In the avalanche winter of 1951, the Pedretti studio house in Samedan was completely destroyed. The Pedretti family of artists then moved into a newly built house in Celerina. Here, the painter Turo Pedretti and his sons Giuliano and Gian created a body of work of international significance. In the studio of the painter Turo Pedretti (1896-1964), his paintings are presented every six months in a thematic selection. An informative film by Roy Oppenheim introduces the public to the artist's life. This room also serves as a venue for cultural events.
The authentically preserved atelier of Giuliano Pedretti (1924-2012) presents a collection of sculptures from seven of the sculptor's creative decades.
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Casting light and shadow, day and night
Turo Pedretti is considered a great painter of the night. He shares his expressive color palette with Edvard Munch and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Turo Pedretti captured light and shadow in their atmospheric appearance with daring lightness, making his paintings an immediate, sensual experience of his perception of nature. The expressionist/fauvist paints daring and extremely colorful pictures in which the unique Engadine light plays the central role. The studio is showing selected pictures as well as the film by Roy Oppenheim "Turo Pedretti, a great painter of the Engadin".
