Passion Alda d'africa
Egidio Cossa, Jean-Louis Paudrata by Chantal Dandrieu and Fabrizio Giovagnoni
Passion of Africa African art collections in the Italian
Passion of Africa traces the history of the art of collecting 'Sub-Saharan Africa in Italy - or Italians living abroad - from the fifties to the present day. The book, with an introduction by Egidio Cossa, reproduces more than 130 works, selected for their aesthetic value and because it illustrates the stages of this story collezionistica.Il book will return an objective picture, taken without parties or claims of exclusivity for collectors African art in Italy. He does this with the extensive essay by Jean-Louis Paudrat and the very complete bibliography of the same chrono-scholar who lists more than fifty years of publications, exhibitions, conventions and auctions of African Art in Italy. From this, we show a new image of African art collecting in Italy, wrongly considered a 'poor relation' of the Alps. The numerous private collections, often of exceptional quality, universally recognized, and the regular organization of exhibitions, some of which were without equal, show that in Italy, perhaps more than elsewhere, a history of African art is born of fruitful studies eruditi.Alle unpublished interviews to important collectors like Ezio Bassani, Mario Menezes, Aldo Tagliaferri and Joseph Calabrese, in addition to the testimony of the interview Franca Scamperle integral Carlo Monzo, dating back to 1995, and Alexander Morandotti.Infine Antonio Aimi, Egidio Cossa, starting from the core a score of African art objects donated to the Museum "Luigi Pigorini" by the artist and collector Eugene Berman (1899-1972), questions the heritage of a national public institution, a scientific vocation and education, in ' current context of diversification pubblico.L 'work is accompanied by a DVD featuring videos of two famous exhibitions, "Land Africa, Land of Archaeology "(Rome 1990) and" Africa, masterpieces of a continent "(Turin, 2003-2004).
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