Museum House-Atelier of Ugo Guidi

In Vittoria Apuana, in the municipality of Forte dei Marmi, there is Ugo Guidi Casa-Atelier Museum that is inaugurated in 2005. The Museum allows you to appreciate the importance and liveliness of the Versilian environment for Italian art of the twentieth century. It is set up in the house where the artist lived and worked and offers the opportunity to learn about the artistic evolution of the Versilian sculptor, who during the twentieth century developed his own personal artistic language. In fact, through the garden and the first room you enter into a relationship with the early marble works of the 1940s, where the classical rigor is dissolved, through consummate craftsmanship, into a poetics with a naturalistic flavor. The transition to the 1950s is highlighted by the interest in harmonious relationships of the volumes sought in the warm color of the stone and local tuff. The 1960s show the acceleration of a sculptural research in which even the repetitiveness of certain themes (horses, figures, motherhood, portraits, sports subjects) reveals a search for those who are able to always question themselves and tend to sculpture in which emotion always leads to a continuous invention of plastic values ​​with ever new results. In the 1970s, Guidi arrived at totem-figures inserted in apparent blocks of marble, but made of clay, in which he sought the first form, the essentiality expressed through pure and simple forms, in a reference to archetypal ideas and structures. Intellectual rigor clashes in the last works with the human drama that the sick man experiences: The cry is born, testimony of a rebellion shouted against a premature end.

All the periods of Ugo Guidi's art are present in the rooms of the house-museum and the abundance of the works and materials treated leaves the visitor with an emotion that he will carry within him for a long time. Guidi loved to surround himself with his works, the house-museum exhibits about six hundred of them: pictorial and graphic works, sculptures in stone, terracotta, wood, iron, ceramics and many other materials are present in the rooms of the house-studio that has maintained the charm of a living and lived creative space.