Custodian of the last bronze foundry in Ticino
Le Temps, July 11, 2018, Andrée-Marie Dussault
By safeguarding a know-how threatened with extinction, Andrea Ziino perpetuates a centuries-old art.
From the road, you can see a reproduction of Michelangelo’s masterpiece, a David 4 meters high, in bronze. Welcome to Perseo, the last bronze foundry in Ticino, founded in 1952, in the south of the canton. We enter a large courtyard-museum where hundreds of statues are strewn on the ground. Ballerinas, abstract figures, life-size horses by Salvador Dali...
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/gardien-derniere-fonderie-bronze-tessinPublished:
11 July 2018
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