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The Farnesina Art Collection (Italian: Collezione Farnesina) is a contemporary Italian art collection exhibited at the Palazzo della Farnesina, the seat of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome, Italy.
The collection
The collection was first created to document in an anthological manner the production of the recent generations of artists and the tendencies of contemporary Italian art, in order to support and promote the artistic culture of Italy in the world.
The Farnesina Experimenta augments the collection of contemporary works of art of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, amplifying the historical Farnesina Collection of Italian art of the 20th century.
The works have been chosen by a scientific committee directed by Maurizio Calvesi and composed of Lorenzo Canova, Marco Meneguzzo and Marisa Vescovo. The works are chosen with the purpose of documenting the different artistic currents present in Italy from the 1990s to 2000.
The works and the artists
The collection, documented by a bilingual catalogue (Italian and English), consists of eighty works by an equal number of artists, according to a principal of anthological representation of the varied and multiform panorama of contemporary Italian art.
The 80 artists of the Farnesina Experimenta, who come from all over Italy, are:
The exhibitions
With the aim of promoting and supporting the most promising emerging artistic talents, the Farnesina Experimenta Art Collection was presented to the public on 5 July 2008 at an extraordinary opening of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in accordance with the formula Open Doors at the Farnesina.
In order to valorize Italian creativity and make it known internationally, Experimenta will be exhibited in Athens, Istanbul and Moscow during the year 2009, and in Berlin, Beijing, Shanghai, Sydney and São Paulo in 2010.
Bibliography
Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova, Marisa Vescovo, Marco Meneguzzo. Collezione Farnesina Experimenta. Rome, Gangemi Editori, 2008. ISBN 88-492-1486-3.
See also
Palazzo della Farnesina
Art of Italy
Culture of Italy
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
15th Rome Quadriennale
Notes and references
External links
Collezione Farnesina
Farnesina Experimenta Collection on Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs website
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