A new museum dedicated to Mario Giansone will be born in Sant'Ambrogio (Turin).

On April 18, 2026, the new museum dedicated to Mario Giansone (Turin, 1915 - 1997) will open in Sant’Ambrogio (Turin ), conceived as a meeting space between art, memory and aesthetic experimentation, aimed at preserving and enhancing the work of one of the most original artists of the Italian artistic scene of the 20th century.

The museum will present the creative universe of the Turin artist through paintings, drawings, archival materials and site-specific installations, offering the public a broad reading of his production. Conceived as a dynamic place, it will not be limited to the preservation of works but will also be configured as a center for research, confrontation and cultural programming; with a collection consisting of about 170 sculptures, 30 paintings, 23 woodcuts, 20 drawings, 12 engravings, 6 lithographs, 4 stencils and a tapestry, it will present itself as an open and inclusive space, capable of stimulating reflection on contemporary forms of artistic expression and enhancing visual experimentation.

The museum will be housed in theformer Maglificio Fratelli Bosio knitwear factory, with an itinerary divided into seven rooms, within which the variety of languages and materials used by Giansone emerges, from hand-woven tapestries to sculptures in wood, bronze and heterogeneous materials, to pictorial and graphic works. The exhibition itinerary will investigate the main themes of his research, such as jazz, understood as an expression of rhythm and movement; war, told in its most dramatic dimension; fascination with the technological innovations of the 20th century; the elegance of cats; and the female figure, often linked to an intimate and affective dimension; an intimism that sometimes evolves into a tension toward spirituality and transcendence. Each section will document a phase of his artistic journey, highlighting the evolution of a language that develops from sculpture to graphics and painting, until reaching an extreme synthesis in the Opera Omnia, the concluding point of the exhibition itinerary.

Giansone’s works have been presented in important contexts such as the Quadriennali in Turin and Rome, gaining increasing recognition that led him to create works for the RAI Auditorium and the GAM in Turin. The artist’s entire production is traversed by some major recurring thematic nuclei that define his identity: war, represented in its violence through battle scenes, tanks and deportations; technology, celebrated in images related to progress and modernity; intimism, linked to feelings and affections, with subjects such as kissing, motherhood, lovers and cats; music, evoked through concerts, dancers and visual suggestions related to jazz; and finally transcendence, a spiritual dimension that emerges in works also inspired by conversations with Witruna, the artist’s guiding figure. Central to his work is the use of matter, such as granite, marble, wood, bronze, iron and other materials, transformed into a powerful means of expression; however, it is especially in the drawings, which depict dancers, orchestras, anatomical studies or barely hinted at female figures, that emerge most evident the poetic and delicate component of his art, revealing a sensitivity hidden behind a reserved character distant from the more conventional dynamics of the artistic world.

“Iron, stones, the hardest woods, marbles, and sheet metal were not enough for Giansone to appease his eagerness to give form and volume to his soul, his emotions, his vision of humanity, the universe and the otherworldly. He drew, painted, engraved, imprisoned light in the threads of the back of tapestries, gave shape and expression to shadows, gave movement to stones to express concepts or create visual sensations. ”The museum dedicated to him," explains Giuseppe Floridia, President of the Giansone Foundation, "aims to bear witness to the emotional impact of his works and to enable the rediscovery of a very important artist of the 20th century.

A new museum dedicated to Mario Giansone will be born in Sant'Ambrogio (Turin).

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