Medardo Rosso Museum

On the death of his father in 1928, Francesco, the only son of Medardo Rosso, finds himself with the heavy inheritance of a considerable number of sculptures that the artist had left in the studio in Paris and in the one in via Solferino in Milan.

He decides to collect in Barzio, a small town near Lake Como, where since he was a child he used to spend the holidays with his mother and to which he was very fondly attached, the sculptures and any material found in the artist's two studios. Buy the ancient church from the parish priest in the village oratory.

In this 1600 building, with the help of the architect Piero Portaluppi who also advised him in the construction of a house on the same plot of land, he founded the Medardo Rosso Museum.

Rosso carries on his work throughout his life on three distinct but equivalent paths: sculpture, photography and drawing. The Museum preserves a conspicuous number of sculptures that cover the entire span of the artist's production.

The collection also documents the sculptor's interest in the work on the series: Rosso takes up the same subject transforming it from plaster to wax to bronze to alter its size and color that completely changes the perception of the subject and makes it a work that is always unique and unrepeatable.

This vision leads him to be an artist beyond his time with experiments that characterize our contemporaneity.