Collector Lia Rumma Donates Collection to Italian State
Collector and gallerist Lia Rumma has donated her assortment of greater than seventy works made by thirty Italian artists because the Sixties to the Italian state. The works, many by artists affiliated with arte povera, will likely be completely on view on the Palazzina dei Principi of the Museo e Actual Bosco di Capodimonte, which presently depend 160 works amongst its up to date artwork holdings. With the reward, the museum will change into the one Italian establishment to protect and show artwork from the thirteenth century to the current.
The trove contains works by Vincenzo Agnetti, Giovanni Anselmo, Enrico Castellani, Dadamaino, Luciano Fabro, Piero Gilardi, Giorgio Griffa, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Pino Pascali, Gianni Piacentino, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ettore Spalletti, and Giulio Turcato, amongst others. Rumma started amassing the gathering within the early Sixties along with her husband, Marcello Rumma a curator and artwork writer, when each had been of their early twenties. Among the many exhibitions Marcello Rumma organized or sponsored was had been notably the 1968 “Arte Povera + Azioni Povere.” Curated by Germano Celant, the exhibition is taken into account to have catalyzed the arte povera motion. Following Marcello’s loss of life in 1971, LIa opened a gallery in Naples, focusing totally on the arte povera, Minimalist artwork, and Conceptual artwork of the time; in 1999, she opened a second gallery, in Milan.
Although main museums from world wide approached Rumma concerning her assortment in recent times, she was adamant that it stay in Italy. Sylvain Bellenger, director of the Capodimonte Museum and Actual Bosco, in an announcement praised Lia and Marcello Rumma for his or her intelligence and imaginative and prescient, noting, “With the reward of their assortment to Capodimonte, Lia and Marcello Rumma aren’t solely coming into historical past, however, past that, they’re additionally making historical past enter Capodimonte; a historical past which they witnessed and during which they performed a job when, on the finish of the Sixties with arte povera, Italian artwork radically entered the up to date world.”
