Collezione Maramotti (Maramotti Art collection)

Address and contacts

Via Fratelli Cervi, 66 - 42124 Reggio nell'Emilia
0039 0522 382484
info@collezionemaramotti.org
Maramotti Art Collection
Maramotti Art Collection

Opening times

Thursday and Friday from 2.00 to 6.00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday from 2.30 to 6.30 p.m.

Closed: 1st and 6th January, 25th April, 1st May, from 1st to 25th of August, 1st November, 25th and 26th December

Guided tours to the permanent collection
Thursday and Friday: 3.00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 10.30 a.m. and 3.00 p.m.

Entrance fees

Free entrance

The visit to the permanent collection is accompanied by a member of our staff, for no more than twenty-five visitors at a time, and should be booked in advance.
Admission to the temporary exhibitions is free in the opening hours of the Collection and no subject to reservation.
The entire exhibition is accessible for persons with motor disabilities.

How to get there

Reggio nell'Emilia

By car
Highway A1 exit Reggio Emilia. Follow the directions marked "centro" and, as you approach the city ring road, turn right onto Via Emilia, in the direction of Parma. The building is about two kilometers from the city centre on the left side of Via Fratelli Cervi.

By train
From Reggio Emilia central Railway Station.
Minibù (bus) E, to Parcheggio Volo, "Parcheggio Volo" stop. No service on Sunday.

By bus
Bus No. 2 to Sant'Ilario, "Pieve Peep" stop.

Description

The Collection consists of several hundred works of art that date from 1945 to the present, of which something more than two hundred are on permanent display as an in-depth presentation of a number of the central artistic tendencies, both Italian and international, of the second half of the 20th century. It consists primarily of paintings but it also holds sculptures and installations. The artists are represented by significant works from their early careers, and thus by examples of the ways in which their work first brought elements of true innovation into the research of contemporary art.
The permanent collection begins with a number of important European paintings that represent the abstract-expressionist movements of the Fifties, generally known as art informel, and there is also a group of proto-conceptual Italian works. It continues with an important selection of the works of the “Roman School” of Pop Art, and then with a considerable number of Arte Povera works. These sections of the Collection are followed in turn by various fundamental works from the area of Italian neo-expressionism (Transavanguardia), and as well by significant works of German and American neo-expressionism. Next we find a considerable group of works of the American New Geometry, from the Eighties and Nineties, followed finally by the most recent experimentations in both the United States and Great Britain.
Most of the Collection’s 21st century works have not been included in the permanent exhibition, and are presented in theme-based shows in the ground-floor spaces for temporary exhibitions. The Collection is itself a “work in progress” and will continue in the future to document the novel paths that the further evolution of contemporary art continues to explore.

Among the artists whose works are on display are the following:
Peter Halley (New York, Usa, 1953) for the "new geometry" art, Piero Manzoni (1933 -1963) for the "proto-concept" art, Gerhard Richter (Walterdorf, Germany, 1932) for the "figurative" art, Jannis Kounellis (Pyraeus, Greece, 1936) for the "poor art", Ellen Gallagher (Providence, Usa, 1965) for the "experimentation art", Anselm Kiefer (Donaueschingen, Germany, 1945) for the "neo-expressionism" art.
Among the works on display are also the following:
works from the late expressionism and abstractism of the forties and the early fifties, Italian proto-concept artists as Fontana, Burri and Fautrier, Schifano and Franco Angeli's Roman Pop-Art, "poor art" with Penone, Zorio, Anselmo and Concept Art, American painting with Basquiat, Schnabel, with the new-geometric artists Taaffe and Bleckner, until Alex Katz's suspended atmospheres.