Lia Rumma donates important selection of her collection to Capodimonte Museum

The Capodimonte Museum and Real Bosco di Capodimonte is enriched by Lia Rumma’s important collection: in fact, the collector is donating to the Italian State a selection of more than seventy works byItalian artists since the 1960s, with a focus onArte Povera. The collection will be set up as a permanent collection in the Palazzina dei Principi, an elegant building in the Real Bosco di Capodimonte, located in front of the main facade of the Reggia.

Artists in the collection include Vincenzo Agnetti, Giovanni Anselmo, Carlo Alfano, Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Mario Ceroli, Dadamaino, Gino De Dominicis, Giuseppe Desiato, Luciano Fabro, Piero Gilardi, Giorgio Griffa, Paolo Icaro, Mimmo Jodice, Jannis Kounellis, Maria Lai, Carmine Limatola, Pietro Lista, Francesco Matarrese, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Aldo Mondino, Ugo Mulas, Luigi Ontani, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Gianni Piacentino, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gianni Ruffi, Ettore Spalletti, Giulio Turcato, Gilberto Zorio.

The presentation will be attended by Culture Minister Dario Franceschini, collector Lia Rumma, and the director of the Capodimonte Museum and Real Bosco di Capodimonte Sylvain Bellenger.

“There are lives that are built as adventures, as struggles, as destinies. There are lives that are made of passion and sacrifice, lives that are aware that one does not win without intelligence and vision. Among these heroic fighters are the collectors who have sensed the art of their time, who have understood the profound messages that art always introduces into our lives and the world around us. It is these collectors who write history, which is why museums, which are the memory of human sensibility and genius, are the natural destination for their collections,” commented Sylvain Bellenger. "With the gift of the collection to Capodimonte Lia and Marcello Rumma are entering history, but, even more, they are making history enter Capodimonte, a history to which they were witnesses and actors when, at the end of the 1960s with Arte Povera, Italian art radically entered the contemporary world."

Lia Rumma donates important selection of her collection to Capodimonte Museum

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