COLLEZIONE IN FONDAZIONE
From 12/2/2023 to 4/5/2024
fON Art Gallery - Aci Castello (CT)
All my dreams
Collezione Renato Alpegiani
Compare Spare Antonio Marras
Renato Alpegiani enthusiastically accepted the invitation of the OELLE Foundation to expose himself, to tell his story, as a collector and a prominent figure in the Italian and international art system. From Turin, a tireless researcher and attentive visitor to international galleries and fairs, Alpegiani has explored, since the early 1980s, all those national and international currents that have determined a turning point in today's conception of contemporary art.
Over 50 works from his collection on display: Paola Angelini, Stefano Arienti, Vanessa Beecroft, Nicolò Bruno, Zaza Calzia, Srijon Chowdhury, Jo Coda, Silvie Fleury, Louis Fratino, Roberto Goffi, Roni Horn, Karen Kilimnik, Maria Lai, Bice Lazzari, Lalla Lussu, Jonathan Monk, Ruben Montini, Scott Myles, Catherine Opie, Mattia Ozzy B., Carol Rama, Rosanna Rossi, Matt Stokes, Annika Strom, Vibeke Tandberg, Sue Williams.
By Antonio Marras, on the other hand, COMPARE SPARE (2021) is on display, fabrics recovered, found, taken from discarded and waste and then assembled, embroidered, sewn as if they were layers of different colors and materials, for a series of 10 screens of environmental dimensions.
Maintaining a melancholic gaze on the past, but with a creativity projected towards the future, Antonio Marras intertwines enchantment with the sense of discovery...
Marras chooses an alphabet without words, his is a way of approaching the work with a series of virtuosities and refinements that however transmit strength and power.
And the pieces of this new series by Marras are screens, works in which the themes of the non-border find expression, of a sort of unfinished that leaves expressive freedom full of imagination.
Who is Renato Alpegiani
I would like to highlight an aspect that I consider fundamental: for me, collecting has never been a business. It was and is an exciting journey, a road towards the unknown, which I did not understand where it would lead me. Art has always caused a short circuit between my mind and my stomach. The classic love at first sight that makes me capitulate. I cultivated a passion for contemporary art thanks to a middle school teacher. I arrived in Turin in the second half of the 1960s. At that time, Turin was experiencing an extraordinary cultural ferment. I am interested in young artists with sometimes shocking works (like when I entered a well-known gallery in Milan and saw sixteen cubic meters of polystyrene with three seals: Fin de siècle by General Idea. I did not sleep for a night: the next day the work was mine!). People often ask me what strategies I have adopted to have collected many works that over time have become important: the only strategy I know has always been my great, great, boundless passion.
