Luciano Fabro (Torino, 1936 – Milano, 2007)
In 1981, invitations were ready to be sent to the first artists to involve in the environmental art project at Celle. Although, through a decade-long campaign, the outdoor spaces had been restored to adhere to the original vision of Giovanni Gambini (the park’s architect), there were no suitable spaces inside the historic buildings. So, during an absence of their collector-father, members of the Gori family decided to organize a pleasant surprise for him: they worked together to emptythe former aristocratic apartments on the top floor of the Villa. Creating storage spaces in other structures on the estate, they managed to free the rooms from furniture, leaving empty walls and floor space beneath the 19th-century paintings that adorn the ceilings of the Villa. In so doing they effectively created a new exhibition space inside their family home.
