Fondazione Antonio Ratti

In 1985, Antonio Ratti created the non-profit foundation, with the desire to share his passion for art and textiles and to preserve his textile collection. Over the past 30 years, FAR has been supporting and promoting research and experimentation in culture and the arts, including scholars, established and emerging artists in a lively and open environment. Every year the program Artists' Research Laboratory (CSAV) is held in this location, with the intention of allowing young international artists to deepen their practices and research through experimentation and dialogue with major figures on the contemporary art scene. FAR organizes also a wide range of activities, courses, lectures and seminars dedicated to different subjects, from history of textile to theory of art, from cineforum to permaculture. In addition, FAR proposes exhibitions in which antique textiles from the collection dialogue with contemporary works of art, activating unexpected connections between the two souls of the Foundation.