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Rossini Art Site — Sculpture Park

Art park that fuses sculpture, architecture, and landscape

Fausto Melotti, Arte del contrappunto plastico, 1970, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Fausto Melotti, Arte del contrappunto plastico, 1970, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo

Rossini Art Site is a 10-hectare sculpture park nestled on top of Brianza hills in the green heart of the Lambro Valley. Thanks to its suggestive position it offers the most incredible and mutable views of the surrounding nature and the Alps.

The surroundings make it an ideal place chosen by the entrepreneur and patron Mr. Alberto Rossini to house his art collection in the late twentieth century, where works by internationally renowned artists, such as Pietro Consagra, Bruno Munari, Giò Pomodoro, Fausto Melotti, Andrea Cascella and Grazia Varisco, only to name a few, stand out.

The Rossini Art Site resonates in many ways with its founder’s desire to create a flexible, friendly and enjoyable place where a wide and heterogeneous audience can make an unconventional experience of contemporary art, without renouncing to the fun of a day outdoors, surrounded by nature in a lovely and peaceful place with its flora and fauna. The vegetation is strictly native – oak, hazel and hornbeam. Both the view of farm fields, and the animals reared in a specific area of the park, bring to mind the most authentic essence of the Brianza area.

This is the site chosen by Alberto Rossini to place his prestigious collection of sculptures, in continuity with his countless passions, without building a rigid or elitist barrier, but by means of a common language in the spirit of beauty.

The heart of the place is certainly the entrance pavilion for the park designed by studio SITE and the New York architect James Wines, an exponent of the Green Architecture and a master of environmental design and master of organic architecture, who gave rise to a project in Briosco able to communicate perfectly with the surrounding area, by integrating art, environment and architecture together into a single concept. Today the park keeps its dynamic and changing role, wants to introduce some new stimuli through the acquisition of works of art and the collaboration with internationally acclaimed artists.

The Rossini Art Site is featured in the BMW ART GUIDE by INDEPENDENT COLLECTORS.

For more information visit Rossini Art Site.

Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
James Wines – SITE, James Wines Pavilion, 2008, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo
James Wines – SITE, James Wines Pavilion, 2008, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Jean Tinguely, in collaboration with Milena Palakarkina, Catherine, Bride of Christ, 1990
Jean Tinguely, in collaboration with Milena Palakarkina, Catherine, Bride of Christ, 1990
César, La Suite Milanaise: Arancio 592, 1998
César, La Suite Milanaise: Arancio 592, 1998
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
James Wines – SITE, James Wines Pavilion, 2008, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo
James Wines – SITE, James Wines Pavilion, 2008, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo
James Wines, Progetto per il Pavilion di Briosco, 1999
James Wines, Progetto per il Pavilion di Briosco, 1999
Veduta del parco di sculture con le opere di Melotti, Consagra, Munari e Dietman, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Veduta del parco di sculture con le opere di Melotti, Consagra, Munari e Dietman, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Rossini Art Site, Installation view. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Pietro Consagra, Ferri Bifrontali di Matera, 1978, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Pietro Consagra, Ferri Bifrontali di Matera, 1978, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Franz Stahler, Anfore, 1998, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Franz Stahler, Anfore, 1998, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Giulio Turcato, Libertà, 1973, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo
Giulio Turcato, Libertà, 1973, Rossini Art Site, Briosco. Photo: Luca Rotondo

All images courtesy of Rossini Art Site.

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