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ACQUISITIONS 2009

February 22  thru April 13 2009
Opening hours: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays, holidays: 10-12 am / 3.00 - 6.00 pm
Tickets: Euro 2.60   cut- rate tickets:  Euro 1.60

The exhibit will open on Saturdays, February 21, 2009 at 5.30 pm
 

Pressrelease

The project called “Acquisitions” started in 2006 and it’s been growing for four years during which over two hundred works by as many contemporary artists have become part of the permanent collection of the museum.

This is a remarkable result we are very happy with. These works, with their wide variety of styles and techniques, bear witness to the vitality and energy that spread throughout our territory.

This session brings to the museum fifty-seven new works that include paintings, sculptures, drawings, and etchings by Aldo Alberti, Valerio Anceschi, Simone Beck, Angelo Bertoglio, Angelo Giuseppe Bertolio, Giuseppe Bombaci, Claudia Canavesi, Michele Cannaò, Giuliano Cardella, Valentina Carnieli, Elisabetta Casella, Nino Cassani, Lorenzo Cazzaniga, Giancarlo Cerri, Giovanni Cerri, Piero Cicoli, Raffaele Cioffi, Gladys Colmenares, Alfredo Colombo, Luca Crippa, Michele Delisi, Massimo Falsaci, Davide Ferro, Ilaria Forlini, Antonio Franzetti, Vittore Frattini, Itala Gasparini, Marianna Gasperini, Remo Giatti, Marco Grimaldi, Fazio Lauria, Niccolò Mandelli Contegni, Max Marra, Ruggero Marrani, Elena Mezzadra, Antonio Mignozzi, Gualtiero Mocenni, Mattia Montemezzani, Gaetano Orazio, Antonio Pacchiarini, Giovanna Pesenti, Gabriele Poli, Stella Ranza, Paola Ravasio, Clotilde Rinella, Brunella Rossi, Pietro Scampini, Paolo Schiavocampo, Emilio Tadini, Angelo Titonel.

Thanks to the size of its permanent collection, the museum will be able to organize interesting exhibits on particular themes, as well as educational exhibitions. It will also be able to lend works to other museums and therefore inhance activities outside of its own. Its collection will spread the plurality and chorality of local contemporary art.

Acquiring works means growing, and the Museum of Maccagno is today one of the most relevant cultural institutions thanks to its consistency in terms of exhibitions and artistic path. “Acquisitions” has always been pivotal to this process of growth that will ensure a long lasting life to the museum’s collection.

Designed by Claudio Rizzi, organized by Ad Acta, sponsored by Regione Lombardia and Provincia di Varese, catalog by Silvia Editrice. This exhibit offers all art lovers yet another abundant serving of contemporary art.