This article was originally published in Domus 531 / February 1974
Nanda Vigo: Remo Brindisi's museum-home in Spina
This represents a unique event in Italy: a great, heterogeneous collection installed in a "dwelling museum" and assembled in 25 years by a contemporary artist — Remo Brindisi — who commissioned Nanda Vigo the building. The house-museum has been then bequeathed to the Italian Government.
Remo Brindisi — who dared the great adventure, unusual for an artist, to become a collector — has put up a collection of more than 1800 works of art, representative of his taste, his choices and of his passions, proper to a contemporary artist.
The survey of contemporary art comprises painting, sculpture and graphic works. Here we can find pieces by an extensive range of artists, from Modigliani, Picasso and De Chirico to our days. Other than the previously mentioned works, the museum also includes works by Archipenko, Moore, Hermitage, Dalì, Arturo Artino Ceroli, Toyoluku, Mascherini, Calò, Franchina, Greco, Cascella, Milani, Trubbiani, Schiavocampo, Paradiso, Minguzzi, Pomodoro, Cavalieri, Lèger, Mirò, Pollock, Poliakoff, Magnelli, Castellani, Turcato, Bonalumi, Papola, Boccioni, Mafai, Wols, Braque, Oubuffet, Boriani, Anceschi, Appel, Sutherland, Music, Martin and others.
![Top: the large circular hall with sculptures by Cappello, Munari, Marotta and works by Gianni Colombo and Vasarely. Above: a bedroom with mirrored furniture designed by Nanda Vigo. On the walls, works by Isgrò and Fontana, and two small Berrocal sculptures. From the pages of Domus 531 / February 1974 Top: the large circular hall with sculptures by Cappello, Munari, Marotta and works by Gianni Colombo and Vasarely. Above: a bedroom with mirrored furniture designed by Nanda Vigo. On the walls, works by Isgrò and Fontana, and two small Berrocal sculptures. From the pages of Domus 531 / February 1974](/content/dam/domusweb/en/from-the-archive/2013/02/09/remo-brindisi-a-museum-home/big_405863_8740_2988.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
![The north façade of the house. From the pages of Domus 531 / February 1974 The north façade of the house. From the pages of Domus 531 / February 1974](/content/dam/domusweb/en/from-the-archive/2013/02/09/remo-brindisi-a-museum-home/big_405863_1078_3959.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
![Left, the staircase, featuring s series of graphic works by Braque, Campigli, Cappello, Spazzapan, and Clavè. Right, detail of the hall, where works by Spazzapan, De Kooning, Balla, Gentilini, Matta, De Chirico, Bernard Buffet and Lam, among others, can be seen. From the pages of Domus 531 / February 1974 Left, the staircase, featuring s series of graphic works by Braque, Campigli, Cappello, Spazzapan, and Clavè. Right, detail of the hall, where works by Spazzapan, De Kooning, Balla, Gentilini, Matta, De Chirico, Bernard Buffet and Lam, among others, can be seen. From the pages of Domus 531 / February 1974](/content/dam/domusweb/en/from-the-archive/2013/02/09/remo-brindisi-a-museum-home/big_405863_2254_4865.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
![Ground floor plan. From the pages of Domus 531 / February 1974 Ground floor plan. From the pages of Domus 531 / February 1974](/content/dam/domusweb/en/from-the-archive/2013/02/09/remo-brindisi-a-museum-home/big_405863_6347_5732.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)