Magazzino Italian Art, a U.S. museum dedicated to Italian art, launches its digital initiatives

Magazzino Italian Art, the Cold Spring-based museum dedicated toItalian art from the post-World War II period to contemporary art, has launched a program of online initiatives: Magazzino from Home. The museum offers live streaming meetings with artists, presentation of unreleased films related to recent projects, lectures on Instagram Live given by leading scholars, playlists of Italian music on Spotify, and digitization of publications of past exhibitions and projects.

Key projects include the Homemade program, an initiative involving eight contemporary Italian artists living in New York invited by Magazzino to create new works of art in their homes. The artists participating in the project (Alessandro Teoldi, Andrea Mastrovito, Beatrice Scaccia, Danilo Correale, Davide Balliano, Francesco Simeti, Luisa Rabbia and Maria Domenica Rapicavoli) will use materials available in their homes to create works with an intimate dimension. Homemade will present updates of the artists’ projects from April 1 to the end of May.

Magazzino Italian Art also features a series of music playlists curated by members of its team, artists, curators, musicians and collaborators. Each playlist is accompanied by a short text and is associated with a work installed in the museum.
Also planned is the digitization and free consultation on the website, via Issuu, of all publications produced to date.

“We are proud to open the virtual doors of Magazzino,” declares director Vittorio Calabrese. “Although our galleries are closed, we intend to take advantage of this moment, and see it as an opportunity to bring people together through the interest and love we share for Italian art. Over the next few weeks, we will be making new programs available in digital format for the purpose of highlighting works of art that can serve as a stimulus and inspiration for the creative community. A sense of community and a spirit of collaboration are at the heart of what we do at Magazzino.”

All initiatives can be viewed at www.magazzino.art/magazzinodacasa and on Instagram Live and IGTV.

Below is the detailed schedule

Live streaming footage and meetings

- Marinella Senatore and The School of Narrative Dance (Cold Spring, November 2019).
First viewing, viewable March 27, 2020
Screening of a new video document by Marinella Senatore re-enacting the performance procession held in Cold Spring, NY

- Building Warehouse
First viewing, viewable April 8, 2020
Meet architect Miguel Quismondo on Instagram Live: April 11, 2020, from 3 p.m.
Through an in-depth look at the construction of the award-winning building that houses Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, the video document presents the construction of the museum.

- Michelangelo Pistoletto: Walking Sculpture (Cold Spring, November 2017)
First viewing, viewable April 24, 2020
Meet Tenley Bick, current researcher-in-residence at Magazzino, on Instagram Live: April 25, 2020 from 3 p.m.
The film Walking Sculpture, by Domenico Palma, of Pistoletto’s performance included in the Newspaper Sphere series, made on the streets of Cold Spring on commission from Magazzino.

- Melissa McGill: Red Regatta
First viewing, viewable May 6, 2020
Meet artist Melissa McGill on Instagram Live: May 9, 2020, from 3 p.m., on the one-year anniversary of the first regatta
The film dedicated to the performance Red Regatta, a public art project by Melissa McGill, realized, from May to September 2019, in the lagoon and canals of Venice.

- Set up Magazzino
First viewing, viewable May 13, 2020
Meeting with Thomas Huber, chief installer and Gabriella Perez, collection manager of Magazzino Italian Art on Instagram Live on May 16, 2020 from 3 p.m.
Presentation of a short film featuring a behind-the-scenes look at the first exhibition mounted at Magazzino: Margherita Stein: Rebel With A Cause

- Murano Glass
Film visible from May 20, 2020
Meet Magazzino founders Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu on Instagram Live, with opportunity for Q&A: May 23, 2020 from 3 pm.
The film, made by Anton Giulio and Siretta Onofri, offers a journey through the Olnick Spanu Collection dedicated to Murano glass. Beginning with an excursus within Murano’s glassmaking tradition, with archive clips on production in Venice’s historic glassworks, the fimato continues with interviews with Nancy Olnick, Giorgio Spanu and Ferruccio Franzoia, Carlo Scarpa’s collaborator, and footage of works in the collection.

Series of talks. A global vision: the worlds of arte povera.

-Pino Pascali: between Arte Povera and the Mediterranean
April 4, 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
Valérie Da Costa, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art History at the University of Strasbourg, examines the concept of “Mediterranean” in the work of Italian artist Pino Pascali.

-MichelangeloPistoletto’s Comizi (1965-1966): pop, protest and politics in the early phase of Arte Povera.
April 18, 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
Tenley Bick analyzes Michelangelo Pistoletto’s mirror paintings with a focus on the Comizi (Rallies) series, inspired by the political climate and protests of mid-1960s Italy.

- Salt and Copper: questions and answers layered from an interview with Jannis Kounellis
May 2, 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
Chris Bennett, Assistant Professor of Art History/Contemporary Art at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, explores the production of Jannis Kounellis, with a transnational magnifying glass.

Image: Exterior view of Magazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, NY.
Courtesy of Magazzino Italian Art, New York. Ph.Credit Javier Callejas

Magazzino Italian Art, a U.S. museum dedicated to Italian art, launches its digital initiatives

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