Fondazione Marcello Morandini

La Marcello Morandini Foundation was born in 2016 at the behest of the artist himself and thanks to the generous contribution of two important collectors, animated by the desire to create an open, accessible and inclusive exhibition space dedicated to the appreciation of Marcello Morandini's work.

In 2017, the Foundation took concrete shape with the start of the renovation and conversion of Villa Zanotti, one of Varese's most significant early 20th century architectures. The building, an integral part of the city's cultural heritage, now houses the headquarters of the Foundation in what is also the city where Morandini lives and works.

Inside the elegant spaces of the villa, located in the heart of Varese, a selection of works representative of Morandini's artistic career is on display. A path that began in 1964 with the first three-dimensional works and the solo exhibition curated by Germano Celant in Genoa the following year, up to the present day, with works in museums and public collections in Italy and abroad.

Morandini's production takes the form of a synthesis of the arts, in which the artist explores the relationship between form, space and perception, generating structures in which geometry becomes an expressive language and a measure of the human dimension.
Tireless is his research on the movement in space - torsion, tension, expansion, superposition - translated through a rigorous geometric, two- and three-dimensional language based on the certainty of mathematics.

Alongside the permanent collection, the Foundation promotes Concrete and Constructivist Art through temporary exhibitions dedicated to historical and contemporary artists of international significance, confirming its role as a place of encounter, study and dissemination of modern visual culture.