In Palazzo Magnani, the Unicredit Ancient, Modern and Contemporary Art Collection (formerly Rolo Banca 1473) includes masterpieces dating from the 16th to the 21st century, including works by D. Dossi, L. Carracci, Guercino, G. M. Crespi, G. Morandi, Carlo Zauli. In some rooms on the ground floor, adjacent to the loggia, a picture gallery has been set up, conceived as a museum space aimed at recovering, if not the works that once adorned the Magnani family residence, the ideals related to that architectural and artistic configuration. An important reflection of civilization, the picture gallery is, in fact, one of the oldest and most fascinating museographic models. This location also allows for the proper enhancement of a selected core of works belonging to the Ancient and Modern Art Collection of Rolo Banca 1473. Formed by the unification of the heritage of several credit institutions, the collection, of considerable quantitative importance, is necessarily heterogeneous in character, capable of documenting multiple aspects and, often through works by masters of the highest caliber, long sections of painting history.
As far as the 20th century is concerned, the bank’s collection is made up of prestigious works by Alberto Burri, Ennio Morlotti, Pompilio Mandelli, Virgilio Guidi, Sergio Romiti, Fritz Wotruba, Graham Sutherland, Luciano Minguzzi, Carlo Zauli, Otto Dix, Hans Hartung, Giovanni Prampolini, Mauro Reggiani, Giorgio Morandi, Hans Hartung, Jean Fautrier, Filippo de Pisis, Quinto Ghermandi, Nino Franchina, Mario Negri, Franco Guerzoni and Roberto Sebastian Matta, Donatella Spaziani, Carlo Zauli; masterpieces that demonstrate a collecting tendency towards informal poetics, particularly those explored by Francesco Arcangeli. Unicredit also promotes the Furla Art Prize, conceived by Chiara Bertola in collaboration with Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Angela Vettese up to the 5th edition, and Gianfranco Maraniello from the 6th, who proclaimed Luca Trevisani as the winner. The 7th edition of the Prize instead saw Alberto Tadiello win. Unicredit has offered the frescoed halls by the Carracci at Palazzo Magnani to some editions of Artelibro, the Art Book Festival. Also noteworthy are conferences and exhibitions organized in the bank’s spaces, such as Celestial Apparitions, engravings and casts by Jan Hísek.
Information on the Unicredit Ancient, Modern and Contemporary Art Collection
Via Zamboni, 20,
40121 Bologna (Bologna)
0516407309
franco.gatti@unicredit.it
https://unicredit.it
Source: MIBACT
