The Giacomo Vittone House of Artists of Canale di Tenno was born in the 1960s by the idea of an amateur painter, Giacomo Vittone, and Riva del Garda saliva until the village in the bicycle to paint. Its activity is articulated in conferences, summer courses, hospitality for artists, stays school with Academies and Institutes of art and continuous expositions dedicated to the visual arts of the masters of yesterday and today.
Guests have always left a donation of their works to the House by contributing to the creation of the “Collection of Casartisti”: sculptures, paintings, ceramics and graphic works. Among the guests in the living room or visit we remember: Paloma Picasso, Director Squarzina, Mario Rigoni Stern, Pino Margoni, the editors Bemporad, painters Santomaso, Zancanaro Tone, Peter Ghizzardi, Ugo Sterpini, Luca Crippa and other characters: Gino Bartali, Mario Channels, Italo Alighiero Chiusano, Fabio Fazio, Osvaldo Bevilacqua, Dino Sarti and scholars of art: Vittorio Sgarbi, Giancarlo Vigorelli, Renzo Margonari, Giancarlo Cauteruccio, Giorgio di Genova and many others.
Opening times:
6 April-30 June: 10-12/14-18
July and August: 10-12/14.30-18.30
1 September-12 October: 10-12/14-18
closed on Monday. Open during the Christmas markets.
The days 28, 29 November and 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 19, 20 December: from 9.30 to 18.30.
Free entry
Free audioguide in Italian and German