The Venue
Il Museo di arte sacra contemporanea, a branch of the diocesan museum of Alba, is located in the 18th-century Church of the Immaculate Conception of Rodello, now deconsecrated, in the hills of the Langhe. The museum was founded in 2003, at the behest of Dedalo Montali, and houses, in addition to the artist’s work for the John XXIII Chapel, a collection of more than two hundred works by Montali himself, divided into thematic and chronological itineraries. The museum also features the works of contemporary artists from the Accademia Albertina in Turin, who in the 1960s, in response to Pope Paul VI’s invitation, created works dedicated to the sacred theme. Since 2017, it has instituted an annual call for Italian and foreign artists, pertaining to different disciplines, to realise a residential workshop with narratives, meetings and workshops in dialogue with the territory of reference.