This book is published by Magazzino Italian Art Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition Ettore Spalletti: Parole di Colore curated by Fondazione Ettore Spalletti, at the Robert Olnick Pavilion, Magazzino Italian Art Museum, Cold Spring, NY, September 14, 2023– January 6, 2025.
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About the Artist
Ettore Spalletti (1940-2019) was born in Cappelle sul Tavo (Pescara) where he spent his entire life. Important exhibitions have been dedicated to Spalletti at the international level over the past 40 years, most recently at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome (2021), the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco in the Principality of Monaco (2019), Palazzo Cini in Venice (2015) and a retrospective presented simultaneously in three Italian museums: MADRE, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples; GAM, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin and MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome (2014). Other important solo exhibitions include: GNAM - Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2010); Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Clevès (2009); Villa Medici, Académie de France, Rome (2006); Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2005); Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli - Turin (2004); Fundación la Caixa, Madrid (2000); Museo di Capodimonte, Naples (1999); Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (1998); MUHKA - Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp (1995); Guggenheim Museum, New York (1993); Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (1991); De Appel, Amsterdam (1989); Kunsteverein, Munich (1989); Portikus, Frankfurt (1989); Halles d’art contemporain, Rennes (1988); Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (1983); Museum Folkwang, Essen (1982). Spalletti was invited several times to Documenta in Kassel (1982, 1992) and the Venice Biennale (1982, 1993, 1995, 1997). Permanent installations include Salle des dèparts (1996) for the Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré in Garches - Paris, and Cappella (2016) created together with architect Patrizia Leonelli for Villa Serena private clinic, in Città Sant’Angelo - Pescara.
About the contributors
Germano Celant (Genoa 1940– Milan 2020), renowned art historian and theoretician, had been internationally acknowledged for his theories on Arte Povera. Additionally, he was author of more than one hundred publications, including both books and catalogues. He had also curated hundreds of exhibitions in the most prominent international museums and institutions worldwide.
From 1989 until 2008 he was the Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; from 1995 to 2014 he was the Director and since 2015 he is the Artistic and Scientific Superintendent of Fondazione Prada. Since 2005 he is the Curator of Fondazione Aldo Rossi, Milan and since 2008 of Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice. In 2015 he was Curator of Arts&Foods. Rituals from 1851, the Expo 2015’s Art Pavilion at The Triennale, Milan, in 2016 Project Director of The Floating Piers, Christo and Jeanne- Claude work at Lago d’Iseo, and in 2018 Curator of the exhibition Post Zang Tumb Tuuum. Art Life Politics: Italia 1918–1943 at Fondazione Prada, Milan. Venice Biennale awarded him posthumously with Leone d’Oro Speciale 2020.