Fashion Design Lab Magazine
june 2010 | nº 02
  Twentieth Century Art in Venice and Pistoia banking foundations collections
Pistoia, Fabbroni Palace, 23 may - 25 july
Jacopo Golisano
 
   

In the halls of Fabbroni Palace since 23rd of May to 25th of July the «Cassa di Risparmio of Pistoia» Foundation and the Venice Foundation present two exhibitions titled «Twentieth Century Art in Venice and Pistoia banking foundations collections» in collaboration of Pistoia’s township.

«1910-2010: A Century of Art in Pistoia. Artworks from the Cassa di Risparmio of Pistoia and Pescia Foundation», by Lara-Vinca Masini, display a collection of nearly ninety works of artists like Marino Marini, Galileo Chini, Giovanni Michelucci, Pietro Bugiani, Agenore Fabbri, Roberto Barni, Fernando Melani – not yet shown to pubblic – which goes since the beginning of 19th century to these days.
The exhibition is completed by an itinerary through Pistoia and its district, adding in works financed by «Cassa di Risparmio of Pistoia and Pescia» Foundation. This itinerary includes the statue «Cavaliere» by Marino Marini in the Tau Palace, the glass walls realized for St Peter and Immaculate Conception Churches by Sigfrido Bartolini and Umberto Buscioni and nineteen permanent site-specific installations by Anselm Kiefer, Daniel Buren, Sol Lewitt.

«Venice and the Biennial’s Century. Paintings, glasses and photographs of Venice Foundation collection», by Enzo Di Martino, documents the history of venetian institution with: forty paintings of Boccioni, De Pisis, Vedova; thirty-six Murano glasses, created by legendary glassmakers and artists like Tapio Wirkkala, Carlo Scarpa e Paolo Venini; a selection of photos of the main artists of 20th century, in most of these portrayed during the preparation of their biennal space.


Anselm Kiefer, (cm 460x690), Biblioteca San Giorgio, Pistoia  | photo Giuseppe Marraccini Anselm Kiefer, Die grosse Fracht (Il Grande Carico), 2006-2007, (cm 460x690), Biblioteca San Giorgio, Pistoia  | photo Giuseppe Marraccini Sol LeWitt, (mt 3,80 x h 3,1), 2005, Padiglione per l'Emodialisi dell'Ospedale di Pistoia | photo Aurelio Amendola
 
Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Giardino con barca, 2005,Padiglione per l'Emodialisi dell'Ospedale di Pistoia | photo Aurelio Amendola Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Giardino con sassi, 2005, Padiglione per l'Emodialisi dell'Ospedale di Pistoia | photo Aurelio Amendola Robert Morris, Gate (mt 8,60 x h 5,60), 2005, Padiglione per l'Emodialisi dell'Ospedale di Pistoia | photo Kehho Casati
 
Robert Morris, Gate (mt 8,60 x h 5,60), 2005, Padiglione per l'Emodialisi dell'Ospedale di Pistoia | photo Kehho Casati Daniel Buren, steel frames and glasses with vinil applications, (mt 2, 50 x 26 x h 2,00), 2005, Padiglione per l'Emodialisi dell'Ospedale di Pistoia | photo Aurelio Amendola Gianni Ruffi,  Lunatica (mt 18), 2005, Padiglione per l'Emodialisi dell'Ospedale di Pistoia | photo Kehho Casati
 
Dani Karavan, wooden structure, mirror and white marble of Carrara (mt 2,90 x 2,90 x h 5,60), 2005 | photo Kehho Casati Hidetoshi Nagasawa, Giardino rovesciato, 2008, Villa La Magia, Quarrata | photo Kehho Casati Anne e Patric Poirier, La fabbrica della memoria, 2006, Villa La Magia, Quarrata | photo Kehho Casati
 
Vittorio Corsini, Le Parole Scaldano,1999-2004, Piazza Agenore Fabbri, Quarrata | photo Kehho Casati Maurizio Nannucci, Antology two, 2009, Villa La Magia, Quarrata | photo Kehho Casati Pol Bury, Duetto d'acqua, 2004
 
Susuma Shingu, Duo acquatico, 1998 Mario Nannini, Scomposizione di figura (Zia Ester with umbrella),1916-17, oil on cardboard, cm 50,5 x 35 Giovanni Costetti, portrait of Dino Campana (?), 1909 (?), oil on canvas, cm 100 x 60
 
Giovanni Costetti, portrait of Marino Marini, 1926, oil on canvas, cm 120 x 94 Pietro Bugiani, Madonna col manto rosso, 1931 ca, tempera on plywood board, 94x69,5 Marino Marini, Nudo di fanciullo, s.d.( senza data), wax on plywood board, cm 44x34,5x16
 
Renzo Agostini, La casa rosa, 1930; oil on cardboard, cm 32 x 40 Fernando Melani, FM giu 56, 1956; coloured papers Mario Nigro, Spazio totale, 1955; oil on canvas, cm 52 x 61
 
Roberto Barni, Gomitolo, sixties, oil on canvas Roberto Buscioni, Grandi particolari, 1967 Bonelle; oil on canvas, cm 132 x 95 Gualtiero Nativi, Grande Apocalisse, Firenze 1983; tempera on canvas, 112x162
 
Zoè Gruni, Copricapo I, 2006-2008; lamda print on aluminum, cm 150 x 90. Performance Umberto Boccioni, Nonna, 1905-6, pastels on paper, 116x71 cm, Venice Foundation Collection Cagnaccio di San Pietro, L'alzana, 1926, oil on canvas, 200x173 cm, Venice Foundation Collection
 
Giulio Turcato, Maternità, 1942, oil on canvas, 78x61 cm, Venice Foundation Collection Fortunato Depero, Donne al telaio, 1942, oil on canvas, 98x70 cm, Venice Foundation Collection Filippo De Pisis, Natura morta con pesci, 1945, oil on canvas, 40x90 cm, Venice Foundation Collection
 
Felice Casorati, L'astrolabio, 1950, oil on plywood board, 89x50,5 cm, Venice Foundation Collection Giorgio Ferro, Vaso Drappeggio, 1968, glass, h 23 cm, Ø 17 cm, Venice Foundation Collection Luciano Gaspari, Piatto Op, 1966, cristal, l 37 cm, Venice Foundation Collection
 
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