Collezione Maramotti

Collezione Maramotti is a private contemporary art collection which opened to visitors in the historical headquarters of Max Mara company, in Reggio Emilia (Italy), in 2007, by the idea to the brand founder Achille Maramotti.

It comprises a relevant selection of more than two hundred works representing only a portion of the collection put passionately together in forty years.

Alongside the permanent collection, the Collection presents temporary exhibitions, it invites international artists to create site-specific projects, it organizes conversations, concerts of contemporary music, it commissions dance performances in collaboration with I Teatri Fondazione of Reggio Emilia - Festival Aperto and it participates at meeting dedicated to artists' books.

The Art Library and Archive hold more than ten thousand volumes (artists’ books, monographs, essays and catalogues) and documents that derive from various sources and focus on various spheres of reference: the historical archives of the collector, Achille Maramotti, and also of Mario Diacono, the author, gallerist and art critic with whom he entertained a close intellectual relationship for more than thirty years. The research and acquisition of materials related to the artists and artistic movements represented in the Collection are an important analysis of its heritage as well as a key resource for researchers.

The Collection also exhibits, organizes a custom-made residency and acquires the projects of artists who are awarded the two-yearly MaxMara Art Prize for Women in association with the Whitechapel, for emerging women artists working in the United Kingdom.

The winners of the first six editions of the Prize were: Margaret Salmon, Hannah Rickards, Andrea Büttner, Laure Prouvost, Corin Sworn and Emma Hart.

On May 5, 2013, it was inaugurated the first permanent installation of Jason Dodge | A permanently open window, a site-specific project for an abandoned industrial space, now transformed into a commercial outlet adjacent to Collezione Maramotti. Realized in what was once the tower of a factory’s electrical power plant, the work displays three elements, which supplant the high-voltage cables and create a new order of space and a different mode of perception.

The collection

The Collection comprises several hundred art works created between 1945 and the present day, more than two hundred of them belong to the permanent exhibition and represent some of the most important Italian and international artistic trends of the second part of the 20th century. The permanent exhibition comprises European art works from Expressionist and Abstract trends from the late 1940s and the Informal Art of the early 1950s, plus a group of Italian early Conceptual art pieces. It exhibits a relevant group of paintings from the so-called Roman Pop Art and Arte Povera. There are also examples of Italian, as well as German and American, neo-Expressionism (Transavanguardia). Then a group of works of American New Geometry from the 1980s and 1990s are on exhibit, followed by more recent British and American experimentation works.

More than one hundred twenty artists are represented with important works which at the time of their creation and acquisition had introduced elements of substantial innovation and experimentation in artistic research.

The Collection is an open window to the world of contemporary art, starting with the history and vision of the founder collector towards a continuous growth of its cultural heritage, but also as a place for reflection, discussion and study.

The location

Collezione Maramotti is housed in the former manufacturing plant of Max Mara fashion house. The building designed by architects Pastorini and Salvarani dates back to 1957 and was converted – with a project by British architect Andrew Hapgood – into an exhibition space in 2005 after the plant moved to another facility. The project has preserved and further enhanced, with relevant adjustments, some of the concepts from the original project: the stark and essential construction; the flexible and versatile structure, strong link between indoor and outdoor spaces, the emphasis on natural light.

The artists present in the Permanent Collection

Vito Acconci, Franco Angeli, Giovanni Anselmo, Shusaku Arakawa, Francis Bacon, Donald Baechler, Barry X Ball, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Huma Bhabha, Ashley Bickerton, Ross Bleckner, Alighiero Boetti, Alberto Burri, Richmond Burton, Peter Cain, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Enrico Castellani, Bruno Ceccobelli, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Ettore Colla, Tony Cragg, Michael Craig-Martin, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria, Mark Dion, Inka Essenhigh, Jean Fautrier, Tano Festa, Eric Fischl, Lucio Fontana, Ellen Gallagher, Peter Halley, Alex Katz, Mike Kelley, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, Sherrie Levine, Osvaldo Licini, Markus Lüpertz, Martin Maloney, Mark Manders, Piero Manzoni, Carlo Maria Mariani, Arturo Martini, Eliseo Mattiacci, Fausto Melotti, Gerhard Merz, Mario Merz, Henry Moore, Malcolm Morley, Cady Noland, Gastone Novelli, Nunzio, Luigi Ontani, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini, Claudio Parmiggiani, Pino Pascali, Richard Patterson, A. R. Penck, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Matthew Ritchie, Tom Sachs, David Salle, Mario Schifano, Julian Schnabel, Sean Scully, Kiki Smith, Ray Smith, Erick Swenson, Philip Taaffe, Rosemarie Trockel, Cy Twombly, Giuseppe Uncini, Bill Viola, Dan Walsh, Terry Winters, Christopher Wool, Gilberto Zorio

Commissions to artists for site-specific projects

Specific spaces are dedicated to temporary shows, spaces where, regularly, projects commissioned to international artists are also exhibited.

