{"id":25327,"date":"2024-07-19T12:40:42","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/italics.art\/?post_type=tip&p=25327"},"modified":"2024-07-19T12:46:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T10:46:40","slug":"the-maison-passionnante-of-albisola-casa-museo-jorn-jorn-house-museum","status":"publish","type":"tip","link":"https:\/\/italics.art\/en\/tip\/the-maison-passionnante-of-albisola-casa-museo-jorn-jorn-house-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maison Passionnante of Albisola: Casa Museo Jorn\/Jorn House Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the spring of 1954, the Danish artist Asger Jorn relocated with his large family to Albissola Marina, in what Marinetti called \u201cthe ceramic capital of Italy\u201d on account of its historic factories and the numerous artists, gallery owners and intellectuals who frequented it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Courtesy Centro Studi Casa Jorn\/ MuDA, Albissola Marina. Photo: Tito Topasio\/Bartoli, 1960’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Poor and debilitated as a result of tuberculosis, Jorn took a gamble on Albisola as a place to recover from his illness and connect with the tradition of ceramics. Having first camped out in a tent in nearby Grana and then hosted by Lucio Fontana in his Pozzo Garitta estate, the \u201cViking\u201d (as his friend, the artist Enrico Baj, called him) managed to buy two small buildings in 1957, on the lower hills of Albissola Marina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asger Jorn now had the chance to challenge the traditional concept of the house and take a stand against functionalism and architectural constructivism: \u201cThe house must be not a \u2018machine for living\u2019 but rather a machine for surprising and enthralling, a machine for universal human expression\u201d (excerpt from Asger Jorn\u2019s letter to Enrico Baj, 1953).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Casa Museo Jorn, courtyard. Courtesy Centro Studi Casa Jorn \/ MuDA, Albissola Marina. Photo: Federica Delprino – Omar Tonella<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here we have a new, \u201cessentially expressive\u201d architecture: an idea of a house that Asger Jorn created in those ruins, surrounded by vegetation, known as \u201cthe popes\u2019 walls\u201d. The two farmhouses on the Bruciati hill soon became his open-air workshop \u2013 \u201ca fragment of Eden\u201d, as Alberico Sala called it, in which flora and fauna could coexist and nurture each other. The history of this complex, with its ancient, mullioned windows and sloping roofs, dates back to the Renaissance: these estates were owned by the noble Della Rovere family of Savona, who produced two popes: Sixtus IV and Julius II. Surrounded by a labyrinthine terraced garden \u2013 accessible and cultivable \u2013 the maison passionnante<\/em> of Albisola is an imperfect microcosm a stone\u2019s throw from the sea: here Jorn\u2019s works, anthropomorphic and apotropaic marbles, brightly colored tiles, abstract mosaics, vases and ceramic panels, in a continuous interaction between the Mediterranean and Northern Europe, found their home.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Casa Museo Jorn, interior. Courtesy Centro Studi Casa Jorn \/ MuDA, Albissola Marina. Photo: Federica Delprino – Omar Tonella<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Scraps of kilns, shells, stalagmites, stalactites, tuff and sea stones and electric insulators that become pedestals for sculptures: these are the materials Jorn used to create his house, his total<\/em> work of art, what Guy Debord described as \u201ca sort of Pompeii in reverse\u201d. As with all the Danish artist\u2019s masterpieces, this one also bears his signature: on a fireplace decorated with the traditional Ligurian risseu<\/em> technique, black and white sea or river pebbles alternate, spelling out two names: Jorn and, above, Berto (Umberto Gambetta). He was the factotum of the place, a close friend of the artist and his agent in the village when Jorn was off on long journeys.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Courtesy Centro Studi Casa Jorn \/ MuDA, Albissola Marina. Photo: Federica Delprino – Omar Tonella<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After Jorn\u2019s death, in 1973, Berto and his wife Teresa were granted use of the property for life, and it was then handed over in toto to the municipality of Albissola Marina to thank the people of Albissola for their warmth and kindness. After a long period of restoration, a new chapter in history was written: in 2014, the villa was turned into a museum and reopened to the public as one of the hubs of the MuDA (Museo Diffuso Albisola), hosting carefully curated exhibitions and events and once again becoming a place of art and conviviality, just as Jorn himself had originally envisaged it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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