invite you to the presentation of the book
Between two worlds
Story of Philip Rolla
by Maria Grazia Rabiolo
Tuesday 21.3.2023 at 6:30 PM
Centro Svizzero via Palestro 2, Milan
La Saletta, fourth floor
Welcoming greetings by the Consul General of Switzerland in Milan Sabrina Dallafior
speakers:
Maria Grazia Rabiolo, cultural journalist and writer
Philip Rolla, artisan, entrepreneur and art collector
Michael Jakob, curator and professor of landscape history and theory
limited places, RSVP by 16 March
sabrina.risi@eda.admin.ch
When Philip Rolla left California after graduating from university, the trip he took was diametrically opposite to that of his grandparents, who had arrived in California in the early twentieth century from Piedmont. His professional adventure began in Turin and continued in Italian-speaking Switzerland. A artisan-engineer, he is the inventor of the most high-performance propellers in the world. His name is linked to powerboat racing and to boats in general. On top of that, he has always nurtured a great passion for contemporary art and photography. He has lived all his life between the United States, which he has never forgotten, and Europe, in particular Switzerland. In Bruzella, in the Valle di Muggio, where he lives with his wife Rosella. he has assembled an important art collection and a foundation that holds reqular photography exhibitions in the former kindergarten. Unquestionably, Phil Rolla's life has been both special and interesting. This biography written by Maria Grazia Rabiolo goes back over it stage by stage with both precision and a sense of participation. What emerges is the portrait of a man, a professional, and a collector who is, to say the least, unique, and inimitable.
Maria Grazia Rabiolo
Born in Lausanne on August 4, 1957. Elementary and high school in Viganello, high school in Lugano. Graduated in Literature at the University of Milan, she is a cultural journalist. As such, she worked for more than 30 years at RSI - Radiotelevisione svizzera di lingua italiana. In 2021 she edited, for the Anna dai Capelli Corti Group, the publication Doppio laccio. Il cancro al tempo del Coronavirus, Edizioni Casagrande, Bellinzona.
Michael Jakob
Professor of comparative literature at the University of Grenoble and of landscape history and theory in hepia/HEAD, Geneva, at the Polytechnic of Milan and at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio. Writer, international curator of exhibitions and author of documentaries.
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