The artworks created for these exhibitions are acquired by the Collection, with the aim of merging acquisition policies with public showing.

In chronological order, from the latest:

2016 Figurative Geometry, organised by Bob Nickas, presents around forty works by nine international artists: Sadie Benning, Alex Brown, Mamie Holst, Chip Hughes, Xylor Jane, Robert Janitz, Ulrike Müller, Nicolas Roggy, Richard Tinkler. The majority of the artists coming from several countries are based in New York City and have never exhibited in Italy. They all have some elements in common: working with patterns, systems, and in the space between figure, representation, geometry and abstraction, but each of them has developed their own visual language in paintings and drawings, born of diverse approaches, attitudes and aesthetics.
2016 Claudia Losi | How do I imagine being there? What language should be used to describe a place? This is the starting point and the core question of the project. The way we perceive places also shows how we develop our thinking: the pondering evoked by the works on exhibit springs from individual and collective imagination; we feel, we store experiences and later we “bring them back into the world” in different and subjective constellations. The project springs out of a real “crossing” of St. Kilda islands in 2012 to later shift into the realm of the mind, to move onto the construction of new maps.
2016 Paolo Simonazzi | So near, so far Fifty photographs, on the occasion of Fotografia Europea festival 2016, that move beyond the idea of series to offer a view attempting to bring into focus his gaze on the Emilia territory, meant as a crossroads of semantic, cultural, language, visual communications, through a series of shots covering twenty years of his work (from the mid-Nineties to 2014).
2016 Anna Conway | Purpose the first exhibition in Europe of the American painter, who creates four new works especially for this exhibition. Artist's approach to representation, which is equally precise, methodical, intuitive and analytical, not only involves a depiction of scenes that interweave close observation and pure imagination. She is also concerned in a picture with where we are and at what point in time. In this respect she is as much a short story writer, or a screenwriter, as a painter.
2015 Enrico "La Caduta" David first Italian exhibition after a long time – except for the 2013 Venice Biennale. The exhibition presents works highlighting the close connection and the natural dialogue between the languages of painting and sculpture, also through their spatial layout. The project made for the Collection confirms David's research on Transformation as an existential and formal need and Discontinuity as a paradigm of expression. David's imagery draws from crafts, 19th-century popular art and design, as well as from advertising, fashion and art history, from surrealism to expressionism, from art déco to Japanese figurative tradition.
2015 Esko Männikkö | Time Flies. A Highlight 50 photographs from 1991 to 2013 by one of the internationally most famous Finnish photographers. He has lived in the north, working outside the trends and established institutions of photography. He immerses himself into the places and details he photographs, respectfully highlighting the mundane in everyday life. The selection of the artist's series emphasizes the multiple affinities closely linking to his research and Collezione Maramotti: the pictorial dimension of his photographs speaks to the works from the Collection, as well as showing the metaphysical suspension and the crystallized time of his eerily melancholic images.
Ritratto di donne Alessandra Ariatti | Legami - Chantal Joffe | Moll Both have focused their artistic research on portraiture, a figurative tradition which has been constantly part of Western art (but not solely) since the 15th century. The portraits by these two artists, very different from one another, are placed in a sort of mutual dialogue in the exhibit and they speak about women, who become active and passive subjects of the production of the paintings.
2014 Jeannette Montgomery Barron | Scene A selection of artists' photo portraits, made in New York in the 1980s. The lively and personal portraits' gallery brings back the flavour and brilliance of those years when in New York artists, gallerists and critics experimented new life styles and relations which with time have became established cult objects and models. The photographs chosen for the exhibition are mostly linked to artists depicted with their works which are now part of the permanent collection (Clemente, Schnabel, Basquiat, Salle, Bleckner, and others), thus providing viewers with an interesting connection between the photo subject and the art works they were making at the time.
2014 Flavio de Marco | Space and Time of the Landscape A conversation meant as a contribution and reflection on the topic of landscape painting, in order to convey a stimulating and articulated vision of the painting genre. The idea came from the recent publication of the book “Stella”, an artist's book by Flavio de Marco, and supported by Collezione Maramotti, in order to further enrich de Marco's artistic research in painting. With the participation of the artist, of Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann, director of Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, with a contribution titled “Space and Time in Art: landscape as the archetype of an eye-opening vision”; Maria Vittoria Marini Clarelli, director of the National Modern Art Gallery in Rome, “Space and Time in History: an island as a software of Art History styles.”
