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ACQUISITIONS 2010

February 28  thru April 18 2010
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 27, 2010 at 5.30 pm
 

Pressrelease

After “Acquisitions 2006," “Acquisitions 2007,” “Acquisitions 2008” and “Acquisitions 2009”, which allowed the museum to include in its permanent collection about two hundred works of contemporary art, we now present “Acquisitions 2010”.
This is yet another chapter in the multi-year project aimed at increasing the size of the permanent collection: paintings, sculptures and etchings will now become available to make the exciting overview of the path followed by modern art more and more comprehensive.
This latest addition brings the number of works in the collection to around 250, all of them bearing witness to the various techniques, underlying themes, and trends in the field of modern art, which step forward from the pages of tradition to shape the present and move towards the future.

This session brings to the museum fifty-six new works by Amann, Samuele Arcangioli, Mario Arlati, Antonio Armano, Ako Atikossie, Giuseppe Ayna, Orazio Bacci, Marco Baj, Filippo Barbieri, Fiorenzo Barindelli, Giovanni Beluffi, Giampiero Bonomi, Bruno Bordoli, Matthias Brandes, Gianni Brusamolino, Erica Campanella, Carmine Caputo di Roccanova, Marilù Cattaneo, Rosita Celorio, Franco Chiarani, Maurizio Collini, Vittorio D’Ambros, Angelo De Boni, Anne De Kervasdouè, Marina Falco, Max Falsetta Spina, Marica Fasoli, Pieralberto Filippi, Nicoletta Frigerio, Andrea Giovannini, Carmelo Grasso, Enzo Guaricci, Patrizia Lovato, Lorenzo Manenti, Bruno Marcelloni, Giorgio Melzi, Gianfranco Nicolato, Teresa Noto, Maria Papa, Mario Paschetta, Vanni Saltarelli, Giorgio Sovana, Isao Sugiyama, Vania Elettra Tam, Sandra Tenconi, Jelica Tipìc’, Walter Trecchi, Paolo Valle, Giacomo Vanetti, Roberto Vecchione, Valentino Vidotti, Dario Zaffaroni, Piergiorgio Zangara.

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, coordinated by Ad Acta, sponsored by Regione Lombardia and Provincia di Varese, catalog by Silvia Editrice. This exhibit is yet another chapter in contemporary art for the public to enjoy.