Francesca Lavazza is the new president of Castello di Rivoli

RIVOLI (TURIN). Francesca Lavazza is the new president of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art: this was decided by the Assembly of the Entity’s Members, which met this morning in videoconference together with the Regional Department of Culture. “I express great satisfaction for the choice of Francesca Lavazza – underlined the Councilor for Culture, Vittoria Poggio – a profile of great competence and depth, preparatory for the carrying out of the activities of this body to which the Region confirms its trust and support to expand the range of the cultural offer to an increasingly international public ».

Francesca Lavazza succeeds Fiorenzo Alfieri who recently passed away and remained in office from 2019 to 2020.

«I am happy to accept the position of – said the new president -. Covering the role that Fiorenzo Alfieri has been and continuing the work done up to now, keeping steadfast the course he has set in the cultural sphere, so important in terms of vision and scope, is an enormous privilege for me ». A network culture, “an international propensity, a narrated and shared art that I find in the path undertaken with Lavazza in recent years, based precisely on the concept of attractiveness and stimulation for a heterogeneous audience in which the younger generations play a fundamental role and inspirational. Together with the director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and the entire working group of the Castello di Rivoli, we will work to confirm our horizon: to build culture with commitment and vision, in the hope that we can soon return to reopen the spaces of the Museum ».