Cultural History In Focus | Collezione Brignoni at Museo delle Culture Lugano | “A Serendipitous Find” by Bernard Sellato
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The city of Lugano, Switzerland is the beneficiary of the collections of the late avant-gardist, Serge Brignoni.
Brignoni began collecting the arts of non-western civilizations in 1926 and amassed a significant hoard of artifacts over the course of his life from Oceania, Indonesia, and Africa.
Select works from his bequest are prominently featured and displayed in Museo delle Culture.
A Serendipitous Find
by Bernard Sellato
This is the original text, initially meant as a foreword, which was translated into Italian and significantly edited, then published as “Un inatteso giacimento,” in Patong. La grande sculptura dei popoli del Borneo dalle Collezioni del Museo delle Culture di Lugano, Paolo Maiullari & Junita Arneld (eds), Milano: Ed. G. Mazotta, 2008, pp. 50-57).
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Author | © Bernard Sellato