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Collezione Maramotti
Collezione Maramotti is a private contemporary art collection in Reggio Emilia which has been opened to visitors since September 2007. Temporary shows and site-specific projects are organized alongside the permanent collection.
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The collection
The Collection comprises several hundred art works created between 1945 and the present day, more than two hundred of them belong to the permanent exhibition and represent some of the most important Italian and international artistic trends of the last fifty years. The permanent exhibition comprises European art works from Expressionist and Abstract trends from the late Forties and the Informal art of the early Fifties, plus a group of Italian early Conceptual art pieces. It exhibits a relevant group of paintings from the so-called Roman Pop and Arte Povera. There are also examples of Italian, as well as German and American, neo-Expressionism (Transavanguardia). Then a group of works of American New Geometry from the 1980s and '90s are on exhibit, followed by more recent British and American experimentation works.
The location
Collezione Maramotti is housed in the former manufacturing plant of Max Mara fashion house. The building designed by architects Pastorini and Salvarani dates back to 1957 and was converted – with a project by British architect Andrew Hapgwood – into an exhibition space in 2005 after the plant moved to another facility. The project has preserved and further enhanced, with relevant adjustments, some of the concepts from the original project: the stark and essential construction; the flexible and versatile structure, strong link between indoor and outdoor spaces, the emphasis on natural light.
The artists
Vito Acconci, Franco Angeli, Francis Bacon, Donald Baechler, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Huma Bhaba, Ross Bleckner, Alighiero Boetti, Alberto Burri, Peter Cain, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Enrico Castellani, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Ettore Colla, Tony Cragg, Michael Craig-Martin, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, Mark Dion, Inka Essenhigh, Jean Fautrier, Tano Festa, Eric Fischl, Lucio Fontana, Peter Halley, Alex Katz, Mike Kelley, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Sherrie Levine, Osvaldo Licini, Markus Lupertz, Martin Maloney, Mark Manders, Carlo Maria Mariani, Arturo Martini, Eliseo Mattiacci, Fausto Melotti, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Henry Moore, Malcolm Morley, Gastone Novelli, Luigi Ontani, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini, Claudio Parmiggiani, Pino Pascali, Richard Patterson, A. R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Matthew Ritchie, Tom Sachs, David Salle, Mario Schifano, Julian Schnabel, Sean Scully, Kiki Smith, Atanasio Soldati, Philip Taaffe, Rosemarie Trockel, Cy Twombly, Giuseppe Uncini, Bill Viola, Dan Walsh, Terry Winters
Artists involved in temporary exhibitions and in site specific projects
Pedro Barbeito, Gianni Caravaggio, Will Cotton, Ann Craven, Jules de Balincourt, Trisha Brown, Benjamin Degen, Bart Domburg, Lalla Essaydi, Wayne Gonzales, Kent Henricksen, Matthew Day Jackson, Jutta Koether, Damian Loeb, Enoc Perez, Daniel Rich, Lisa Ruyter, Margaret Salmon, Dana Schutz, John Simon, Jessica Stockholder, John Tremblay, Kelley Walker, Dan Walsh, Kevin Zucker,
Opening hours and services
The permanent collection may be visited by appointment. The visit of temporary exhibitions is free during the Collection's opening hours. Free admittance. The premises are fully accessible. Since 2009 the library and the archive mainly dedicated to the artists exhibited in the Collection are available on request.
External links
Categories:- Art museums and galleries in Italy
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