Curated by Beatrice Merz

A project by Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati and Fondazione Merz

The Catalogue
The bilingual exhibition catalogue (Italian/English) includes an introductory text by Beatrice Merz, President of the Fondazione Merz, together with critical texts by the art historians Ester Coen and Douglas Fogle. The volume contains the colour reproductions of all the works exhibited together with the photographs of the exhibition layout. Published by Mousse Publishing (Milan).

The Collection
Every year, together with the temporary exhibition, the Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati proposes a selection of works from the Collection never previously exhibited.These include works by the most important international Avant Garde artists of 20th and 21st centuries. The essential constituent of the exhibition is an entire room dedicated to the leading artists of Arte Povera to emphasise the importance of the cultural context in which Marisa Merz found herself working at the beginning of her artistic career

The exhibition will be accompanied by a richly illustrated catalogue published by Mousse-Milano, featuring texts by Gabriella Belli, Francesco Tedeschi, author of Piero Dorazio’s Catalogue Raisonée, and Riccardo Passoni, director of the GAM in Turin, where Giacomo Balla’s most important works on paper are preserved. Rich critical apparatuses edited by Giulia Arganini (for Giacomo Balla) and Valentina Sonzogni (for Piero Dorazio) complete the volume. An interview with Mario Botta offers insight into the design of the exhibition.