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MARAMOTTI COLLECTION
Saturday 29 September 2007 will see the opening - in the historical plant of Max Mara company, the Maramotti Collection of international contemporary art from the second postwar period to the present day.
The entrance is free and only by booking on the phone or the Internet via the website http://www.collezionemaramotti.org
An important selection of two hundreds artworks in the Collection, comprising several hundreds works all together, is therefore offered on display to art connoisseurs and lovers, following the desire of the founder, Achille Maramotti.
His passion for contemporary art has made it possible to create and develop a collection which comprises paintings, sculptures and installations dated from 1945 to the present day, which represent some of the most relevant Italian and international artistic trends of the second half of the 20th century. An additional source of interest is provided by the fact that the artists are represented here by important works in their earlier years , in the phases where their work introduced elements of novelty in the contemporary artistic research.
The permanent Collection, on display on two floors in the old company factory in a layout comprising forty three rooms and two open spaces, starts with several important European paintings representing the expressionist and abstract trends of the late Forties-early Fifties, defined as informal movement, and a group of Italian pre-conceptual works ( Fontana, Burri, Fautrier, Manzoni). Followed by relevant groups of paintings from the so-called Roman Pop Art (Angeli, Festa, Schifano, Tacchi), of Arte Povera in its double Roman and Turin articulation (Kounellis, Boetti, Merz, Penone, Pistoletto, Zorio, Anselmo) and Conceptual Art.
These works are followed by fundamental paintings of Transavanguardia (Cucchi, Chia, Clemente, De Maria, Paladino), relevant examples of German (Kiefer, Baselitz, Polke, A.R. Penck) and American (Basquiat, Schnabel, Salle) new-expressionism; then we find a group of works of the New American Geometry from the Eighties-Nineties (Halley, Scully, Taaffe, Burton, Bleckner) and the most recent American and British experimentations (Ritchie, Gallagher, Barry X Ball, Sachs, Essenhigh, Craig-Martin, Maloney).
The works made in the 21st century, which are mostly not present in the permanent collection, will be displayed in thematic exhibitions on the ground-floor area, for temporary exhibition projects.
The constant exploration of expression languages which are constantly evolving in fashion and art was always the encompassing passion of Achille Maramotti, a passion finding its ideal continuity in the family's decision to make of this place a work in progress displaying and testifying of new artistic trends. Till the year 2000, several artworks were on display in the Max Mara factory, which is now the home of the Collection, in order to promote a daily and stimulating exchange between artistic creativity and industrial design.
In order to testify of the close relationship between Max Mara and the art world, the Collection will house and present the works awarded with the biennial Max Mara Art Prize for Women in association with the Whitechapel Gallery, for emerging artists from Great Britain. During the first opening months of the Collection the winning art work in the first edition of the prize (2006), and titled Ninna Nanna/Lullaby, made by video artist Margaret Salmon, will be on exhibit.
The transformation of a production facility of fashion collections into an exhibition venue has been designed by keeping in mind the stark essentiality of the structure, which was conceived from the start as a flexible place capable of transforming itself according to changing needs.
Maramotti Collection
Location: Via Fratelli Cervi 66, 42100 Reggio Emilia, Italy
Contacts:
Ph. 0039 0522 382484 Fax 0039 0522 934479
info@collezionemaranotti.org
http://www.collezionemaramotti.org
Opening hours:
Thursday and Friday 2.30 - 6.30 pm
Saturday and Sunday 9.30 - 12.30 am/ 3.00 - 6.00 pm
Closed 1 and 6 January, 25 April, 1 May, from 1 to 25
August, 25 and 26 December
Entry: free
Visit:
Only on booking; entry without booking may be possible only if places are available.
Only a maximum of 25 visitors are allowed for each visit.
Two possibilities are offered: the complete tour (for a total of 2,30 hours ) or the shorter one (for 1, 15 hour ):
1st floor, Italian and European art Forties to Eighties
2nd floor, European and American art from the Eighties to the present day
Guided tours are available on request for groups of at least 15 people
Useful information:
Accessibility to the exhibition is provided for people with mobility impairment
The visit to the exhibit entails the presence of collection personnel.
Children under 14 only if accompanied by adults.
