Press Review
Archäologie 2010
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Brera: quando la luce diventa arte
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Hessischer Rundfunk TV
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Luci al Museo
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Giuseppe Panza’s dream
Giuseppe Panza, who died last April 24 at 87 years, was one of the most important collectors of American post-war art and a lover of environmental, conceptual and especially minimal art. Those involved in writing about the lighting art, like Archilight, are extremely grateful to him for introducing the neon works by Dan Flavin that can be admired at the family villa in Varese donated to the FAI non-profit association in 1996.
He approached the world of art when he was still a child and, forced in isolation with scarlet fever, he started studying the Treccani encyclopaedia.
His first visits to New York City began in 1954 and, ever since, he would spend at least one month of the year in New York together with his beloved wife Rosa Giovanna. His first investment in art was a painting by abstract artist Atanasio Soldati, which he bought for 100.000 Italian liras from Guido Le Noci in Milan in late 1955. The economic development of the next few years allowed Count Panza to build one of the most important collections of Minimal Art in the world, today mostly displayed at Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza at Biumo. Some of the works of his collection can also be found at MoCa of Los Angeles, at the Guggenheim in New York and at the Cantonal Museum of Lugano. From 1956 to 2000 Count Panza collected nearly 2,500 works.
LUCES
The singular building of the Archaeological Museum of Frankfurt is situated not far from the Cathedral, in an area dominated by the silhouette of the Commerzbank skyscraper by Norman Foster. A little jewel, the Archaeological Museum occupies the rebuilt Gothic Church of a Carmelite nunnery. A modern wing has been also created to enlarge the exhibition surface and host the administration offices. The whole is quite unusual, with the old that living in total harmony with the contemporary… Just what happens for the exhibition Luces, that took place last April in the contest of Luminale during Light+Building 2010.
The exhibition showed nine site-specific works, designed and made for the event by a significant group of Italian light’s artists. Besides these new pieces, the visitors could also admire the luminous cube of Percorsi, the last work created by the great exponent of Kinetic Art Marinellia Pirelli, who died last year. The exhibition was dedicated to her by the curator Gisella Gellini.
Inszenierung des Lichts: Luminale feiert LED-Leuchten
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Luces. Light Art from Italy a Francoforte dal 9 al 16 aprile
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Luminale im Karmeliterkloster
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A Francoforte brilla la Luces
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LUCES – Lichtkunst aus Italien
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Luminale 2010 in Frankfurt am Main
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Luces – Italienische Lichtkünstler präsentieren ihre Installationen im Rahmen der Luminale
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“Luces. Light Art from Italy”, la creatività italiana a Luminale 2010
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Luces. Light Art from Italy
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Luces. Light Art from Italy
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Luces. Light Art from Italy
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“LUCES. LIGHT ART FROM ITALY”, LA CREATIVITÀ ITALIANA A LUMINALE 2010
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“Luces. Light Art from Italy”, la creatività italiana a Luminale 2010
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An interview with Gisella Gellini – Light art, let’s go for it!
Unstoppable, courteous and determined, GG believes in light art more than anything else, and would like to see some action taken, rather than spending time talking about it. Hence, together with Clara Lovisetti and Francesco Murano, Gisella Gellini is organizing her participation to an exhibition of Italian artists that will be held in Frankfurt as part of Luminale 2010. In the meantime, she has just recently published “Light in art”, published by Maggioli. The 78-page volume gathers works by – amongst others – Giovanni Anselmo, Jan Vancruysse and Michel Verjux. The book is an art guide for those who “think they know” about art, “which, instead, is considered as a mere decoration”, she told us at Milan Triennale one Thursday night while waiting for a conference chaired by Gillo Dorfles to start.
Gisella Gellini is an architect “with an interest in the culture of light, in particular, Light Art. She has gained the trust and help of Dr Giuseppe Panza di Biumo to organize works of art connected with this Art form”, her biographies explain. She works with Luce e Colore lab at Milan Politecnico, and one of her latest exhibitions concerns the organization and supervision of Dan Flavin’s installations at Berardo museum in Lisbon, given that, at times, it is easier to hold these events abroad than in Italy, which is poorly lit.