ART AND BUSINESS: THE FORECOURT OF THE ABRUZZESE HEADQUARTER OF MULTINATIONAL COMPANY VALAGRO LIGHTS UP WITH COLORS THANKS TO MAESTRO FRANCO SUMMA’S FUTURIST EDEN

by EditoreFondaSumma | Jul 31, 2021 | News

On July 28, the forecourt of Valagro company’s seat in Atessa saw the opening of Franco Summa’s Eden futurista (Futurist Eden),an installation planned since 2015 to lend a monumental policromy to the square, through a permanent and clear sign of the reality in which...

SUMMA ARS Award and new works in Piazza Sacro Cuore

by AmministratoreFondaSumma | Jan 25, 2021 | News, Senza categoria

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS ONE YEAR AFTER THE DEATH OF MASTER FRANCO SUMMA On Monday 25 January ’21, in the magnificent setting of the Maison Des Arts of the Pescarabruzzo Foundation, on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of the master Franco Summa, the...

the “FRANCO SUMMA” house-studio cultural heritage of MIBACT

by AmministratoreFondaSumma | Dec 11, 2020 | News, Senza categoria

The decree of the Mibact Regional Commission for Cultural Heritage recognized the “Franco Summa” artist’s studio building in via Gabriele D’Annunzio, 81 in Pescara, of cultural interest pursuant to Article 10 of the Cultural Heritage Code. Less than a year after...

In Borgotufi the “Maiden” by Franco Summa

by AmministratoreFondaSumma | Sep 25, 2020 | News, Senza categoria

“A female figure, with vivid colors. A Maiden, a turned icon of an ideal femininity that I almost imagine as a primeval goddess, guardian and mother of the earth that overlooks so broadly from that balcony”. In the words of the master Franco Summa, creator of urban...

Piazza Caduti del Mare was inaugurated, a heritage of Summa for Pescara

by AmministratoreFondaSumma | Jul 11, 2020 | News, Senza categoria

An imaginative space full of colors that collects the wind that creeps in from the sea in Piazza dei Caduti del Mare in Borgo Sud. Franco Summa’s square was inaugurated on Saturday 11 July, at 10.30 am, immersed in scents and colors. Years of thoughts and projects, at...

Franco Summa, the Poet of Colors, has died

by AmministratoreFondaSumma | Jan 25, 2020 | News, Senza categoria

Yesterday, January 25, at the age of 84, the master from Pescara Franco Summa, a sui generis artist with a classical background, a pupil of Giulio Argan, passed away. The whole city was the space of his Art, which he called Urban, made up of collective values ​​to be...