Seven rooms, each of which is entitled to the main series of its publishing house to discover the work of Franco Maria Ricci, which was inaugurated at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa and which is an important seal in the year in which the city, where the its ancestors, is the capital of the book.
The exhibition (from 20 April to 30 June, Loggia degli Abati) is a journey through the works of an important figure, because Franco Maria Ricci was not only the publisher who gave life to the most prestigious brand of modern publishing, but is he was a graphic designer, collector and also visionary, given that he conceived the largest bamboo labyrinth in the world, at the heart of which are both the editorial office of the publishing house and his vast art collection.
The exhibition "Franco Maria Ricci. L'Opera al Nero", organized by the Franco Maria Ricci Foundation in collaboration with Palazzo Ducale, becomes a tribute to a lover of beauty and master of style, who was a point of reference for Italian taste and international. "He works in black because black is an evident characteristic in Ricci's works - explains the curator Pietro Mercogliano -. He had the habit of making images appear from black which was not something funereal but elegant, the color of life, because he understood them all, and on which he loved to make the figures stand out".
A path that takes up his famous labyrinth in which, in addition to his great bibliographical work, there are also some masterpieces from his collection. "There is a fragment of Adolfo Wilt, the mother, which was part of a larger work destroyed in the bombings - explains the curator - but also on display are the Tiger's Head by Ligabue, the Queen of Sheba by Erté, the figurines chryselephantines of deco style and two vanitas, images of skulls that recalled the transience of life". An exhibition that integrates well with the offer of Genoa Capital of the Book.