MARAMOTTI COLLECTION

The Works

The Collection consists of several hundred works of art that date from 1945 to the present, of which something more than two hundred are on permanent view as an in-depth presentation of a number of the central artistic tendencies, both Italian and international, of the last fifty years. The Collection consists mostly of paintings but is also inclusive of sculptures and installations. The artists are represented by significant works from early in their careers, and thus by examples of the ways in which their work first brought elements of true and proper novelty into the researches of contemporary art.

The Collection begins with a number of important European paintings that embody the abstract and expressionist climate of the late 1940s and early 1950s -the climate, more precisely, of art informel- and there is also a group of proto-conceptual Italian works. It continues with an important selection of the works of the “Roman School” of Pop Art, and then with a considerable number of Arte Povera works, partly from Rome, and partly from Turin, the movement’s two major centers. These sections of the Collection are followed in turn by various fundamental works from the area of Italian neo-expressionism, also known as the Transavanguardia, and also by significant works of the related movements in Germany and the United States. Next we find a considerable group of works of the New Geometry of the United States, of the 1980s and 1990s, followed finally by the most recent experimentations in both the United States and Great Britain.

Most of the Collection’s twenty-first century works have not been included in the permanent exhibition, and will be presented in theme-based shows in the ground-floor spaces for temporary exhibitions. The Collection is itself a “work in progress” and will continue in the future to document the novel paths that the further evolution of contemporary art continues to explore.