Rare 20th century masterpieces from private collections, from Klee to Hirst, on display at Palazzo Medici Riccardi

Palazzo Medici Riccardi is hosting from September 24, 2022 to January 8, 2023 the exhibition project Passione Novecento, from Paul Klee to Damien Hirst. Works from Private Collections, curated by Sergio Risaliti, promoted by Città Metropolitana di Firenze and organized by MUS.E. A substantial selection of works by 20th-century masters from Florentine and Tuscan private collections will be on display. The Museo Novecento project aims to link the great Renaissance tradition of collecting and patronage to the passion for twentieth-century art.

The exhibition aims to be a journey through the art of the twentieth century through rare masterpieces by Paul Klee and de Chirico, Morandi and Savinio, alongside those by Martini and Melotti, Fontana and Burri, to the most celebrated names in contemporary art such as Warhol and Lichtenstein, by Alighiero Boetti and Daniel Buren, up to Damien Hirst and Cecily Brown, Ai Weiwei and Tracey Emin. The rooms of Palazzo Medici will feature masterpieces by great art lovers, even identifiable to the point of reflecting the collector, his life, his taste, his ideals in a play of suggestions.

With Passione Novecento, Palazzo Medici Riccardi aims to offer a high-level exhibition that exalts the value of collecting and patronage. A journey through the artistic twentieth century starting with De Chirico, Morandi, Savinio, and Burri, passing through the Pop art of Warhol and Lichtenstein, and landing to names among the most famous in the current scenario, such as Damien Hirst and Ai Weiwei, and many others.

For the deputy mayor and councillor for Culture of the City of Florence, this is a project of great stature that has rightly taken shape in the city. We can say that in Florence, patronage developed during the Renaissance era with the Medici family, which was central to Italian cultural promotion and was then consecrated in the centuries to come with the presence of figures such as Stefano Bardini and Frederick Stibbert. And it is precisely thanks to collecting that it is now possible to admire these masterpieces.

“Here, then, the reasons for this scientific project and its and cultural ramifications become clear,” explains Sergio Risaliti, director of the Museo Novecento in Florence and curator of the exhibition. "It should also be emphasized that the Passione Novecento exhibition will open in conjunction with Florence Art Week and the Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato, which after the pause dictated by the epidemic will bring back to Florence the great protagonists of the antiques market, along with collectors from all over the world and representative figures of the art and museum system. The same week will also see the reintroduction of the Renaissance+ prize in its third edition, an award given to six eminent world figures in collecting and patronage. It should also be mentioned that in this same palace took place years ago an important exhibition also dedicated to collecting Secret rooms: the Riccardi’s artists."

The exhibition Passione Novecento da Paul Klee a Damien Hirst. Works from Private Collections hosts works by Giorgio de Chirico, Giorgio Morandi, Alberto Savinio, Arturo Martini, Fausto Melotti, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Paul Klee, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Louise Burgeois, Alighiero Boetti, Daniel Buren, Damien Hirst, Cecily Brown, Ai Weiwei, Tracey Emin and other great artists.

For info: https://www.museonovecento.it/

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Rare 20th century masterpieces from private collections, from Klee to Hirst, on display at Palazzo Medici Riccardi

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