2014 Mark Manders | Cose in corso The large installation is made of objects already used in other works – as is common in Manders' s artistic practice – which here are re-contextualised and re-generated in what the artist defines as the “conceptual potential narrative in a total frozen theatre”. A new element is the use of pure colour defining some objects, thus underlining the possibility of a strongly pictorial gesture within a sculptural dimension.
2013 Beatrice Pediconi | 9’/ Unlimited The work bears witness to the possibility of another form of painting: not on canvas, but on water. Her performing practice consists in experimenting how organic and inorganic materials join this mutant and unpredictable element, leaving aside the total control on the formal result of her work. The project she made for the Collection includes a series of Polaroids which capture and document this experimentation, a large space with video projections flowing on the four walls, in which the visitors find themselves afloat in a firmament of pigments evoking a sidereal dimension. Third element of her project is an artist's book; for its creation the artist availed herself of the collaboration of a haiku poet, a chemist and a musician.
2013 Michael van Ofen | “GERMANIA UND ITALIA”. The Continuance of the Contemporary The project of the German artist consists in a painting cycle elaborating a new iconography starting from the nation-building process in Germany and Italy in the second half of the 19th century. In order to stress this historical development, the artist has collected and interpreted in his own fashion objects of artistic testimony of that epoch-making moment, through which he has highlighted the unbroken agreement between political power and public euphoria from the past to the present of contemporaneity.
2013 Andy Cross | House Painter is literally a house made out of paintings. About a hundred paintings cover the exterior, combined together as if they were simple construction materials, creating the effect of a visual kaleidoscope. His construction and painting approach breaks down the language barriers we often use to separate disciplines and styles: architecture, sculpture and painting blur together and strike a dialogue within a dimension of total power of expression.
2013 Evgeny Antufiev | Twelve, wood, dolphin, knife, bowl, mask, crystal, bones and marble – fusion. Exploring materials First exhibition in Italy that marks the completion of a project which he realized for the Collection during a period of residence in Reggio Emilia. Antufiev makes constant use of a variety of objects and materials that show no immediate relationship to one another, but which fuse with one another within his installations and find themselves transformed: they come to be involved in a ritual process that’s reminiscent of alchemy. The artist introduces the viewer’s perceptions to an experience of transformation in which things abandon their day-to-day identity and return into the dimension of archetypes, thus permitting us to know the world in a new and different way. The project is accompanied by an artist’s book.
2012 Jules de Balincourt | Parallel Universe is a project including five new paintings. As is often the case with this artist, the paintings were all worked on at the same time, in the same studio, allowing them to gradually come into dialogue with one another as a direct result of his studio practice. These artworks can thus be seen as forming a kind of loosely interlocked map, one that explores and charts the relationships between representation and abstraction, and the act of painting.
2012 Massimo Antonaci | Hypotenuse an in-depth look on Antonaci’s work, Italian artist who moved to New York in the 1990s. It's a project that comprises three exhibitions displayed in different spaces within the Collection. From Black to Transparency is a retrospective look cast on a series of works in glass and tar that the artist started in the mid ‘80’s. A Solitary Journey across a Single Body. From East to West 33 Stations in An Unknown Land is a series of Polaroid pieces composed of glass tiles and placed side by side that narrate Antonaci’s pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela. Opus is a project made specifically for the Collection that comprises four triptychs. Each piece in this work is fermented virgin papyrus marked by oil color touches. The project is enriched by an artist’s book, Odos.
2012 Kaarina Kaikkonen | Are We Still Going On? Conceived specifically for the former factory of Max Mara fashion company, now housing Collezione Maramotti, the large installation Are We Still Going On? by Kaarina Kaikkonen follows and accompanies the compositional structure of the building, an interesting example of brutalist and organicist architecture from the 1950s. The old entrance to the factory where the artwork was created is ideally divided into two areas; the horizontal beams in reinforced concrete lining the pillars, not only provide the space with an architectural rhythm, but also become part of the artist’s work. The installation is composed of two symmetrical structures evoking the skeleton of a large boat.
2012 Huma Bhabha | Players In both the six sculptures from the mid-1990s, and the six new drawings created for the exhibition Players, Huma Bhabha reinvents the human head, deconstructing and reconstructing an archetype in which she gathers and transforms various art-historical typologies. From masks, technological portraits of archaic beings, to drawings, which mark a return to an expressionistic mode of depiction of fantasmal faces, Bhabha seeks inspiration from very different sources, tribal art, science-fiction, combining them to arrive at a new kind of figuration and constructing the human face as a site in which all the possibilities of the expressive can be played out.
