I discovered an extraordinary museum in a small town in Mantovano called Nuvolato di Quistello. The museum is housed in the primary school that was designed by Gorni, renovated and adapted to accommodate all of his own works.

Gorni was born in 1894 in the hamlet of Santa Lucia di Quistello. After obtaining a teacher's diploma at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, he returns to Quistello and merged the technical school. During the 1930s and 1940s he cannot work as a teacher, he did not follow the political ideas in vogue at the time, and he used these years to develop his art. After resuming teaching for a few years he moved to Milan until 1961 who returned to live in Nuvolato. Only then did he have time to dedicate himself soul and body to his art and in 1965 in Milan he held his first exhibition at the venerable age of 71.

The museum is divided into two floors, on the second floor there are its drawings, sketches and engravings. In this journey we see his preparation and the growth of the artist. On the first floor are his sculptures. They are extraordinarily alive! It's incredible, it seems like we can have a chat with it and they make it clear with how much love Gorni depicted the people of his lands.