From November 15, 2009 to February 14, 2010 Gert & Uwe Tobias have presented their recent work at the Pattern Room, an installation composed of twenty one pieces, from large size woodcuts to drawings and sculptures, placed inside a walldrawing covering all the walls of the exhibition space. Their works mix abstract and figurative elements taken from the folk culture of their place of origin, Transylvania, but also from a contemporary formal language, where points of reference are imbued with strong ironic flavours.
Hannah Rickards, winner of the 2007-2009 Max Mara Art Prize for Women, presented her new work No, there was no red., in private preview on 24 October 2009 at the Maramotti Collection. No, there was no red. is a two-screen film based on spoken accounts of a displaced image of a city seen over Lake Michigan as the result of rare temperature inversion mirage. The subjective divergences, consistencies, echoes and counterpoints of these accounts will form the core of the piece.
On October 28, 29 and 31, 2009 the Early Works by Trisha Brown, one of the most representative personalities of contemporary dance have been presented at the Maramotti Collection. This unique event which is the fruit of an exploration of new art languages and based on the dialogue between diverse forms of expression, offered an opportunity to re-read a place of memory and art, through a pathway rich in new evocative suggestions. On October 19 at the Collection the American coreographer participated in a conversation with Rossella Mazzaglia and Adriana Polveroni.
From May 24 to October 31, 2009 the Maramotti Collection opened its space for temporary exhibitions with a group show of works from its own recent holdings, produced from 2001 to 2008 by New York-based artists. The thirty works have in common an investigation about painting, which never entirely reduce to a discourse on method: this method is always a medium of iconographic discourse.
In collaboration with Max Mara and Parsons The New School for Design, New York, the exhibition shows the works by thirty students chosen by curator Michelle Bogre._Like amaranth, the flower that according to legend never fades, the images of thirty students selected for the exhibition open to the exploration of photography as an element interrupting the time dimension which marks our life with its experiences, expanding and enriching it.
From 8th March to 3rd May 2009 the Pattern Room presented the first exhibition in Italy for US artist John Simon. The five works on exhibit are a retrospective exploration of ten years of research into software art: from 1999 to 2009, the date of his latest work commissioned by Maramotti Collection. Simon's software, the souls of his wall-mounted pieces, studies the complexity of systems, through the display of endless combinations of colors and patterns.
From 23rd November 2008 to 22nd February 2009 the project Scenario, by Gianni Caravaggio, has been shown at the Pattern Room. The six artworks which constitute it, and specifically realized for the Collezione Maramotti, generate visual deceptions and tend toward a constant redefinition, thus creating ever-changing constellations in their mutual connection. For the exhibition a book with the same title, written by philosopher Federico Ferrari and the artist, has been published.
From 7th June to 26th October 2008, two large canvases on Casa Malaparte, by Portorican artist Enoc Perez, have been realized for the Collezione Maramotti and shown at the Pattern Room. His original painting technique is made up by a complex overlapping layers of colours, without using brushes. The project continues his reading about modernist architecture and its historical and cultural content, conveying a feeling of nostalgic delusion.
Saturday, September 27 and Sunday, September 28, 2008, the Collezione Maramotti accepted the invitation to the European Heritage Days and offered extended hours and guided visits to the permanent collection.
From 30 April to 25 May 2008 the photographic exhibition Pattern Room. Photographs by Roxanne Lowit and Giuseppe Varchetta, and a text written by Marco Belpoliti, has been shown at the Collezione Maramotti. The images by Roxanne Lowit and Giuseppe Varchetta offer two different viewpoints that document and interpret the intriguing relationship among the body of works, artists and visitors within the exhibition space, in shots taken during the opening of the collection. A critical text by Marco Belpoliti accompanies and comments the work of the two photographers.
Saturday 29 September 2007 opened – 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.
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.
© foto Di Liborio