Art regenerates Art
Artists for Bernard Damiano and Beppe Viada
Stefano Allisiardi, Daniel Arneodo, Lourens Arneodo, Riccardo Balestra, Luca Barbero Nino Baudino, Cesare Botto, Carlo Cavallo, Lorenzo Caula, Cornelio Cerato, Pier Franco Cerutti, Vittorio Cerutti, Alberto Valerio Cervelli, Alessia Clema, Mario Conte, Bernard Damiano, Anna De Luca Corniolo, Roberto De Siena, Guido Diémoz, Bartolo Dutto, Chiara Fornaro, Elio Garis, Gigi Garro, Oscar Giachino, Franco Giletta, Ugo Giletta, Bruno Giuliano, Enzo Gonella, Corrado Grappeggia, Giovanni Grappiolo, Pier Giuseppe Imberti, Cesare Marguerettaz, Silvano Marro, Lorena Massa, Gianni Mattio, Paola Meineri Gazzola, Bruno Murialdo, Matteo Notaro, Fabrizio Oberti, Dorino Ouvrier, Massimo Ovidi, Maurizio Ovidi Paolo Peano and Cristina Bollano, Enrico Prelato, Candida Rabbia, Donato Savin, Francesco Segreti, Valerio Stradella, Marco Tallone, Michelangelo Tallone, Valentino Tamburini, Tanchi Michelotti, Teresita Terreno, Michele Turco, Sergio Unia, Beppe Viada, Gianmario Vigna, and Guido Vigna.
Other donors include Piero Arese, Guido Corciolo, Mario De Luca, Gigi Garro, the Giordano-Vallauri family, Renata and Paolo Schiarretta, Anna Somà, and Marco Viada.
The exhibition "Art Regenerates Art" is the thirty-fourth event organized by grandArte as part of the "OMG – grandArte 2025-2026 – The Boundaries of the Sacred" series, which will feature a representative series of other art exhibitions in numerous locations throughout the province throughout 2025-2026.
The exhibition project, titled Art Regenerates Art. Artists for Bernard Damiano and Beppe Viada, hosted in the cloister of the New Bishopric (formerly Seminary) of Cuneo from 10 October to 29 November 2026, was created with the aim of helping support the structural safety works of the Parish Church of Sancto Lucìo de Coumboscuro through the liberal donation to the parish of around sixty works of painting, graphic design, sculpture, and photography by artists active in the Province of Cuneo and the Aosta Valley, also including nine paintings by the well-known Italian-French painter and sculptor Bernard Damiano (Saretto di Monterosso Grana/Cn, 1926 – Nice/France, 2000) and a sculpture by Beppe Viada (Cuneo, 1935 – 2005). Over time, Damiano and Viada have enriched the Parish Church of Coumboscuro's collection of 17th- and 18th-century Baroque paintings, furnishings, and art objects: Damiano, with his four panels depicting Stories from the Life of Saint Lucy, the fourteen Stations of the Cross, and above all the Crist sagnànt, a wooden Crucifix of exasperated yet heroic expressive realism; Viada, with his fourteen wooden statues depicting specific moments of Marian devotion and the life of Jesus. Not to be forgotten, outside the church, is the Crist doulourous by the artist and poet Peire Rous (Monterosso Grana/Cn, 1947–1985).
Free admission
