Spaces and Itinerary
As currently displayed, the works of the permanent collection range through forty-three exhibition halls on the building’s two upper floors, and are flexibly ordered in the light of various criteria. At times the order is chronological, while at others it’s determined by the places the works are understood to hold within their respective movements, or by considerations of nationality, resulting finally in a multi-layered reading of Western art since the Second World War. The works presented on the first floor consist of Italian and European paintings and sculptures from the end of the 1940s to the end of the 1980s; the second floor hosts European and American works from the beginning of the 1980s to the end of the 1990s.
Both upper floors, moreover, include an open space that exhibits sculptures and installations from the 1970s to the present. Two works hold a special position: Claudio Parmiggiani’s Caspar David Friedrich installation is housed in the ample atrium space that connects the two upper floors of the building; and Vito Acconci’s audio installation Two or three structures that can hook on to a room and support a political boomerang is presented in a reconstruction of the gallery space in which it was originally presented in 1978.
1st floor
Italian and European art
1950s - 1980s
2nd floor
European and American art
1980s - 2000s