Press office:
Studio Pesci
Via Giuseppe Petroni 18/3, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Ph. 0039 051 269267 Fax 0039 051 2960748
Email info@studiopesci.it
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From 29 September to 20 November 2007
Perugi artecontemporanea, Padua
Davide Zucco / Jasmine Zimmerman
These two artists participated in the famous farewell celebration held from 15 to 17 December 2006 in New York at one of the great historical sites of Street Art, the Wooster Collective -11_Spring Street- project. The artists come together in Padua with the idea of recreating the atmosphere of collaboration and dialogue which characterised this remarkable project. However, they also seek to affirm their own individuality. Davide Zucco, committed to the construction of a personal mythology inspired by popular culture and nature, uses a happening and a cross over between painting, installation and electronic music. Jasmine Zimmerman makes use of relational aesthetics, intervening in places of transit, weaving structures with elastic cords to tangle and involve the viewer. Curated by Alfredo Sigolo.
From 22 September to January 6, 2008
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Rosso. The Transient Form
The exhibition traces the rediscovery of the complex contemporary aesthetics of Medardo Rosso through sculptures, waxes, plasters, bronzes, photos and previously unseen documents. The decision to exhibit a selection of 24 documented sculptures, including Madame X (wax on plaster, 1896), Yvette Guilbert (glazed plaster, 1895), La Rieuse (wax, 1890) and Bambino malato (wax, 1889), reveals the complex task of dating and reconstructing Rosso's artistic production. Time was of little consequence to Rosso: sometimes the artist himself would get the dates of his works muddled up, as though for him the work were a fluid thing that would last a lifetime in sculpture or in photography. His photographic work is given prominent space in the exhibition, with almost 100 photos coming from the Archivio Rosso. Curated by Paola Mola and Fabio Vittucci.
From 21 September to 24 February 2008
GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo
The Future of Futurism
From Boccioni to Fontana to Damien Hirst. Approximately 200 works by 120 artists that illustrate the influence exercised by Futurism (the most important avant-garde movement in Italy) on the developments of the visual arts in the twentieth century and up to the present day. From works by the fathers of Futurism - such as Boccioni, Balla, Carra', Russolo, Severini and Depero - the exhibition moves towards artistic research for which the radical nature of Futurism opened the path: Abstractionism, Constructivism, Kinetic Art and the new avant-gardes of the 1960s and '70s, up to the leading figures in contemporary art. The exhibition will be a show based on comparisons, analogies and differences. Curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio and Maria Cristina Rodeschini Galati.
From 20-09-2007 to 18-11-2007
GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Turin
Pinot Gallizio
Gallizio produced the series of paintings entitled: La Gibigiana, which represents an important turning point in his artistic experience, at the beginning of 1960. A few months after completing his Caverna dell'Antimateria in Paris, Gallizio allowed a narrative streak, already implicitly present in a number of single paintings and industrial painting rolls of his, to transpire from his pictorial art. If industrial painting can be connected to the days of an intense confrontation with situationist critics on the commercialization of art, connections in the Caverna dell'Antimateria spread to quantum physics and anthropological meditation. After having extended the potentials of a pictorial art with marked gestural connotations to an environmental scale, in his Gibigiana, Gallizio reverted once again to tackling the more concentrated dimensions of works on canvas.
From 6 June - 5 November 2007
Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Artempo - Where Time Becomes Art
It examines the relationship between art, time and the power of display, representing a breadth of cultures and periods and featuring over 300 objects ranging from rare archaeological materials to contemporary installations. The work of over 80 artists will include Francis Bacon, Alberto Burri, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Giacometti, James Turell, Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol. The work on show will be sourced from the private collection of Axel Vervoordt, from the Musei Civici Veneziani, from other public and private collections all over the world and directly from the artists themselves. Artempo will include several specially commissioned exhibition installations. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, Giandomenico Romanelli and Mattijs Visser with Daniela Ferretti.
From 6 May to 4 November 2007
MAMbo - Museo of Modern Art of Bologna
Vertigo
The century of off-media art, from Futurism to the web. The event documents the crossovers and contaminations that have occurred from the historic avant-gardes onwards (from Futurism to Suprematism, from Constructivism to Dadaism, from Neoplasticism to Surrealism) affirming the demise of the artistically -specific- such as painting and sculpture, to be supplanted by a blend of multimedia art. By mean of a spectacular scenario designed by Denis Santachiara for the renovated historic -Forno del Pane- building, the exhibition presents over 400 works, including artist books, films, installations, paintings and photographs that show the 20th Century and its art as a period of far-reaching change, invention and innovation. Curated by Germano Celant with Gianfranco Maraniello.
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