Permanent collection
Collezione Maramotti holds several hundred works of art dating from 1945 to the present. More than 200 of them are on permanent display, representing some of the most pivotal currents in Italian and international art from the second half of the twentieth century and up to our own time.
The artworks in the permanent exhibition are laid out in forty-three rooms over two floors of the building.
The artists are primarily represented by significant works made at the outset of their careers, or at times when they were bringing elements of true innovation into the contemporary art scene.
The collection is primarily composed of paintings, but also includes sculptures and installations. Flexible criteria have been adopted in its arrangement, presenting the works in chronological order, or according to their affinity with a given current in art, or by more specific national movements.
The visit begins with a number of important European paintings that represent the abstract expressionist trends of the 1950s generally known as Art Informel, and with a group of proto-conceptual Italian works.
It continues with a selection of paintings from the realm of Roman Pop Art, and then a considerable number of Arte Povera works. These sections are followed by many fundamental pieces from the Transavantgarde and by significant examples of German and American Neo-Expressionism. After this, one finds an extensive sampling of American New Geometry from the 1980s and ’90s.
Since 2019, in an initiative inaugurated with the Rehang project, the last rooms on the second floor of the permanent collection have housed a selection of projects presented in the first ten years of Collezione Maramotti’s activity.
These ten rooms, organized like small solo exhibitions, reflect a wish to continue pursuing Achille Maramotti’s vision: bearing witness to the new paths taken by art in our time, and imagining the collection – like the act of collecting – as a constant work in progress.
Visit
Visits to the permanent collection are accompanied. They should be booked online and are open to a maximum of 25 visitors per slot, at the following times:
- Thursday and Friday, 3 pm
- Saturday and Sunday, 10:30 am and 3 pm
The visit lasts two to two and a half hours on the date and at the time selected.
Please be so kind as to modify or cancel your booking if your plans should change.
Collezione Maramotti’s projects also extend outside its main location. The permanent site-specific works by Jason Dodge in Reggio Emilia (2013) and by Eva Jospin in the Max Mara flagship store in Milan (2022) can both be visited by the public and are viewable in different ways.