La figura di Luigi Rovati

The small booklet is connected to the exhibition, held in the Art Pavillion, devoted to the making of the white marble statue located in the main hall to welcome all visitors.

The artwork, produced by Giuseppe Ducrot, portrays prof. Luigi Rovati, who in 1961 founded Rotta Research Laboratorium, a leading and innovative biotech company, international excellence in the research and development of new drugs who became one of the main Italian pharmaceutical multinationals.
His sensitivity for history, archeology and research inspires the Foundation today, which develops his ideas in a continuum between art and science.

As the author of the text, Flaminio Gualdoni, says: «Here, the work in question is the Luigi Rovati created for the headquarters of the Fondazione Luigi Rovati. A life-size statue of Carrara marble, it stands at the same sight level as its viewers, avoiding the restrictive rhetoric of the pedestal. The work fits in seamlessly with its context, a neoclassical Palazzo where the imposing figure of the physician, researcher, pharmaceutical manufacturer and all-round humanist is celebrated not as a past glory but as the creator of an enduring present. (...) The full figure forsakes any hint of excessive sinuosity, establishing a solid, balanced gravitas which focusses attention on the face, on the marked, unembellished representation of the features. Ultimately, reflects Ducrot, “Statuary is an art that is seen, but not seen”, as everything occurs in the face».