Le opere della Casa-Museo
Quaderno 1
The Boschi Di Stefano House-Museum, as we see it today, only minimally reflects the original appearance that the collection had when the Boschi couple lived there and received artists, intellectuals and friends, frequent visitors to the cultured evenings that were often organised there. There is no longer – nor could there be in a place open to the public – the dense sequence of works scattered throughout the rooms, juxtaposed without interruption almost as if to challenge visitors to recognise an artist, to piece together a path, to associate one image with another. In that apparently jumbled exhibition – as testified by Gabriele Basilico’s photos taken in the early 1980s – an internal logic ordered the juxtapositions, created nuclei, and gave coherence to a collection that the spaces of the flat in Via Giorgio Jan could hardly contain. And yet Antonio Boschi continued to increase it, heedless of the saturation that forced him to cram even the storerooms, the ironing room, the corridors where the paintings leaning against the wall were often imperiously overlaid by new acquisitions. Over two thousand works that Antonio and Marieda Boschi collected in the course of a life that had found one of its strongest motivations in their shared passion for art.
Maria Teresa Fiorio
