New York – It will be inaugurated tonight at Cold Spring, New York’s Hudson River Valley, a new museum of post-war and contemporary Italian art. It is called “Magazzino” and will be part of MASS MoCA network, Storm King Art Center and Dia. The museum will host works collected by Giorgio Spanu and Nancy Olnick, who have one of the largest collections of post-war and contemporary Italian art in the United States. Among the protagonists of the permanent exhibition there are Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zorio. The museum will host 400 works of art from the Olnick-Spanu collection and 5,000 books on Italian art. (9Colonne)
