Presentation
The Museum Ardengo Soffici was opened on May 16, 2009 in Poggio a Caiano, and hosts a permanent exhibition of woks by the artist and a study centre dedicated to the knowledge of this great artist of the culture of the Italian Novecento.
The Museum Soffici is a tribute of Poggio a Caiano to this intellectual who chose to live in these places and immortalise the landscape in many of his works; the Museum represents an added value to the tourism in Poggio a Caiano, an opportunity to learn through the artist and his many contacts in the Italian cultural scene, a cross-section of art of the Italian Novecento.
The paintings of Soffici, kept in various public and private collections, are presented in this Museum in the exposition extended from 1904 to the 60’s, thus reconstructing the painting process of the artist.
From the Museum you can access a specialized library with the first editions of the printed works of the Tuscan artist, a collection of critical bibliography, a complete set of magazines directed by him or to which he worked (especially Leonardo, La Voce, Lacerba, Rete Mediterranea, Galleria) and an archive of images and documents linked to him.
Ardengo Soffici
Ardengo Soffici (1879-1964), painter, writer and art historian, was one of the most important artists of the Italian Novecento. He was born in Rignano sull’Arno in 1879, but returned to Italy from Paris in 1907, where he lived for seven years, he settled in Poggio a Caiano. In France Soffici met the leading figures of the French Avant-garde as Picasso, Apollinaire, Max Jakobs, Braque. He was the founder of the magazine Lacerba with Papini, embraced the Futurism, then he returned to a more objective naturalism, which he called "synthetic realism".
