Influential Dealer Lia Rumma Donates Art Povera Trove to Italy – RisePEI

Supplier Lia Rumma, who runs a gallery with areas in Milan and Naples, has donated greater than 70 works made by distinguished Italian artists to the nation’s authorities. The works are to be displayed in a nationwide museum in Naples.

Lots of the works included within the present are by artists affiliated with Arte Povera, a motion from the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s wherein artists used crude supplies like soil, rags, rocks, and duct tape to craft sculptures. They noticed their work as being positioned exterior the market.

Among the many 30 artists represented within the present are Vincenzo Agnetti, Giovanni Anselmo, Enrico Castellani, Luciano Fabro, and Michelangelo Pistoletto, and others.

The works can be displayed completely on the Palazzina dei Principi, a constructing on the campus of the Capodimonte Museum, one in every of Italy’s foremost establishments. Housed in its assortment are works courting from the thirteenth century to the current. The museum at the moment owns round 160 works of up to date artwork.

Rumma, who began out as a collector whereas residing in Salerno, started amassing works by the artists within the early Nineteen Sixties along with her companion, the curator Marcello Rumma. He was one of many individuals who requested German Celant to curate 1968’s “Arte Povera + Azioni Povere,” one of many first vital reveals dedicated to the motion. Following Marcello’s loss of life in 1971, Lia opened a gallery in Naples devoted to Minimalist and Conceptual artwork, showcasing artists like Joseph Kosuth and Enrico Castellani.

In an announcement, Sylvain Bellenger, the director of the Capodimonte Museum, stated that the present displays a interval wherein “Italian artwork radically entered the modern world.”