Famous artists like De Pisis, De Chirico, Sironi, Campigli and Music - habitual guests of the Ampezzo valley- started a fruitful friendship with the art collector.
In 1941, when the first international exhibition of Art Collectors opened in Cortina, the Mario Rimoldi collection was already well delineated. It featured splendid paintings by de Pisis, Morandi, Semeghini, Rosai, Campigli, Sironi, Garbari, Severini, Tosi and Guidi.
After World War II, the collection grew with the experimental works of the artists who were already represented by their figurative art works. The art collector was interested in the artists of the figurative school from the Veneto area like Cadorin, Cesetti, Saetti, Tomea and Depero, and also in the new artistic movements that were being created. The collection features La Zolfara by Guttuso and works by the leading artists of the new experimentation like Corpora, Crippa, Dova, Morlotti, Music, Santomaso, Vedova. The collector discovers also foreign artists like Kokoschka, Leger, Villon, Zadkine, and widens his interests with the protagonists of the neo-avantgarde and the abstractionism of the Fifties.

The Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities has recognized the cultural interest of the collection which spans over a period of fife years and is noted as one of the most significant collections of the 20th century Italian art.; for the presence of masterpieces by painters like Savinio, Garbari, Depero, Guttuso and of a few works which are fundamental in the study of de Pisis, Sironi, De Chirico, Semeghini, Tomea, Tosi, Campigli.

The permanent exhibition features the Chiesa di Cortina and the Soldatino francese by de Pisis, the Bagnanti by Carena, the Squero di San Travaso by Semeghini, the Zolfara by Guttuso, the San Sebastiano by Garbari, the Ile des charmes by Savinio and the Concerto by Campigli.

The museum aims at preserving, improving and promoting the collection; at informing about art collector Mario Rimoldi and increasing the interest for the Italian art of the Twentieth century. The museum cooperates with temporary exhibitions of important Italian and foreign institutions.

Il concerto sarà accompagnato dalla descrizione del quadro Bagnanti di Carlo Carrà, soffermandosi in particolare sulla produzione postmetafisica che lo vide interprete della natura e del paesaggio, con esiti di intenso lirismo.

Vi sono due maniere di intendere la pittura di paese. La prima consiste nel rendere fedelmente il contorno e la modellatura di un certo raggruppamento di alberi, di monti, di acque e di case. (...) La seconda maniera è fare di un paesaggio un poema pieno di spazio e di sogno, dove gli elementi naturali sono accessori. Qui l'arte è più difficile, in quanto è più ambiziosa. Carlo Carrà, “L'ambrosiano�, maggio 1923

Prezzo del biglietto: Euro 10