2011 Alessandro Pessoli | Fiamma pilota le ombre seguono Three large canvases, a miscellany of classic pictorial compositions and themes, take as their starting point the complex subject of the Crucifixion, the matrix, the “pilot light” for the new works produced for this exhibition. Pessoli’s work comes together through a process of linguistic construction/deconstruction, which is both symbolic and physical and in which the erased, covered, leftover parts often constitute the painting’s fundamental structure: a quest for an interior truth, which reveals itself in the vitality of the image and the painting that the artist is continually striving to achieve.
2011 Essential Art | Karla Black, Gianni Caravaggio, Alice Cattaneo, Thea Djordjadze, Jason Dodge, Francesco Gennari, Ian Kiaer, Helen Mirra presents works by a number of artists who, on the contemporary art scene of the latest ten years, have expressed similar poetics in relation to the genesis of the artistic gesture. Their similarities have to do with a radical and essential attitude, and go beyond all differences in style, materials and working procedures. Federico Ferrari's essay – included in the book accompanying the show – is not intended to give a description or a definition of a style, but rather to embrace a shared way of feeling, which, at the end of post-modernity, signals the need of a new beginning.
2011 Thomas Scheibitz | Il fiume e le sue fonti/The River and Its Source Three large paintings, one sculpture, one artist's book: this is the project of the most significant contemporary German artists, specifically conceived for Collezione Maramotti. The works on show give further evidence of the complex compositional structure at the core of his work: the iconic elements at the basis of his work are taken from the public repertory of images offered by historical visual culture and by contemporary mass-media, but are transposed and turned by the artist into plastic forms and into para-geometrical constructions. Scheibitz thus transforms quotation into invention.
2010 Flavio de Marco | Vedute His artistic research has focussed on the experience of landscape through the language of painting. The project consists of six large canvasses and 18 postcard-size canvasses on the theme of city views, specifically representing six cities where the artist has lived: Berlin, Bologna, Lecce, London, Milan, Rome. The project is enriched by the participation of Teho Teardo and Paolo Nori, who in their respective research areas (music for the former, and literature for the latter) will develop their own visions of these cities, alongside that of the artist.
2010 Kara Tanaka | A Sad Bit of Fruit, Pickled in the Vinegar of Grief Meditation on the disappearance of the human body has strongly marked her artistic practice, the 27-year-old American artist living and working in Los Angeles, and exhibiting in Europe for the first time. The missing bodies of A Sad Bit of Fruit, Pickled in the Vinegar of Grief speak of the rejection of immortality, a desire whose ever-present aspiration has permeated Western culture, now declining and experiencing a deep crisis.
2010 Jacob Kassay | Untitled First Italian exhibition of the 26-years-old artist based in New York. His work, with a strong conceptual imprint, combines a minimalist elaboration with a profound knowledge of photographic technique that he transposes into the practice of painting. His project at the Collection is composed of ten new pieces arranged in the space as a sort of big installation.
2010 Margherita Manzelli | DUE an exhibition of new works by Margherita Manzelli. The exhibition includes two paintings of equal size on which the artist worked concurrently and which were created specifically for this project. One of the two paintings is dark, the other light, and they are installed symmetrically in the space in order that the tonal contrast enhances the relationship between the works.
2009 Gert & Uwe Tobias present their recent work, an installation composed of twenty one pieces, from large size woodcuts to drawings and sculptures, placed inside a wall drawing covering all the walls of the exhibition space. In their works elements drawn from Romanian popular culture are often combined with a formal contemporary language finding its roots in Modernism, in Constructivism and in Art Brut. The exhibition has been accompanied by an artist’s book.
2009 John F. Simon, Jr. | Outside In. Ten years of Software Art First exhibition in Italy of the American artist. The five works on exhibit are a retrospective exploration of ten years of research into software art: from 1999 to 2009, the date of his latest work commissioned by Collezione Maramotti. Simon’s software, the souls of his wall-mounted pieces, studies the complexity of systems, through the display of endless combinations of colors and patterns.
2008 Gianni Caravaggio | Scenario The new project is composed of six artworks specifically realized for Collezione Maramotti. These works generate visual deceptions and tend toward a constant redefinition, thus creating ever-changing constellations in their mutual connection. For the exhibition a book with the same title, written by philosopher Federico Ferrari and the artist, has been published.
2008 Enoc Perez | Casa Malaparte Two large canvases on Casa Malaparte, by the Portorican artist, have been created for Collezione Maramotti and shown at its Pattern Room. Perez’s original painting technique is made up by complex overlapping layers of colours, without using brushes. The project continues his reading about modernist architecture and its historical and cultural content, conveying a feeling of nostalgic delusion.

