Pippa Bacca: Grafts

The city of Milan hosts an important exhibition at Palazzo Morando with the intention of bearing witness to the artistic and (inseparably) biographical story of Pippa Bacca. Her art has always built relationships, encounters, and gestures capable of connecting people and places, identities and cultures. A recurring theme in her work has been the concept of travel, and it seems particularly significant that the exhibition—constructed with generous commitment together with the Pippa Bacca Foundation and, in particular, with her sister Rosalia Pasqualino di Marineo and with Mirco Marino—provides a panoramic view of such an exceptional artistic story precisely in Milan, the starting point of all her itineraries and many of her ideas and works. In the rooms of Palazzo Morando, that is, in the institution still referred to by many fellow citizens as the “Museum of Milan”, the collections that outline a historical perspective of the city find incisive counterpoints in the widespread distribution of works by Pippa Bacca. This project testifies to the vitality and humanistic drive of an artist whom the city should thank for the cultural and civic legacy she left us.

Tommaso Sacchi
Councillor for Culture of the City of Milan