Private art museum in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
 The entrance on the east side | |
| Established | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Location | Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy |
| Coordinates | 44°42′24″N 10°36′04″E / 44.7068°N 10.6011°E / 44.7068; 10.6011 |
| Type | private art museum |
| Owner | Maramotti family |
| Website | collezionemaramotti |
The Collezione Maramotti is the private collection of contemporary art of Achille Maramotti, who founded Max Mara. It is housed in the former premises of the company in Reggio Emilia, in Emilia Romagna in central Italy, converted for the purpose by the British architect Andrew Hapgood. It contains some two hundred works, and is open to visitors by appointment only. It also organises temporary exhibitions.
Among the artists represented in the collection are Vito Acconci, Francis Bacon, Basquiat, Alberto Burri, Francesco Clemente, Tony Cragg, Tano Festa [it], Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Mario Merz, Luigi Ontani, Mimmo Paladino, Tom Sachs, Mario Schifano, Julian Schnabel and Bill Viola.
The gallery awards the biennial Max Mara Art Prize for Women to a young female artist working in the United Kingdom. Between 2006 and 2016 the winners of the prize were: Margaret Salmon; Hannah Rickards; Andrea Büttner; Laure Prouvost; Corin Sworn; and Emma Hart.
References
- Brunella Torresin (24 September 2007). Una casa per la Collezione Maramotti (in Italian). La Repubblica. Accessed May 2021.
- ^ Maria Grazia Bellisario, Angela Tecce (2012).I luoghi del contemporaneo 2012: The Places of Contemporary Art. Roma: Gangemi. ISBN 9788849224108.
- (22 November 2011). Laure Prouvost wins women's art prize. BBC News. Accessed January 2017.
- Ali Pechman (30 April 2015). Max Mara’s Legacy of Art Patronage. The Wall Street Journal. Accessed January 2017.
- Hettie Judah (19 October 2016). Visiting Italy’s Ceramics Workshops With a Buzzy Multimedia Artist. The New York Times. Accessed January 2017.