Other artists included in the Collection, regularly exhibited in temporary exhibitions

For the most part, 21st-century works are not included in the permanent collection: specific exhibitions are dedicated to them in the rooms set for temporary shows.

Vincenzo Agnetti, Matthew Antezzo, Massimo Antonaci, Agostino Arrivabene, Nicos Baikas, Joan Banach, Pedro Barbeito, John Beech, Jason Bell, Bertozzi & Casoni, Mary Beyt, Karla Black, Ross Bleckner, Greg Bogin, Agostino Bonalumi, David Bowes, Victor Brauner, Richmond Burton, Andrea Büttner, Michael Byron, Ingrid Calame, Beatrice Caracciolo, Gianni Caravaggio, Alice Cattaneo, Giancarlo Cazzaniga, Bruno Ceccobelli, Mario Ceroli, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Claudio Costa, Will Cotton, Ann Craven, Andy Cross, Enzo Cucchi, Karin Davie, Jules de Balincourt, Ferruccio De Filippi, Flavio de Marco, Benjamin Degen, Wim Delvoye, Steve Di Benedetto, Kim Dingle, Thea Djordjadze, Jason Dodge, Bart Domburg, Moira Dryer, David Dupuis, Lalla Essaydi, Jean Fautrier, Lara Favaretto, Eric Fischl, Lucio Fontana, Günther Förg, Jason Fox, Ellen Gallagher, Francesco Gennari, Wayne Gonzales, Paolo Grassino, Gregory Green, Giorgio Griffa, Scott Grodesky, Peter Halley, Kent Henricksen, Nicky Hoberman, Jacqueline Humphries, Warren Isensee, Emilio Isgro’, Matthew Day Jackson, Kaarina Kaikkonen, Jacob Kassay, Ian Kiaer, Jutta Koether, Jannis Kounellis, Ulrich Lamsfuss, Annette Lemieux, Felice Levini, Osvaldo Licini, Damian Loeb, Christopher Lucas, Riccardo Lumaca, Dietmar Lutz, Margherita Manzelli, Fabian Marcaccio, Carlo Maria Mariani, Gino Marotta, Chris Martin, Arturo Martini, Suzanne McClelland, McDermott & McGough, Will Mentor, Mario Merz, Helen Mirra, Olivier Mosset, Donna Moylan, Nuvolo, Marcel Odenbach, Carl Ostendarp, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini, Claudio Parmiggiani, Enoc Perez, Alessandro Pessoli, Vettor Pisani, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Donald Powley, Luisa Rabbia, Mauro Reggiani, Richard Rezac, Daniel Rich, Gerhard Richter, Hannah Rickards, Matthew Ritchie, Sally Ross, Mimmo Rotella, Lisa Ruyter, Tom Sachs, David Salle, Margaret Salmon, Thomas Scheibitz, Mario Schifano, Christian Schumann, Dana Schutz, Ophrah Shemesh, Malick Sidibé, John F. Simon Jr., Ray Smith, Atanasio Soldati, Jessica Stockholder, Ena Swansea, Erick Swenson, Vincent Szarek, Philip Taaffe, Cesare Tacchi, Kara Tanaka, Gert & Uwe Tobias, John Tremblay, Elif Uras, Michael Van Ofen, Ben Vautier, Alex Veness, Kelley Walker, Dan Walsh, Elke Warth, Matthew Weinstein, Terry Winters, William Wood, Miwa Yanagi, Andrea Zittel, Kevin Zucker

Max Mara Art Prize

The biennial prize, in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, promotes and supports young women artists resident in the United Kingdom by offering them the opportunity to develop their creative potential through the production of a new work of art.

