Collezione Farnesina Experimenta is a bilingual book (

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and

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) that assembles and catalogues the eighty works (reproduced in colour) of the

Farnesina Experimenta Art Collection The Farnesina Experimenta Art Collection (Italian: Collezione Farnesina Experimenta) is a contemporary Italian art collection exhibited at the Palazzo della Farnesina, the seat of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome, Italy. The collecti ...

, housed in

Palazzo della Farnesina The Palazzo della Farnesina is an Italian government building located between Monte Mario and the Tiber River in the Foro Italico area in Rome, Italy. Designed in 1935, it has housed the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since its completion in 1 ...

. Along with exhibitions of the collection that are promoted by the

Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ( it, Ministero degli affari esteri e della cooperazione internazionale or ''MAECI'') is the foreign ministry of the government of the Italian Republic. It is also known as the Farnesin ...

, the aim of the volume is to valorize and make known contemporary Italian art, by supporting those generations of artists who made names for themselves from the nineties to the year 2000.

The volume

In addition to being a catalogue of the works, the volume contains biographical entries of the artists and four critical essays: *''What is its Function? '' by Maurizio Calvesi, *''Experiments For The Future'' by Lorenzo Canova, *''The Perception Of Young Italian Art'' by Marco Meneguzzo, *''Contemporary Paradigms'' by Marisa Vescovo, which reveal how Italian contemporary art still shows a capacity to be reborn, to find a new meaning and new energies for facing the complexity of its own historical moment, by combining elements of the country’s prolific artistic history with the most evolved inclinations of contemporaneity.

Catalogue of the collection

The

amplifies the Italian collection of art of

and represents the current state of art in

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

. The collection includes works that have been created using the different forms of expression that distinguish

contemporary art Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world. Their art is a dynamic com ...

: from

video art Video art is an art form which relies on using video technology as a visual and audio medium. Video art emerged during the late 1960s as new consumer video technology such as video tape recorders became available outside corporate broadcasting ...

painting Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ...

, from

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

digital art Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960s, various names ...

, from

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

drawing Drawing is a form of visual art in which an artist uses instruments to mark paper or other two-dimensional surface. Drawing instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, various kinds of paints, inked brushes, colored pencils, crayons, ...

installation Installation may refer to: * Installation (computer programs) * Installation, work of installation art * Installation, military base * Installation, into an office, especially a religious (Installation (Christianity) Installation is a Christian l ...

. The eighty works in the collection are by artists from all over

Artists

* Andrea Aquilanti *

Stefano Arienti Stefano Arienti (born 1961) is an Italian artist whose art is inspired by the Arte Povera and Conceptual movements. He lives and works in Milan, Italy. He was born in Asola, Lombardy. His work is made of found materials such as magazines, postcar ...

* Stefania Aragona * Matteo Basilè * Alessandro Bazan * Angelo Bellobono * Carlo Benvenuto * Fausto Bertasa * Bianco-Valente * Paola Binante * Nicola Bolla * Marco Bolognesi * Enrica Borghi * Domenico Borrelli * Botto & Bruno * Letizia Cariello * Francesco Carone * Gea Casolaro *

Loris Cecchini Loris Cecchini (born 1969) is an Italian contemporary artist. He works in various media, among them sculpture, installation and photography. In 2014 he won the annual Premio Arnaldo Pomodoro per la Scultura awarded by the Fondazione Arnaldo Pom ...

* Filippo Centenari * Francesco Cervelli * Marco Cingolani * Marco Colazzo * Davide Coltro * Paolo Consorti * Vittorio Corsini * Francesco De Grandi *

Fabrice de Nola Fabrice de Nola is an Italian-Belgian artist born in Messina (Sicily) in 1964. He introduced the use of QR codes in oil paintings. In 2006, he created the first oil paintings containing texts and web connections to be used on mobile phones.

* Alberto Di Fabio * Andrea Di Marco * Fulvio Di Piazza * Mauro Di Silvestre * Stefania Fabrizi * David Fagioli * Roberto Falconieri *

Lara Favaretto Lara Favaretto (born 1973 in Treviso) is an Italian artist. Favaretto lives and works in Turin, Italy. Favaretto is known for her paintings, installations and research based sculptural works. She has staged interventions that she calls "momenta ...

* Flavio Favelli * Emanuela Fiorelli * Licia Galizia * Daniele Galliano *

Piero Golia Piero Golia (born 1974) is a conceptual artist based in Los Angeles. Background As a young man in Naples, Golia studied chemical engineering, learning about the transformation of raw materials into powerful energy sources. He arrived in Los Ang ...

* Paolo Grassino * Jonathan Guaitamacchi * Francesco Impellizzeri * Laboratorio Saccardi * Massimo Livadiotti * Federico Lombardo * Raffaele Luongo * Marcello Maloberti * Andrea Martinelli * Simone Martinetto * Andrea Mastrovito * Luca Matti * Sabrina Mezzaqui * Liliana Moro * Luigi Mulas Debois * Adriano Nardi * Andrea Nicodemo * Davide Nido * Giorgio Ortona * Luca Pancrazzi * Perino & Vele *

Luca Pignatelli Luca Pignatelli (born 22 June 1962) is an Italian artist. Biography Luca Pignatelli was born in 1962 in Milan, where he currently lives and works in a home-studio, self-designed based on a former industrial building. His work focuses on a const ...

* Paolo Piscitelli * Laura Pugno * Pierluigi Pusole * Paolo Radi * Mauro Reggio * Antonio Riello * Alessandro Scartabello * Francesco Sena *

Federico Solmi Federico Solmi (born April 1973) is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. About Federico Solmi's work utilizes bright colors and a satirical aesthetic to portray a dystopian vision of our present-day society. His exhibitions often fea ...

Giuseppe Stampone Giuseppe Stampone (born in Cluses, France) is a visual artist who lives and works between Rome and Brussels. His artistic production ranges from multimedia installations and videos to drawings made with Bic pen,

* Silvano Tessarollo * Saverio Todaro * Sabrina Torelli * Luisa Valentini *

Nicola Verlato Nicola Verlato (born February 19, 1965) is an Italian painter, sculptor, architect and musician based in Los Angeles, California. Early life and education Nicola Verlato was born in Verona and began painting at a very early age, learning from Fr ...

* Marco Verrelli *

Fabio Viale Fabio Viale (Cuneo, September 19, 1975) is an Italian sculptor. Viale's sculptures have been exhibited in Italy, Russia, Germany and the United States. Two of his sculptures were full-sized marble boats that were actually launched into water. E ...

* Cesare Viel * Antonello Viola * Luca Vitone

Notes and references

Editions

*Maurizio Calvesi, Lorenzo Canova, Marco Meneguzzo, Marisa Vescovo, ''Collezione Farnesina Experimenta'', Gangemi Editore, 2008. pp. 232, {{ISBN, 978-88-492-1486-4.

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