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Antonio Ligabue
Antonio Ligabue
Antonio Ligabue
Antonio Ligabue
Antonio Ligabue
Antonio Ligabue
Antonio Ligabue
Antonio Ligabue
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Antonio Ligabue:

and the art of the Outsiders

From 13 June to 2 November 2025

Palace of Fears

Palace of Fears

Piazza XX Settembre, 22, Lecco

Open now from 10:00 to 18:00

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A story about the complex relationship between art and madness; an in-depth look at the personal experiences and production of authors who have written important pages of Italian art history of the twentieth century, whose education developed in the traditional studies, has directed towards other outcomes, after having experienced a mental hospital experience that deeply marked them and the search for authors who discovered the power of art and their own talent in a psychiatric hospital.
This is the common thread that guides the exhibition Antonio Ligabue and the art of the Outsiders, scheduled in the rooms of the Palazzo delle Paure in Lecco, from June 13 to November 2, 2025.
The exhibition, curated by Simona Bartolena, produced and realized by ViDi cultural and Ponte43, in collaboration with the Municipality of Lecco and the Urban Museum System of Lecco, presents 14 works by Antonio Ligabue and about forty paintings and drawings created by masters such as Filippo de Pisis, Carlo Zinelli, Gino Sandri, Edoardo Fraquelli, Pietro Ghizzardi, Mario Puccini, Rino Ferrari, artists who have experienced the asylum or whose research has followed unconventional paths, outside the schemes.
Some of them entered psychiatric facilities when they were already established painters, others discovered themselves as artists in the rooms of a nursing home. All of them stood out for their diversity, their free thinking, their being outsiders, poetic bearers of different points of view. Eight lives. Eight personal stories. Eight artistic languages out of the ordinary, capable of telling the complex relationship between art and madness, a difficult tangle to unravel that will leave the visitor with important reasons for reflection.
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Piazza XX Settembre, 22, Lecco, Italy

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tuesday 10:00 - 14:00
wednesday 10:00 - 18:00
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friday 10:00 - 18:00
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Closed from 2 May to the beginning of December

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