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About 80 works – paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations and video – from the AGI Verona Collection, which has always dedicated itself to seeking out new talent, will be exhibited in the Mart’s rooms.

The AGI Verona Collection was founded in 1989 at the behest of five collectors from Verona, who joined together with a shared desire to support contemporary art. Over 500 works have entered the collection so far, made using different artistic languages and techniques, offering varying poetics and provenance, with artists from outside Italy forming the majority. AGI has always focused on buying young and emerging talent; for the most part, the works entered the collection the same year they were made. The young artists and new hopes have represented a continuous challenge, matching a collecting sensitivity that has always sought to capture the new and topical, in order to register the changes and transformations under way in the history of art.

The “Languages and Experimentationss” exhibition, curated by Giorgio Verzotti and with a catalogue essay by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, is part of a cycle of exhibitions the Mart is dedicating to the promotion of private collections of particular worth; new or long-standing, they share an important role in the history of Italian collecting. About 20 works will remain on long-term loan to the museum and will form part of the Permanent Collection.
The artists selected for the long-term loan are Mario Airó, Stefano Arienti, Pierre Bismuth, Tom Burr, Maurizio Cattelan, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Roni Horn, Jim Lambie, Jorge Macchi, Eva Marisaldi, Sabrina Mezzaqui, Giovanni Morbin, Gabriel Orozco, Rob Pruitt, Julius Rolf, Andreas Slominski, Grazia Toderi, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa and Chen Zhen.
Through the lens of the AGI Verona collection, the exhibition enables the visitor to focus on the current complex international artistic scene in Europe, America and Asia as regards young emerging talent. Many of these are now gaining an international reputation but were still ‘emerging’ when acquired by the AGI Verona. Among the artists present are Mircea Cantor, Jeremy Deller, Cyprien Gaillard, Carlos Garaicoa, Django Hernandez, Gabriel Kuri, Jonathan Monk, Anri Sala, Simon Starling, Tomas Saraceno, Tino Sehgal; and from Italy: Francesco Vezzoli, Nico Vascellari, Luca Trevisani, Piero Golia, Anna Galtarossa, Lara Favaretto, Gianni Caravaggio, Luca Pozzi, Emanuele Becheri, Alberto Tadiello and Andrea Galvani.

The works on long-term loan at the Mart will be on show on the second floor, where they may be compared with the Museum’s collections. The exhibition itself will be held in the rooms of the first floor and other spaces, and will present videos, performances and large installations, some of which in contact with the public and city of Rovereto.

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Languages and Experimentations

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