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léonard Gianadda
Tribute to a generous person who shared beauty
Over the years, many of us in International Alpine town of Martigny into the home of a
Geneva have visited the exhibition venue world-renowned art gallery at the crossroads of
in Martigny known as the Pierre Gianadda Europe.
Foundation. After the tragic death of his brother
Pierre, Léonard Gianadda decided to set up a The name Léonard Gianadda is known to
foundation and build a large exhibition centre everybody in Switzerland – and far beyond.
dedicated to Pierre. Both were inaugurated People will remember him for his outstanding
in November 1978, on what would have been generosity, his artistic taste, his elegance and his
his brother’s 40th birthday. In the decades that humanness. As he said about himself, he was
followed, the Foundation became a world- fortunate to have lived “thousands of lives and
class exhibition space, transforming the small was lucky to live them well” (L’Illustré, 2019).
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