Via Pinacoteca Züst 2, 6862 Rancate
The exhibition is part of the series of exhibitions dedicated to women artists, a theme to which the Pinacoteca has always paid particular attention, and aims to bring together the main works by Sylva Galli, providing a well-rounded image of her career and comparing her with others who were active in the same years.
Sylva Galli, originally from Bioggio, developed her artistic career over a short period of time due to her premature death at only 23 years of age. After training at the Lugano Drawing School, she attended the Technicum in Fribourg and the Akademie Wabel, a public school for nudes and landscapes opened in 1939 in Zurich in the studio of Henry Wabel (1889-1981), thus also directing her painting outside the Ticino area.
The genres she treated ranged from still lifes to portraits to landscapes, interiors and nudes, in which she expressed an already mature artistic vein despite her young age.
Two of her works are preserved in the collections of Palazzo Pitti in Florence; the others, with the exception of a few important pieces owned by the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, are still kept by her descendants.
They are flanked by a selection of paintings by other painters of her time as a complement and useful comparison.
The choice has fallen on those who devoted themselves to artistic activity in an attempt to make a profession out of it, starting with more than just self-taught studies and participating in exhibitions: Anna Baumann-Kienast, Regina Conti, Rosetta Leins, Margherita Osswald-Toppi, Irma Giudici Russo, Anita Nespoli, Anita Spinelli, Mariangela Rossi, Irma Bernasconi-Pannes, Adelaide Borsa. A special section is dedicated to Germaine and Simonetta Chiesa, Pietro Chiesa's wife and daughter respectively.
Sylva Galli, originally from Bioggio, developed her artistic career over a short period of time due to her premature death at only 23 years of age. After training at the Lugano Drawing School, she attended the Technicum in Fribourg and the Akademie Wabel, a public school for nudes and landscapes opened in 1939 in Zurich in the studio of Henry Wabel (1889-1981), thus also directing her painting outside the Ticino area.
The genres she treated ranged from still lifes to portraits to landscapes, interiors and nudes, in which she expressed an already mature artistic vein despite her young age.
Two of her works are preserved in the collections of Palazzo Pitti in Florence; the others, with the exception of a few important pieces owned by the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, are still kept by her descendants.
They are flanked by a selection of paintings by other painters of her time as a complement and useful comparison.
The choice has fallen on those who devoted themselves to artistic activity in an attempt to make a profession out of it, starting with more than just self-taught studies and participating in exhibitions: Anna Baumann-Kienast, Regina Conti, Rosetta Leins, Margherita Osswald-Toppi, Irma Giudici Russo, Anita Nespoli, Anita Spinelli, Mariangela Rossi, Irma Bernasconi-Pannes, Adelaide Borsa. A special section is dedicated to Germaine and Simonetta Chiesa, Pietro Chiesa's wife and daughter respectively.