In Palazzo Magnani, the Unicredit Collection of ancient, modern and contemporary art (formerly Rolo Banca 1473) includes masterpieces dating from the 16th to the 21st century, including D. Dossi, L. Carracci, Guercino, G. M. Crespi, G. Morandi, Carlo Zauli. In some rooms on the ground floor, adjacent to the loggia, the picture gallery has been set up, intended as a museum space aimed at recovering, if not the works that in the past adorned the Magnani family residence, the ideals related to that architectural and artistic configuration. An important reflection of civilization, the picture gallery in fact constitutes one of the museographic models of the oldest tradition and greatest charm. This placement also makes it possible to offer the proper enhancement to a selected core of works belonging to the Rolo Banca 1473 Collection of Ancient and Modern Art. Formed from the merger of the heritage of several Credit Institutions, the collection, of considerable quantitative consistency, has a necessarily heterogeneous character, capable of documenting multiple aspects and, often through works by first-rate masters, long passages of the history of painting. As far as the twentieth century is concerned, the Collection of the banking institute is made up of prestigious works by Alberto Burri, Ennio Morlotti, Pompilio Mandelli, Virgilio Guidi, Sergio Romiti, Fritz Wotruba, Graham Suterland, 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 inclination towards informal poetics, in particular those explored by Francesco Arcangeli. Unicredit also promotes the Furla Art Prize conceived by Chiara Bertola in collaboration with Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Angela Vettese until the 5th edition, and Gianfranco Maraniello from the 6th edition, who declared Luca Trevisani the winner. The 7th edition of the Prize, on the other hand, saw Alberto Tadiello as the winner. Unicredit has offered the frescoed halls by the Carracci at Palazzo Magnani to some editions of Artelibro, the Art Book Festival. Conferences and exhibitions organized in the bank’s spaces are also noted, such as Heavenly Apparitions, engravings and casts by Jan Hísek.
Information about the Unicredit Collection of ancient, modern and contemporary art
Via Zamboni, 20,
40121 Bologna (Bologna)
0516407309
franco.gatti@unicredit.it
https://unicredit.it
Source: MIBACT
