Agenda

Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) ranks among the most distinguished artists of nineteenth-century France. A central figure in Impressionism, he exerted considerable influence over the movement’s evolution. The exhibition is the artist’s first retrospective in Switzerland in over six decades. It combines a comprehensive survey of Pissarro’s oeuvre with a spotlight on his collaborative practice and his key role in paving the way for modernism.

The exhibition pays tribute to an artist whose achievements are too often overshadowed in histories of the art of the nineteenth century by those of his more prominent colleagues.

The presentation sheds light on Pissarro’s sustained exchanges of ideas and contextualizes his diverse oeuvre with works by Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Mary Cassatt, and others.

From 4 September to 1 November 2021, the works of the artist Armando Losa (1936-2016) will be on display in the Sinopia rooms of the Museo Casa Rusca.

The project is part of a series of exhibitions that the museum is dedicating to essential personalities of the Locarno art scene. More than 30 works, including paintings and drawings, offer the opportunity to explore his painterly oeuvre from the late 1960s to 2012.

A characteristic and particular trait of the artist is his relationship with nature. The exhibition’s themes are primarily visions and memories of natural elements and places experienced, from the region’s mountains to the details of a plant, to stylisations that lead to the most extreme geometrisation.

This permanent exhibition features both everyday objects and works of art and presents Swiss history from the Revolution to the Belle Époque. Spread over two floors, it explores issues of political and economic, social and cultural history.

It shows how the poor, agricultural nation that was Switzerland under the Ancien Régime transformed itself within six short generations into a modern, industrialised state. There is also information on the fascinating developments in medicine between the 18th and early 20th centuries, including the discovery of vaccines, the birth of dentistry and the invention of anaesthetics.

Other interesting topics include tourism, schools and school hygiene, emigration, middle-class life, the working world, the tools of a modern economy: telephones, dictaphones and calculators, railways and access to products from elsewhere (19th century).