OUR VISION

This project started from a promise I made in my heart to Mino Delle Site (1914-1996), my mentor and friend. He was an important artist in the Futurism art movement, and famous for his Aeropainting artworks.

Mino Delle Site had a dream:

To make a Museum and to provide a space for the art exhibitions of the young artists, which would have been free for everyone to visit: art lovers, researchers and schools.

During his life he has been also a university art professor who strongly believed into young people potential and had great faith in the incoming generations.

Example of the Museum entrance. The image shown is for illustrative purposes only.

The Museum will exhibit periodically new art exhibitions, promoting and helping the young artists, coming from all around the world.

The Museum will be furnished with modern devices, digital and interactive equipment, so permitting to organize special tours for students, and bring them closer to modern and contemporary art.

Example of the museum rooms. The image shown is for illustrative purposes only.

In addition to that, in the Museum there will be a dedicated room to the Futurist Artist Mino Delle Site, where 50 of his artworks will be exhibited in a memorial exhibition permanently.

An exhibition of Mino Delle Site’s artworks. Image courtesy of Mino Delle Site’s heirs.

3 MAIN STEPS

The project to create this museum is composed in 3 following steps:

1. To purchase or to long-term rent a museum space, possibly in Como, a lovely city in Italy.

A picture of Como Lake, in Italy.

2. To renovate the chosen space and furnishing it with modern equipment, so permitting to exhibit the young artists artworks.

An exhibition of Mino Delle Site’s artworks. Image courtesy of Mino Delle Site’s heirs.

3. To publish all the exhibited artworks in an official catalogue of the Museum and then to distribute the art catalogue in the main institutional libraries and school libraries.

Example of the museum art catalogue. The image shown is for illustrative purposes only.

OUR MISSION

I promised myself that I would make Mino Delle Site’s dream come true: to create a Free Art Museum for the Young Artists.

Today with this fundraiser, I need your help.
Your help is fundamental to make this dream come true.

For each of your donations, as proof of gratitude for your fine gesture, you will receive a perk of your choice among our proposals.

Some of the fundraiser perks, personalized with the images taken from the most famous artworks by Mino Delle Site. Images © courtesy of Mino Delle Site’s heirs.

THANK YOU

Waiting for the inauguration of the Museum, I want to thank you all.

Thank you with all my heart.

MINO DELLE SITE’S BIOGRAPHY – www.minodellesite.it

Mino Delle Site (1914-1996) was one of the youngest members of the Italian Futurism, and one of the most important exponents of the associated “Aeropainting” movement.

A picture of Mino Delle Site. Image courtesy of Mino Delle Site’s heirs.

In 1930, at the age of sixteen, Mino Delle Site moved to Rome to complete his artistic education at the art college and at the Accademia di Belle Arti.

Mino Delle Site joined the nascent Futurist “Aeropainting” movement in 1931, while still a student, not long after visiting the exhibition “Prima Mostra di Aeropittura – Omaggio futurista ai trasvolatori” in Rome, and developing links with the Founder of Futurism Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the Futurist painter Enrico Prampolini.

In December 1932 an exhibition of Mino Delle Site’s work was held at Bragaglia’s gallery in Rome, and than Mino Delle Site also took part in the exhibition “Omaggio futurista a Umberto Boccioni” in Milan in 1933, as well as the “Prima Mostra Nazionale d’arte futurista” in Rome later the same year.

Paintings by Mino Delle Site were included in the Futurist section of the “Quadriennale d’arte nazionale” exhibitions in Rome in 1935 and 1939, as well as the “Venice Biennale” of 1938.

In later years Mino Delle Site produced a number of striking designs for travel posters, for Italian Tourist Board “E.N.I.T.”.

Mino Delle Site’s artwork: “Summer in Italy” – 1952 – Image courtesy of Mino Delle Site’s heirs.

By the 1950s his work had become almost fully abstract. In 1956 a solo exhibition of Mino Delle Site’s work was mounted at the “Galleria delle Carrozze” in Rome, while a retrospective exhibition, containing works dating from 1932 to 1965, was held at the “Rizzoli Galleria” in New York in 1965.

Another major retrospective exhibition was held in his native city Lecce in 1989, while Mino Delle Site’s work was also featured in several important exhibitions of Futurist painting in the 1980s and 1990s. The artist died in Rome in 1996.

He was an amazing artist, a mentor, a father, a friend.