Vernissage
Samstag, den 1. April, um 18.30 Uhr

The Museo Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Ascona is pleased to present the first retrospective in Switzerland of the Italian artist Nanda Vigo (1936 –2020), one of the most significant figures of the 1960s avant-garde.

The exhibition Alfabeto Cosmogonico, curated by Alberto Fiz and realised in collaboration with the Archivio Nanda Vigo in Milan, takes place on the two floors of the Museum and allows the visitor to understand the artist’s creative process through a division into thematic areas, in a particularly spectacular and engaging setting, with a site-specific intervention created for the occasion.

More than 40 works are on display, from the late 1950s to the2000s, in an itinerary that presents the fundamental phases of Nanda Vigo’s creativity, starting with architecture. Thanks to the collaboration with students from the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, the exhibition showcases the scale reconstruction of two architectural projects conceived in the first half of the 1960s – the Monumento per i morti del Vajont (Monument for the Vajont Deaths) and the Torri cimiteriali (Cemetery Towers) – that are fundamental for understanding her later achievements.