La Pinacoteca nasce nel 1970 in seguito alla donazione pittore dolceacquino Giovanni Morscio di una selezione della propria produzione pittorica conservata nello studio di Dolceacqua e di una parte significativa della sua personale collezione di dipinti ed acquerelli eseguiti da pittori figurativi francesi ed italiani a lui contemporanei. Durante la sua lunga attività egli frequentò difatti innumerevoli artisti, spesso conosciuti nei saloni dove esponeva (il più celebre era il Salon des Indépendants di Parigi), con i quali mantenne la fruttuosa consuetudine di scambiarsi reciprocamente le opere. La collezione venne poi ampliata dal Comune a partire dagli anni Ottanta del ‘900, con lavori di interessanti autori locali quali Marcello Cammi e ‘Barbadirame’ (Mario Raimondo) e prosegue ancora oggi in questo compito volto ad ampliarne e arricchirne la portata.
The Pinacoteca was founded in 1970 following the donation by the Dolceacqua painter Giovanni Morscio of a selection of his own pictorial production preserved in the studio of Dolceacqua and a significant part of his personal collection of paintings and watercolors made by contemporary French and Italian figurative painters. During his long career, he indeed frequented countless artists, often met in the salons where he exhibited (the most famous being the Salon des Indépendants in Paris), with whom he maintained a fruitful custom of mutually exchanging works. The collection was then expanded by the Municipality starting in the 1980s, with works by interesting local authors such as Marcello Cammi and ‘Barbadirame’ (Mario Raimondo) and this task aimed at expanding and enriching its scope continues still today.
Already exhibited at the former Town Hall premises, the Civic Administration has decided, with the support of the Province of Imperia, to reassemble it in the newly restored spaces of Palazzo Doria Garoscio, where most of the municipal cultural services are located.
Information about Pinacoteca Giovanni Morscio
Via Doria, 10
18035 Dolceacqua (Imperia)
0184206444
biblioteca@dolceacqua.it
Source: MIBACT
