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THE COLLECTION
One of the main purposes of the Foundation is to conserve and utilize the art collection put together by the Mazzotta family, starting with the collection of Antonio Mazzotta. A great talent for collecting and an innate capacity to recognize masterpieces of contemporary art have made it possible to gather approximately two thousand works, including drawings and watercolors, refined cycles of graphics and photographs, made from the 1700s to the present day.
Among the most important artists represented in the collection we can mention: Goya, Piranesi, Daumier, Gemito, Redon, Burne-Jones Beardsley, Rodin, Klinger, Kubin, Boccioni, Modigliani, Carrà, Chagall, de Pisis, de Chirico, Morandi, Klee, Klimt, Kokoschka, Dix, Grosz, Léger, Miró, Tanguy, Warhol, Wols, as well as many living artists. One section of the collection also contains art nouveau glass, antique books and objects. For reasons of conservation the works are made visible to the public in temporary exhibitions held at the Foundation headquarters or in other facilities.
In fact, a significant part of the activity of the Foundation lies in supervising the travel of portions of the collection in specially prepared exhibitions. Among the most prestigious examples, we can mention the exhibition “The Dream Reveals the Nature of Things”, presented at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow in 1993, with works of the Foundation, including cycles by Goya, Klinger, Redon, Vedova, as well as original works by other artists. Or the exhibition on Piranesi and Goya held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Montréal, in Canada, with the presentation of the principle cycles of the “Venetian architect” (Views of Rome, Roman Antiquities, Prisons, Triumphal Arches) in rare, historic editions, alongside the most famous series by Goya (the first edition of the Caprices, the Follies, the Disasters of War). |
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