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Cornèr Bank’s commitment to art and culture continues unabated. A major new publishing initiative maintains the spotlight on the Canton of Ticino and its heritage.

On November 10, 2011, the Lugano-based bank unveiled the ninth volume of its very own collection of art books to an eager public and press. The latest item is a monograph in Italian on the Ticino painter Adolfo Feragutti Visconti, edited by Giovanna Ginex, a leading Italian scholar of the art of the 19th century. Published by Skira, the volume covers significant works in private ownership, while reproducing all the paintings in public collections in Switzerland, Italy, and other countries.

Adolfo Feragutti Visconti was born in Pura (Ticino) in 1850, and died in Milan in 1924. In more than forty years of intensive activity and ceaseless presence at international exhibitions, he developed his own highly personal artistic language, backed by  technical mastery as a painter. 

The publication of this monograph also coincides with two significant anniversaries which fall in 2012: the 60th anniversary of the foundation of Cornèr Bank and the 40th anniversary of the creation of its own series of publications dedicated to private collecting and the study of Canton Ticino and Lombardy paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries.

Indeed, a distinctive feature of Cornèr Bank since its inception has been its keen interest in disseminating art in its own country, by publishing prestige volumes and staging exciting exhibitions.

This dialog between finance and art has prompted some excellent publications, among which this latest monograph on Feragutti Visconti will surely rank high.

Further to this initiative, November 11 saw the opening of a display of 25 works by Feragutti Visconti, sourced from various public collections in Ticino, plus two paintings from Cornèr Bank’s own collection. The venue is the east wing of Lugano’s art gallery, the Museo Cantonale d’Arte, and the exhibition is open to visitors until January 22, 2012. Admission is free. Opening hours: Tuesdays, 2.00 to 5.00 p.m., and Wednesdays to Sundays, 10.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.