. A question which becomes knowledge but pauses on the threshold of judgement. Salvini's figures (normally his relatives) are not rendered in their social context, they wait in the sunlight. They seem to contemplate the sky, absorbed in an elementary meditation. They are static and will not blunder when getting back in touch with mankind; if we were to indulge in rethoric, we could affirm that the figures drawn by the Christian artist Salvini were longing to discover the divine, beyond sun and space" (Raffaele De Grada, "Dall'istinto al pensiero: l'arte di Innocente Salvini", Grafica Varese Edizioni, 2001).