Collezione Maramotti organizes the six-month residency in Italy during which the artist creates the work project with which she's presented herself as candidate, it supports her, it exposes and acquires her final work.

The Max Mara Art Prize for Women was awarded, in March 2007, the prestigious British Council Arts & Business International Award.

Emma Hart - ongoing edition
2015 Corin Sworn | Silent Sticks The new work focusses on the rich history of the Italian Commedia dell’Arte, the improvised theatrical comedies from the 16th century onwards performed by touring troupes of actors. Combining architecture, sculpture and textiles, her work sets the stage for a performance that has been filmed and edited in a video by the artist and presented within the installation. Sworn was particularly interested in the evolution of la commedia through history, and the instances of mistaken identity which often appear in its storylines. The role of clothing in 16th-17th century Italian society, and the ability of the newly professionalised role of the actor to destabilise relationships is also explored.
2013 Laure Prouvost | Farfromwords presents a new two-parts installation, conceived and created during her six-months residency in Italy. Prouvost’s work opens new horizons of meaning by unhinging the connection between language and understanding. Farfromwords is inspired by the aesthetic and sensuous pleasures of Italy and plays on the historic idea of visiting the Mediterranean for inspiration.
2011 Andrea Büttner | The Poverty of Riches Works The works produced highlight all the key concerns of her artistic research, which is aimed at exploring the interconnections between religion and art and the affinities between religious communities and the art world. The artist is interested in the concept of poverty as much from an aesthetic as from a spiritual point of view; not only as it relates to monastic movements, but also to artistic movements, in particular Arte Povera.
2009 Hannah Rickards | No, there was no red a two-screen film based on spoken accounts of a mirage of a city seen to hover over Lake Michigan as the result of a rare atmospheric phenomenon of thermic inversion. The subjective differences, as well as the affinities, echoes and counterpoints of these reports form the core of the piece, allowing for an exploration of the ways in which this natural occurrence is experienced and described. Text is an integral part of Rickards’ work, and reveals the influence of such early conceptual artists as Douglas Huebler, Robert Barry and Lawrence Weiner.
2007 Margaret Salmon

Dance

The Collection commissions dance shows, in collaboration with I Teatri Fondazione of Reggio Emilia - Festival Aperto. In chronological order, from the latest:

2015 - Hofesh Shechter Project Hofesh Shechter was born in Jerusalem where he studied dance and music. His work as choreographer started in England, where he moved in 2002, establishing his dance company. He has been recognized internationally for a style re-elaborating in a contemporary key European and Middle-eastern dances, offering spectacular as well as dream-like imagery, accompanied by powerful and aggressive music.
2013 - Wayne McGregor/Random Dance | Scavenger Première of the site-specific performance Scavenger in the Collection's spaces. Alongside their regular productions destined for the stages of the most important theatres in the world, the company has recently experimented with collaborations with visual artists and design collectives to create site-specific events in locations not traditionally destined for theatrical productions, such as the Barbican Centre, London and MoMA, New York.
2011 - Shen Wei Dance Arts | RE-TURN. Artistic Vision of Shen Wei Shen Wei, master of the art of total dance so miraculously balanced between East and West, is an accomplished choreographer, director, dancer, painter, photographer and artistic director of Shen Wei Dance Arts, one of the most interesting groups in world dance. In his work developed specifically for Collezione Maramotti, Shen Wei presents a new, site-specific creation, an original choreography inspired by works in the permanent collection. The conventional perspective of the gallery visitor is redirected, spectators instead becoming witnesses and participants in a dialogue that feeds off the exchange of energies between the dancers and the works.
2009 - Trisha Brown Dance Company | Early Works The creativity of Trisha Brown has always gone hand in hand with experimentation and the avant-garde and, ever since her early days, with creating “alternative spaces” for the stage; in the Sixties and Seventies she was famous for her settings in car parks, streets, on building façades, Soho rooftops and in galleries.

External links

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