A new space for modern and contemporary art is born in Florence: the Casamonti Collection opens

Starting in March 2018, Florence will have a new place dedicated tomodern and contemporary art. Indeed, on the piano nobile of Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni, located in one of the most beautiful corners of Florence, between Piazza Santa Trinita and Via Tornabuoni, the Roberto Casamonti Collection will open to the public. This is a selection of the works that Roberto Casamonti, founder and director of the Tornabuoni Arte gallery, with offices in Florence, Milan, Forte dei Marmi, Paris, London and Crans Montana, has collected during his long activity in the art world and which constitutes the main nucleus of his collection. It is one of the most important collections of modern and contemporary art in Italy, and, comments the collection’s scientific curator, Bruno Corà, “the decision to offer this collection to Florentines and tourists expresses as an authentic patronage gesture the act of gratitude of a passionate art lover for the city that has followed him throughout his professional activity and his own life.”

Acultural association has been specially created to manage the collection, which will allow the public to visit the collection (whose direction has been entrusted to art historian Sonia Zampini) free of charge: a reservation will suffice. The collection is divided into two basic sections: the first that includes works by artists of the late 19th and early 20th century, while the second houses works ranging from 1960 to the present day. The first section will feature works by Italians such as Giovanni Fattori, Giovanni Boldini, Giacomo Balla, Lorenzo Viani, Mario Sironi, Gino Severini, Giorgio Morandi, Giorgio De Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Luigi Prampolini, Felice Casorati, and Osvaldo Licini, as well as international artists such as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Chaim Soutin, Vasilij Kandinsky, and others. As for the second core, the public will have the opportunity to see works by Hans Hartung, Jean Fautrier, Marino Marini, Sebastian Matta, Wilfredo Lam, Piero Dorazio, Carla Accardi, Afro, Emilio Vedova, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Alberto Burri, Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, Enrico Castellani, Piero Manzoni and many others.

“The birth of the Association,” comments Roberto Casamonti, “marks the culmination of a long history that runs through and characterizes my family, telling its story every day through the living language of art. I thought I wanted to share my collection with the city of Florence, to which I have always been affectionately attached, so that the values of which art is the bearer can be conditions not exclusive but publicly shared. I am strongly convinced of the educational potential of art, capable of structuring and educating thought, the soul and the consistency of our living.”

More information can be found at www.collezionecasamonti.com.

Pictured: Giorgio De Chirico, Hector and Andromache (1950; oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm)

A new space for modern and contemporary art is born in Florence: the Casamonti Collection opens

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