The Farnesina Art Collection (
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: Collezione Farnesina) is a contemporary Italian art collection exhibited at the
Palazzo della Farnesina
The Palazzo della Farnesina is an Italian government building located between Monte Mario and the River Tiber, Tiber River in the Foro Italico area in Rome, Italy. Designed in 1935, it has housed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy), Italian Min ...
, the seat of the
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ( or ''MAECI'') is the foreign ministry of the government of the Italian Republic. It is also known as the Farnesina as a metonym from its headquarters, the Palazzo della Farnesina ...
in Rome, Italy.
The collection
The collection was first created to document in an anthological manner the production of the recent generations of artists and the tendencies of contemporary Italian art,
[Collezione Farnesina Experimenta]
«Art a part of culture». 5 July 2008. URL retrieved 21 may 2009. in order to support and promote the artistic culture of Italy in the world.
«Cultura Italia», on Italian Minister for Cultural Assets and Activities website. 4 July 2008. URL retrieved 21 may 2009.
The Farnesina Experimenta augments the collection of contemporary works of art of the
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ( or ''MAECI'') is the foreign ministry of the government of the Italian Republic. It is also known as the Farnesina as a metonym from its headquarters, the Palazzo della Farnesina ...
, amplifying the historical Farnesina Collection of
Italian art
Since ancient times, the Italian peninsula has been home to diverse civilizations: the Greeks in the south, the Etruscans in the centre, and the Celts in the north. The numerous Rock Drawings in Valcamonica date back as far as 8,000 BC. Rich a ...
of the 20th century.
The works have been chosen by a scientific committee directed by Maurizio Calvesi and composed of Lorenzo Canova, Marco Meneguzzo and Marisa Vescovo. The works are chosen with the purpose of documenting the different artistic currents present in Italy from the 1990s to 2000.
The works and the artists
The collection, documented by a bilingual catalogue (Italian and English), consists of eighty works by an equal number of artists, according to a principal of anthological representation of the varied and multiform panorama of contemporary Italian art.
[Full record]
on OPAC
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SBN website. URL retrieved 21 May 2009.
The 80 artists
[ of the Farnesina Experimenta, who come from all over Italy, are:
* Andrea Aquilanti
* Stefano Arienti
* Stefania Aragona
* Matteo Basilè
* Alessandro Bazan
* Angelo Bellobono
* Carlo Benvenuto
* Fausto Bertasa
* Bianco-Valente
* Paola Binante
* Nicola Bolla
* Marco Bolognesi
* Enrica Borghi
* Domenico Borrelli
* Botto & Bruno
* Letizia Cariello
* Francesco Carone
* Gea Casolaro
* Loris Cecchini
* Filippo Centenari
* Francesco Cervelli
* Marco Cingolati
* Marco Colazzo
* Davide Coltro
* Paolo Consorti
* Vittorio Corsini
* Francesco De Grandi
* Fabrice de Nola
* Alberto Di Fabio
* Andrea Di Marco
* Fulvio Di Piazza
* Mauro Di Silvestre
* Stefania Fabrizi
* David Fagioli
* Roberto Falconieri
* ]Lara Favaretto
Lara Favaretto (born 1973 in Treviso) is an Italians, Italian artist. Favaretto lives and works in Turin, Italy.
Favaretto is known for her paintings, installations and research based sculptural works. She has staged interventions that she calls ...
* Flavio Favelli
* Emanuela Fiorelli
* Licia Galizia
* Daniele Galliano
* Piero Golia
* Paolo Grassino
* Jonathan Guaitamacchi
* Francesco Impellizzeri
* Laboratorio Saccaridi
* Massimo Livadiotti
* Federico Lombardo
* Raffaele Luongo
* Marcello Maloberti
* Andrea Martinelli
* Simone Martinetto
* Andrea Mastrovito
* Luca Matti
* Sabrina Mezzaqui
* Liliana Moro
* Luigi Mulas Debois
* Adriano Nardi
* Andrea Nicodemo
* Davide Nido
* Giorgio Ortona
* Luca Pancrazzi
* Perino & Vele
* Luca Pignatelli
* Paolo Piscitelli
* Laura Pugno
* Pierluigi Pusole
* Paolo Radi
* Mauro Reggio
* Antonio Riello
* Alessandro Scartabello
* Francesco Sena
* Federico Solmi
* Giuseppe Stampone
* Silvano Tessarollo
* Saverio Todaro
* Sabrina Torelli
* Luisa Valentini
* Nicola Verlato
* Marco Verrelli
* Fabio Viale
* Cesare Viel
* Antonello Viola
* Luca Vitone
The exhibitions
With the aim of promoting and supporting the most promising emerging artistic talents, the Farnesina Experimenta Art Collection was presented to the public on 5 July 2008 at an extraordinary opening of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in accordance with the formula ''Open Doors at the Farnesina''.Open Doors at the Foreign Ministry
on Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ( or ''MAECI'') is the foreign ministry of the government of the Italian Republic. It is also known as the Farnesina as a metonym from its headquarters, the Palazzo della Farnesina ...
website. URL retrieved 21 May 2009.
In order to valorize Italian creativity and make it known internationally, Experimenta will be exhibited in Athens, Istanbul and Moscow during the year 2009, and in Berlin, Beijing, Shanghai, Sydney and São Paulo in 2010.
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Bibliography
Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova, Marisa Vescovo, Marco Meneguzzo. '' Collezione Farnesina Experimenta''. Rome, Gangemi Editori, 2008. .[
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See also
*Palazzo della Farnesina
The Palazzo della Farnesina is an Italian government building located between Monte Mario and the River Tiber, Tiber River in the Foro Italico area in Rome, Italy. Designed in 1935, it has housed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Italy), Italian Min ...
*Art of Italy
Since ancient times, the Italian peninsula has been home to diverse civilizations: the Greeks in the south, the Etruscans in the centre, and the Celts in the north. The numerous Rock Drawings in Valcamonica date back as far as 8,000 BC. Rich ar ...
*Culture of Italy
The culture of Italy encompasses the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, and customs of the Italian peninsula throughout history. Italy has been a pivotal center of civilisation, playing a crucial role in the development of Western culture. I ...
*Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ( or ''MAECI'') is the foreign ministry of the government of the Italian Republic. It is also known as the Farnesina as a metonym from its headquarters, the Palazzo della Farnesina ...
*15th Rome Quadriennale
The 15th Rome Quadriennale or XV Rome Quadriennale (Italian pronunciation: ''Quindicesima Quadriennale di Roma'') is an Italian art exhibition (the 15th edition of the Rome Quadrennial) held between 19 June and 14 September 2008 at its historical ...
Notes and references
External links
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on Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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