For the 21st Gdc, on October 4, 2025, the Luigi Di Sarro Museum will have special opening hours: morning hours from 10 am to 12:30 pm and afternoon hours from 4 pm to 7:30 pm.
The Luigi Di Sarro Center for Documentation of Contemporary Artistic Research, founded in Rome in 1981 following the artist’s sudden passing, has been a point of reference for emerging and experimental art for over 40 years. Today, to enhance its role as a place of contemporary art, it is being expanded as a private museum and permanent collection space. Its rotating displays will be open to dialogue, allowing the public to experience the work of Di Sarro, who worked in the 1960s and 1970s, embodying with full conviction the spirit of informed, forward-thinking, interdisciplinary and multimedia research.
The Center’s four exhibition spaces—which to date have hosted over 400 solo and group exhibitions by emerging artists—display a first selection of works that showcase Di Sarro’s research and method.
A method continually torn between scientific practice and pure imagination, the need for reality and the desire for fantasy, that guided all of Di Sarro’s speculative research and artistic practice, consigning to the duty of memory a weighty mass of works that continue to demand a voice. “My works of art will be like swords that will conquer. The new forms for the world of tomorrow,” the artist wrote in January 1971, and later also “If art accompanies my life. If my life serves art. I… can even die” (February 1978). He died a year later, in February 1979, at just 37 years old. In his studio remain sheets, notes, images, and texts already drafted from what was to become his “Manual of Artistic Anatomy,” his Discourse on Method. This museum aims to perpetuate his epistemological, artistic, and aesthetic legacy.
