San Patrignano collection is on display at MAXXI in Rome

The exhibition "The San Patrignano Collection. WORK IN PROGRESS, " open to the public free of charge. The collection was created at the behest of the San Patrignano Foundation, which in celebrating the history of the center founded by Vincenzo Muccioli in 1978 intends to ensure its future by implementing an innovative sustainability tool. In Italy this is the first episode of endowment on the Anglo-Saxon model that will allow San Patrignano to have a patrimonial resource in case of future structural investments.
The exhibition presents a wide selection of the entire collection, with works by Vanessa Beecroft, Alessandro Busci, Giorgio Griffa, Agnes Martin, Davide Monaldi, Yan Pei Ming, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Julian Schnabel, Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi and others, with some works not previously exhibited, including a new work lent by artist Silvio Wolf.

The protagonist of a traveling presentation, after last March’s exhibition at the Milan Triennale, the collection now comes to Rome and will finally land at the nascent museum in Rimini in 2019, where the intent will be to highlight the content of the works through special dedicated activities.
Letizia Moratti, co-founder of the San Patrignano Foundation, comments, “In recent years a great deal has been done by San Patrignano in the direction of the economic sustainability of the Community and its management, a sustainability that is also instrumental to its social mission. With this new project, however, we intended to take a further step forward by thinking about possible investments of an extraordinary nature, which are so important for the development of activities and for the maintenance of the current facilities, which already accommodate more than 1,300 young people on the path free of charge.”

Clarice Pecori Giraldi, responsible for the cultural coordination of the Collection, explained, “The fil rouge of the works collected here is the multiplicity of languages, the breadth of expression. Exactly the air that one breathes at San Patrignano where everyone is spurred to express themselves with their own abilities. It was a gift to have the opportunity to be able to tell artists, gallerists and collectors about this design, a dream of being able to guarantee San Patrignano’s welcome for another 40 years. This is the second moment of presentation, we will continue to take this story around to other collectors, gallerists and artists and share the goal.”
MAXXI Foundation President Giovanna Melandri said, “We can all rejoice if many authors, gallery owners and collectors have gradually enriched the treasure chest of works donated to the Community of San Patrignano and if it has offered them to the city of Rimini. Because the coming together of artists and public and private institutions proves, once again, to be a fertile choice for supporting and expanding forward-looking cultural policies. MAXXI, as is well known, is under this point of view an outpost that has been able to realize alternative projects beating and rebutting with tenacity the ways of innovation, trying to build a hypothesis open to the relationship with other exhibition centers, in Italy and outside Italy.”

Andrea Gnassi, mayor of Rimini, stressed, "One of the most formidable weapons to fight fears and break down barriers of all kinds is called art. Its language is universal, an Esperanto of emotion, sensitivity, worldview and creativity, capable of creating endless connections in every age. A work of art has no time or space, no sticking an expiration date or address on it. The sense of the ’passage’ at MAXXI of the San Patrignano Foundation’s extraordinary collection springs precisely from the message of which art is the bearer and guardian: boundaries do not exist. Mental boundaries do not exist; physical boundaries do not exist. Even when it is permanently in Rimini, in the ancient rooms that the City Council is regenerating to house this wonderful collection, the collection of works will not stop speaking at the museum’s entrance. Its message will go beyond walls, administrative boundaries, it will have the gift of ubiquity and will be heard in Rimini as in Rome or New York."

Pictured: Michelangelo Pistoletto, Between Mirror and Canvas, detail (Gift of Michelangelo and Maria Pistoletto)

San Patrignano collection is on display at MAXXI in Rome

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