Vanni Viviani

In 2001, Vanni Viviani decided to donate his intellectual and creative heritage to the Banca Agricola Mantovana Foundation, including the Ca di Pom in San Giacomo delle Segnate, a place destined to become an essential centre for the valorisation of the territory. This volume collects Massimo Listri’s photographs of Vanni Viviani’s works, accompanied in the book’s appendix by descriptive entries edited by Renzo Margonari. Milena Milani and Nicola Micieli also contribute to an in-depth analysis of the artist’s work with two essays with an almost poetic and evocative slant. One of the leitmotifs is the theme of the apple, probably Viviani’s favourite, so much so that he ‘identified with it to the point of dedicating to it the pagan temple of his beautiful Po Valley home in San Giacomo delle Segnate, fittingly named Ca di Pom’, as Micieli writes. The apple is thus the privileged sign of Viviani’s painting, an ambiguous yet versatile symbol that lends itself well to the artist’s artistic research. In the second part of the book, entitled ‘They have written about him’, we can read some contributions and testimonies about the artist by various art critics and authors.