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The Miniucchi Museum: the Arte Povera of a Sculptor-Physician Within the Walls of a Sabine Village
The Agapito Miniucchi Museum looks onto Piazza della Vittoria in Rocca Sinibalda, in the heart of the Sabina of Rieti. Since 2007 the municipality has dedicated this space to the sculptor born here in 1923. A graduate of medicine, he practised as a dentist, but also transformed wood, stone and iron into sculptures of international renown.
A Self-Taught Artist with an International Career
Miniucchi began painting in the 1950s, then turned to sculpture, and was attracted to Arte Povera (literally Poor Art). From the Quadriennale di Roma of 1959 to the Venice Biennale of 1986, his works reached New York, Charleston and Pesaro. In Terni he crafted Hyperion, the enormous Corten steel structure that has greeted those entering the city since 1981. He died in March 2023, a few months short of his hundredth year.
The Exhibition Itinerary
The permanent collection brings together works from his mature period: forms that resemble peasants’ tools, implements of the rural civilisation of the Turano valley given an almost archetypal interpretation. A stone sculpture has been placed in the gardens of the square, while others are housed inside the Castello Sforza Cesarini. The museum also hosts temporary exhibitions.
