Contemporary Art Gallery ″Osvaldo Licini″

In the beginning of the 60’s even though Ascoli Piceno was going through a lively cultural season, it didn’t have a museum that represented artist of the 19th century.

To try and fill this rather empty space Ernesto Ercolani, painter and already director of the art gallery since 1949, set up a collection of contemporary art limited only to graphics: The Civica Galleria d’Arte Grafica  Moderna opened in the 15th century rooms of the building of Malaspina.

The intentions to extend the gallery to other forms of modern art was always in the minds of the curators but it was only in 1977 the graphic art gallery became the Civica Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea.

At the end of the 90’s among numerous artists such as Fontana, Matta, hartung, Morandi, De Pisis e Severini, 40 paintings and 38 drawing of Osvaldo Licini from the collection of caterina Celi Hellstrom adopted daughter of the wife of Osvaldo Licini were to become part of the art gallery’s patrimony.

With this prestigious collection the Gallery Osvaldo Licini moves to the convent S.Agostino and its name is dedicated to the great artist and Maestro of Monte Vidon Corrado, whose tormented creative path from figurative to abstract is possible to visit in this gallery.

In 2007 the gallery becomes richer (thanks to grants by the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio of Ascoli Piceno) of 50 preparer designs, done in 1988 by Tullio Pericoli for the decoration of the Sala Garzanti of Milano.

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