Pippa Bacca. Cut-Out Journeys: the Delicate Art of Scissors, Paper and Trust

Pippa Bacca, born Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, a Milanese artist with a delicate yet courageous poetic vision, returns as a protagonist in her city. Renowned for her final performance Bride on Tour - a hitchhiking journey from Milan to Jerusalem aimed at delivering a message of peace by crossing eleven countries marked by conflict - Pippa Bacca masterfully blended art, travel, and trust into a unique language. Between 1995 and 2008, the artist developed a body of work alternating between performances and works on paper: using scissors and collage, she crafted shapes from photographs, leaves, and colorful papers, exploring themes of travel, femininity, and mythology. Her works thus become intricate weavings of memories and fragments of experiences, merging personal and universal elements. On display, alongside the iconic wedding dress, are about fifty works - some previously unseen - that engage in dialogue with the museum's historic spaces: green paper sirens placed next to 19th-century sculptures, cut-out scorpions among Egyptian artifacts, and photographs retracing the stages of her final journey. Completing the tribute is the luminous installation To shine (to Pippa), which will remain lit throughout the exhibition, as a metaphor for her artistic light.