Albero rosso © Antonia Boschetti
Pop-up Exhibition
21–29 March 2026 · CRAI Grocery Shop, Via Collina d'Oro 86, Montagnola
Mo–Fr 7.30-12.30 / 15.00-18.30
Sa 8.00-12.00 / 15.00-18.00
Su 9.00-12.00
Since 2024, the Museo Hermann Hesse Montagnola has hosted an atelier dedicated to local artists. Through the Hesse Artist in Residence program, creatives are invited to the Collina d’Oro to engage with the life and work of Hermann Hesse and to develop contemporary artistic interpretations of his thought.
The second artist in residence in this program is Antonia Boschetti (*1985). During her residency (December 2025 – March 2026), she explores central themes of Hesse’s work. The results of her research take shape across multiple media — watercolor, collage, and bronze sculpture — investigating the dual dimensions that characterize many of Hesse’s literary figures. These are characters in conflict with society, within which they cannot find identity markers that generate existential meaning, and who, precisely for this reason, set out on a journey. In particular, she focuses on the animal figures in Hesse’s texts — as in The Wolf (1907) — which appear as symbols of freedom and vulnerability. Her works explore the tension between wild nature and human limitations, situating the search for identity within a threatened landscape.
Curated by Marcel Henry & Giacomo Agosti
Vernissage: Friday 20 March 2026, 6:30
Entrance fee: «Pay What You Want» principle
BIO
Antonia Boschetti (*1985) is a visual artist and special education teacher. After training in education, she studied Painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera from 2014 to 2018. Her artistic practice is primarily developed through drawing and watercolor, complemented by collage and, more recently, sculpture. Her work explores the relationship between humans and nature, with particular attention to traces left by human activity and the condition of animals in increasingly transformed environments. In recent years, she has expanded her practice to sculpture, creating bronze works inspired by European forest fauna. Since 2016, she has exhibited regularly in Ticino and northern Italy.