Gino Covili Home & Museum

A museum within the former home of one of the most esteemed artists of the area of Frignano.

A true innovator, with his own unique and recognisable style, Gino Covili.

The COVILI Home and Museum, commissioned by CoviliArte, features an exhibition including more than 120 works, arranged over three floors. Each space offers the visitor a multi-sensory experience, with lighting effects that enhance the works of the great Maestro.

Thanks to the music and sounds which accompany you on your visit, every corner of the house allows you to experience an immersive journey through its memory-filled rooms, where Covili’s paintings were created.

Among these is Gino’s studio, a multi-level room offering different visionary perspectives and viewpoints, and overlooking Mount Cimone, which acted as a kind of compass in his work, enabling self-orientation in space and time. The light and the windows looking out onto the trees of the forest are central to Gino Covili’s artistic observation, and are evident in his depictions of heroes and outcasts, and in the hands and faces of the labourers in his paintings.

Museo Covili

Gino Covili’s universe is made up of lands, animals and men which seem to come from a creation myth. In the paintings, watercolours, drawings and sculptures on display in his home, whether pictorial cycles, scenes of everyday life, or epic-style representations of a wild world, humanity reigns supreme.

CoviliArte offers the visitor an emotional journey via shared or private-group guided tours; exclusive opening times for private, personalised visits and special events are also available.

Biography

Gino Covili was born on 21st March 1918 in Pavullo nel Frignano, in the Modena Apennines. Unique, self-taught, and true only to himself and his values, he built up a legendary universe of images spanning half a century between 1950 and the early 2000s. He died on 6th May 2005 in his home town, dying as he had lived, an artist of the Resistance.