Collezione Maramotti
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Collezione Maramotti is a private contemporary art collection which opened to visitors in the historical headquarters of Max Mara company, in Reggio Emilia (Italy), in 2007.
Alongside the permanent collection, the Collection presents temporary exhibitions and invites international artists to create site-specific projects, with the aim of merging acquisition policies with public showing.
The Collection exhibits and acquires also the projects of artists who are awarded the two-yearly MaxMara Art Prize for Women in association with the Whitechapel, for emerging women artists working in the United Kingdom.
The winners of the first five editions of the Prize were: Margaret Salmon, Hannah Rickards, Andrea Büttner, Laure Prouvost and Corin Sworn.
Contents
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 second part of the 20th century. The permanent exhibition comprises European art works from Expressionist and Abstract trends from the late 1940s and the Informal art of the early 1950s, 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 1990s 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 Hapgood – 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, Giovanni Anselmo, Shusaku Arakawa, Francis Bacon, Donald Baechler, Barry X Ball, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Huma Bhabha, Ashley Bickerton, Ross Bleckner, Alighiero Boetti, Alberto Burri, Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Enrico Castellani, Bruno Ceccobelli, 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, Ellen Gallagher, Peter Halley, Alex Katz, Mike Kelley, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Sherrie Levine, Osvaldo Licini, Markus Lüpertz, Martin Maloney, Mark Manders, Piero Manzoni, Carlo Maria Mariani, Arturo Martini, Eliseo Mattiacci, Fausto Melotti, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Henry Moore, Malcolm Morley, Cady Noland, Gastone Novelli, Nunzio, 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, Ray Smith, Erick Swenson, Philip Taaffe, Rosemarie Trockel, Cy Twombly, Giuseppe Uncini, Bill Viola, Dan Walsh, Terry Winters, Christopher Wool, Gilberto Zorio
Artists involved in temporary exhibitions and in site specific projects
Matthew Antezzo, Evgeny Antufiev, Massimo Antonaci, Alessandra Ariatti, Pedro Barbeito, Huma Bhabha, Karla Black, David Bowes, Andrea Büttner, Gianni Caravaggio, Alice Cattaneo, Anna Conway, Will Cotton, Ann Craven, Andy Cross, Enrico David, Matthew Day Jackson, Jules de Balincourt, Benjamin Degen, Flavio de Marco, Steve Di Benedetto, Thea Djordjadze, Jason Dodge, Bart Domburg, David Dupuis, Lalla Essaydi, Jason Fox, Francesco Gennari, Wayne Gonzales, Scott Grodesky, Kent Henricksen, Nicky Hoberman, Jacqueline Humphries, Chantal Joffe, Kaarina Kaikkonen, Jacob Kassay, Ian Kiaer, Jutta Koether, Damian Loeb, Claudia Losi, Christopher Lucas, Mark Manders, Esko Männikkö, Margherita Manzelli, Helen Mirra, Beatrice Pediconi, Enoc Perez, Alessandro Pessoli, Laure Prouvost, Daniel Rich, Hannah Rickards, Lisa Ruyter, Margaret Salmon, Thomas Scheibitz, Dana Schutz, Malick Sidibé, John Simon, Paolo Simonazzi, Jessica Stockholder, Corin Sworn, Kara Tanaka, Gert & Uwe Tobias, John Tremblay, Michael van Ofen, Kelley Walker, Dan Walsh, Kevin Zucker
Other artworks included in the Collection
Vincenzo Agnetti, Matthew Antezzo, Massimo Antonaci, Agostino Arrivabene, Nicos Baikas, Joan Banach, Pedro Barbeito, John Beech, Jason Bell, Bertozzi & Casoni, Mary Beyt, Karla Black, Ross Bleckner, Greg Bogin, Agostino Bonalumi, David Bowes, Victor Brauner, Richmond Burton, Andrea Büttner, Michael Byron, Ingrid Calame, Beatrice Caracciolo, Gianni Caravaggio, Alice Cattaneo, Giancarlo Cazzaniga, Bruno Ceccobelli, Mario Ceroli, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Claudio Costa, Will Cotton, Ann Craven, Andy Cross, Enzo Cucchi, Karin Davie, Jules de Balincourt, Ferruccio De Filippi, Flavio de Marco, Benjamin Degen, Wim Delvoye, Steve Di Benedetto, Kim Dingle, Thea Djordjadze, Jason Dodge, Bart Domburg, Moira Dryer, David Dupuis, Lalla Essaydi, Jean Fautrier, Lara Favaretto, Eric Fischl, Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Jason Fox, Ellen Gallagher, Francesco Gennari, Wayne Gonzales, Paolo Grassino, Gregory Green, Giorgio Griffa, Scott Grodesky, Peter Halley, Kent Henricksen, Nicky Hoberman, Jacqueline Humphries, Warren Isensee, Emilio Isgro’, Matthew Day Jackson, Kaarina Kaikkonen, Jacob Kassay, Ian Kiaer, Jutta Koether, Jannis Kounellis, Ulrich Lamsfuss, Annette Lemieux, Felice Levini, Osvaldo Licini, Damian Loeb, Christopher Lucas, Riccardo Lumaca, Dietmar Lutz, Margherita Manzelli, Fabian Marcaccio, Carlo Maria Mariani, Gino Marotta, Chris Martin, Arturo Martini, Suzanne McClelland, McDermott & McGough, Will Mentor, Mario Merz, Helen Mirra, Olivier Mosset, Donna Moylan, Nuvolo, Marcel Odenbach, Carl Ostendarp, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini, Claudio Parmiggiani, Enoc Perez, Alessandro Pessoli, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Donald Powley, Luisa Rabbia, Mauro Reggiani, Richard Rezac, Daniel Rich, Gerhard Richter, Hannah Rickards, Matthew Ritchie, Sally Ross, Mimmo Rotella, Lisa Ruyter, Tom Sachs, David Salle, Margaret Salmon, Thomas Scheibitz, Mario Schifano, Christian Schumann, Dana Schutz, Ophrah Shemesh, Malick Sidibé, John F. Simon Jr., Ray Smith, Atanasio Soldati, Jessica Stockholder, Ena Swansea, Erick Swenson, Vincent Szarek, Philip Taaffe, Cesare Tacchi, Kara Tanaka, Gert & Uwe Tobias, John Tremblay, Elif Uras, Michael Van Ofen, Ben Vautier, Alex Veness, Kelley Walker, Dan Walsh, Elke Warth, Matthew Weinstein, Terry Winters, William Wood, Miwa Yanagi, Andrea Zittel, Kevin Zucker
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