Library Insights

Welcome to Collezione Maramotti’s Art Archive and Library!
A vital place of research that intends to recount its documentary and bibliographic heritage as testimony to the memory, history and identity of the contemporary art collection.
The Library Insights miniseries will take you inside the Art Archive to discover eight artists' books. How many forms can an artist's book take? What can it tell about its author? Can a box become an artist's book?
The first series of Library Insights (2021) is dedicated to five limited edition volumes created in the 1970s by the poet, gallery owner and art critic Mario Diacono together with the artist Claudio Parmiggiani: Delocazione (1971), Malanggan (1972), Deiscrizione (1972), Daphenphoria (1974) and Annunciazione (1975).
The second series of Library Insights (2023) explores the use of the box, an everyday object that becomes a personal tool for a cosmic narrative through Claudia Losi's creations The Whale Theory (2019), Krištof Kintera's I am not you (2014) and Jason Dodge the see-rs (2010).