Goodbye to Marco Rossi, entrepreneur and passionate art collector, who died in Turin today, Monday 13 May 2024. He was 64 years old and had been ill for a year. He leaves behind a wife and four children. He was the son of Sergio Rossi, known for being president of Torino Calcio and founder of Comau, an important industrial robot factory in Grugliasco. The funeral will be Wednesday 15 May at 9 am at the church of San Lorenzo in Piazza Castello.
Marco Rossi’s name is linked to the Castello di Rivoli, where he was considered a “benefactor friend”. Many of the artworks owned by him have been placed in long-term storage at the museum of contemporary art and include works by artists such as Giovanni Anselmo and Emilio Prini. He has contributed significantly to the formation of the museum’s library since the time of Ida Gianelli’s directorship and supported several initiatives during the management of Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, including the exhibition of “Anne Imhof: The House of Narcissus” in 2021. In 2016, he donated a work by Ed Atkins to the museum.
His collection includes, according to experts, all works of great quality. From the historical ones by Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni, to works by Picabia, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Jeff Koons, Felix Gonzales Torres, Luciano Fabro, Alighiero Boetti, including the famous “I take the sun in Turin on 30 January 1969 ”. For the 2019 inauguration of the Cerruti Collection, in the villa near the Castle, he had set up an installation by Susanne Philpsz in the garden.
