Collector Lia Rumma Donates Collection to Italian State

Collector and gallerist Lia Rumma has donated her assortment of additional than seventy works made by 30 Italian artists considering that the 1960s to the Italian point out. The will work, many by artists affiliated with arte povera, will be forever on check out at the Palazzina dei Principi of the Museo e Actual Bosco di Capodimonte, which presently rely 160 functions amid its up to date art holdings. With the present, the museum will come to be the only Italian institution to protect and screen art from the thirteenth century to the existing.

The trove comprises performs 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, between other folks. Rumma began amassing the collection in the early 1960s with her partner, Marcello Rumma a curator and artwork publisher, when the two ended up in their early twenties. Among the the exhibitions Marcello Rumma organized or sponsored was ended up notably the 1968 “Arte Povera + Azioni Povere.” Curated by Germano Celant, the exhibition is regarded as to have catalyzed the arte povera movement. Pursuing Marcello’s demise in 1971, Lia opened a gallery in Naples, focusing mainly on the arte povera, Minimalist artwork, and Conceptual artwork of the time in 1999, she opened a 2nd gallery, in Milan.

Although important museums from all over the earth approached Rumma concerning her selection in the latest a long time, she was adamant that it continue to be in Italy. Sylvain Bellenger, director of the Capodimonte Museum and Authentic Bosco, in a assertion praised Lia and Marcello Rumma  for their intelligence and eyesight, noting, “With the reward of their collection to Capodimonte, Lia and Marcello Rumma are not only coming into record, but, beyond that, they are also generating background enter Capodimonte a history which they witnessed and in which they performed a job when, at the close of the 1960s with arte povera, Italian art radically entered the present-day earth.”

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