On October 21st, the Art Gallery La Mongolfiera, in memory of the 27th anniversary of Massimo Locarno's death, will exhibit the painting "Bussana Vecchia - Via degli Archi" painted by the artist in 1983 in acrylic on the table throughout the day.

Massimo Locarno has always been attracted by architecture, art and design. After attending the Milan School of Architecture and the Brera Art School, he worked in Lombardy, Como and Lecco, dealing with aerodynamic design and studies, designing competition cars and participating in automotive competitions. Attracted by Oriental culture and philosophies, in 1974 he traveled through the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and this experience will deeply influence his artistic affair. After returning to Milan, in 1975-1976 he opened the Psicolore Studio; then decides to return to Sanremo together with his wife Pucci, settles in Bussana Vecchia and creates an experimental study-laboratory of applied arts.

So it becomes a significant and active character for the coastal village, so that in 1982 the manifesto of the international competition for the plan of the detailed plan that would have to revitalize the fate of Bussana Vecchia regularizing the building while maintaining the particular characteristics of the country that the ' have made it famous all over the world.

Towards the end of the 1970s and early 1980s, after embarking on the first experiences in the production of olive wood, he realized a series of "sculptures made of cans", as he himself defined them, called "Arcobaleno". On the design of Massimo Locarno, a solid made of several 0.7 mm wooden sheets of different colored baths was assembled, glued, pressed and finally machined manually by the artist himself to the lathe. The "Arcobalegni" have appeared on the most important design and architecture magazines and were presented in 1986 in New York at the Accent on Design exhibition. The following year, the University of Pavia set up an artist's exhibition in its spaces and asked Locarno to explain in an academic lesson the exceptional and extraordinary quality of his work. He died prematurely in 1990.

The Art Gallery La Mongolfiera will be open with the usual time: 9.30-12.30 and 15.30-19.30. For information, call +39 0184 508554 or write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.