Luzzati. Genova mai uguale

Twenty years after the passing of Emanuele Luzzati, the Lele Luzzati Foundation ETS pays tribute to the Maestro with an exhibition exploring Luzzati’s special relationship with Genoa: his Muse, a city he loved, observed and continually reinvented.
From his early work in the post-war years to major collaborations with theatres, institutions, businesses and the port, Luzzati. Genova mai uguale (Genoa, Never the Same) traces the city’s transformations and shows how Luzzati helped reshape its cultural imagination.
Neither a celebratory exhibition nor a simple retrospective, it is a journey through the years, exploring history and personal stories through sketches, costume designs, illustrations, posters and other remarkable materials from the Lele Luzzati Foundation’s archives, some of which have never been exhibited before.
A journey through art, theatre, graphic design and urban transformation, it explores the places and encounters that have shaped Genoa’s cultural life: from the Borsa di Arlecchino to the Teatro della Tosse, from the Galleria del Deposito in Boccadasse to a dialogue with the contemporary port, through the engravings of Raymond Verdaguer.
A thread connecting past and present also runs through Lele’s historic home and studio at 12A Via Caffaro, a meeting place for generations of artists and intellectuals and the subject of a major project conceived by Sergio Noberini. An interactive installation invites visitors to pick up the receiver of a rotary telephone and listen to stories and anecdotes from the city’s cultural life.

At Casa Luzzati. Free admission.
From 29 October 2026 to 3 October 2027.